http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/ en-us 2009-12-31T08:08:44-06:00 http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/001355.php Sitting here in front of the light box. Still dark outside. Maybe a little blue-dark, but a dart of sun hits the ice. We are licking the moisture from the windows. We are thirsty for a new year. Timothy sits... jason 2009-12-31T08:08:44-06:00 http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/001354.php I find myself mildly interested in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's 2009 Churchwide Assembly being held in Minneapolis this week. They're grappling with the question of gay clergy and celibacy. A double-standard is currently in effect, whereby clergy in... jason 2009-08-18T15:16:28-06:00 http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/001353.php I am often looking at these photos of Lewis Payne, taken in April, 1865, perhaps on board the USS Montauk, by Alexander Gardner. They show the boy, just 21 years old, three months before he was hanged as one of... jason 2009-05-14T15:15:38-06:00 http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/001352.php Today, on the first really warm Saturday of Spring, a local band set up on the corner of 26th and Lyndale in South Minneapolis and jammed away the afternoon. This is why I love my neighborhood.... jason 2009-04-18T18:14:53-06:00 http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/001351.php I was in Las Vegas last month for work. Here are two photos which represent what Las Vegas means to me. I took this photo of a mural in the buffet at Circus Circus:... jason 2009-04-18T16:17:35-06:00 http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/001350.php There Sat Down, Once, a Thing on Henry's Heart... jason 2009-01-08T10:08:50-06:00 http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/001349.php Checking out Dobby Gibson's website on my lunch break, I came across this YouTube clip of Frank O'Hara reading his poem, "Having a Coke with You": I've read this poem numerous times but it's never felt alive for me until... jason 2009-01-05T13:27:58-06:00 http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/001348.php I finally tossed this bottle of cologne the other day. I've had it for about nine years now. It was gifted to me by another family, on another continent, in another age almost. It never suited me but I... jason 2008-12-24T09:48:19-06:00 http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/001347.php Sometimes I'm a little bit embarrassed by my own misprision when it comes to what the kids are listening to. Take Soulja Boy, for instance. I like his music enough to listen to it on my headphones while I use... jason 2008-12-23T15:49:31-06:00 http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/001346.php I never really thought I'd consider myself a fan of bluegrass--but a couple of recent new arrivals on the Minnesota scene has redefined how well this musical form fits with the Minnesota landscape. I've been to a few Pert... jason 2008-12-22T15:35:46-06:00 http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/001345.php Department of Eagles. I saw Grizzle Bear in concert a few years ago; it was on the of the prettiest bands to hear. Department of Eagles is a side project of Grizzly Bears' Daniel Rosen, I picked up a... jason 2008-12-22T08:22:07-06:00 http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/001344.php Someone forwarded this link to me and I almost gagged: Anders Ponders If you like this sort of thing I encourage you to support him. BEWARE! The photo of the "artiste" is not safe for work! It depicts a man-boy... jason 2008-12-09T13:09:54-06:00 http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/001343.php A friend sent me a screen grab--it is not safe for work so I put it in the extended section of the blog entry. Just to forewarn you, it's a photo of a boner.... jason 2008-12-09T09:46:09-06:00 http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/001342.php Home for the holidays, I escaped the madness of a sequestered family and took a walk in the woods. I know these half-erased and overgrown trails well because I made most of them as a kid, playing Revolutionary War Minuteman,... jason 2008-12-03T08:48:53-06:00 http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/001340.php Bruce La Bruce, prescient as always... Homosexuality is only to be used for revolutionary purposes! There will be no revolution without sexual revolution...... jason 2008-11-17T16:14:26-06:00