• safety and love

    I looked for proper dinosaurs to give my niece for her second birthday, but all I could find are battery-operated blinkenlight mech-warrior monstrosities, with guns.

  • treevenge

    A couple years ago, my dad bought some land up lake country so he can be the Minnesotan that he acts like.

  • Costa Rica! Part 1: San José

    This post covers the first leg, when I was working in the capital San José, with some exploring on my own but mostly touring with university folks.

  • all backed up

    I returned from Costa Rica to a sick machine. Can’t fool me, I knew it was a goner, and it did too.

  • down to the tightrolls

    I read a lot of graphic novels. “Oh, like Watchmen.” Well. No. And I suppose we could wrestle the semantics of graphics, what it means to be a comic when the content isn’t funny, or if it’s still literary when the letters scribble off, word bubbles popped. Many prominent artists are my age, or just