Joel Lueders, Artist + Writer

Rachel and I have been living and working in Yellowstone for the last 4 months. We are looking forward to returning to Minneapolis to begin our next project.

Listen to Tibbles literally phoning it in after his plane is grounded due to the volcano. Who will he interview? What will he do without an audience? Click here to listen.

Bureau of Labor and Statistics skit written by Andy Sturdevant and appeared originally in his intelligently humorous blog South 12th (new window).

It's Sunday night, Easter. Time to curl up with a little Tibbles by the fire. New episode "Singing in the Shower", featuring a cover of The Cure's song Push. A questionable commercial, and a brief interview with an inventor. Listen here.

iTunes just sent me an email to say that they've approved the show. So you can now subscribe to the podcast and have new episodes download automatically to your iPod.  Clicking this link will open iTunes.

Oh and if you have ever wondered what this website would like on an iPad, in one word, "magical". Thanks Patrick for sending this, I'm delighted. (FYI today is the first day they went on sale.)

This week's guest features Trevor Mouer's sonic stylings of 1990's Goth music covers, including Rasputina's Watch TV and the secret backstage recording of his live Super Bowl flop Marilyn Manson's Irresponsible Hate Anthem. What the Network doesn't want you to hear! Listen Now...

This is a band poster I made this afternoon. I combined two drawings, one was of the Eiffel Tower as seen on Google Street View, the other of an imaginary flower. Sauce - Spirits and Soundbar

I've started to make an improvised radio show in the morning before work.  Click Here

Rachel and I are moving to Yellowstone National Park for 5 months, starting in May. We will be wait staff. We will camp. We will live on the lake. It is a Super Volcano. It will be a time to decompress, reevaluate, compose, and reconnect with one's heart. And to see some pretty amazing views. I'm excited and nervous. When we move back we plan on renting a big house with friends.

Brian said, "Wait... Wait... Wait a minute."

Saturday night Brian and his girlfriend Josie came over to socialize and to eat ham and cheese bagels. At one point I asked him over to the computer to show him some of my mother's website (www.nanonore.weebly.com[new window]) she is a painter, draftswoman, and ceramist. Earlier that night we had all been talking about how after three generations of living a certain way, it becomes a family's universe. Whether it be only eating fast food, or piano lessons, after three generations that family is fixed until a great force shows up to change it.  We'd had a splash or two of whiskey as well so I took Brian over to my computer and showed him my mother's site. Saying something like, well if I were to have a kid, it will be the third generation, here's the proof.  Then it came.

"Wait... Wait... Wait a minute."
Brian stopped me and told me to go back. He was right. I never think about my mom's art. It just was always there. I didn't know how much they are alike until that night.
In the images below, my mother's art is on the left and mine is on the right.