It’s that time of the year when the scent of pundit fills the air and a young mans fancy turns to thoughts of Conventioning. The swarms of ravenous crowds, giving standing ovations to orators that share their viewpoints. Red, White and Blue smeared across everyone and everything with hap hazardous contempt. Various appearances by outspoken and under informed celebrities. Yes, my friends, this is a glorious time.

Here are a couple of things to look forward to during this Conventioning season.

1.) Hillary Clinton will perform a hostile take over of Barack Obama’s campaign declaring herself his campaign chair and wearing a Jackie Kennedy style pink dress suit.
2.) Milton Bradley will be releasing it’s National Convention Board Game, complete with obnoxious applause simulator.
3.) John McCain will unveil his new robotic body that is younger and more hip than Barack Obama could ever be!
4.) Reverend Jeremiah Wright will release his new book entitled “A Pulpit and a Prejudice”. It will sell millions.
5.) JFK will rise from the grave to run on the Green Party Ticket with his VP being Paul Wellstone.
6.) The one hour Oprah Winfrey show will have a daily 2 hour special on Barack Obama during every show.
7.) Kentucky will succeed from the Union and then rejoin without anyone knowing.
8.) Thousands of reporters will descend on the two cities where the conventions are to be help with thousands of politicians in toe but Pharaoh will still not free the Israelites.
9.) The metropolises of Denver and the Twin Cities will hit an all time high in commute time and suicide rates.
10.) Gasoline prices will soar and consumption will plummet.
11.) Carrot Top will mysteriously appear and perform a completely humorless set on an HBO special.
12.) Michael Moore will announce his new movie “Why I am Right and Everyone Else is Wrong.” It will gross somewhere around 20 billion dollars despite no one having seen it.

So get out there and enjoy this years Conventioning Season. It promises to be entertaining to the max.

Oh, I got some candy for you!

You weren't invited to the cabin this year so I thought I would put up some pictures so that it seemed like you were there.

Do you remember when the game of Bocce Ball was being played. Didn't those guys make funny throwing motions.
Everybody else was throwing for the yellow ball but Adam wanted to kill that red tent!

Did you notice? Did you remember that today is August 1st? One year ago today a tragedy fell on us along with a bridge. The sights and sounds linger. The emotions still as familiar today as they were the day after.

I still plan my speeding escape from every bridge I drive on. I still look at the steel with a new found skepticism wondering if this bridge can hold out for a little bit longer.

Chances are that you have forgotten. It’s okay. We don’t have nearly the memory we like to think that we do but for the people effected directly by that day it stands triumphantly still looming in our consciousness.

We went from this…


To almost this in just under a year.


I don’t think that people are going to be fond of the entire University of Minnesota campus being leveled and the few remaining trees being bleached to match the bridge but Min DOT knows what it’s doing… right?