Month: July 2007

  • Discontent

    how i feel, courtesy of Voodoo Donut. I feel like I’ve been offered a jelly donut, only to find a puff of stale air in place of promised jelliness. There in the pages of the glossy Lake Minnetonks Magazine, ran a snippet that proclaimed the existence of a new Good Day Cafe, right in Wayzata!…

  • The Latest Installment Of The Good News-Bad News Bears

    If this shit keeps up I’m going to initiate a class action lawsuit against the Twins on behalf of all the whiplash victims in Twins Territory. I go away for a week on the heels of a nice little rebound series against the Angels (the Twins had won the first two games when I hit…

  • Grocery Getters That Go

    There is a term they bounce around the suburbs called “Grocery Getter.” This usually refers to the egregious waste of fuel smallish women (primarily) expend on driving large SUVs to the grocery store. But not all women drive monster trucks to market. Some actually drive sensible vehicles to far better places like the Organic Farmer’s…

  • Putting July to Bed

    MUSIC Urban Bohemian – Born and Bred “Tell me if you want me to give you all my time. I wanna make it good for you cause you blow my mind.” R&B duo Groove Theory had it going on in the ’90s with hit songs like “Tell Me” and “Baby Luv.” And the voice behind…

  • Mississippi Jerk

    On the waterfront patio of the Harbor Restaurant and Bar, while all manner of yachts floated by, diners in swimsuits chatted happily and passed around a live parrot. Reggae music wafted from the restaurant’s outdoor tiki bar, and when the dreadlocked barkeep took an order (“two caipirinhas, please”), he answered with a Jamaican accent: “Nine…

  • When Johnny Comes Marching Home

    There is a famous cartoon in the World War II memoir Up Front by Bill Mauldin, the editorial cartoonist for Stars and Stripes. Mauldin’s main characters, GIs Willie and Joe, slump against a wall, exhausted and unshaven, as a spit-shined soldier struts aggressively past them. “That can’t be no combat man,” Willie says to Joe.…