State of the Union January 02, 2010 ( No Comments ) Its new years and if there is a better time for self-reflection I can’t think of it. I am truly blessed, and blessed is one of those Me and William the Conquerorwords I hate. Its usually uttered by people in lifetime movies whose lives seem…
Spook Story:Waiting for the Great Pumpkin October 31, 2007 ( 1 Comment ) So this is the week of stories that haunt, and what better day for stories that haunt then Halloween. A misappropriated misunderstood pagan holiday, turned Christian fright fest, then morphed into a reason to dress up like a Transformer great extremely drunk…
Spook Stories: Swimming with Toasters October 29, 2007 ( 4 Comments ) It’s Halloween time and I started thinking about ghost stories, but not the kind that involve disgruntled specters of crazed killers, or evil leprechauns, that take over crack neighborhoods and eventually wind up in space. Rather the stories that truly haunt us. The…
so it goes, and there it went… May 06, 2008 ( 2 Comments ) I have been somewhat unforgivably absent as of late, and for I apologize. What can I say other then I was too busy with life to write about it? It happens to the best of us so its positively expected when…
Snaildartha- My MP3 christmas gift you December 03, 2007 ( No Comments ) Ever start something silly that just sort of takes on a life of it’s own? Welcome to Snaildartha: The Story of Jerry the Christmas Snail. It started as a silly little idea: Make the Life of Buddha into a Christmas story oh…
Secrets of the universe and other things from gumball machines August 23, 2010 ( No Comments ) There are certain stories that I can’t be open with, mostly because they aren’t mine to tell,I am just a character in them, sometimes a big one but ultimately not the protagonist. They affect me sometimes on an…
Save Teace July 28, 2012 ( No Comments ) I want to tell you about a friend of mine, his name is Thisaphone Sothiphakhak; I more often than not he is called Teace. He went to school kindergarten through high school right here in Minneapolis, till he dropped out in favor of getting his GED….
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Revolutionary Snake Ensemble:Forked Tounge,the lost Notes May 19, 2008 ( 1 Comment ) I almost never talk about my work in this space but recently I did a record for the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble a very cool band from Boston lead by Birdsongs of the Mesozoic Sax player Ken Field. They are a New Orleans …
Replacing the Replacements November 19, 2007 ( No Comments ) There is a new book out called “The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History” by Minneapolis super writer Jim Walsh, Its been making a lot of head lines here in my hometown, well because it’s the Replacements and it’s their hometown too….