This is Not a Joke
My quest to find a real job started the moment I realized I could not live forever off of student loans. This hit me like a fully loaded semi, in the middle of the day, with children watching, while...
View ArticleSedentary Progression
A man-skeleton wastes on a couch in a mediocre apartment years before anticipated. An alamode present, fixture placement, surrounded by living room walls and slight furnishings-which tell of...
View ArticleFace Value: the Art of Working with a Black Eye
Speaking of eyes… Wow, after a few days of being awesome and doing whatever I wanted after my horrific kickball accident, I woke up today with a black eye. My first thought was, fuck, I am a loser, no...
View ArticleQuiet Season
This has been the first week of real, sort of, winter biking weather in Minneapolis since last season. The truth about winter biking is it is exhilarating, fun, dangerous, and refreshing all at the...
View ArticleThe Best of Night Terrors
He was dreaming when he woke the first time. A mild sweat hung over his body as he lay in the darkened bed, tucked within a down blanket and damp sheets. His head protruded up out of an opening in...
View ArticleHoliday Desperation
On Holiday Dialogue: “Really, Terry Scott, I am sick.” “Oh yeah?” “Yeah… I want to fix things, I want to fix the business, I want to fix dad.” She put her cigarette out with lack of attention, it hung...
View ArticleOne Fucking Star On Yelp!
The all important Ordinal Level of Measurement-ah, no one gives a fuck anymore. Actually, no one gives a fuck about math anymore, they are too busy eating, drinking, and Yelping about their...
View ArticleOfficial Photos Of Northern Spark 2013
St. Paul, MN. June 8-9, 2013-In case you missed out on the fun at the 2013 Northern Spark Art Fest, don’t worry, I have all the official photos to back up what you missed. I was there. I got soaked...
View ArticleAs Our Tattoos Fade
I found myself at the Kitty Kat Club meaninglessly staring into a friend’s eyes. I could’ve cared less. I had been tired. We both wore the eyes you get when you are focusing on everything and...
View ArticleThe Price on Your Head (Marketing to Kill You)
What we need now is more resource management, better content, and less offensively aggressive marketing tactics by local and national publications. I guess we also need to understand the meaning of...
View ArticleIrish Hard Fate
Today I sit in the dining room of flat 43. This flat is on the fifth floor of an apartment complex in the middle of Dublin. I look outside at the city. I see buildings, birds, and double-decker buses;...
View ArticleThe Security Door
The blue security door leading outside keeps on opening and closing, it slams loud, abruptly. A ghost walks through it. This apparition is faster than darting eyes, faster than reverberating sound,...
View ArticleWhat are you going to do about it?
Generally, I avoid conflict and situations of adversity… though I enjoy a good conflict, and some adversity. Today I found that conflict, and sort-of adversity, only because I was having fun in the...
View ArticleEuropean Cigarettes
Temple Bar, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland. While walking the bustling streets of Dublin, Ireland one notices the amount of cigarette smokers there are throughout the city. They appeared everywhere, it...
View ArticleSomeones Matter/Ant Farm
God the Seagull. One time there was a time, it was modern and equal. It was one time—that’s a date. Someones thought of something, a grand scheme. Someones are unique individuals, everyone. They...
View ArticleIndividual Accountability
Individual accountability. Where we are judged by our own actions, not by the groups we associate from. Not by our words. Not by which is interpreted by others in other groups, but by what we mean...
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