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Here's an unintentionally funny advertisement that appeared in the Saint Paul Pioneer Press last week.  The Gasthaus Bavarian Hunter restaurant has an interesting Valentine's menu.  The text in blue is my published blurb (February 5

How many times have you used your computer at work to shop for a last-minute gift online during business hours?  Have you sent personal e-mails to your friends, spouse, or others and thought that hitting the "Delete" key was sufficient

  SURREALestate.com has just launched a new, free service to enable you to form a virtual community for social networking. You are able to create a personal profile, similar to other social networking sit

Congrats to KFC for creating this questionable item of American cuisine.  At first, when I saw the commercial, I couldn't believe the list of constituents in this artery clogger.  It consists of:Mashed Potatoes smothered with gravyCorn

This is a circular from today's Sunday paper—an ad for Halloween costumes that a local chain store placed in the St. Paul Pioneer Press.  I must have dozed off when this holiday, primarily a chance for kids to go door to door begging f

This is one of my favorite movie scenes.  It's the sasquatch scene from Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny. 

What's all this talk I've been hearing about "guerilla marketing," "guerilla entrepreneurs," and "guerilla filmmakers"? Don't get me wrong. I find it very inspiring to hear that largest of the anthropoid apes

Ladies and Gentlemen, I now present "Chocolate Rain,"  a quirky music video by a Univ. of Minnesota grad student, whose moniker is Tay Zonday. Enjoy  

Here's a really funny spec ad from Meredith Scardino and Dave Hill.  A must-watch.   

Global warming is a hot topic.  We’ve had warmer weather lately, and people are saying: “It’s global warming! It’s global warming!”  Some scientists say it’s due to El Niño, a weather system in the

NotTheKitchenSink A laughing dog begging for vitamins,a broken coffee cup dreaming of a super glue suture,a foreclosed farm in the buckle of the Bible Belt,gasoline flowing from a Super America(in a not-so-super Amerika),and a sen

(Drawing by Michael van Gogh) It is clear from this that moon "rock" is considerably less dense than any type of rock found on earth. The scientists then decided to examine the seismic velocities of various cheeses from around the world.

A Proposal for the Consolidation of RibbonsIn recent times, there has been a proliferation of all kinds of ribbons that people wear (or stick on their vehicles as magnets) to show support for different causes. I think this ribbon thing is getting out

Monday IncorporatedWake to the slave-clock voicefrom sound, chemical sleep.Wipe the crust from your eyes.Take the lightrail southboundthrough nocturnal stationstoward your catacomb cube.Ride shoulder to shoulder.Engage in the frottageand caffeine inf

Frogs at the alter of the electric orangemove caffeine molecules, the size of lily pads, with telekinesis.  It's one way to pass the timebefore dreaming of flies.

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Here is a sestina I wrote in honor of the Winter of 2006-07 On This Blue EarthThe snow is in cahoots with wind and ice,composing songs for dances danced in silver coldby maples, elms, brittle bee balm, clematis frozen,involuntarily gamboling in

    Dens-Leonis Conspiracy   I.  Decoding seas of living space   When you complain, it starts to rain. Hear the drops collide and fall through the trees. It’s a new way of thinking. You are convinced the la

  CHUPACABRA   We know the goats die  in your pastoral buffet  hollowed by daybreak.  

What's in a (Sur)name?I just watched an rerun episode of the old sitcom "Leave it to Beaver" (1957-63) on TV Land. The aquatic symbolism and Roman mythological references are obvious. Before we get to those, we have to set the foundatio

Spare the Rod Spoil the Monkey What's all this talk I've been hearing about "guerilla marketing," "guerilla entrepreneurs," and "guerilla filmmakers"? Don't get me wrong. I find it very inspiring to hear t

In Favor of French Fry Literacy

With the exploding popularity of people needing to be "reachable" 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the cellphone has become a normal, if not irritating part of the social landscape.  First of all, I never ceases to amaze me that mill