from: kdogg
get your ticket to BATTLES ! they r playin 3rock- at slims rt now. Rock out
12:01am 7/3/07
Thursday, June 28, 2007
got a haircut from kelly last thursday in prep for PRIDE 07: uptown pride @ blb on friday w/ kung, bob mould impressing solo, doing lots of classics - wishing well, hoover dam, celebrated summer - and showin off a nicely buffed-up gay rugby type bod! i wonder if he wears a speedo to da beach these days ... skipped da eagle block party saturday, then back to the salon y’all for traditional sunday brunch mimosas + parade viewing @ da shOp - thanx ’n thanx kelly! we gays love us our traditions, and the christmas-in-june holiday way pride has of getting you back together w/ your dearest, if not nearest, longtime queer kin is not only a big heartwarming party, but also very important for our community, for obvious reasons ... we made out way down to the festival in loring park, partied w/ lots of dudes i never get a chance to hang out with anymore - loved playing ‘do not feed the bears’ w/ shirtless tony l on the other side of the chain link fence @ da beer garden, shirtless brad n swelled the bear contingent before we all took off together for the saloon block party, where brad heckled da kine esera into taking HIS shirt off for the last song in his set, which was surprisingly good! i was also impressed by brad’s influence from the audience - kung + i never considered trying to get bob to take his shirt off on friday night... but then i guess pride magic tends to build over the weekend, peaking on sunday night, when esera was wearing the exact same olive-grey nautica cargo shorts that i’ve been workin for the last 2 years both here + in hawai’i, which to me indicates a cosmic connection: several times during his performance he was looking directly at and singing only for shirtless, plastic-flower-rainbow-lei-wearin tom-A-hawk ... the party progressed into a tank-top-burned, bud-soaked bacchanal. esera gamely flirted back w/ me here and there as the sun went down, serving w/ bob as a nice big bookend to my plus-sized sweaty gay rockstar pride. next up: bastille day block party at cafe barbette - sunday july 15! HAPPY SUMMER!!!
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
thawk + bob blob @ uptown pride ... thanx to kung for taking the photo, full pride 07 rundown coming soon!
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
checkin in on a sultry midsummer’s eve, tom-A-hawk reporting that summer is in full swing. big summer weather continues with lots of walks to lake calhoun with seger + i wading along the shoreline from 32nd street beach to the boat landing, made my 1st bike trip to twin lake in i don’t know how long last monday - always forget what a great ride that is. hennepin / lake wine tasting a week ago was a smash - maybe not quite as many cute boys as in the past but as our friend mark likes to say: it only takes one... [mark met up w/ me and my new bud boone under the tent with an icy martini in his hand] ...and there was one, best of show edgy blond caveman and my current favorite member at the gym where i work - plus i got to chat him up, and he was nice! oh yes, the wine ... i decided to focus on new zealand sauvignon blancs as a starting point, chose the NOBILO ICON as the winner before i moved on from trying to focus on anything. first selection to knock my socks off was a fair trade red repped by - who else - fetching retro-hip wine guy BRAD from back in the day: the smoky, smoky CALESA CARMENERE, + i enthusiatically seconded boone’s top pick, the LOUIS B. MARTINI 2001 MONTE ROSSO CABERNET. my friend chris took enough time off from ripping on my haircut (or lack thereof) to tip me off about the 1999 VEUVE available for sampling; thom pham was there, and judging by how he was dressed i’d say he’s single again. towards the end of the event label art and other subjective qualities became the main deciding factors over what we chose to taste: boone tried a portuguese red with roosters on the label because he was born in the year of the rooster, i tried a south african red called THE WOLF TRAP that happened to be sitting right next to it because i was born in the year of the dog. the rest of my selections had already become a blur to me by the end of the evening, but walking away with an exhaustive, annotated list is not my goal at this event - it simply serves to rekindle my enthusiasm and appreciation of wine in general, and inspires me to branch out and try something new, like when i went back to hennepin / lake a few days later and was led around the corner to a section i never browse in my search for the nobilo, where i returned yesterday and found the CASA LAPOSTOLLE SAUVIGNON BLANC - 14.5% alcohol content! the magic was confirmed when i crossed the street to finally get myself some new bumble + bumble shampoo + conditioner and what is sitting behind the counter at jon charles salon but a big case of the same stuff i had in my hand.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
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Sunday, May 20, 2007
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Monday, May 14, 2007
Saturday, May 12, 2007
woke up thursday morning hung over from the fujiya + miyagi / peter bjorn + john show @ 1st ave the night before. stayed in bed even after the coffee was brewed, finished reading 'tapping the source' ... by the time i got out of bed the book's noir mood seeped into my psyche, followed me around the streets of south minneapolis, propelled me in steve's truck as i went to our old diner for breakfast, bought a manual push mower at nicollet hardware. thinking about last night's party - fujiya + miyagi got me boogyin!, the neighborhood - dan + kathy are still working the counter at 'our kitchen'! couldn't tell if they recognized this big surfer boy or not as i ate my 2 eggs toast + hashbrowns w/ tabasco. thinking about how much i've grown away from the minneapolis and the tom-A-hawk of 10 years ago, i experienced the unmistakable kem nunn-esque pull of wondering: this feeling, is this what it feels like to be losing myself - or finding myself? i'd been digging dandelions for the last three days, and thursday, my day off, with temps in the 80's - spring turned into summer and it was time to mow.
