Monster McPhee Sale!

One of my favorite crazy web-stores is having a huge monster sale! Don't walk - run to Archie McPhee and get all crazy in a kitchy goodness buying spree!
Make your own lawn gnome band for under $5! Avoid unnecessary exercise when using the computer - buy an Internet Urinal (two for under $5 - give the second to a loved one). It's all here...
(And don't get the computer code briefcase and then bring it to Geek Prom thinking you're being all original. If you do, I'll beat you with my slide rule!)

They also have a "Nerd Test" - I'm 109% nerd - ouch!

Before all of the snow melted away...

I got this photo in Canal Park.



(with popping goodness)

Want to go for a ride?

The King and Queen of this year's Geek Prom will win a ride on a Cirrus SR22. Let's hope they're not afraid of flying. I can just see them, taxiing back and forth on the runway, afraid to take off. Geeky, geeky, geeky.

Low on TV.

I finally got around to digitizing Low's Carson Daly appearance. Quality is so-so but you will get the idea.




Low on Carson Daly | Quicktime 10mb

Just 15 Days to Geek Prom 2005

Get out your bright pink formalwear, your skin-tight superhero outfits, your dental headgear ... you know, what you always wear. There's no need to find a date; you'll be held in higher regard if you come alone.

More info at GeekProm.com, of course.

Geek Prom?

I haven't heard anything about Geek Prom. Is it still happening this year?

Old School Troubles

Life is tough when you kick it old school like me. We still use 2 beige Macs at home - a first-generation G3, and a Mac clone. Anybody remember Mac clones? Anybody remember beige computers? Anyway, someone in my house spilled liquid into one of the keyboards. The manual we got with the computer had a diagram that showed specifically that you weren't supposed to do that. So now it does funny things when we type with it. Like typing 2 or 3 letters at a time. Or maybe no letters at a time. So I need to find a new or gently used Mac ADB keyboard. I know Goodwill gets them in from time to time, but there was nothing there this week.

Anybody have one they don't want or know where to look other than e-bay?
I think I'm willing to shell out as much as $10. That amount may increase with my desperation as the tax deadline grows closer and closer.


P.S.- OS 8.6 ROCKS!!!

this blog sux

come on.

you slackers.

wow me.

zow me.

plow me.

post it.

for the most it.

i know you can.

Pepper-Land Photography

Let's go to the Bar

click on the pic!

Ripsaw Redux

It's official, folks. Publisher Brad Nelson has announced the Rasputin-like resurrection of The Ripsaw News. The paper will return in May with the HomeGrown Music Festival edition, to be followed by bi-monthly editions to include Green Man, the Student Living Guide, the Gift Guide, Winter Art & Adventure, and the Sawyer Awards.

"The calendar will no longer appear in the regular issue," Nelson said. "That void will be filled by the Ripsaw Radar, which will be e-mailed weekly and distributed by paper to the entertainment district. The Radar will be the most popular fridge-post in history with the Violet Days cartoon as its centerpiece."

The Ripsaw also plans to get back to its roots as far as content goes. "The personality of the Ripsaw will be more similar to year one, with satire and humor used as a weapon," said Nelson.

Self-described "booze connoisseur" Slim Goodbuzz, who struggled with the Ripsaw's cleaner magazine format, pronounced the return as good news. "This way, if Yvonne Pretner-Solon has too many cosmos and ends up shitting her pants at the Green Mill, I can describe it in a way the public can appreciate," Goodbuzz said.

In addition to "Gettin' Ripped" by Slim Goodbuzz, Ripsaw standards such as Mark Lindquist's "Basement Gloss," Sarah Heimer's "Skull Session," Barrett Chase's "Occam's Razor" and the aforementioned "Violet Days" by Chris Monroe will share space with new columns, including an environmental column by Thomas Donaldson of Sustainable North Shore, and a sex column by Paula Peterson.

I was getting REAL tired of...

....seeing the BVM in my panckaes.

MICHIGANTOWN, Indiana (AP) -- An Indiana pet store owner says he sees the image of Satan on the shell of a turtle that was the only survivor of a store fire in October.

rest of the story

So. . . .

So who has the white Ford Taurus with the PDD sticker on it that I parked behind today on 3rd street? Don't take your car above 55 mph, I planted a bomb in it.

A very true St. Patrick's day story

Several years ago, I was in a math class on St. Patrick's day sitting near two girls of the "large hair" persuasion. They were talking back and forth about how much they were going to party that evening, then they turned to me and asked me what I was planning on doing.
"Oh, I'll probably just stay at home and drink some Guinness."
They both stare at me with confused doe-eyes. "What's Guinness?"
"It's an Irish beer."
"Is it green?"
"... Uh no. It's black."
At that point one girl excitedly turns to the other and says "Ohmuhgod! Did you know that Irish people don't actually drink green beer?"
"Are you serious? What color is their beer??"
"It's the same color as ours!"
"Wooow...!"
At this point I turned around shaking my head...

spell it.

