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Monthly Archives: August 2010

They Conspired to Cover-Up the Financial Abuse, etc.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

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Sementics

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Masturbation is the first refuge of the hack. If your life isn’t sexually adventurous enough, throw your readers a knuckleball with a description of your character, or yourself, making the scene with a magazine. It’s not the last sexual taboo, but it remains a personal and private one that retains the ability to shock, or, […]

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Friends, They Are Jewels Pt. 1 West Lafayette, IN

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

From LiveJournal April 3, 2010 Mike, Nate, and I took a five-day trip down to the upper south this past week, our main destination Louisville, KY. Fortunately, Mike is a history teacher, I’m a devotee of obscure Americana, and  we both hold a special affection for Eisenhower-era road-tripping. The Midwest (aka the flyover zone to […]

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Sad Pumpkin

Sunday, August 15, 2010

We decided to grow pumpkins again this year (see here for the previous, Frankensteinian results from 2006). When you grow pumpkins on a half acre of land, you’d best be ready to do without, well, area. If you let them, the damn vines stretch out over 20 feet (or more) in all directions. In 2006, […]

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Friends, They Are Jewels Pt. 2 Owatonna, MN/Columbus, WI

Saturday, August 14, 2010

If you’re bound to see every last brick Louis Sullivan laid atop another, the last century made your job easier. By the 70s, most of Sullivan’s buildings were smashed and scattered, and in a useless bit of serendipity, seeing Sullivans has turned into one-stop shopping. A single Sullivan, the Bayard-Condict Building, exists in New York, […]

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“The male mice’s testicles were no longer pink.”

Saturday, August 14, 2010

My cat has been having trouble with his eyes, so he’s made several visits to the vet in recent weeks. Vet visits are an in and out proposition, but this time Nate was with us, so I minded him while Mike consulted with the vet. Having a little more time to spend in the waiting […]

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Duck, Duck, GOOSED!

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Fascistic Chicago police turn the hose on peaceably assembled duck protesters. Share this:

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Look at My Dumb! Gee, You’re Thumb!

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

I love a good hoax or practical joke, but the gist of the Dry Erase Board Jenny hoax seems to be, “Ha ha! You thought she was real! But she wasn’t!” There’s no game here, other than, I suspect, an attempt to garner some hits with a hot piece of… Uh, a very pretty girl. […]

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Sorry, Kane

Saturday, August 7, 2010

I guess this qualifies as a bootleg toy. Alien-inspired Whac-a-Mole game in a pizza place (Giovanni’s) in International Falls, MN. Actually, this is awesome. Added bonus: Bizarre art from a spider-stomping game. Same principle as Whac-a-Mole, kind of, except you use your feet. Share this:

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I Collect Soda Pop Bottles

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

My latest acquisitions from a neat little antique store in International Falls, MN. If you weren’t aware that I collected bottles, my criteria are simple. 1. I prefer fired-on labels. But since most modern pops (I’m from the Midwest and Chicago, so I call it “pop”) have paper labels, I’m willing to give a local […]

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