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Several more random thoughts

If you're looking for deep thoughts about bicycling, look elsewhere on this page. But these are my thoughts for the day, so here goes:

ST. LOUIS MAGAZINE: I finally picked up the April 2005 issue of St. Louis Magazine that includes this blog in its list of "A Few Good Blogs," a sidebar to its article "In Blogs We Trust." The Web site features a shortened version of the article and does not include links to other blogs included in the sidebar, so you will have to buy the magazine to find out what those other good blogs are.

REMEMBERING WES KRAMER: While I was buying the magazine, a scone and getting a free mocha drink at Borders in Fairview Heights, Ill., I had the chance talk to Bren, one of the baristas, about art. It turns out Bren is studying art therapy, the field my late brother's wife, Sue Norsigian, has taken up. She works at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Belleville.

Bren and I then started talking about my late brother. Wes would have celebrated his 50th birthday March 18 had he not been fatally stabbed June 30, 1996, in Granite City. Wes was a very gifted artist, and I was pointing out what a shame it is that many of his pieces are sitting in my mom's attic instead of being out in public where people can appreciate them.

I told Bren that it's my hope to scan in the slides of some of his art work and put it on the Web in some way. I have the slides, and I hope I can start scanning the slides after the Tour de Stooges is finished in May.

"NAPOLEON DYNAMITE": Thanks to my nieces and nephew, I finally got the chance to see "Napoleon Dynamite" on Easter Sunday. The film has become somewhat of a cult classic. It doesn't have much of a plot, but it has a lot of funny lines. Even my 72-year-old mother was laughing out loud at some of the antics!

John Bigalke has put out a line of T-shirts based on the film through his Beatnik's shop in Belleville. And on April 29, John's humor newspaper, The News Rocket, is putting on a Napoleon Dynamite Festival at the Ground Floor coffee shop in Belleville. It ought to be a flippin' sweet time!

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