February 2012
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January 2012
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Oh man, what a good day I had yesterday. Even burs and falling through thin ice couldn’t make it any less than awesome.
So I went to Nicollet Island again, and I drove straight up to the north end of the island by the old bridge to Boom Island, but instead of going straight to the bridge, I climbed down the little bluff there to the river bank, and got a good look at the local geology.
The...
December 2011
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Tonight at dinner I was reading about Alexander Ramsey and Ignatius Donnelly.
Ramsey was the first territorial governor of Minnesota, appointed by Zachary Taylor in 1849, then he was the second governor, elected in 1859, and later Secretary of War under Rutherford B. Hayes from 1879-1881.
Donnelly was lieutenant governor under Ramsey and he was a bit of a queer bird.
He was a writer and...
Well, that was fun.
I went to the solstice thing and I got out my tambourine, and then Ken was like, hey, why don’t you play the bodhrán instead!
So I played the bodhrán, even though I’m not particularly good at it, and it was fine, but it wasn’t until after that Ken kinda showed me how he plays the bodhrán that I got a bit of an idea, though I find it easier to hold the stick the...
This is now making me think of the movie The Man From Earth, which was about a man who said he was like 20,000 years old. He tells of his youth, and unknown years living amongst hunter-gatherer societies, and then into historical times, where he was Jesus of Nazareth, and how he knew historical figures.
That’s a pretty good movie too. It was written by Jerome Bixby, who is a renowned...
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And there were the handprints. Lots of red handprints all done by the same guy, a guy with a crooked little finger. He had to have been at least 6’ tall, which is really remarkably tall for 30,000 years ago.
A tall guy like that was probably a leader of his community. His father was probably important and provided him with a good diet to allow him to grow so tall.
It is so interesting to...
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Well, that was a good movie.
Cave paintings are so fucking awesome, in the truest sense of the word; I am filled with awe at seeing 35,000 year old art. The paintings in the Chauvet cave are the oldest paintings known in the world.
You really have to think about what the place was like then. It was the ice age. There were mammoths and wooly rhinos and lions and bears and aurochs and bison.
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This is my new blog where I’ll talk about stuff.
Today I helped my friend Jaime with his solstice blessing/show thing and it was really fun. I always have a good time at the Minnesota Opera Center.
As you may know, I’m also in a band called Laughterhouse Five. I played a solo didgeridoo anti-show, which went off perfectly.
The idea of the anti-show is that people would be there, but...