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Every Tuesday, I park at a remote lot in downtown St. Paul and walk about 9 blocks to the building where we have a meeting. Sure, they send a bus to take us to and fro, but sometimes I just need to bond with my iPod (Robotron 2.0).

As I walk, it's like a mini music video that no one knows is filming but me.

I see some things on the ground as I walk, especially when the snow sort of melts a little bit. For your consideration:

- Starbucks coffee sleeve. (is that what you coffee drinkers call those things?)
- 6 of diamonds playing card
- smashed Junior Mints box
- toddler's tennis shoe
- turd that looks like a gorilla was loose downtown
- 2 D-Cell batteries, still in the wrapper
- a mangled Celine Dion CD
- a bullet casing, maybe from a .45
- a king of clubs playing card
- someone's grocery list
- an empty case of O'Doul's
- 80,003 cigarette butts
- blue 2 Uno card
- McDonald's burger wrappers
- an Isotoner glove, left hand
- the rest of the deck of cards
- wallet-sized photo of a young boy, maybe Hispanic
- an ad for lawn service
- crushed pack of Marlboro reds

That's a lot of garbage, yo.

Hello friends of blog-reading!

Sometimes an idea strikes you and you have no choice but to pull off the side of the road, hop out of the car and shout to the heavens:

"BY JOVE! THAT IS BRILLIANT!"

Sometimes the ideas aren't that great and you kind of shrug a little bit and say 'eh' while you make a left hand turn into the parking lot of the local coffee barn for a steaming cup of pulverized bean juice. You can decide which category the following fits in.

A blogging pal (it's Dan over at This Man's World) and I are in the formative stages of dedicating an ENTIRE week to...(wait for it)

OUR NERDERYS!!!

It's going to be double deluxe awesome. We'll show you scenes from our respective nerd lairs. You'll see the places where we keep our you're-too-old-for-that action figures! You'll see trinkets that would've been best left at Target (or any other value superstore), and all kinds of stuff. Heck, there might be videos! There might be pictures! There might be carelessly crafted haikus about my autographed Selma Hayek picture.

Who would want to miss that???

Wow, TKT. I've got a nerdery/study/office/shack in the back where I dry out animal skins that I would like to share with the blogging world, too. Can I get in?

My answer: Heck, yes friend. You can get in on the ground floor.

While it's still in the formative stages, I'm planning on linking back and forth to other nerderys/offices/etc. so that we can all see where the magic happens.

But TKT, I just have a cubicle. Also, I like to eat paste.

That's okay, fella/fellete! Any nerdery will do. Any. Nerdery. Will. Do.

Stay tuned, party people. We're about to blow the lid offa this one.

Owwwwwwwwwww!!!!

Break out your walking shoes NYC, it is time for the biggest (and in my opinion) best party of the year, Museum Mile. Head up to 5th avenue and 82nd street for free admission to nine museums, including the Metropolitian Museum of Art. In honor of this summer ritual we have excerpted a piece about the MET from Grove Art Online, written by Eric Myles Zafran. Get some history on this NYC landmark before you hit the jam-packed subways.

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