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Thursday, March 21, 2013

SINCE I STARTED THIS BLOG we got Obama, computer-phones, and one less planet, Sarah saved a school, Johanna attained literacy, and I had Asian food for lunch at least 250 times. Five years is a fair bit in Internet Time, especially for a project that’s as loose and lazy as a tour diary. By a band that doesn’t actually perform. We are known to [...]

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No stars (+23 songs)

Sunday, February 17, 2013

AT THE CASUALEST CAFE IN SOUTHEAST MINNEAPOLIS you enter to find young men lying on couches. One stands to greet you. He resurrects a cold pot of coffee with blasts of frothing steam and, without discussion, hands you a cup. “No charge.” You sit. Cryptic wisecracking as he nukes a plate of bacon for a customer [...]

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Accept the mystery

Monday, January 7, 2013

I WAS PARTY TO AN ARGUMENT this week about New Year’s self improvement. It was on the Internet, where cynics and contrarians are way overrepresented. They said our good intentions are mostly in vain when we choose to change at such an arbitrary time. Resolutions have to spring from profound crisis, they said, from needs that [...]

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Live scraps and excerpts

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

“FRONT LOAD THE PAIN.” “The dudes you remember are now coaches.” “Every zoo is a petting zoo as long as you’re not a wuss.” “Two trees French kissing for eternity.” “Does it rain in space?” “Parents are supposed to hate their kids’ music. It’s the circle of life.” “AM pop as Arch Deviance” (noted stageside [...]

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Red scare

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

I HAVE COMPLICATED FEELINGS about corporate philanthropy. They well up as I read this request from Jo’s teacher: Tomorrow we are taking a school-wide picture at the grand opening of the Target Library Make-over.  We thought it would be fun to wear red for this picture.  If you see this message in time… please have [...]

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Current Status

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

>> Can – Soul Desert >> Robert Pollard – Subspace Biographies 

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Venue change

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

11 YEARS IS A LONG TIME to stay in one spot, especially if you live and work and eat and sleep and create and accumulate all within the same walls (and practically nowhere else), as we have here since 2005. Add a small yet frenetic roommate to the equation and change was in the offing. Still, the [...]

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New ways

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

WE ARE ALWAYS LEARNING. Newsy things. Cool stuff. And a fair bit that’s totally wrong. My aunt in Des Moines (a preschool teacher, which makes anything she says seem true and also positive and life-affirming) said she knew of a student named “Le-a,” pronounced with the punctuation as “Ledasha.” This killed me. Until I learned [...]

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Worked over

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

JOHANNA WILL TALK TO HER GRANDPARENTS only if she can spend the conversation in a laundry basket. She’ll also ask me to carry the basket around the house while she chats, though this I decline to do. Peculiar demands are popping up daily as her Negotiator Gene manifests. I remember wearing my mom out with [...]

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Now where were we

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

RECENT MORNINGS I’M UP before sunrise for international conference calls, interviewing the people behind India’s Sesame Street. I’m 11 1/2 hours behind Delhi, so their day is as good as over when we start talking. I struggle to understand it all (unfamiliar accents and Development-speak), but I grasp enough for the website I’m writing. Their [...]

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