[written on sunday 4/22, just getting around to posting it today - i'm in the middle of a 13-day work marathon...]

following the spirit of kdogg's advice on my myspace comments ... the radio k top 7 is rockin my solo sunday brunch. hearing all kinds of early-90's sounds in 2day's hitz: belly, velocity girl; and, literally, low. but the real music for channeling spring magic is animal collective and their side project panda bear.

last saturday at work mary the maintenance lady came to the membership desk to show a polaroid she had taken recently of a wild turkey that had wandered into her yard in minneapolis' gritty, urban phillips neighborhood.  this did not prevent kung and i from being surprised that monday - the day of the virginia tech shootings - to see a tall, grim-reaperesque turkey trotting nonchalantly through the grounds in front of mctc on hennepin avenue downtown.  in all our years in the twin cities neither mary, nor kung, nor i had ever heard of wild turkeys in the urban core.  the following days found me surprisingly affected by the shock of monday's news, and i KNOW i know i know that this is only a coincidence, but that knowledge did not prevent a chill from going down my spine when i learned that virginia tech's mascot is a turkey.