tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155174612012-01-23T16:10:42.829-06:00<strong>Dig and be Doug</strong>Doug B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04499381924736260011noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15517461.post-72823446533440660022012-01-23T16:10:00.003-06:002012-01-23T16:10:42.837-06:00

My lovely and talented wife writes a ton of blog posts in the course of her duties as the editor of the Sons of Norway's Viking magazine. Today she posted about a family trip we took last August to the gorgeous Telemark region of southern Norway. Check out Amy's reflections on renting from Rent-A-Wreck, eating the best ice cream in Norway, and more: Travel Lessons from Telemark

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Notable events of 1992 George H.W. Bush vomits in the lap of the Japanese prime minister Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer sentenced to life in prison Rodney King beating leads to six days of rioting in Los Angeles Prince Charles and Princess Diana announce their separation Kurt Cobain marries Courtney Love Marisa Tomei wins an Academy Award for a supporting role in My Cousin Vinny Nick Nolte named

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A few years ago my kids and I learned how to make felted balls at a Scandinavian midsummer event in Minneapolis. This fall my 10-year-old son and I made a bunch of felted heart ornaments for a story that my wife was doing for Viking magazine. (She's the editor.) The November issue just arrived in the mail, and our hearts ended up on the cover! Here's how we made them: Wet-Felted Heart

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In the process of making a poster for a local Beatles tribute show, I had a little fun with the lads from Liverpool. Here they are making the long walk from Abbey Road to Division Street....

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I've been making a ton of gig posters lately. The Bratlanders play at least a couple times a month, plus my friend Jim has a way of talking me into making posters for his band, The Mad Ripple, and then there's my friend Rich at The Contented Cow who I really can't say no to, and...you get the idea. So I figured it was time to put all my favorites in one online place for easy viewing. Thus, my

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I wrote this for the member newsletter of my local food co-op over a year ago, but seeing as it's Earth Day and all, I thought it was a good time to repost it. [View this as a PDF] Before I begin, I feel like I should make a disclaimer statement: This article is not meant to prescribe a “correct” way to eat, shop, or live. It’s just my own story of how local food ties into a larger “fully local

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Giant Rock, a boulder in the Mojave Desert One of the things that adds a good deal of pleasure to my life is the CD Club I'm in with 11 other guys here in Northfield. Each of us is assigned a month (mine is February), and each guy picks a night in that month to share his mix while we all drink beer around a bonfire (in the warmer months) or at a local pub. Last night was the release party for

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I started a tumblr blog. Or tumblelog, to use the proper buzzword. It's all about beards. Check it out.

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Northfield woke up yesterday to a magical coating of hoarfrost. Even the icicles were wearing thick, feathery blankets of tiny ice crystals. Along with everyone else in town who owns a camera, I took some photos.

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Last night a piano was burned in the center of the Carleton College campus. It was a beautiful thing: a roaring wind-fed blaze lighting up a circle of maybe three hundred students (along with a few scattered codgers like myself). As the fire consumed the piano (really just a big, wooden box) more of the internal structure was revealed. About an hour into the event, as the keyboard fell into the

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My boy and I stopped into a bagel shop the other morning for some fresh salt bagels (a.k.a. "Food of the Gods"). The enthusiastic young man working behind the counter greeted me thusly: "I really like your moustache! ...When I saw you come through the door, I thought: 'I wanna make bagels for that guy!' "

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Wow...nine months since my last post. I was going to just delete this experiment in personal blogging, but now that I'm no longer on the board of Northfield.org, I might actually want my own public place to share things that are longer than 140 characters.But don't expect much.

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A few weeks ago my colleage, the renowned über-blogger Christopher Tassava, saw my little pixel avatar and asked if I could make one of him. I was excited by the challenge, but it was a lot harder than making a self-portrait (with a beard and glasses, I don't need many other details to compose my face). Last week Christopher posted the results of my labors on his blog.Unlike the other members of

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A student brought a movie camera into last week's premiere of the new student documentary Disconnected and blogged about it the other day. I was less than thrilled to see that his 76-second video begins with ten seconds of me looking for a place to sit.

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Reason #137 why I love Carleton: This weekend the students held the first-ever muggle quidditch tournament. I shot a few pictures and a short video clip of the action.

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It's been a pretty miserable spring, weather-wise. But we did have a tantalizing break in the gloom last week, during which I snapped a shot of my front yard and its lovely carpet of Siberian Squill.How fitting that a plant native to a notoriously intemperate region does so well here.

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My first grader handed me one of his fruit snax after breakfast today. I thought he was offering me a flavor he didn't like, so I popped it in my mouth. I guess it wasn't the taste he was rejecting, but the fact that he'd dropped it on the floor. He had a horrified look on his face when he shouted: "I said it's HAIRY!"

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OK, I'm ready to admit when I've made a mistake. You can blame me for the fact that there's still snow on the ground in April.Back in February, my bandmates and I thought it would be a great idea to launch a Defeat of Groundhog Day campaign. Leaving the length of the winter season up to the whims of a woodchuck is a bad idea, so why not put a stop to it...right?Who knew that the power of the

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