When Lisa and I first moved to Lowertown (adjacent to and essentially a part of Downtown St. Paul), I started walking to work every day. It’s less than a mile, and, I learned from living in Minneapolis and walking a good deal to get to the express bus route for a while, a lengthy walk …
Hello and greetings! I’m in New York this week for Future of Web Design and will be diligently recapping what’s going on for you. The conference hasn’t actually started yet, and so I don’t really have any updates on it, but I’m a hotel room by myself and possibly stealing wireless (favorite network names here: …
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, ‘Why, why, why?’ Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand. —Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle And, on the importance of asking why: A long time ago… people used simply to drop things from time …
So, Glee finished its second season last Tuesday (disclaimer: I do watch Glee). The little gem of a quote above is one of the big reasons, in my book, that the finale was so terrible — others being the many seemingly significant plot points that were introduced only to be discarded without much thought (Quinn’s …
On Thursday, March 31, Videotect, a short film competition sponsored by Architecture Minnesota, screened some of the top entries at the Walker Art Center. Videotect is “A Video Competition Exploring the Built Environment,” and this (inaugural) year’s theme was the Skyway systems of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The event was hosted by Chris Hudson, editor …
I had this email exchange earlier this week: Dear Scott Donaldson, I am an Advanced Placement English student at ***removed***. Currently, I am working on a research project regarding the Collected Stories and Other Writings by John Cheever from the Library of America. My project, which began in March, and culminates in June, requires me to explore these works and …
A few days ago, I had a terrible migraine headache — one of the worst in memory. Driving home from work, I was literally cursing and pounding the steering wheel, in lieu of more positive alternatives, like medication or sleep. Anyway, once I did get home, I napped. And I napped hard. The kind where …
Gregg Gillis is a musician who samples the work of other artists and, juxtaposing or “mashing up” the music snippets, creates new pieces from them. He uses a lot of popular songs getting recent airplay (pop, rock, and hip-hop hits). His albums, the most recent two of which play through seamlessly, are very danceable, very …
Google Voice is amazing. I have a friend who calls me a lot. When I don’t pick up the phone, he has a lot to say. With Google Voice, I’ve had over a year of voicemails saved from him. And they’re pretty entertaining. So I decided to release them online — in one 51-track, full-length …