revolting queers party at the organ house [< hey look it's tom-A-hawk!] a couple weekends ago. was a scene: plenty of minneapolis art school scenesters, all riding their skinny road bikes, rows and rows of them all locked together, like amsterdam. saw THREE great bands between 11-1: reverse church, a band in the amityville horror room in the basement - maybe 1st communion afterparty? teen eagle? then mute era back up in the living room - tha kids were moshing! there was crowd surfing! didn't get right into the pit because i was like at least 1.5 times as big as anyone in there, so i guarded the perimeter, stomping away, sometimes holding up the whole crowd from falling over all by myself. missed gay beast cuz i had to be up early for work.
last weekend was high spring with trees covered in nothing but blossoms, lilac liqueur filling the air for the mayday parade. had kim over for pasta party dinner saturday night, had kung over sunday morning for a pre-parade brunch w/ mimosas (1/2 italian bubbly, 1/2 fresh-squeezed oj, w/ a splash of pomegranate cherry mmm ...) and a frittata. mayday pics up on my flickr...
revolting queers party at the organ house [< hey look it's tom-A-hawk!] a couple weekends ago. was a scene: plenty of minneapolis art school scenesters, all riding their skinny road bikes, rows and rows of them all locked together, like amsterdam. saw THREE great bands between 11-1: reverse church, a band in the amityville horror room in the basement - maybe 1st communion afterparty? teen eagle? then mute era back up in the living room - tha kids were moshing! there was crowd surfing! didn't get right into the pit because i was like at least 1.5 times as big as anyone in there, so i guarded the perimeter, stomping away, sometimes holding up the whole crowd from falling over all by myself. missed gay beast cuz i had to be up early for work.
last weekend was high spring with trees covered in nothing but blossoms, lilac liqueur filling the air for the mayday parade. had kim over for pasta party dinner saturday night, had kung over sunday morning for a pre-parade brunch w/ mimosas (1/2 italian bubbly, 1/2 fresh-squeezed oj, w/ a splash of pomegranate cherry mmm ...) and a frittata. mayday pics up on my flickr...
Friday, May 11, 2007
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Monday, May 07, 2007
Saturday, May 05, 2007
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
checkin out the sunny lunch hour crowd from dunn's nicollet mall ... sending good vibes out to mr. dusty, who is probably right now crossing from the north american coast out over the vast pacific. i talked him into buying one of those cheap tickets to honolulu to stay with steve at the condo for 10 days. (i almost went too but i really can't afford it yet - i'm on the last day of a 12-day work marathon right now.) so he gets there on mayday, which is lei day in hawai'i, and will be there for boy's day (may 5), and if that isn't perfect enough, looks like the first south swell of the summer, which i believe is known as the "mother's day swell," is rolling into waikiki as we speak. almost four years after buying the condo, one of our friends is finally going to visit ... e hele holoholo hawa'i kane!
Monday, April 30, 2007
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
[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.
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.
Monday, April 23, 2007
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Monday, April 16, 2007
e komo mai spring! finally hit yesterday w/ temps in the high 60's, literal CROWDS of people on the trails around lake calhoun when i walked down there w/ seger, who is so very happy. the feeling of lightness and elation grew today as i dusted + busted out my bike, got my taxes in the mail and cruized the DUDES in uptown. took seger back to the sparkling lake where we both dipped our feet in the clear, cold water. uptown hipsters were out in force on alt bikes, wispy mohawks and the like fluttering in the breeze of motion, wan hair finally breathing free after a cold season of confinement under quirky caps. today is the day steve would usually be home from hawai'i to do his taxes, but he and his tax guy figured out a way to do them over the phone to allow him to stay and keep working on that awesome remodel job - so he can make some money to pay taxes on next year. so we're sailing into a new era of tom-A-hawk solo. spring has also brought renewed pangs of missing kdogg, but lo + behold i return from the lake to find a fresh spring mix from kdig hisself sprouting out of my mailbox! [incl bole 2 harlem, the ponys, ghostland observatory, homeliss derelix, amadou + mariam, and illinois ... thanx K!!!] as the world thaws magic is flowing, the bunny has returned to the garden and i am even somewhat overwhelmed by it all. to celebrate and channel the mana, the traditional tax day party will go ahead in stevie + kdogg's honor: this time w/ kung + his boyz @ an open bar party tonite @ temple. c u there!
