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Sitting on the bench after Rosso left I started thinking about my life. Who was I, now, exactly? I truly didn’t know anymore.
I wasn’t one of the college boys ambling past me, unable or unwilling to lift their feet of the ground when the walked by – never had been. At that age I was already in my first year at the police academy back in Chicago, back when the minimum age to join was 19 and no college was required.
I started with this recipe, but only because I thought it was a recipe for real, live all whole wheat french bread. Nothing wrong with that recipe, but I’m a type II diabetic, and white flour is powdered death for me. Anyhow, you need 3-4 (or 5, I didn’t really measure past a certain point) […]
A little (maybe closer to a long) while ago, my friend Eric demanded I send him recipes “so that he might be jolly.” I immediately thought of pies, but then I thought the likelihood of Eric preparing a pie was small. The reasons for this are as follows: Eric lives in New York City, where […]
Amongst Iowa Citians, I think I’m pretty close to holding the record for seeing the Nutcracker ballet the most times. My father was the conductor of the Cedar Rapids Symphony, and he conducted the Nutcracker every year once they moved to the Paramount Theatre. I also saw it at Hancher with my kids when they […]
Formerly of Iowa City, now kicking ass and naming names in NYC, Kathryn Musilek is back to play a show the day after Thanksgiving at the Blue Moose!
View all NaNoWriMo entries … There was Stan’s gun, of course, but Rosso’s got a way of making you feel disarmed just to think of him.  I reached under my seat and retrieved Stan’s piece, which suddenly felt flimsy, like a toy, while I struggled with Rosso’s simple question.  Where can we meet?  I ought […]
View all NaNoWriMo entries … One thing was for sure, then. Carol was in Iowa City, dining with the dentist. This is probably the point where Stan would lay down some hastily made plan, maybe make some sort of offbeat joke to lighten the mood and get my blood flowing again, but Stan was several […]
I joined some friends at Gabe’s for a show I didn’t really know much about and I learned to always trust these particular friends’ taste in music. This was a great show (as so many of them are). Name Crisis is called such because they haven’t yet picked a name, but they have certainly solidified […]
I have a bunch of photos to crank out, so I have to go skimpy on my write-ups for now. I rarely photograph shows that I think won’t be very good, so you can bet that all of these bands are worth checking out, if you’re not already familiar with them. I am counting on […]
I found a CD in my pile today that I haven’t taken for a drive in a while, Colour Music‘s f, monday, orange, february, venus, lunatic, 1 or 13. Three or four years ago I caught a live set of theirs in Des Moines–opening for, and destroying, British Sea Power–and it left an impression so […]
Bundle up and get to these events. You can shake your groove thing, laugh, hear beautiful songs, see amazing things, or remember how hard it was to be 10. All of these are better ideas that sitting in your house this weekend.
Ogre You Asshole came all the way from Japan to put on a fine show at the Englert and set the stage for Wolf Parade. Though they spoke little English, they still completely engaged the audience with some pretty meticulous rock melodies. Wolf Parade took the stage with a surge of energy that got nearly […]
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