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The Minnesota Music Scene Can Be Odd

Not the clubs - we have a pretty fair, eclectic scene, pick yer poison, Triple Rock, First Ave, Cabooze, Minnesota Music Club, all frequently cutting edge. Even the older acts - I had a blast at Mighty...

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Remodel Blogging Week I Ain't Finished DON'T JUDGE ME!

I have an empty storage pod!Queen Diva-Kitteh has reclaimed her throne, ruling over her kingdom with both iron claw and  fuzzy heart!Wow, this has been such a productive weekend -- are you stinkin'...

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Eyes Wide Shut*

Long, long workday, working on a project, had my head under a raised floor for several hours, the desiccation was a mighty thing, forcing me to try to re-hydrate with Glenfiddich 18, the Scots are a...

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In Which paleo Gets Hip To The Culture Thingy

Listening to Mama and the Mooks this morning., and they made (I know, it happens!) a joke, that Taylor Swift already has a new boyfriend, and he should run before he becomes a song, like John...

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Wandering The Halls Of Memory. With Birds Eating The Breadcrumbs I Leave For...

In an intimate, intellectual conversation about music (before it degenerated into random personal abuse) at Zombie's place, The Pogues entered my brain (due to a video containing one Mr. Shane McGowan,...

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Meryl Streep Wins Oscars. Antonin Scalia Wins Assholes Of The Days

NSFAnyone, angrish, you've been warned.Gate Pause:There are days I wish there was a hell, just for these jackals.Are you fucking kidding me? This fucking fat fucker fundamentalist backward bastard...

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An Historic Occasion

Oh, B-e-n-n-n-y.Il Papa Benedict nee Ratzinger officially resigned today, pulled the plug, stuffed a potato in the exhaust pipe, put in his two weeks, took a curtain call, grabbed the gold Prada...

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Sometimes The Dumbness Writes Itself

The one social network I belong to is LinkedIn, used purely for networking/keeping my name out/following my field, resume, and such. I have said that I am ambitious, to a point anyway, that point being...

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Just One Little Creepy Thing, That's All I Ask

DateLine: Twin Cities, MNForecast - 17 feet of snow overnight.Forecast - paleo will be shovelling and plowing for several thousand feet tomorrow.Method Of Procedure: Load up electronic noisemaker...

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Pot, Kettle. Metaphor.

Listening to morning progressive radio, hawking a show called History Unearthed on the H2 channel, starring a local boy, and geologist, Scott Wolter. Admittedly, the geologist part speaks well of him,...

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So Much Stupid In One Bigoted Pile

Oh Joy.Teh Minnesotans Living In Fear Of Butthole Stretching Exercises, Kind Of Like Kegels For Afeart Good Moral People Who May End Up SuperGluing Teh Sphincter And Getting Colostomy Bags Oh God The...

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Year 1, A.C. - One Year Of Checking Out Your Shorts

I knew I was coming up on a year, but only caught, this morning whilst checking into something, want to make a musical directory for myself so I don't post the same stuff too many times, that the date...

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Leap Year - Turn Your Clocks Around

Just a notification to the vast internet audience - at 3 in the morning, it won't be.Rock and roll, bicthez!No particular theme, no particular order, these just make me happy tonight.Ladies and...

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In Which paleo Reveals Himself To Be A Film Snob: Or, The Oscars Do Not Count...

For my wee anniversary post, I put up a screen shot of the Eye Booger from Big Trouble In Little China. The perfect film. Chop-saki, magic, humor, cat-like reflexes. Black Blood Of Earth. Renowned...

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The Most Important Post You Will Ever Read Part 65,290

Hands shaking, fever pitch, this is difficult for me to type, ummm, but, here goes.I am. Wow. Papabili. First vote is this afternoon, and upon carefully considered prayer and applique of logic, I have...

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Stay Classy, Bush Family

Christ on a sausage wagon, will these goddamn bloodthirsty monsters just self-immolate, try to regain a smidge of dignity before burning in hell?Laura Bush: ‘We have room’ for Republicans who...

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paleo And The Quest For The Holy Papaciness

For Cardinal paleo, life is nothing if not complications. The Real Popehoodness™, my life's ambition, is being thwarted, no white smoke, no dancing in the street, just calls from Immigration and...

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The Immutable Laws Of The Universe - Gravity, Thermodynamics, Poe's

Look, I've had a little fun the last couple days, letting my weird out, mocking the age-old traditions of Mother Church - teh Conclave, prayerful consideration, testifying in pedophilia cases and...

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I Need Help With A Linkage - MetaPost

Hi kiddies.I haz a new and improved "Blogs O' Importance" widget over there on the right hand side (probably holds up hands thumbs out the right) of blogs I think are paramount. At the time, one Mr....

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Ladies And Gentlemen, May I Present, MINNESOTA

I really like where I live. I do. The northern side of the Twin Cities. I've built a very good life here (a lot due to Sweetie, who wants to start her own blog - likely to be somewhat less weirdly...

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