Employing a tactic I’m pretty sure I’ve picked up from the current presidential administration, I’ve decided to take a new approach to truth. Namely, I’m going to make it up. And make it up in such a way that justifies every decision I decide(d), and in such a way that makes me feel better about … Read more
Psychology class, at the Saint Paul campus, ended its session. Two students remained. He opened the door for her. She wore a baggy, off-white dress shirt with a narrow, new-wave neck tie. She approached. As if gentlemen’s rules, he opened the door wider. She stopped a few paces from the door. He extended his arm, … Read more
What!? I just got word from ZATZ Publishing that a top Mexican press person was caught stealing BlackBerries from the White House during a meeting between Bush and Canadian and Mexican leaders. Today, Fox News reported that Rafael Quintero Curiel, lead press advance person for the Mexican Delegation was caught stealing six or seven BlackBerry … Read more
THEATER & PERFORMANCEMost Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo & JulietRomeo and Juliet — when we hear this we think of a bittersweet tale. We think of doomed love. But we usually think of it against a backdrop of festivity and decadence. Now, 3AM Productions presents a different look at Shakespeare’s great tragedy — perhaps … Read more
The Twin Cities’ gastronomic bio-diversity seems to be concentrated in three main hot zones: Eat Street (Nicollet Ave.), with its mix of Mexican, Chinese, Vietnamese and German eateries; Central Avenue in northeast Minneapolis, where the blend is Indian, Mexican, Ecuadorian, and Middle Eastern; and University Avenue in Saint Paul, where Vietnamese, Chinese, Cambodian, and Thai … Read more
So it seems the kids from Fame (who, by the way, are now eligible for AARP) have gotten together with Cyndi Lauper and a couple writers from the early days of Saturday Night Live to adapt Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Guthrie. That, and I suppose Joe Dowling had a hand in it, … Read more
Back in January, I submitted a blog called Sex and the Fat Man that was about my forthcoming novel in which a large hero has a lot of quality sex and fesenjoon — the dish over which he and the lady with whom he has all that great sex fall in love. For the past … Read more
…and in the same breath–the Prius, indisputably an automobile for ryhmes-with-wussies… If only for the simple fact that buying "green" right now is just plain dumb. And please, before you cleanse your computer screen with Mommy’s blood-decorated stole, consider these three logical points: a) With a hybrid you are buying into a somewhat untested technology … Read more
In a previous blog I said that I would share with you some pictures from my Mexican Cruise when I receive them. Well, to be honest, I was given them a few weeks ago but was hesitant to share them. After going back and forth with what I should do with this one photo, I … Read more
ARTW(e are )here: Mapping the Human ExperienceLast night, groups of creative explorers got together to form a psychogeographic map of Uptown Minneapolis. How did they do this? They planned tours at the roll of a die; then — utilizing Google Earth, a projector, and a wall sized "canvas" — the groups layered their experiences during … Read more