When I was a cub reporter a quarter century or so ago, I was assigned to cover a Michael Jackson concert at the old Met Center in Bloomington.
Imagine my surprise and delight when I entered the facility, where the Mall of America now stands, and saw the singer standing alone in a hallway. I got to speak with Michael Jackson!
“Um … ” my editor said when I told him about this later.
My wife and I just had the most memorable Halloween of our lives.
We’d never been to an adult Halloween party, ever, until this year … when we attended two of them on the same night.
I recently appeared on a couple of shows hosted by folks I like and respect.
The illustrious Minnov8 Gang had me on their podcast (I’m a semi-regular) to talk Apple stuff and more.
And fellow social-media maven Jason DeRusha had me on WCCO radio to talk about how Google is a player in the broadband industry.
Thanks, all.
I had a lovely lunch with Erica Hanna at Pizza Luce in downtown Minneapolis today, and then she let me have a few rounds on the Galaga machine at her nearby office.
That prompted her to pose the question above.
I am referring to the original 1980s Asteroids arcade game, into which I fed a fortune in quarters in the Mary Hall cafeteria at St. John’s University.
Neighbors this week twice invited us into their sukkah for meals, and allowed us to be a part of their Jewish tradition.
We were awed and honored. Thank you, friends.
Public speaking is not a favorite activity of mine, not by a long shot, but when my friends at BusinessWire periodically ask me to appear on a media panel, I’m happy to oblige.
Today I was on one such panel alongside stellar journalists from MinnPost, Minnesota Public Radio, KARE11, Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal and the Star Tribune.
The panel was a way for public-relations operatives in attendance to understand the media better.
I noted recently how backyard movies became a big deal at my house this summer.
But I’m an amateur compared to my friend Mark Fawcett, who has been known to organize epic neighborhood-movie events.
I took this photograph of St. Paul’s fall colors with Apple’s new iPhone 6 Plus, and edited the image in Google+. It turned out wonderfully.
If you like this photo, I have lots more.
The weather was, improbably, in the 80s when I went on this photo walk.
I recently profiled a fantastic little Minneapolis company, Egg Music, that creates songs and scores for commercials, television shows and more.
One of Egg’s founders, Eric Fawcett, happens to be my neighbor, and a cool dude (that’s him on the right, with his partner John Hermanson).
So when he asked me if he could turn the tables and interview me for his dumbdrummer site and podcast, I was happy to oblige.
The conversation got pretty personal at times.
Backyard movies turned out to be a big deal at my house this summer.
We had two “Frozen” screenings for little girls, and a “Matrix” viewing for my teen-aged son and all of his friends.
For our film-season finale last night, we showed “The Phantom Edit.” This is a fan-modified version of the vile “Star Wars” film “The Phantom Menace” with clever deletions and other alterations to make the movie more palatable.
This was the perfect way to bid summer adieu, with a bunch of my supernerdy friends and neighbors in attendance, on what turned out to be an unseasonably summery night. It was magical.
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