Saturday Night Live versus Real Life

Sunday, 28 September 2008, 10:41 | Category : Politics

The real interview with Katie Couric, part one:

Camp Wellstone

Wednesday, 24 September 2008, 22:00 | Category : Politics

The back of my Camp Wellstone t-shirt.

Training Camp 2008

Monday, 22 September 2008, 8:08 | Category : Hockey

Better

Tuesday, 16 September 2008, 22:49 | Category : localpolitics, nonattachment

[Listen to Better by Regina Spektor]
It’s almost like the hurricane-force winds from Ike that blew through my town on Sunday managed to clear away the old “junk” that has been bugging me. We are lucky, no damage and we still have power. My mom still has power. A gift from Grandma?
I had [...]

Oh chit

Sunday, 14 September 2008, 10:34 | Category : this-and-that

Friday night I was watching the Weather Channel’s coverage of hurricane Ike. They kept bouncing the feed between three of their hurricane hunters, each buffeted by varying degrees of wind and rain, each breathlessly repeating their stories and showing us the growing destruction.
Then one of them spoke to the people who refused to evacuate. [...]

Manhattan 1988

Thursday, 11 September 2008, 14:08 | Category : photo

All in all is all we are

Tuesday, 9 September 2008, 10:13 | Category : blog, localpolitics

I’m taking after MandoMama… the lyrics to All Apologies by Nirvana come to my mind this morning. I know I haven’t written anything of substance here in quite a while. It’s not that my mind hasn’t been full of thoughts, ideas and words. It has, in fact, been too full more [...]