I started the workday off with a Leo Kottke compilation CD I made. Leo is the man solely responsible for making me pick up an acoustic guitar and learn fingerstyle when I was a kid [...]

My sister saw the movie "Ray" and brought the soundtrack to the store for me to check out (great music!)As I was asking her about it, I wondered out loud if he beat up on [...]

Here is a screenshot of one of my email accounts. I emptied it out last Friday, it is now Wednesday, and here's what it looks like:Damn!To the layperson, it would appear that I'm a very [...]

I don't use the word "evidently" enough. Evidently, I never felt the urge to.But not anymore, I'm gonna make a note of it to write and say it a lot more. It's a pretty sexy [...]

Setting: Golden Valley, MN. Indian restaraunt called Taste of India. Monday evening, approx. 6:35 pm. The night was cold.I had a delicious pile of chicken curry, a glass of cheap wine and too much Naan [...]

During my 2+ year tenure here at the coffee shop, the one thing I can count on is the same little group of door to door "salesmen" showing up in a beat up old car [...]

Wow! With all of this writing I've been doing today, I feel like I'm on fire.. Apparently, so did this guy: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/us_bush_fire "I've fallen, and I'm probably not going to get up.""Those damn kids loaded [...]

Working at a coffee shop gets the creative drink making part of your brain working. You get sick of the same old stuff and start experimenting when you're bored to find something new.Here's what I've [...]

A bus just drove by with a "Buy a Yogurt Parfait and 10¢ goes towards the Twin Cities Ronald McDonald House" banner on it.Slight McProblem: The "1" in "10" is painted right on a door [...]

Unless someone else is around that can't stand it, I listen to talk radio about 99% of the time. I simply can't stomach the music stations we have here in Minneapolis - they're like bratty [...]

In case you've been living in a cave and haven't seen it on store shelves, the fine folks at Pepsi Cola have crafted what I'm sure they hope to become the next perennial favorite amongst [...]

It's true, stand up and try it... right turns must be made in 90 degree increments, otherwise you won't get a true "left" out of it.It's time to take a break from posting about the [...]

I've been under a bit of stress lately. Here's how I cope. Not only are these pointers good for stress relief, but they're good time killers if you're bored, too!Bite nails.Sit and focus on one [...]

To those of you unaware of the ongoing legacy of my Pinto not being in service for the past few weeks, allow me to give you a brief explanation: It was running a little chuggy [...]

Every time I drive past the Burger King on Nicollet Avenue I see one of those signs beneath the BK logo with the black tile letters on the backlit white canvas that reads:TRY OUR NEW [...]