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
a belated happy easter story for you: there’s a bunny that’s been hanging out in our garden; regularly, and in the same spot. was very eastery this weekend until i forgot about it and took one bigboy tom-A-hawk hOp, from the last step on the deck to the sidewalk in the backyard while i was sayin goodbye after a little party w/ dustin on saturday - and scared it away. was hoppin, i mean hopin it would come back but i never saw it again, until i kicked a lawnchair off the deck this morning (i had my reasons) and scared it away again. tom-A-hawk! but it didn’t run all the way out of the yard this time, it stayed and i think gave me a little attitude even. which i believe is progress. [easter sunday i kept my phone off, played guitar, did qi gong + caught up w/ my fambly on da landline. then i went to kung's for drunken ham leftovers.]
whoa i’m still hangin on to hawaiian time bigtime + i’ve been back for a almost a week. sleeping til noon - noon-thirty. tried my hardest to go to sleep at a reasonable hour last night (11:00) and get up at a more respectable local hour this morning - i did better but i still slept until 10:30. and since it’s been kind of a nonstop party since i got back last wednesday i’m trying my hardest to stay in tonight - it’s freezing rain out there! it’s tuesday! but it IS $1 beer night at the eagle...
whoa i’m still hangin on to hawaiian time bigtime + i’ve been back for a almost a week. sleeping til noon - noon-thirty. tried my hardest to go to sleep at a reasonable hour last night (11:00) and get up at a more respectable local hour this morning - i did better but i still slept until 10:30. and since it’s been kind of a nonstop party since i got back last wednesday i’m trying my hardest to stay in tonight - it’s freezing rain out there! it’s tuesday! but it IS $1 beer night at the eagle...
Friday, April 06, 2007
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Monday, April 02, 2007
last week was doors, doors, doors at work - got 'em all done and installed 2 of 3 upper cabinets before friday, my last day on the job (for now). surfed pops again thursday before work, canoes friday morning. much mahalos to kevin + frank for fireworks, honolulu city lights and dinner at their place up in st. louis heights on friday - nice to meet bob + hans, who publishes da kine mag + had copies of their 100th issue pre-release-hot off the press. after classic saturday morning westerns we let kurty take us out to aina haina. met up in the da water w/ jimmy + his boyz for a fun sesh on a new break: waves were nice + big (most 2 big 4 me!) - hung out on the shoulder, got some very fun carvin lefts. aloha kurty surf club dinner party at ken+ken's sat nite - he's moving to portland OR - wot's up w/ dat? love da smoking lounge retreat parties in ken's bedroom, where this time ken read a very satisfying passage out of a kem nunn surf noir, the dogs of winter ... "The first big swell came early that year, a gift before Christmas, wrapped in cloud..." [he's got me reading tapping the source - i guess kem nunn is working on a show for hbo or something. also, surf bud jake has me reading the surfing detective series - maxin out on surf lit!] no surf yesterday or today, goin to myevolution at da maddog saloon tonight, 1 more surf n da a.m. den pau.
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
surfed before work on friday, surfed saturday morning incl. lunch after at you hungry? w/ big local motorcycle cops - in knee-high leather boots ... everyone was definitely behaving at you hungry. saw guy cruz' set @ hulas for the 1st time saturday night. hooked up w/ kurty + jake for a sunday morning surf club classic @ canoes w/ jake shooting video + kurty savin it for the camera. stashed everyone's boards at our place + went for $2 steinlagers + surf club sandwiches at lulu's on the beach. checked out hula's beer bust sunday evening until kenzen advised steve to call it a night + now it's back to work - we started doors. half day yesterday in observance of the prince kuhio holiday [+ seger's birthday], steve let me surf this morning before work - went pops for no wind, a sparse crowd and one smooth, rolling long cruise on my last wave ... aloha.
Monday, March 26, 2007
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Thursday, March 22, 2007
what makes an awesome day: steve gave me the morning off so i could go for a fun hour surf [surfed the left shoulder, smokin da muscleboys :p ]; then, after the 10-minute break that always starts our work day when the #2 bus takes its pit stop on the way around kapiolani park, i got to work just in time for lunch! and then i don't even have to work because steve needs some stuff from homo depot before we can proceed! which is all good because we've been crankin: all the cabinets built + faced now ... just still no doors. so - score day off, always its own bonus; but THEN, when we get home after 'work' i call the american airlines advantage desk and successfully extend my stay a whole week - w/ a tighter connection + NO CHANGE FEE!!! ho, brah. awesome. think i going surf pau hana too.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
i suppose this is where i should comment on my opposition to the war and the current regime but i really don't know what to say anymore - i will leave it to other, better informed, more articulate bloggers. my purpose here is to create a haven for beauty + love. welcome.
