April 2010
MASTER BROWNSTONE
When Guns N’ Roses’ “Appetite for Destruction” came out, I was, oh, let’s see, ten years old.
And I listened to that tape all the time, every chance I got, favoring especially the drum intro to Paradise City and the wha-wha-wha-ing guitars on Welcome to the Jungle. Slash was my hero.
The rest of the songs kind [...]
FROM EASTER TO EARTH DAY
Just finished uploading a new batch of Holga pictures for your enjoyment. There are some gems in here, in my opinion, including one of Veda standing in the empty fountain at the Warsaw Biblical Gardens, Veda hunting for Easter Eggs, and Veda double-exposure photographed while watching her dog play in the park. You may be [...]
Read more >>BUMP STARTING A MOTORCYCLIST
“Hey man, let’s take a day next week and go riding.”
Tom sounded urgent this time, like he knew I’d been busy with work, and so has he, and so the odds weren’t good, but c’mon, man, let’s just do it.
Okay. We would go hardcore off-road riding, not just out dorking around, and we would do [...]
VEDAMINUTE, 04.15.10
Yesterday was really nice, and we got to go out on the “boat” on Lake Winona. I blew it up with the inflator hooked to the car’s cigarette socket, verified that no new leaks had sprung over the winter, hauled the makeshift transom and puny trolling motor out to the car along with the battery [...]

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