A French's plastic mustard container recently appeared on the roof-top of the building next to us.

Photos from our test run at the dealership. Should be getting it delivered to Clotho the weekend after next.

There are few things quite as exhilarating than an early morning ride through Downtown, from Franklin to 1st St. Gusty south wind at my back permitted me to sail through thick traffic, heart racing from adrenaline as the streets and sidewalks surged. Red sun-rise glinting off the steel and glass monoliths of the IDS, Norwest, and First Bank ( Read more... )

While locking up my bike to the lamp post in front of Duc Loi, the Vietnemese grocer on 22nd and Nicollet, last night, I discovered smashed chicken. The whole bird - perfectly flat. Spread out in the gutter, amidst grimy salt-snow-ice. The legs, extending straight out from behind the bird, first gave me the impression of a rat with gray and ( Read more... )

The grumpy, stoned, postman gave a guy in a grimey Chicago Bulls Starter jacket change yesterday.

The postman smokes his pot in the stairwell leading up to the Mexican family's apartment above the Iranian tobacconist.

The western wind this morning was so strong that it sucked the air out of my lungs ( Read more... )

I am now the owner of a "Redbelly" Ford 8n. I had visions of plowing the field this spring and it made me ecstatic.

The 2006 city budget includes feasibility studies for converting existing bus routes into street car lines along busy commercial streets to reduce congestion. That brings the total count of rail feasibility studies to 3 + one rail project that is currently in route planning (the step after a feasibility study).

Milestone 1
While greasing my bike chain yesterday, I discovered that the teeth on my large sprocket have worn down to razor sharp nubs that easily sliced through the skin of my fingers. I am now a member of an elite club.

Milestone 2The Flower Part, aka The Rat, aka The iPart passed the 200,000 mile mark this past weekend. Only 150,000 miles to ( Read more... )

"We can't afford to hire a cop from MPD and we don't want to hire private security because they lack accountability to the public at large. So, instead, what would you do if we gave you fifty thousand dollars?"

God, I wish I had more opportunities to ask that question.