Welcome to my occasional reader, who must be going through convulsions after my latest vacation from blogging. Whoops ! I just spilled my sarcasm shake all over the computer. Sorry for that.
Honestly, a lot has changed in the last three days.
I got a new bed. I moved to an entirely different city where I [...]
I wrote this for work after spending last week in Texas greeting the troops. It’s much more a magazine-type feature than anything I’ve written before, usually it’s all inverted pyramid. Enjoy.
(Photo: Elliot Mann) Richard Glasgow hugs a solider returning for her two weeks of rest and recuperation.
• Reporter Elliot Mann recently traveled to Dallas along [...]
Many of you may have seen these before, but in honor of the Minnesota Vikings likely blowing the playoffs this weekend, I figured I should share a video of the last time they choked this hard: 2003.
They started out the season on fire and were extinguished down the stretch, losing to the immortal Arizona [...]
With the Christmas shopping season winding down (or yet to begin for some of us), I’m always interested in hearing what people buy for their family members of significant others.
Through the years, the CD and DVD gift became the easy, go-to buy for someone you really didn’t want to spend too much money on. [...]
During my workday, I spend about 10 hours performing a mix of reading and writing. So when I get home, I’m not always ready to both churn out more copy and read another gaggle of pages. Usually, blogging wins out. But I’ve started reading “Schulz and Peanuts” by David Michaelis in preparation of interviewing him, [...]
Photo by Damon Winter/The New York Times
(EM:Here’s an article from the New York Times about Jigga getting back into the game… Again. I’m excited, dude seems hungry, and should after a so-so comeback effort with
Kingdom Come. Although there’s no way this album comes out in November — he always delays his stuff like crazy [...]
The various superstars of The Departed™ assemble during a recent team outing to Calhoun Square in Minneapolis.
By the time Peyton Manning hit a streaking Reggie Wayne in stride to pass for his third touchdown in the NFL season opener, I was already dancing in the middle of the room, high-fiving a friend of mine – [...]
Last July, me and a friend, we’ll call him “Red”, went to visit one of my close personal friends who was a sever at Bellanotte in downtown Minneapolis. Close Personal Friend had told us to come down, and even though I used to work there, I was thinking my scuffed Air Force Ones and polo [...]
But the next week will have several posts, and a blog of the Brewers-Twins games last weekend (I’m waiting for people to send me the pictures from sitting front row). In the meantime, watch the trampoline bear and tell me your life isn’t great.
Yes, I went to the ol’ standby. (There WILL be decent posts [...]
After the years of AAU basketball, I can’t believe we never did this. The sad thing is realizing that I would have been the poor sap who ended up as the human stool. There’s some of you who still coach grade school teams - I expect to see this brought out along with the “bark [...]
