I’ve been working hard for the money.  So hard for it honey.  Ha, just kidding, the real work is yet to come; that’s the growth curve and it’s going to take some time but it will come, hell or high water.  I know I’ve been posting a lot about it lately, but working just feels [...]

Oh sweet jessup, Spring is springing and it’s nice out.  I know we’ll get hit with another storm before it’s official, but it matters not.  I recently purchased my new road bike and I’m anxious to give it a spin.  It’ll probably be another month, but there will be a lot of miles added to [...]

Just realized that the weather and subsequent lack of exercise has me in the doldrums.  It’s tough to be thinking and writing when you’re not in the mood.  It’s time to get back into exercising and eating a little better.  Spring is right around the corner anyway.
Next year, I’ll have a gym membership to attempt [...]

Well, sweet Jessup, I made it home, or close enough.  I’m sitting at LAX exhausted after a first time trial of California Pizza Kitchen.  It’s been pretty quiet the last week because I couldn’t charge my computer.  This will be my last post on NZ, and for good reason.  I think keeping an open monologue [...]

As I watched to snow fall in a work meeting today, it struck me how my teaching the high school students of North Minneapolis has very much turned low the opacity of distance between me and they.  In short, I’m showing my age…and I am by no means that old, though sometimes it feels that [...]

Sauce had a nice show last night with the Red Pens and Gospel Gossip.  I only stayed for the Red Pens as that was all I wanted to see last night, but I hear good things about the latter.
They played the entirety of their LP, Reasons and one additional song.  They rock.  The drummer is [...]

I was at Sauce, the new “spirits and sounds” digs in Uptown on Saturday and saw two new bands that were both really good live.
The first was Ice Palace, a five piece if memory serves, who played indie music with a good lead singer.  His voice was somewhat disinterested or low monotone if that makes [...]

Last night, we went to see the Mountain Goats at the Cedar.  It was a pretty packed show,  MPR and Vita.mn were sponsoring it and this was my first time trying going to the Cedar.  The room was pretty dark and fit maybe 250 people or so in it.  It was standing room only, which [...]

My good friend Seguin gave me a CD last night.  Apparently he already had a copy.
The band is called the Red Pens and they seem new due to the fact that I can’t find a lot of information on them other than their Myspace page.  The album is called Reasons. It’s a two piece with [...]