http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/ Jim Walsh - The Walsh Files en Copyright 2010 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:15:23 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Click here to find out.... http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/omg_did_you_hear_what_simon_sa.php http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/omg_did_you_hear_what_simon_sa.php Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:15:23 -0600 Dear Prince from Minneapolis Please represent No moons over Miami Or product-placed breasts Just play your guitar For your pests from the Midwest Do it for Lovey and Dungy And Obama and Oprah The Rainbow Children Of the now and... http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/dear_prince_from_minneapolis.php http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/dear_prince_from_minneapolis.php Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:11:28 -0600 William Faulkner hated giving speeches. He once said, "I'm just a farmer who likes to tell stories." But on December 10, 1950, he went to Stockholm, Sweden to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This is his entire acceptance speech: "I... http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/faulkner_nobel_speech.php http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/faulkner_nobel_speech.php Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:56:06 -0600 Ladies and Gentlemen, members of the jury. Those of my trade, we are like the badger or the mole. We work alone in darkness, guided by tiny candles which we do not share, sweating to give birth to replacement planets... http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/go_litel_bok.php http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/go_litel_bok.php Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:42:11 -0600 I am sitting on the carpeted floor of my family's new apartment in Palo Alto, California, drinking a lukewarm bottle of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. It is Friday, Sept. 27th, 2002, my daughter's fourth birthday. She is bouncing around the... http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/harriet.php http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/harriet.php Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:16:24 -0600 Cameo, "Word Up." So my friend Meghan and I go to the still-fabulous-after-all-these-years Arnellia's for the late show Friday night by these '70s funk stalwarts, not really expecting much. We're feeling a little conspicuous, not for being one of four... http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/song_du_jour_word_up.php http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/song_du_jour_word_up.php Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:26:12 -0600 Molly Maher & Her Disbelievers, "Let's Pretend We Never Have Met" (from the forthcoming CD Balms of Gilead). All hail the new honky-tonk heroine of Minneapolis, who plays every Wednesday at Nye's, and whose band is as good a bunch... http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/song_du_jour_lets_pretend_we_n.php http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/song_du_jour_lets_pretend_we_n.php Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:35:38 -0600 MySpace Nation to "Prairie Home" Star: "Maybe You Should Try The Search Engine" By Jim Walsh Not long after my friend Brianna helped me bumble my way onto my MySpace account, I found myself sitting at the 331 Club in... http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/garrison_keillor_vs_myspacecom.php http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/garrison_keillor_vs_myspacecom.php Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:07:36 -0600 by Jim Walsh Don't sprain your brain trying to put into words what Bill Batson means to this town; all you'll come up with is some jive about him being somewhere between The Foshay Tower and First Avenue in terms... http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/the_greatest.php http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/the_greatest.php Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:47:27 -0600 What About You Boy? by Frederick Manfred "What about you, boy? Is your work going along? Are you still making candles Against darkness and wrong? The whole thing is to blast. Blast and blast again. To fill the Black With... http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/what_about_you_boy.php http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/what_about_you_boy.php Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:16:29 -0600 Viet Nam, "Welcome To My Room." Saw these classic New York rockers open for the Lemonheads a few weeks ago, and was properly slayed, but it was this one -- as heard on The thankgodonceagainforthe Current -- that did me... http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/song_du_jour_welcome_to_my_roo.php http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/song_du_jour_welcome_to_my_roo.php Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:50:39 -0600 Brianna Lane, "Porch Light Song." Had a handslap-on-the-forehead moment with this songwriter last night; one of those "how could I not know about you?" things that's happening more and more these days, what with all the accomplished songwriters/hacks/first-timers/vets/geniuses coming up... http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/song_du_jour_porch_light_song.php http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/song_du_jour_porch_light_song.php Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:06:47 -0600 Saturday, January 20, 2007 Turf Club BILL BATSON'S 50th BIRTHDAY PARTY Hypstrz Mighty Mofos Superhopper... http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/mark_your_mofo_calendars.php http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/mark_your_mofo_calendars.php Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:48:48 -0600 Lorraine Fideler Heyer Heyer, Lorraine Fideler of Mpls., passed away Jan. 2, 2007. Survived by daughters, Barbara (David) Brown and Jean (Jim Walsh) Heyer; grandchildren, Sara and Madalyn Brown, Henry and Helen Heyer-Walsh; siblings, Marijane Larsen, Louis (Mitzi) Fideler, Sr.... http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/song_du_jour_duke_ellington_ca.php http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/song_du_jour_duke_ellington_ca.php Sun, 07 Jan 2007 09:23:27 -0600 More photos from my night with the Hamm's Bear...... http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/by_popular_demand.php http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/2007/01/by_popular_demand.php Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:37:34 -0600