Think what you will of Bill Murray or Andie MacDowell, their performance in Harold Ramis’ 1993 movie Groundhog Day is a delightful little romp through the world of PunxsutawneyPhil and small town America. One can take Groundhog Day as a simple comedy, a diversion from our mid-winter blahs. Murray’s self-centered TV weatherman gets what’s coming from […]
At the Root of the Music
Uncle Tupelo is the fulcrum of my ROOTS music universe. All things good, bad and ugly; happy, melancholy and sad, flow thru the music and the people and the places of the boys from Southern Illinois. The melancholy is mine–youth is wasted on the young they say. While I was navel-gazing up at Urbana, potential […]
It is WHO you know as much as WHAT you know
Vigilantes 1864
Cold cruel winds blow down intent upon the Bannack mining camp…
Kiwi Architecture
Shoutout on architect’s blog.
Durum Delivers
U.S. Durum Growers Assoc. held a You Tube Pasta Contest last October to celebrate and promote National Pasta Month. Winners were just announced, including 1st place to Sara Neubauer, Bottineau, ND, for “Durum Delivers” filmed at the Air Force Academy: Durum wheat flour is used to make pasta and bread. North Dakota has about 72% of all U.S. […]
All Alone In This Together
there are a very few times in this life when a melody hits me
Blogs vs Twitter II
Think of Twitter as a stream; blogosphere as lakes & oceans
News I Use
My first job was delivering the Fargo Forum and I have had a daily newspaper delivered most every day of my life from then until I moved to Minnesota four years ago. We were renting a farm place out in the country beyond delivery service. So I came to rely even more on web-sourced news. Recent bankruptcies […]
A Chicken in every pot, Broadband in every home.
some major trust issues with the incumbent local exchange carriers…