Or, as the case may be, Laffy Taffy. Or Ding Dongs. Or Big Macs and Cokes from the McDonalds drive-thru.I don't know if you remember a couple months ago when Anna Wintour made a statement regarding her observations of Minnesotans' obese tendencies. These were her words:I'd just been on a trip to Minnesota, where I can only describe most of ... [Link]
A mysterious lack of Neapolitan So Delicious Minis at this address finds me standing in the disco glow of the refrigerator at 1:13 AM, making do by lapping Whip Cream off the three primary fingers of my right hand. Dude. We need groceries. [Link]
I figured it was a fledgling from the robin's nest on the garage, and I didn't want to shoo it away too obnoxiously since I wasn't sure how steady it was on its wings yet. And so our dance began...I walked up to the car: nothing.I opened the door: nothing.I sat down in the car: it just kept staring.I slammed ... [Link]
I wanted to see New in Town, a film that depicts a Minnesota small town, and see how they made us Minnesotans look. And, big surprise, it made Minnesotans look like simple-minded, frumpy, totally out of touch goof balls, but they’re so darn nice, so that’s good. The accents are way over the top, and there is clear distinction between ... [Link]
The great state of Minnesota finally has its second senator. Only seven months or so late.Yay for Al Franken! And for the Minnesota Supreme Court!My fetus and I are happy. I'm proud of my blue state.Now all this assumes that Norm Coleman won't file yet another appeal, which I suppose he could, but I think he'd waste a large chunk ... [Link]
I just heard the Tan Man yell “Tunnel” from my daughter’s old room. He wants her to crawl under the covers of her bed and lift up the sheets to play under. That’s one of the things I missed in California. I’ve gotten spoiled by seeing him regularly. This morning he was talking to himself in his crib when I ... [Link]
Do you have friends and business associates who have been sold a bill of goods and think the Red Plan will be a great new day for the Duluth Schools so that you have to bite your lips when they say as much? Are you a teacher fearful of being punished for taking a stand against it. If so I ... [Link]
To read this blog one has to be very interested in the Red Plan because for the past two years I’ve excluded commenting on just about everything else. That’s been a challenge for an ecclectic like me. Yesterday I had more visitors than ever before in a single day, 320, up 70 from the previous record. By the end of ... [Link]
I took the kids to the beach today, the beach made up of round, water-tumbled rocks. They spent the better part of an hour playing "rock store." To play this game, you decide where on the beach your store will be, then you stock it with rocks. You take turns shopping at each other's stores, paying for your purchases with, ... [Link]
I was talking with a friend of mine the other day who lives near Pennsylvania Dutch country, and he asked if we celebrate Fasnacht Day around here (since there's a lot of people of German descent in Wisconsin, too). My dumbfounded silence apparently speaking volumes, he sent me a link to Wikipedia and oh, mine eyes have seen the glory ... [Link]
1. How have I never seen Withnail & I before today?? 2. Imagine my delight at discovering the inspiration for the funniest character in Wayne's World 2. (Mmm-hmm, played by the same guy and everything.)Oh, here, have a taste.(Attention: salty language ahead.) [Link]
Just before I left for the LDV meeting I got another email announcement of another $50 donation to paypal. After I returned a father drove up with an envelope from his children with a note for me. Its too big to fit here but you can see it atop the LDV website. It contained babysitting money. $35.00 of it. Id ... [Link]
I went to the LDV meeting tonight drained of all energy. The $100,000 I kept insisting to all the skeptics in the group we could raise seemed pretty far out of reach by the time I headed to the meeting. Some of the folks I’ve been trying to track down are making themselves scarce. Maybe its that farce of a ... [Link]
Here we are with just under 24 hours to go and we’re still short. 1150 $20 bills would put us over the top. Are there 1,150 Central Grads who would drop a twenty into a fundraising bucket tomorrow? Are there that many people who believe their vote is sacred enough to do the same to put us over the top? ... [Link]
Its 4PM and I hate to admit I’m shooting lots of blanks fundraising-wise. I need 25 additional thousand dollar cashier’s checks tomorrow made out to the St. Louis County Court Administrator or our case is over. That would be a damn shame. Dr. Dixon got his money’s worth out of twisting the Red Plan inside out and trumpeting the bloody ... [Link]
School of the Americas Watch reports that several leaders of yesterday's military coup in Honduras were trained at the infamous US Army School of the Americas.The coup was staged by the Honduran military on behalf of the country's ruling elite, in an attempt to derail a vote on a resolution to open a constitutional convention. Honduras is run by an ... [Link]
