I just watched Burn After Reading. SPOILER ALERT. What I loved about it in particular was how it functioned as a kind of butterfly-effect, but instead of a butterfly's wings starting a hurricane half a globe away, it was a bunch of idiots being stupid and bringing down a shitstorm upon them! You can almost hear a gaggle of tough-minded ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas and happy holidays. If you live in Milwaukee, I'll see you around midnight, Friday night. I'm a little beat up but I still run just fine. Winter's here and the time is right for racing in the street...

Al Franken (D, MN ( Read more... )

I spent less time out of the house today than I've spent in years. Years! Less than five minutes, total. That's crazy. But it's nice here at my parents' house. We've got Arrested Development on DVD, and I can drink this bottle of red wine while I work on new songs and occasionally glance at the foolish Green Bay Packers on the television. Or ( Read more... )

( 2008 Survey From Josh )

Uh, it's snowing too hard to drive from the Twin Cities to Milwaukee today. Damn. Maybe tomorrow?

1. Since being home, it's been cold. It's been REAL cold, colder than "normal." Today, the weather report predicted a high of 16 degrees for tomorrow (in the Twin Cities), and onscreen, a graphic showed that a "normal" temperature for today would be 25 degrees. Well, what's normal? Are we talking the average/mean temperature? Or the median ( Read more... )

Three winter flights this year - from New York to New Orleans and back, and now today, from New York to the Twin Cities via Milwaukee. In January, I flew to New Orleans for an incredibly ill-advised, yet still fun, one-off gig with the Headless Hookers (a band in which I used to moonlight). Well. Due to a windstorm, our airplane was damaged ( Read more... )

Hey - Wisconsin friends:

Are you really having a bad time in the snow? Please let me know what's going on. I like snow, but obviously, I'm human as well. How are things, weather-wise?

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