Easy one. Meet me at Raking Through Books tonight, please. This is my employer’s monthly happy hour book club, always at Kieran’s, and always featuring some sort of arts and culture “celebs” talking about books, reading from books, hell, sometimes they even read from their own books. Tonight, our hosts will be two fantastic local … Read more
Question: what are you doing tonight? It’s Tuesday, it’s going to rain, the Twins are going to lose, there’s nothing on cable or at the theaters, and you don’t have tickets or money to go to the big shows in town, whatever they may be. Or perhaps you do. Doesn’t matter, because the best thing … Read more
I have owned more than a few copies of this book. I can’t quite seem to to keep it on my shelf. Shortly after discovering it, a friend confided that she was terrified to cook, that she didn’t know where to start. She had been a Microwave Monkey for most of her life. I knew … Read more
“Mr. Arkadin–the Comprehensive Version”, 1955 (restored and cobbled together from five different versions in 2005). Written and directed by Orson Welles. Starring Robert Arden, Orson Welles, Patricia Medina, Paola Mori, Akim Tamaroff, and Michael Redgrave. “Mr. Arkadin is a bad film such as only a great and self-consciously wayward artist could make, and only then … Read more
If you checked out the recent issue of Speakeasy, the Loft Literary Center’s literary magazine, you read some interesting stuff writers had to say about “technology and the soul.” How timely for Speakeasy. Because after the Summer 2006 issue, this magazine will be strictly an online venture. I’ve enjoyed Speakeasy so I’ll be sad to … Read more
A dog is walking on the rocks. If that dog weren’t there coming between me and the rocks I wouldn’t understand this world I wouldn’t. Fish are swimming in the water the water flows around the fish birds are flying in the air the air moves around them if there were no fish if there … Read more
So this is what it’s come to: Twins put up a fight in loss How sad. How very, very sad.
You pretty much have to trot out ever dis– word in your arsenal to describe the nightmares of the first five weeks of the 2006 Twins season: Discouraging. Dismal. Disheartening. Disgusting. Disgraceful. Disappointing. Discomfiting. Discombobulated. Distressing. Disastrous, E…T…C…. A team can be some of those things and still manage to be entertaining, but thus far … Read more
I spent much of my early life looking for fables, and can remember the days when the spring woods would be full of them. If you climbed back up into the bluffs above the Bitterroot creek and nosed around under rocks and in the shady areas beneath the stands of big oaks, you’d find fables … Read more
Many people wrongly believe that Cinco de Mayo is the Mexican Independence Day. It’s actually a day celebrated in memory of the Battle of Puebla in 1862. On this day, the struggling Mexican army rose up and defeated the stronger (and probably very well dressed) invading French army. What if they hadn’t had the moxie … Read more