Hotel Zerotag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-6231982009-01-06T21:41:34-08:00Author Joel Turnipseed's Weblog.TypePadPretty Vacanttag:typepad.com,2003:post-609780262009-01-06T21:41:34-08:002009-01-06T21:41:34-08:00Hello & Welcome... to the sound of wind rustling through the busted out windows of this blog. Be patient: in addition to my new blog at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, I'm currently renovating hotelzero. Should be live soon & better than...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HotelZero/~4/Bdhw245rK78" height="1" width="1"/>minnesotajhttp://hotelzero.typepad.com/hotel_zero/2009/01/pretty-vacant.htmlVader Princesstag:typepad.com,2003:post-536209962008-08-01T08:44:00-07:002008-08-01T08:44:00-07:00If our daughter Maia ever saw this, I'd have to convert my garage into an injection-molding/textiles shop the very next day... OTOH, one of the great things about Maia's STAR WARS fanaticism is that she thinks Jedi's need to learn...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HotelZero/~4/7Sjxm7TjM2w" height="1" width="1"/>minnesotajhttp://hotelzero.typepad.com/hotel_zero/2008/08/vader-princess.htmlF. Kafka, Everymantag:typepad.com,2003:post-522441982008-07-03T23:24:42-07:002008-07-03T23:24:42-07:00As I pack for a red-eye to LAX for a 4th of July at the world's second-most-spectacular ersatz Neuschwanstein Castle with my three year-old, I say only: read THIS. Meanwhile, I ask the Commander in Chief: "Is there a hole...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HotelZero/~4/kaJiYXWfc-w" height="1" width="1"/>minnesotajhttp://hotelzero.typepad.com/hotel_zero/2008/07/f-kafka-everyma.htmlYou'll Pinch Yourself and Squealtag:typepad.com,2003:post-517693202008-06-23T20:09:09-07:002008-06-23T20:09:09-07:00When you realize that you left iTunes running before leaving for your in-laws' 45th wedding anniversary. And that when you returned six hours later, half-filled bottle of wine in hand, you were still only half-way through your Dylan catalog. Even...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HotelZero/~4/M7zaH1Yfd84" height="1" width="1"/>minnesotajhttp://hotelzero.typepad.com/hotel_zero/2008/06/youll-pinch-you.htmlBlown Awaytag:typepad.com,2003:post-513095182008-06-13T14:07:22-07:002008-06-13T14:07:22-07:00Yes, that's the powerful effect of the succulent, slightly-peachy burst of the first ripe Winona strawberry of the year for Maia. We have a 100 square-foot patch of these guys in the garden. It started as 50 plants from Gurney's...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HotelZero/~4/d5RH8B8TqXc" height="1" width="1"/>minnesotajhttp://hotelzero.typepad.com/hotel_zero/2008/06/blown-away.htmlMany Bothans Have Died to Bring You This Posttag:typepad.com,2003:post-474750202008-03-25T12:26:42-07:002008-03-25T12:26:42-07:00OK, I now have about thirty tabs open in Firefox for possible blog entries... Here's the thing: I really feel torn about this blogging thing—is it an enemy of promise? Or a better way to fill the interstices of the...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HotelZero/~4/XXnsH2aD9jU" height="1" width="1"/>minnesotajhttp://hotelzero.typepad.com/hotel_zero/2008/03/many-bothans-ha.htmlSpring Awakeningstag:typepad.com,2003:post-473225262008-03-20T15:34:58-07:002008-03-20T15:34:58-07:00So, it's spring. In the shadier parts of the yard in which a foot or so of snow still lies it doesn't look like it (and snow again tonight, from the sounds of it), but a brief walk through the...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HotelZero/~4/Q5JJmYQ3Ha4" height="1" width="1"/>minnesotajhttp://hotelzero.typepad.com/hotel_zero/2008/03/spring-awakenin.htmlCrying for HIS Mothertag:typepad.com,2003:post-424421222007-12-05T00:13:00-08:002007-12-05T00:13:00-08:00Overheard on MetaFilter post on Brett Favre: Jesus was shit on third down and long. And when you needed a last-second TD to win, do you put him in? Hell no, you call his mother.