Archive for 2024/12


Skis

“I have a favorite ski construction — for slalom and basically for every event. Through a season, I’ll go through probably 80 pairs of skis, including all the events. And that’s from the start of the summer to the end of the season. Every ski has a lifetime. “Our technicians will file the edges down […]

Re-Slim Dunlap

Slimbob Dunlap was one in a million. The outpouring of love for him here in Minneapolis since the news broke is overwhelming. Everyone has a story where he’s kind and funny. No one has a bad word to say about him. I was lucky enough to have Slim take me under his wing and show […]

Astral Weeks: A Secret History Of 1968

https://shorturl.at/4Xolz 1 I devoured this book. I bought my first issue of “Rolling Stone” at a newsstand right by the Columbia campus in December 1969. If I remember correctly, it was the issue with Mick Jagger on the cover, with a full explication of the Altamont debacle. This was manna from heaven, this was everything […]

Entitlement

Maybe this is the problem with America. At the end of the day, Pepsi sponsors a deejay at the base of Vail. Along with said deejay, they provide Pepsi itself. The Pepsi is in these round barrels with plastic covers. You can see right into the vessel where all the cans are on ice. Knowing […]