Minniesodah
Various pix taken during my trips back home to Minnesota. Click on any image to zoom in and either click to navigate left and right or use your keyboard arrows.
Falliage 2016
Taken during my daily walks/runs through Prospect Park. Click on any image to zoom in and either click to navigate left and right or use your keyboard arrows.
Cottonhead
When you go to work, once you're there do you ever think back on your commute and realize you can barely remember anything about it? Yes? No? I do that a lot... a dangerous amount [...]
“A Sparkling Shade of Green”
One of my favorite t-shirts is the one Booger wore in Revenge of the Nerds that said HIGH ON STRESS... that would have been the perfect tee for me to wear every day from early [...]
Revisiting the “Dog Seed Shuffle” song & era
What do you do when you're bored out of your mind and going bonkers? If you're me, you pick one of your most difficult songs to play (not to mention longest) that you haven't played [...]
There’s a Place for Fun in Your Life
https://youtu.be/kDf_wVdP-ag?si=CkdgEU9LzYe62l2x Damn right. I was a mall rat pretty early on in life. For an 11-year-old loaner there was really no more satisfying way to spend an afternoon than at Signal Hills Mall on Robert [...]
43th Birthday Jamboree Weekend 2016
Friday night on birthday eve, my favorite drummer from another mother Ethan Meyer took me to see who I consider to be one of the most brilliant comedians of all time, Louis C.K. @ Forest [...]
That one time 23 years ago when I got to meet KISS
Once upon a time way back in 1993, I got to meet my numero uno rock and roll heroes KISS at the Sam Goody store in the Mall of America, and it was pretty darn [...]
Stories behind the songs (“FINNEGAN” cd)
Here are brief little snippets about each tune on my "Finnegan" solo acoustic album (link to purchase is available at the bottom of this page). A printable version is available here for anyone who bought [...]
“Finnegan” CDs in stock!
For those of you who prefer to buy your music in the tried and true compact disc format, yesterday the USPS stork dropped off a box containing a short run of my "Finnegan" CD containing [...]
Airport Song
Ladies and gentlemen: 12 string guitar gawd LEO KOTTKE Every time I go to sweep the dust bunnies out from under our bed I have to take all of the guitar cases out from under [...]
7 6
When I read that Prince passed away last Thursday I'm sure I had the same reaction as just about everyone else: It's a hoax! Nope. Well we certainly didn't see that one coming, did we? [...]
The Power of Ace Compels Me
A detailed account of attending the Ace Frehley BACKSTORY event on 3/22/2016.
New Finnegan tune: ISLAND VIEW
I looked up the last time I wrote my last full-length solo acoustic geetar tune. The song was "The Dog Seed Shuffle" and the date was December 21 2005. Dude! That's, like, 10 years! Where [...]
December 31 1989
The NPR show Tiny Desk is having a contest that goes like this: You send them a link to a YouTube video of you playing an original song behind a desk, and if they like [...]
Eulogy for a KISS ARMY shirt
Today is a very sad day. It's time for my KISS ARMY shirt to go to that big box of guitar polishing rags in the sky ("the sky" being my gig bag). I purchased it [...]