TUESDAYS WITH LAZERBEAK

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Hey!  It’s once again time for yet another Tuesday With Lazerbeak.  This post is gonna be a little more “off the top of the dome” as they say.  They say that right?  Before I get into it, I need to make a quick shameless plug.  I’m gonna be speaking next Thursday, Nov. 19th, at the U of M’s Whole Music … Read More

Fact Check.

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Oh man. I just got a list of questions from the fact checker at Minnesota Monthly magazine. The fact checking process is pretty standard fare: you talk to a reporter then somebody from that reporter’s office contacts you to make sure that your statements were captured accurately. Nonetheless, some of the questions in this round were pretty stellar.  1. You … Read More

TUESDAYS WITH LAZERBEAK

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  Hello there and welcome back to Tuesdays With Lazerbeak.  Man I can’t believe the Vikings are 7-1 going into the bye week!  Absolutely incredible.  That victory coupled with the fact that, against all odds,  I managed to defeat my fantasy football opponent by less than one point in the final seconds of Monday Night Football (take that Tony Gonzalez!), … Read More

Birthdays and 12 steppers.

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The new Whitney Houston album is out.  I’ve heard snippets of it on the radio, but I don’t think I can listen to the record in its entirety. If it’s garbage, it’ll just kill me.  Somehow in the murky years of childhood, my impression of Whitney Houston became inextricably linked to my understanding of my mother. They looked sort of … Read More

TUESDAYS WITH LAZERBEAK

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Happy early Halloween people.  Ended up carving pumpkins over the weekend and decided to put my personal mission statement out there for all the neighborhood to ponder.  At my bachelor party last year I was given a list of tasks to complete before the end of the evening (hi-five everyone in the bar, etc.) and one of the most challenging … Read More

Dessa in Duluth.

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I’m writing with a characteristically light-night announcement about an uncharacteristically early performance this evening. At 7 p.m. tonight, I’ll be speaking at Saint Scholastica in Duluth. The topic of the address: “Hip Hop and Human Dignity.” The address of the topic: 2100 Kenwood Ave. I’ll be in the lecture hall in the main auditorium. Tickets are five dollars. Singles would … Read More