Month: July 2005

  • Hello [Insert Town Name Here]!

    How strange. Do you see how much that poor creature has in its hands? And yet you’ve never known anyone with emptier arms. Look Closely: This Picture Is A Metaphor Is anybody alive out there? Would you care to show yourselves or produce some general murmur to announce your presence? This darkness is oppressive, and…

  • Well…

    That sort of felt like a punctuation mark, didn’t it? A big, loud, red, emphatic something right there in the middle of the schedule. I don’t know. Maybe the Twins will bounce back and have one of those sustained hot streaks they had so often in the last several years but which have resolutely eluded…

  • Not A Creature Was Stirring

    I began by telling him how dissatisfied I was with the idea that life must be a lesser thing than we were capable of imagining it to be. I had the feeling that the same thing happened to nearly everybody I knew and whom I did not know. No sooner was their youth, with the…

  • You can fool some of the people some of the time

    What comes out of the south end of a north-bound whale? The Pioneer Press (yeah we do read it occasionally, but mostly for nostalgic reasons–it used to be quite good before being taken over by the corporate creeps) had a story today about Mark Kennedy’s recent voting record. (Ok, it was from the Associated Press,…

  • It's The Same Old Song

    Yes, it is. But what song is it? That is your assignment for today, class. What is the theme song of the 2005 Minnesota Twins? Possible suggestions, as of 5:30 this morning: “Too Much of Not Enough”? “Thin Line Between Love and Hate”? “You Ain’t Goin’ No Where”? “My Favorite Waste of Time”? “Bases Were…

  • Take Another Look

    A bad night lies ahead And a new day beyond that– A simple sequence, but hard To remember in the right order. —Mark Jarman, “Psalm: The New Day” Twice I woke up tonight and wandered to the window. And the lights down on the street, like pale omission points, tried to complete the fragment of…