It turns out the IRS doesn't accept "the wind ate my tax returns" as a valid excuse for an extension. I watched my financial history scatter across the highway like confetti, proving once and for all that all my deductions are literally for the birds.
Jun 18
10 min
Every year now since our surfing friend Sammy pushed offthe shore to find his footing, his world tour has eventually brought him back to us. While he dodges the great forces of nature on his surfboard, he took a few minutes from his Into-the-Void World Tour to talk to us in this exclusiveinterview. His inspiration? It’s always a surprise, and always inspirational. Here’s Sammy, taking a breather from the big world breakers, toes in the sand and shooting the breeze with Knee Deep. Pura Vida, Man!
May 28
21 min
I always thought the function of being notified ofincoming spam was to let me know there is someone suspicious calling, but I never thought in a million years that person would be me. Sad America, it’s true, we are our own worst spam-enemy.
May 1
13 min
Noise, growth, and color…the glorious trifecta of Spring.Acceleration is in the air, and my new theory of Re-Jeffing is revving into action and gaining momentum. Is there too much of anything springy this time of year? Not on your life, or your honeysuckle vine either…
Apr 16
12 min
On paper, it looked like Duke had it in the hoop, but when you take the X-factor out of an equation, you get a kind of basketball madness that anyone can win at the buzzer. I was trying to make that UConn shot in my dreams, but the math wasn’t adding up and I couldn’t score to save my life.
Apr 2
12 min
Walt Disney had an answer for everything when it came to animals, except he couldn't teach our new pet, a toad, when to hold its tongue and back off.
Mar 21
12 min
Alone in the Arctic. Starving. Cold. Lonely. As long as we had our couch, our TV and each other, there'd be no tapping out.
Mar 5
15 min
In the middle of Winter, we find ourselves in a spot where our balance is shaky. We are in the in-between, the part that is drifting and loose as we wait for new beginnings. A toy robot, Mr. Machine, shows us what is happening in that space, and he stands ready to kick things into gear in the midst of our drift, the drift of Winter.
Feb 19
14 min
We get our share of snow dustings here in EvanspatchIndiana, little false starts, but the real stuff does crazy things to us whenit comes. It changes our DNA. We return to some primordial state. We shift into anxiety mode and believe it is our responsibility to add to the general sense of panic and mayhem in the community. We don’t know what to do exactly, but whatever it is, we will need a map and a bread and milk sandwich.
Jan 30
13 min
Everyone loves a dark horse. IU’s winning football season has swept everyone off their couches into the winning zone of state pride. We buried our heads in some infertile turf over the last five decades, waiting and hoping for a winning season, and we are ready to show the world Hoosier Daddy.
Jan 15
11 min
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