May 2012
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“Would I go there again? Definitely. The final cost equaled Longfellow Grill, but...”
– This is such a classic post at the Twin Cities Daily Planet, where I work as associate editor. This guy wants tacos, but he doesn’t want to pay the Minneapolis food sales tax that’s helping to subsidize a new Vikings stadium, so he drives to the suburbs to find Vikings-free...
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Dispatches from the Road, 2001: A Day at Don's
Previous dispatch: A Night in La Gue
MONTPELIER, VERMONT— “JEFFORDS ROCKS,” read the rear window of a car that passed us today. The car’s license plate, however, revealed it to be of Massachusetts extraction.
Despite being on the low side, the showerheads at the La Gue Inn are not bad. The flow is gentle as falling rain, albeit also as irregular and approximately the same...
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Drinking with Aunt Muffie's Friends
Sue: You quit smoking?
Marty: Yeah, I'm on Chantix.
Sue: Can you drink with that?
Marty: Probably not. That's why I'm not reading the label.
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Dispatches from the Road, 2001: A Night in La Gue
See introduction/explanation.
MONTPELIER, VERMONT—”What a surprise!” exclaims Dad sarcastically. “More rain!”
My father and my sister Jenny arrived at 203 School Street today in the early afternoon, after a short drive from their stopping place last night in Casanova, New York—their drive interrupted only by a brief hiatus at the side of the road near the Massachusetts...
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Dispatches from the Road, 2001: Introduction
So here’s what you did when you wanted to live-blog your family road trip in spring 2001. You bought yourself a Kyocera 6035 (“one of the first smartphones to appear on the American market,” per Wikipedia) and you put together an e-mail list of your favorite friends, then every night, having perfected the Palm shorthand technique, you’d use your stylus to compose a...
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This Conversation Just Happened at My Work Meeting
Person 1: My name is Kelly Everding, and I work at the Rain Taxi Review of Books.
Person 2: Have we met?
Person 1: Hmm, I don't think so.
Person 2: Your name just sounds so familiar.
Me: Is it maybe because of Katniss Everdeen from "The Hunger Games"?
Person 2: That's it!
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Danger Den: is this zen? →
I looked forward to the weekends way more as a kid than—God willing—I ever will as an adult. It’s hard to imagine working any job in adult life that I could possibly hate more than I hated grade school and high school. To this day, every time I pass a school, I want to yell, “Seeya, suckas!!!!”
beckylang:
today i was walking home from work thinking, “tomorrow is hump day...
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Damn it, Peter Gabriel!
Peter Gabriel just announced a So anniversary tour, in which he and the original So touring band will play the album in its entirety. The tour is coming nowhere near Minnesota, which blows since Peter Gabriel is among the my top ten most-played artists (via Last.fm) who I haven’t yet seen but could conceivably (that is, they’re not dead) see live. Here’s the current version:
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I know it’s awkward that we pass each other in the hall twice a day and don’t say anything, but if you’d just lurk creepily in your apartment like everyone else in this building does, that wouldn’t be a problem.
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“Current copyright laws were written for a world where the means of reproduction...”
– I wrote that in a post last summer, arguing that existing copyright law is absurdly ill-fitted to the Internet era. The recording industry has just outdone itself in demonstrating that fact, arguing that LimeWire has cost it a sum ranging from $400 billion to $75 trillion. At the low end,...
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