Month: August 2005
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The Life-Giving Secret of Bees
The long, pointed whisker stands out sharply from the undulating mass of curious bees beneath the Plexiglas. Next emerges a lonely ear. And finally the whole, unmistakable outline of the tiny skull: a common field mouse. It is completely lacquered in something dark, sticky, and resinous. Just three days earlier, this little skull—not much bigger…
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The Sixties—Dead By Self-Inflicted Gunshot
The moment flickered past while I realized that the last of them was gone, the last of the sixties counterculture iconoclasts, those world shakers and rainbow revolutionaries: Lenny Bruce, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, John Lennon, Abbie Hoffman, Edward Abbey, Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, Hunter Thompson—all gone, the last by his own hand. I…
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An Imported Force
Minneapolis gets high marks for its “quality of life,” but the home addresses of its cops tell a different story. According to police insiders, less than ten percent of Minneapolis’ police force lives within city limits. Mayor R.T. Rybak and would-be mayor Hennepin County Commish Peter McLaughlin both claim they want more cops living in…
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Justin Kirk
We thinks the Ivey Awards made a peculiar choice in having Justin Kirk co-host its first annual awards party later this month. Although Kirk just wrapped up a summer run of Entertaining Mr. Sloane at the Jungle Theater, he appears more frequently on the large and small screens these days. (You can catch him on…
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Mt. McKinley, Alaska
Cyd Gillett, Daniel Sadoff, Abe Sadoff (15), Lydia Sadoff (9). We just completed an Alaska family vacation and, of course, we took The Rake along. We landed on Ruth, a glacier named after the daughter of a man, Frederick Cook, who falsely claimed to have both been the first person to scale Denali (Mt. McKinley)…
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Ferry from Vancouver to Nanaimo
Tony, Cathy, Emma and Lucy Grundhauser on the ferry from Vancouver to Nanaimo, BC in July. Author(s) and Location: The Grundhauser Family