Saturday I watched Sexy Baby which labels itself, “a documentary about sexiness & the cyber age.” The movie’s been knocking around in my brain since I watched most of it that afternoon. I say most…
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The Emotion of Grief Really Stinks
If I had been able to get a tattoo in 1989 at the age of 17 it most definitely would have been the words “Carpe Diem” or if I were feeling super adventurous “Gather ye…
Trapped in 1993 with the River Phoenix Blues Again
I was driving from Shakopee back to Eau Claire on Halloween 1993. I have no idea why I made the journey home to see my parents, I only know that I did. Relaying this story…
It’s Sunday & I’m Boring: The So-So Gatsby Edition
Sunday morning began at ridiculous o’clock in the morning when the heavens opened up and poured water onto the Earth waking my bed companion cum arch-nemesis, Lex Luthor. Lex is my BFK’s puppy of some…
A few of the reasons I love ‘Grace of My Heart’
Because Alt-J sucks, I turned off broadcast television at about 10:45 last night. Conan needs to hire me to select bands for his talk show. I would not pick Alt-J. Ever. When I woke up…
The Pop-Culture Filtering System in my Brain
When it comes to pop cultural nonsense, I have a very elaborate and arbitrary filtering system. We all have these filters, right? I mean there’s just so much out there that we can’t absorb it…
Color Me Obsessed: ‘They were sort of Morrissey for the Midwest’
So I’ve been trying for a week to write about the night I decided the time had finally come to sit down, drink a Captain Morgan and Diet Coke like it was 1995 and Kelly…
To Kill a Mockingbird is inescapable
Saturday mornings and sometimes the afternoons and occasionally the nights are reserved for documentaries. I love documentaries. I’m not sure why of all the movies in all the land my brain can easily sit through…
Ferris Bueller sells out
I’m disappointed with Gen X. A generation who spent most of their twenties labeling this band or that author as a “sell out” has seemed to embrace the biggest selling out of one of our…