Post 2010-01-01 #060

Hey there May 30, 2015 ( No Comments ) Hi,If you have come by this dusty old site I haven’t really written a lot here mostly because it had been coming out At City Pages , for the last few years. you can see a bunch of that writing here.  Otherwise there is a brand…

Holiday in Christmasbadoia December 20, 2007 ( 2 Comments ) There are a lot of Minnesota’s: The Garrison Keillor Minnesota with Uff Da’s aplenty, lots of pie and coffee, Sven and Ole, Lutefisk and Lefsa, astute literary references and a romanticized notion about the past. There is the Cohen Brothers Minnesota as embodies in the…

Snaildartha- My MP3 christmas gift you December 03, 2007 ( No Comments ) Ever start something silly that just sort of takes on a life of it’s own? Welcome to Snaildartha: The Story of Jerry the Christmas Snail. It started as a silly little idea: Make the Life of Buddha into a Christmas story oh…

State of the Union January 02, 2010 ( No Comments ) Its new years and if there is a better time for self-reflection I can’t think of it. I am truly blessed, and blessed is one of those  Me and William the Conquerorwords I hate. Its usually uttered by people in lifetime movies whose lives seem…

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…

What’s so funny about peace Love and Soul? February 01, 2012 ( No Comments ) I wanted to go a little bit more on the passing of Don Cornelius, he has always been a surprising inspiration to me. During “What.” he was a big touchstone, not directly in terms of taking style but as inspiration;…