(More) Kid Quips Caught in a downpour on the freeway today with my kids in the backseat, I said what I usually say when that happens: ‘free car wash!” To which my 7 year-old daughter replied: ‘Yeah, but they don’t dry it.” True enough. P.S.: When I asked who “they” were, she just made a...Read More
For the record, practically all my shoes these days are slip-on’s (easier for showings and repeatedly taking them off and putting them back on). However . . . as someone who’s heard that line, ahem, more than once in their life, I thought — as a public service on behalf of non-shoelace tie’ers everywhere —...Read More
“Wave to Me!” “What?!?” “Wave to Me!” It only took 45 years, but there’s finally a closing scene worthy of the unforgettable classic at the end of The Graduate. Except that it’s a “parallel universe,” anti-version. If you aren’t familiar with The Graduate’s climactic scene, a desperate Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman) interrupts the wedding of his...Read More
“Nice Try” Department Dummy: Can’t we skip the rental car line like at Hertz? Ventriloquist: Not exactly. Dummy: Is there a covered canopy like at Hertz? Ventriloquist: Not exactly. Dummy (getting soaked in the rain): So, you still think I’m the dummy? Ventriloquist: Uhhh . . . not exactly. –Hertz commercial (1996) The dialogue (above) from...Read More
Not Your Father’s Newspaper Once upon a time, the Star Tribune Op-Ed page was a must-read forum where Twin Cities leaders aired and exchanged ideas (including a couple pieces contributed by yours truly). As advertising migrated online and newspapers began their epic decline, the Star Tribune Op-Ed page instead became a forum for recycled opinion pieces first...Read More
Last Year’s Leaves If you live in Minneapolis (I do), have a big yard (I do), and raked a fair amount of leaves last November after the last city pickup (I did), you may be facing the same problem I am: Minneapolis announced over the winter that all yard waste must be disposed of in biodegradable...Read More
