If you’re looking for real life –whatever that is– I’m afraid you’ll have to go somewhere else. This is all in my head. There’s nothing real here. These are merely the words that roll down my fingers in the middle of the night as I wait for the light to come fetch me. Some of … Read more
The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, o God, thou wilt not despise. –Psalms, 51-17
How many words do you think you can run through your head in a day? It all depends on how many words you have in you, am I right? Images, though, they’re something else; they represent a bigger, more universal language. All you need to do is look around and keep your eyes open. Yet … Read more
I always wanted to be the gun on the table in the first act. I always wanted to be the mysterious stranger arriving in an unfamiliar town with a sack full of magic corn. I always wanted to be the troll who lived under the bridge and the wise old man on the mountain. I … Read more
For the last week I’ve been mucking around in this little magazine I picked up in a junk shop somewhere. The thing is called Reason, and it’s subtitled “A Monthly Journal Devoted to Psychic Science, Education, Healing, Success and Social Reform.” Come now let us reason, it says on the masthead. The issue I have … Read more
If you haven’t stumbled upon this site yet, you should check out MNstories.com. Every day a new short video with some connection to all of us. Yesterday was a cat, today is The Red Tail, a short from a longer film about Northwest Airlines. One line from the MNstories excerpt struck me: “If we can’t … Read more
Harry Siegel, the still bedewed editor of the New York Press has resigned–along with his entire staff, after being ordered not to publish “those comics.” He’d been on the job for something like six months. In his public statement, he makes a cogent argument from the farther reaches of journalistic idealism. Not a lot of … Read more
Man is what he believes. –Chekhov, Notebooks Not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you, has shaken me. –Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil The worst sort of liar, the most tragic, is the one you know is lying to you, but you believe them anyway, because you so desperately want … Read more
Not sure where I fall on this issue of comics featuring the likeness of Muhammed, but I was gratified to see that Edina native, St. Olaf Grad, and local-kid-done-good Ward Sutton weighs in on the subject over’ta San Francisco Chronicle. I also admire the Strib’s Anders Gyllenhaal (isn’t that, um, a Danish name?) for his … Read more
“If we don’t wiretap, the Quakers will win” I’m getting more perplexed by the Democrats every day. Although Senator Leahy made logical mince meat out of Alberto (Torquemada) Gonzales yesterday, of course, nothing will come of the inquisition into Bush’s warrantless wiretapping of Americans as long as the Republicans are in power. Logically, it seems … Read more