A new Flickr obsession for you all.

I dreamt this in 8th grade

The Ultimate Gaming Lounge

ceiling mounted projector wirth software that reveals maps as you progress through them....

" Our gaming area is in the basement. This made mounting the projector a lot less intrusive than if it were in a main living area. I don't think my wife would have been to keen on me hanging it from our dining room ceiling. "

worst case of gaming envy here

Quickly!

If you want to see SKINDRED play an in-store show at the Electric Fetus, they're playing at 4pm, which is, like, right now.

top ten things i saw in Nicaragua today

1. wild horses walking around the street

2. lot of cattle lazing around the shade

3. pigs roaming in the park foraging on the brush

4. lots of poo on the road

5. men walking around with mecheti's in one hand and a bunch of banannas in the other

6. giant wicker baskets full of pinapple and cantalope

7. women hassling me for pesos

8. stickers and streamer decorating the bus like a childs bedroom exploded

9. giant volcanos covered with clouds

10. women selling fish from a five gallon bucket on the side of the road

i am currently on an island formed by two volcanos called Isla de Omatempe. I am blessed. Life is great.

Lizard Hunting

click on the pic.

I promise I will only cross-post a couple more times. I have to train you people you know.

It was warm and sunny in Florida today and I spent half of it in my mothers darkroom.

Honeymoon Beach Surfing

click on the pic.

The Foghorn Poetry Series presents

Paul Lundgren
Wednesday, March 9 | 8 p.m.
NorShor Theatre

Also featuring: the Lake Superior Cacophonic Choir and Sight Like December.

a duluth two-fer-one.

check it out: party store minnow & fellow ripsawyer andy smentkowski interviews the seemingly upbiquitious al sparhawk at popmatters.

jeez, i haven't posted anything here in a long time.

Le Garage on the Road.

click on the pic.

High priest of the Tiki cult passes away

RIP MARTIN DENNY

The man who brought the name "exotica" to this genre died March 2nd, Hawaii Kai, Hawaii. The King of the Tiki Hut, Denny not only brought exotica its biggest hit of all time with his #2 single of Les Baxter's "Quiet Village,", he gave two other key figures in exotica--Arthur Lyman and Julius Wechter--their starts, and influenced several generations of lounge performers.

more here

all hail lounge!!

Speaking of pop

I officially declare that Michael Jackson is no longer the "King of Pop". He is now the "King of Jesus Juice".


My premptive apologies.

Ninjas Don't Get Healthcare

Ninjas don’t get healthcare.
See that line over there?
That’s the free health clinic
where them people without
insurance have to go
when they get hurt or sick.

Ninjas don’t get health care.
They say that it’s not fair,
but their’s is a risky
profession and those dark,
violent assassins
companies won’t carry.

Ninjas don’t get healthcare.
Can’t see them standing there
Because they are hiding
in plain sight, but there are
ninjas with colds and sai
wounds in that line waiting.

Waiting... for some healthcare.

~ D.J. Kirkbride

Free Range Film Fest Fun

The Free Range Film Festival, an annual celebration of independent film and clean country living, returns this July 29th & 30th to that big old barn outside of Wrenshall, Minnesota.

Which means it's time to send us your movies.

Once again, we're accepting any film, video or kinescope nurtured without the use of pesticides, hormones or a distribution deal from a
fancy-pants Hollywood studio. Your Free Range Film can be a full-length feature, an independent short, a provocative documentary or a two-minute video starring your aunt, an old bicycle and a friggin' huge, black, winged unicorn. It's free to enter. And it's good for you.

Free Range Tip: To increase the chances of seeing your film in the festival, consider submitting a short subject of less than two minutes.
Our Two-Minute Film Festival of cartoons, documentaries and other assorted oddities was a big hit at last year's event.

So what are you waiting for? Enter your Free Range Film today. Look for the official 2005 entry form at www.freerangefilm.com.

Deadline for entries is June 1, 2005.

Winter Walk.

Click on the Pic.

Your Opinion, Please

So, as almost all of you are probably aware, the Meet the Bloggers page has not been updated in ages. Most of the bloggers on the page haven't made a post in months. I think there is even one blogger on the page who never even made one post. Most of the new bloggers who post all the time aren't shown on the page. No one updates their photos. It really isn't an accurate rendition of who uses this site.

This past month, I received several requests from new bloggers to have their pictures put up on the MTB page. I haven't posted them because I don't like that page and want to change it.

So many bloggers wish to remain anonymous. They choose pseudonyms, refrain from giving a bio, and if they give a picture (which is rare) it isn't one that reflects who they are. This is fine, of course, but it renders the Meet the Bloggers page useless.

This is your site. How would you like to "Meet the Bloggers"? What are your ideas for a new page of this type? Is there another system which would work better? Should we just get rid of it entirely?