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Replacing the Replacements November 19, 2007 ( No Comments ) There is a new book out called “The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History” by Minneapolis super writer Jim Walsh, Its been making a lot of head lines here in my hometown, well because it’s the Replacements and it’s their hometown too….

Goodbye Thomas January 02, 2013 ( No Comments ) Thomas Spiegel, Dj Man-x at the cricket theater 1990- Photo Tony Larson Thomas Spiegel or DJ Man-X his nom de guerre passed away this week; he was a friend of mine, he was a business partner, he was a teacher, and for one magical night in 1990…

Secrets of the universe and other things from gumball machines August 23, 2010 ( No Comments ) There are certain stories that I can’t be open with, mostly because they aren’t mine to tell,I am just a character in them, sometimes a big one but ultimately not the protagonist. They affect me sometimes on an…

Conversations with a Ghost: I Dream Dead People October 17, 2007 ( 8 Comments ) I had a dream….er well I had a dream, not the Martin Luther King kind, rather a dream of a dead friend coming to say hi. Before I explain the dream a little background. About three years ago my life…

the Politics of Social Networking January 24, 2008 ( No Comments ) Editor’s Note: the nice folks at MPR asked me for some commentary on the social networking sites of the candidates for senator in Minnesota, you can hear their story here, The part that I am on is a web only feature you can…

Anthony Ralph Strouth, 1945-2014 January 27, 2014 ( No Comments ) A number of folks have asked me to post the eulogy from my father’s funeral, hence I am posting it here.I am wearing my dads suit, it’s not that I don’t have other suits , but this is the serious suit, the suit for…