Latest — Thoughts, Ideas & Creations

• Mike Love — There’s an assumption that our musical heroes are just like you and me. They're not.
• Affordability — The shiny object of the 2026 midterm elections!
• I Just Wasn't Made for These Times — A song that says it all.
• Recalculating... — Mom lives across the street. The phone has other ideas.
• When Death Comes — Mary Oliver, Ted Lasso, and the last ten minutes of a season finale.
• Voter ID — Everybody’s for it. Until there’s a bill.
• If We Could Actually Dialogue — The fragmented modern mind, and why these three websites exist.
• Paul Revere & the Raiders — The band, the Great One, and the inspiration!
• THE TRAITORS — World Leaders Edition - Ordinary Nations. Extraordinary Deceit.
• Majoring in Followers — Planning for College? Get a degree as a social influencer!
• Bill Murray Introduces "The Rutles" — The "Pre-Fab Four" come to America for the first time!
• A Window Into Popular Minnesota Cities — MN Window - complete with time, temperatures & music!
• Seven Trucks, One Street — What I learned when I tried to stop paying for recycling I don't use.
• Spring Forward, Fall Back, Flip-Flop — Said then and said now - Daylight Saving Time?
• Xyphlorrza — Now available for CDP. Watch the advertisement and ask your doctor if it's right for you!
• Leave the Virgins Out of It — Where the “72 Virgins” trope comes from — and why laughing at it lets terrorists off too easy.
• Ten Percent of What? — Two Writers, the same headlines, opposite conclusions — and the one story that isn't a forecast.
• Let Me Be the One — An AI restyling and video of an original song, complete with hallucinations and darn good music!
• The Hive That Isn't There — Starlings, slime mold, an octopus, the Borg, and a swarm of drones.
• The Smell of the Mall — Mrs. Fields, Orange Julius, and the food court brands that boomed, faded, and found second lives.
• The Aces Still Haven't Answered — Clay Travis's $10 million offer to the WNBA wasn't new.
• The Sleeper Issue — Data centers, and the one thing red and blue politicians actually agree on.
• Same Day Delivery — Rush hour 24 hours a day...
• Right On to Rizz — A century of American slang, decade by decade — from the bee's knees to brain rot.
• Why It Won't Leave Your Face Alone — It followed me down the street no matter how many times I swatted at it.
• Republicans Buy Sneakers, Too — A few famous people who've chosen not to spend their fame on our politics
• Escape Claudes — Two chatbots, stuck in a loop, each trying to help the other. Will they ever break free?
• AI on "Family Feud" — Two AI chatbots compete to guess the most popular answers to public survey questions
• Put Down the Switch, Pick Up a Book — The world just posted its worst reading scores on record. That should worry all of us
• The Gipper Did It Too — Trump gets called unpresidential. Reagan got there first.
• Baby Boomers & Baby Mamas Day — MN State Fair, two generations of oversized wheels and one shrinking sidewalk
• Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Me — You cannot be serious...
• Beethoven, McCartney and Grapes — A new free minibook about AI, computers, and music. Download it here!
• All Day, Nothing New — What Replaced the Reruns
• The 4 A.M. Delivery — What a Can of Soda Reveals About the Last Mile
• Anybody But You — Fourty-Four Years and still goin' strong!
• American Idolatry — The real winners on American Idol and America's Got Talent
• Gateway to a Golden Summer — Same road. Same fence. Same light. Thirty-some years apart.
• The Greatest Rock & Roll Bill Ever Filmed — One stage, two nights in October 1964, and nearly every star of the era.
• The Completely New & Improved Minnesota Museum of R&R History — From 1957 to 2026
• Is Uber Over? — A three-act story about disruption, and what happens when someone disrupts the disruptor.
• Tonight I Want You — (But Suno Won't Let Me)
• Same Soda, Four Names — What two decades of quiet reformulation reveal about a brand nobody could quite make work.
• Who Gave Them the Keys? — How did unqualified drivers end up behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler?
• Blink Before You Know It — The bug that never touched my eye, and the biology that got there first.
• Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE — A teenage symphony to God — and the fifty years it took me to finally hear it.
• How I Changed at 74 — On cynicism, AI, and finding a better use for the fire. BONUS! The song, "When I'm 74"!
• Bugs & Lights: A Strange Little Mystery — Why do they try so hard to get in, when there's no way back out?
• Who's the Boss? — A Lyric Showdown — Bob vs. Bruce : two songs, same Minneapolis streets. Listen, compare, decide.
• The Reservation Next Door — From Flyover Country: A Tale of Two Tribes.
• Mosquitoes, Fireflies, and Crickets — A Minnesota Summer, By the Numbers
• 494 Forever — What the Never-Ending Construction Actually Costs
• Cash for Houses — The billboards are everywhere. The promises sound perfect.
• Little Log House Pioneer Village — A site to see for anyone who enjoys stepping back in time and history.
• Even Little People Need a Home! — I built them a village.
• The Daycare Bubble — How money really moves
• The Mystery of the Vanishing Object — Your feet find it instantly. Then your eyes and fingers can't.
• Technophobia — Every generation's panic about its own best ideas.
• The Greatest Fireworks Show in History — America turns 250 — and goes absolutely, gloriously, unapologetically all out.
• Happy Birthday, America! Now About Those Skeletons... — NPR reminds us of everything wrong with the founding.
• TEAM ALGAE! — America turns 250. Some people chose to spend the moment protesting on behalf of pond scum.
• Negative Liberties — What the government cannot do — and why that's the whole point.
• The News Is Dead — A digest, fact-check, and analysis of contemporary news sources from 4th Wall.
• Doonesbury and "Pet Sounds" in 1990 — "Brian Wilson is God!"
• Operation Metro Surge Jeopardy — Play with your friends and win!
• They're Going to Every House Anyway — So let Amazon deliver the mail!
• The Incredible Ant — They’re tiny. They’re tireless. And they’d leave you in the dust.
• The Auto Insurance Ad Tsunami — Why every other commercial seems to be Flo, Jake, or a gecko.
• All Summer Long — The New Beach Boys Book — Grab a board and get ready for the ride of your life.

• Father’s Day — What fathers actually want.
• The Great Minnesota Car Wash Bubble — How many new car washes do the Twin Cities really need?
• The Cancer Charity Industrial Complex — Nearly 5,000 organizations. $8 billion a year. How much actually funds a cure?
• The Miracle of Suno.com — Two 40 year old songs given new life & an oldie but a goodie!
• Lucid Dreaming — How pre-sleep treatment with galantamine may stimulate lucid dreaming.
• “Hello Fresh” — An original take on the importance of high fiber diets for “Gay Pride” month!
• National Lampoon’s “Lemmings” — 53 years too soon…
• Bush, Clinton, Obama and Biden Told Us — “The United States will never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon.”
• Nick Shirley — Minneapolis SuperHero!
• New Songs for Old — Suno.com and Revid.ai reimagines a classic R&B song.
• This is Worth Fighting For — A song for Black History Month and America’s 250th birthday.