hold steady

A compilation of the last few days

1) Global Warming. Yesterday it was 72 degrees! global warming is so cool!













NOT

2)instant runoff voting. Minneapolis passed it. how cool is that?

3)Google earth, Urban exploring and the Hold Steady.
Let's start with a satellite image of my house

well, I guess that won't work, so just click on THIS link to see it.
Unless you've been to my house before. then you know how no one lives across the street except for that weird storage place a little bit down the road. Anywho, I'm the last house on 21st before it stops and continues on at talmadge. because the train track is right there. and in my back yard there is a huge parking lot (seriously, all six of us can park in there and there'sstill lots of pavement. if you're into basketball it would be great, seriously, it's huge, as you can see from the photo. and a large yard. and then yards of yards and yards of of woods before the train tracks. so last night on account of the nice weather we had another bonfire, and it's so great. there's woods everywhere! and we never have to buy firewood. seriously, it's like my house in Minneapolis, one block from the bus line, a bikeride to downtown, with woods in the backyard! thank god for that. It's like the hold steady said, minneapolis is thoroughly urban but midwestern. and it is! I was walking through the woods, getting firewood in minneapolis!
as for the band, they're okay, but i can't listen to them without thinking of Jason. Because his voice was just like that and he always listened to them.

4) king tut! going to the tut exhibit in Chicago. yeah!

5) knicks. yesterday I met a former knicks player at al's. too bad i can't remember his name. he was with a white guy who has played for athens and barceleona!