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HotelZero/~4/Xbj8KhbW-1k" height="1" width="1"/>minnesotajhttp://hotelzero.typepad.com/hotel_zero/2007/12/crying-for-his.htmlNew Standardstag:typepad.com,2003:post-422753222007-11-30T19:16:53-08:002007-11-30T19:16:53-08:00I'm not going to say anything about these guys except to say: I totally, totally hope someone decides to yell some day, from the back of the lounge, "Judas!" ... and that Chan Poling's response is to tell the band,...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HotelZero/~4/huENhEa99v8" height="1" width="1"/>minnesotajhttp://hotelzero.typepad.com/hotel_zero/2007/11/new-standards.htmlPage Pointstag:typepad.com,2003:post-422748162007-11-30T19:07:34-08:002007-11-30T19:07:34-08:00Got the new Levenger catalog today (and what does "new" mean for those guys, anyway? this week's?) and saw the item listing for their Page Points—which used to be my favorite Levenger item. They still are, sort of: except that...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HotelZero/~4/d7Dgpk_Wvpk" height="1" width="1"/>minnesotajhttp://hotelzero.typepad.com/hotel_zero/2007/11/page-points.htmlReal World Bourbon Guidetag:typepad.com,2003:post-421152362007-11-28T01:30:50-08:002007-11-28T01:30:50-08:00I do love The New York Times, but every once in a while they write something that's so ridiculously effete or wrong-headedly, you know, New York, that my inner Marine or Fly-Fisherman or cranky, sullen Middle-Westerner gets the best of...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HotelZero/~4/VRWdsRSFlJM" height="1" width="1"/>minnesotajhttp://hotelzero.typepad.com/hotel_zero/2007/11/real-world-bour.htmlBukowskitag:typepad.com,2003:post-420003662007-11-25T13:52:14-08:002007-11-25T13:52:14-08:00Jim Harrison has a marvelous review of the new Bukowski Pleasures of the Damned: Poems 1951-1993 in the New York Times this weekend. It's worth reading just for the sake of it: Even more surprising in this large collection are...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HotelZero/~4/CfgfrBhB8tM" height="1" width="1"/>minnesotajhttp://hotelzero.typepad.com/hotel_zero/2007/11/bukowski.htmlre:ma(r)king bookstag:typepad.com,2003:post-417211102007-11-18T09:07:49-08:002007-11-18T09:07:49-08:00In 1996, Heather McHugh turned me on to Tom Phillips' A Humument [+ book version]. For a long time I thought this was the most fascinating reuse of a text. But maybe I wasn't paying attention? Or it's become incredibly...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HotelZero/~4/qHd7blVhI_s" height="1" width="1"/>minnesotajhttp://hotelzero.typepad.com/hotel_zero/2007/11/remarking-books.htmlMatthew Eck's The Farther Shoretag:typepad.com,2003:post-415825102007-11-15T09:56:29-08:002007-11-15T09:56:29-08:00A USA Today reporter called me a couple years ago to ask, “Which of the 300 books published about the Iraq war”—and this was 2005, just two years into the war—“are going to last like Jarhead and Baghdad Express seem...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HotelZero/~4/qa2esu6_xjg" height="1" width="1"/>minnesotajhttp://hotelzero.typepad.com/hotel_zero/2007/11/matthew-ecks-th.htmlAdventures in Paragraphstag:typepad.com,2003:post-415074922007-11-13T12:32:27-08:002007-11-13T12:32:27-08:00It just came in the mail today, so have only browsed, but came across a wonderful little paragraph in Julia Llewellyn Smith's Traveling on the Edge: Journeys in the Footsteps of Graham Greene: It was difficult to get to know...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HotelZero/~4/A7k5lGHAnFY" height="1" width="1"/>minnesotajhttp://hotelzero.typepad.com/hotel_zero/2007/11/adventures-in-p.html