rakemag Brown: Horseshit in New Orleans Would Bush have reacted to the disaster in New Orleans faster if someone had told him Terry Schiavo was there? Have you considered that the New Orleans disaster may be politically good for Bush? Besides killing off thousands of Democrats, it took the news eye off a few embarrassments undeniably … Read more
Katrina started the party a little early this year Random musings today. There’s a photo on the front page of the NY Times this morning of a woman pouring water into a dish for her dog as a body floats in the water not twenty feet away. The damage to our country from this storm, … Read more
There are a few gaps in our health coverage. I went to the dentist this morning for my semi-annual cleaning and check up. Sometimes I go 8 or 9 months between, mostly because of my schedule and his. But I always go eventually, and sooner, rather than later. I’m glad I can afford it. I … Read more
THIS is football Everyone who’s got a brain, and there are damn few of us left, is not even that upset about Pat Robertson’s calling for the assasination of Hugo Chavez. That sort of boorish behavior by Americans is pretty old news, after all. In case you haven’t been paying attention, Robertson and his ilk … Read more
LETTER OF THE MONTH When the significant other tossed the carefully torn Rake page with the pickle recipe [Down the Hatch, July], my hair was on fire, and only pickle juice could put it out. We’d already been to the farmers’ market to capture the things we needed to make the lovelies … I didn’t … Read more
ODDYSSEUS OF THE AIRWAVES I can’t decide which grabbed me the most, Jennifer Vogel’s perceptive style or T.D. Mischke’s peripatetic journey—both the literal aimless search and his dedicated exploration of life’s nuances at the “cutting edge” [“Old-Fashioned Cutting-Edge Radio,” July]. The daunting journey of Vogel through the maze of Tommy’s cortex seemed at times bound … Read more
Your commentary on the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s planned “adjustment of Highway 1” [The Rakish Angle, August] brought to mind an oft-repeated and varyingly attributed proverb. To wit, God writes straight with curved lines. Stuart Klipper Minneapolis
I would like to correct a statement attributed to me in the round-table discussion of the Musicapolis photography exhibit [“Music City!” August]. In response to a question about whether we thought of ourselves as artists, I was quoted as saying that I didn’t think that a photographer doing commercial work was an artist and, while I can’t recall the exact words … Read more
I was so stoked to get The Rake in my mailbox today and I had to use severe discipline to not actually dive into it while I was supposed to be working. My indelible Minnesota work ethic accompanied me to California. So I waited until I finished my day and took my walk, cooked myself … Read more
Never mind that this film shares a name with a brand of adult incontinence products. Legions of grad students and pizza delivery people have been joyously anticipating its opening day, perhaps, you might say, to a pants-wetting degree. That’s because Serenity takes up where the short-lived but beloved TV series Firefly, from Joss Whedon, left … Read more