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About Me

The picture is of Sam. Halloween 2006 he is dressed in the 'snow tiger' costume I sewed up for him out of $5 worth of fleece blankets from Fleet Farm. He is fascinated by the talking skeleton pirate guy. My name is Herb. I live in St. Paul, MN and you can send me an email if you know who I am and want to get in touch with me.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

I would like to meet someone who wants to give me a lot of money. Failing that, I would like to meet someone who has a workable plan to end global warming. Either way, I might as well wait until hell freezes over.

My Blog

Cat Scratched Piano (and other mundanities)

This evening the cat (more precisely, one of the cats) scratched the piano. Although we are monitoring closely, there are no signs yet of 'fever'. In related news, observers note heig...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:45:00 GMT

Interesting Sam Facts

Sam is exactly 45" tall from the green ACM tile flooring to the mark on the putrid yellow kitchen wall. Sam likes stuffed animals, mermaids and pocket pollys. Sam names them for whatever inanimate obj...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:50:00 GMT

Darker My Love - at the (dreadful) 7th Street Entry

The difference between a shit band and a good band is that when you compare them in a decent venue, you can tell a good band is good. The difference between a really, really good band and a merel...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:05:00 GMT

First - 7th Street Entry then Darker my Love

Please excuse this rant (which started out as the opener to the Darker My Love review it has no right to supercede): My god. Please out-of-town bands, please avoid 7th Street Entry like you would...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:56:00 GMT

groups and socialization

If boring parent stuff makes your eyes bleed, you should just move along.... Sam is now 5, next year he gets to leave montesori (where he seems to be doing well) and save us some $$$ by going to publi...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:07:00 GMT

Near future show!

Darker my Love @ the Turf Club. Run (run I say) and buy their latest album which is red and has a giant "2" on it with sixties styley Peter Max-y graphics. You will be the koolest kid on the bloc...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:11:00 GMT

And so begins the snow

the coming of which I've been dreading now for so long. As Stephen Stills might have said.....
Posted by on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:07:00 GMT

The Birthday Suit (& Wire)

It's getting to be a pattern: seminal Brit bands of the late 70's-early 80's who I worship at that time but never get a chance to see live. They breakup, regroup and wind up touring in the 2000's, I f...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:32:00 GMT

Near Future Shows

Near Future is not my band name (though it isn't a bad one), it is introductory to the topic: Near future shows. I plan/hope to see Wire at 1st Ave on Friday, commitment permitting. Wire is one of my ...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:47:00 GMT

Robert Pollard at the Turf Club

I arrived early, thinking the show may sell out. I was wrong, but it was still very well-attended. Unfortunately, getting there early meant bored hours listening to lead act The High Strung. I am not ...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:51:00 GMT