Meet the new blog, same as the old blog March 18, 2008 ( 2 Comments ) Welcome, this is the first post on the new blog, last September I decided to start this little blog experiment , it worked, and over 3000 people dropped by to read my blathering commentary. So I decided to try…

Marty is a Prick June 27, 2012 ( No Comments ) This is a piece i did in my quise as Paris1919 from the record  Book of Job.  It uses a 1903 film by Cecil Hepworth of Alice in Wonderland.   The original print was pretty well destroyed and this video takes that a few steps…

Let’s Watch TV January 21, 2008 ( No Comments ) Editor’s note: Hey guys sorry I have been a little absent as of late, it seems like I have just been perpetually busy. Lots of writing for lots of folks. And some other cool media stuff that I can’t announce yet. Well one thing I…

It’s Raining in Warroad November 26, 2007 ( No Comments ) Editor’s note: Hello oh dear and gentle reader, presented for your consideration:”It’s Raining in Warroad”, a break from our more traditional pithy fare. This is a Prose piece written for the Future Perfect Series we did at the Bryant Lake Bowl. This might be…

I wasn’t born in a small town, so it’s proablly not where they will bury me October 16, 2007 ( 4 Comments ) I spend a lot of time in small towns, my wife teaches classes for a sophisticated high end beauty company and she spend her weekends going to smaller cities across the Midwest…

How Social Media Saved my Life March 08, 2010 ( No Comments ) A video i did of a Pecha Kucha presentation I gave  about the transplant, I altered the form to better suit the net but more or less its the same You can also check out a story by  Kristin Tilitson in the…

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…

Highway 61 Revisited November 06, 2007 ( 1 Comment ) EDITOR’S NOTE: I am off grid for a few days doing you know…stuff. So I am running some stuff that has lived in other places. This piece I wrote for AOL’s Digital City in 1997 when I had a column there called Dig the New…

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…

Happy Thanksgiving-Bang the Drumstick slowly, November 22, 2012 ( No Comments ) As a transplant patient you are taught to live in an almost continual state of thanks, it is a thing that I sort of suck at, in part because of my rather Daffy Duck like tendencies towards frustration. Fortunately thankfulness isn’t a destination…