a couple more stories about movie night at don + tim's: stevie sez there were at least 35 guys there, one guy we met surfs 20-FOOT WAIMEA. he's a young, tall airport meteorologist and it was very nice talking with him! also, everyone kept asking me 'when are you leaving?' ... of course they didn't mean anything by it and i didn't even know it had really affected me that much - until i had a dream that night where my flight was leaving in 40 minutes. i was in a panic because i couldn't get the phone or computer to work so i could contact the airlines and extend my stay. i ended up breaking down + crying in the arms of a little local aunty. hawai'i is a place where you can feel good about yourself, and be happy. i no like leave!
a couple more stories about movie night at don + tim's: stevie sez there were at least 35 guys there, one guy we met surfs 20-FOOT WAIMEA. he's a young, tall airport meteorologist and it was very nice talking with him! also, everyone kept asking me 'when are you leaving?' ... of course they didn't mean anything by it and i didn't even know it had really affected me that much - until i had a dream that night where my flight was leaving in 40 minutes. i was in a panic because i couldn't get the phone or computer to work so i could contact the airlines and extend my stay. i ended up breaking down + crying in the arms of a little local aunty. hawai'i is a place where you can feel good about yourself, and be happy. i no like leave!
tradewinds are back ... coolin us down on the job. winds stayed onshore (hot + stuffy from the south) all last week so surf stayed junk, which was ok so we didn't have to feel like we were missing anything while we worked: got the base cabinets built, tore out the old ones we're replacing. allowed the beer gods to unleash their wrath on us at gordon biersch on thursday, resulting in the previous loopy mo'blogs. [might be a good time to mention now that it's daylight savings time already, my entries are actually posted at hawaiian time = five hours earlier than they appear...] cozy rainy movie night up at don + tim's on saturday, watched 'infamous' - the other capote flick. winds had turned around by sunday morning, when we surfed pops. was supposed to be an iffy south bUmp comin thru and it seemed like it was - by the END of my 3-hour sesh. walking to the hula's beer bust that evening it seemed like the waves were perfect, especially at queens; surfed ok little curls at canoes this morning before work. got one good ride right when i got out - saw the wave comin and the beach boy paddling by on his stand-up board told me 'go, brother.' started on upper cabinets today - no doors yet.
Monday, March 19, 2007
Friday, March 16, 2007
how is it dat i hav not yet blogged about rvca ... ?
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
great 1st full (almost) day @ work today - we're already turning that neat stack of flat lumber into 3-dimensions. ok solo pau hana surf - get waves but winds are onshore, so i did battle w/ monster mush for 2 hours but got some ok rides ... came home to stevie making a movie of my triumphant return, and also making a perfect tenderloin w/ apple for me while we watched 6 feet under on bravo.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
aloha + happy sunday! the weekend is actually the weekend now that we started the job: thursday we rented a car (the guy at the counter talked steve into a $3 upgrade by talking about how big i was) to get / order materials and bring tools to the job site, after furikake crusted seared ahi work lunch at niko's (where we ran into alan the big demolisher in full dirty demolition gear) we took that sporty compact subaru to the north shore. then we saw alan again, all cleaned up thursday night at chikos for jake's birthday! robert cazimero stopped by and even dropped in w/ the band for one guest vocal, making for a gorgeous, otherworldly 3-part harmony. friday we got bus passes + took a #2 back to the job site at the base of diamond head to wait for our materials to be delivered from city mill. they arrived in a huge flatbed truck with a beautiful shiny new cab, one guy unloaded our perfectly stacked and wrapped stuff with a forklift and the driver got steve's signature, gave me shakas when he left. plus there's a bolohead daddy workin down the street who stood outside and watched the whole thing. liking the new job so far. so excited about the job we partied the rest of friday away. went shopping on saturday, at don quixote (nee daiei) a nice japanese aunty asked me to look thru the milk on the top shelf to find the freshest stuff, "because you're tall and i only use it in my coffee." no luck, it was all MAR 20 but we had a laugh about it and she thanked me anyway. saturday night was a combination late birthday party for steve / late birthday party for tom-A-hawk + troy (feb 6th!) / welcome home tom-A-hawk pool party out at jimmy's magical party gardens in hawaii kai. so much fun and so much aloha w/ da boys ... stevie read this in the paper during black history month: "hawai'i is a place where you can feel good about yourself, and be happy." ... good fun /schmallkine schwell surf at canoes w/ a surprisingly daring tom-A-hawk drOp this morning, tonight is the our fifth anniversary of going to da big honolulu festival parade!
Friday, March 09, 2007
omg thermals 'pillar of salt' s so good !
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