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James Lileks

Columnist/Editor | buzz.mn

Phone: 612-673-7858

James Lileks is the editor of buzz.mn, and also write a metro column on Fridays. He also is an anchor/producer for NewsBreak, the weekday webcast on startribune.com.

Recent content from James Lileks

Swat 'em, spray 'em': Bugs just want lovin'
Heard a cicada the other day. It's the sound you always forget until it returns. (You always note the first one. No one ever notes the last.) The rattling sound is a mating call, of course, which means that the signature sound of a summer afternoon is a disgusting looking thing shouting GIMME SOME LOVIN', but that's Nature. As bugs go, they're OK. They don't bite, they don't fly down your shirt and buzz HOLY HECK GET ME OUT OF HERE like stupid, clumsy June Bugs -- the drunks of the insect world -- and they don't show up in sky-darkening hordes eating crops and stripping Fido to the bone, so we like them. Buzz on, little dudes, and good luck finding that special someone.
Jul 10, 2009
Love means not making summer end too soon
Dear potent locally-based bulls-eye themed retailer: Please don't take this the wrong way. I love you, and I hate when we fight. Remember when you moved the Windex to a totally different aisle, away from what had been cleaning supplies, and I was like What the Heck, and you were all like Just Deal With It? We laugh about it now, because it's funny, I guess, and love is like that.
Jul 5, 2009
James Lileks: Advice for the Fourth

Jul 3, 2009
Loudest, and slowest, Jackson tribute concert
The loudest, slowest MJ tribute EVER
Jun 28, 2009
'Tis blackout season. Monitor the ice cream
Looking forward to the next inevitable blackout.
Jun 26, 2009
To Dad, here's a heartfelt surprise done right
You could make Dad a screwdriver as well. What, with orange juice? Where did you go to school, Dean Martin Junior High? No, an actual screwdriver. Every dad needed one of those to complete the 557-piece Craftsman set in the garage. Alas, I did not temper the metal completely, and the first time Dad used it, the screwdriver behaved like al dente pasta pushed into a keyhole. I think he kept it for only 10 years.
Jun 21, 2009
Discourteous drivers? Us? Why, I oughta -
We're Number 5!
Jun 19, 2009
Let kids wallow in a big expanse of summer
School's out - finally.
Jun 12, 2009
You can get stung free today at any state park
Today all state parks and historical sites have free admission. Huzzah.
Jun 7, 2009
James Lileks: Terminals 1 and 2: That makes it easy!
The Metropolitan Airports Commission -- "Crackin' plaster in the southwest metro since 1952!" -- has a plan to make road signage less confusing. The original proposal would have struck "Lindbergh" and "Humphrey" from the signs, and replaced them with the marvelously poetic "Terminal One" and "Terminal Two." Why? Because it's a problem. Consider these scenarios:
Jun 5, 2009


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