On August 30th, I was in the process of driving from Minneapolis, MN to Atlanta, GA, a trek I now take once per year. At a point just over halfway between the two cities is a town named Effingham, IL, and it was about here that I wanted to take …
I have returned safely from Dragon*Con. My adventures were epic, including things like the Death Race 2000 alligator car and a trip to Space Camp. But I don’t have the photos processed yet. You’ll have to wait. So, in lieu of actual content, here’s a photo of me driving a …
Last Wednesday, I received an extraordinary gift from Fes Works: he took me to Drive a Tank, where I got to plunge an FV 433 Abbot into a lake. But I don’t have photos of that yet. Because I was too busy driving a tank to take photos myself. Yet …
Clearly, we’re totally highbrow this week. Have a listen to Episode 163! Unrelated and yet still geeky: have you contributed to the Camden Kickstarter yet? You should!
A couple weeks ago, Mr. John Kovalic, the cartoonist behind Dork Tower and Munchkin, asked if I could do a project that involved doing the color finishes on some of his black & white linework. Since working on John’s art is always fun, I naturally said yes. Yesterday, the Kickstarter went up! “Camden” is a …
One of the great hidden gems of the Twin Cities is a weekly improv comedy show called Improv-a-Go-Go. The original concept of the show was that four improv teams would each get a 20 minute segment of the show to do whatever the hell they want. Since experimenting was encouraged, …
Our latest episode of The Geek Life was so awesome, it killed Mike’s Internet connection twice! Listen to the shambled remains here!
I have a goal this month to work through my photography backlog. For instance, this set of photos were shot in February, but I haven’t managed to edit and post them until now. Fort Snelling is an old frontier post/Civil War era fort built at the confluence of the Minnesota …
Last week, I had the sublime pleasure of seeing Laurel and Hardy’s Way Out West in an actual movie theater. Not only that, it was a movie theater cool enough to have live organ music before the show, a Dairy Queen next door, and old Hollywood overseas sizzler reels in lieu …
Back in March, I wrote a post about Johnny Guitar, a very strange Western that had been long out-of-print in the United States. I am pleased that the article has since drawn a lot of readers off the web, curious about this hard-to-find film. To my immense joy, I discovered yesterday …