One of our contributors will wire $5,000 to us from the East Coast as soon as we have $85,000 in pledges. It would be nice to have the rest tonight because we might not be able to turn that $5,000 into a cashiers check in time tomorrow even if its sent to us. Keep that in mind. We don’t really ... [Link]
This is a good day. We’ve got another pledge of $5,000. Its better than a pledge because it will be in the form of a cashier’s check and given to us tomorrow morning. And I learned something today I didn’t know before. For those wishinging to remain anonymous and avoid the risk of someone forcing Let Duluth Vote to open ... [Link]
There will be a rally Monday July 6th at city hall. It starts at noon and will go till about 1 or so. The event is being hosted by the Twin Ports action coalition.Well I don't agree with this message from the tpac I don't want to go and cover it for the blog. These are the type of events ... [Link]
Trevor Roy of the CBS and NBC affiliates is headied over in ten minutes for a quick interview on fundraising. That can’t hurt. [Link]
There are two new adds to the blog. One makes it a bit more user friendly. That is I have added a search bar to the blog. If you are looking for a certain thing you can find it easier by using the search box. You can also use it look what I have written about in the past by ... [Link]
Minnesota law requires that kids 8 and under must now be in a booster seat. This is the second straight law passed by the State of Minnesota that deals with safety in cars. The first was requiring to wear your seat belt this took affect a few month ago. The booster law starts this week. Well I am one that ... [Link]
This past week I, uh, can't remember anything that happened because my rowdy 23-year-old cousin came to town and wiped my entire brain clean. The next time she visits, I am going to have to train for it. I also ran two running events in the course of a week, meaning I ran 18.4 miles in things that resulted in ... [Link]
Not a good week to be a famous person. This week we lost four icons, (well). the four losses mean a lot to different people.The week started with the death of Ed McMann (86). Mcmann known mostly for being part of the Johnny Carson late night show. Also was a big part of the Jerry's kid telethon. McMann was a ... [Link]
This weekend is best to be summed up by the one photo that I didn't get: a blue ballon wriggling free from someone's hand and floating up towards puffy white cloud-arms with its tail joyfully wagging.Pictures will be linked here as soon as they are uploaded. [Link]
My cousin, Bergen West, made a surprise visit to Duluth last night. Seems she had a rental car and an itchy accelerator foot, so she and her best-friend-forever headed north. "What kind of things are you into?" I asked when she called, looking for entertainment. "Well, Jenny likes hippies," she said. "Where are you now?" I asked. "Pizza Luce," she ... [Link]
Three months have passed since losing the baby and I felt like I was off to a good start, acting as though I had this grieving thing down and could just blast through the process. I have failed miserably at doing that, however, and have spent far too much time than I would've liked in the dark and scary places. ... [Link]
CatOriginally uploaded by Laura EricksonThis beautiful cat is a natural born killer, but as a domesticated animal it is decidedly NOT a natural predator. What natural predator would kill two shrews just for fun, leaving the carcasses when the tiny mammals stopped "playing" along? This morning when I was walking Photon we came upon the first dead shrew and I ... [Link]
Everyone loves Corgis, right?But stinky Corgis are no fun. Especially Professor Pissy Pants.So we had a Sunday Morning Spa Day!First up, grab your dog brush. It is at this moment that you think about all the poop on the carpet over the past few weeks, the DVD's that were chewed up, the magazines that were digested, and you pause and ... [Link]
As my kids can fully attest to, when mommy is feeling a bit overwhelmed, she likes to clean.Yesterday was cleaning the carpet. Really cleaning the carpet. With a steam cleaner and a decided lack of anti-anxiety medications.I've now gated off the living room so the dogs can't get in. The carpet is still a little damp and I want to ... [Link]
Michael Jackson may have never played a concert in Duluth, but he did appear in our newspaper numerous times for various reasons. [Link]
I like climbing trees.I think it has to do with the roughness of the bark,with little ants and tiny red spiders picking their way across chunks of dead tree-skin,and I can press myself all the way against the trunk,arms wrapped like gift bows and pulling tighter into my chest,and my body blends into woodgrain.There is water in between the cells, ... [Link]
tonight's the RNRC4G showcase at the Bagdad. after a long week of rocking out and writing a kick ass song, my electric youth are totally ready. [Link]
I was recently contacted on Facebook by an artist I went to school with at Ohio University, Kim Abeles. Kim was a fellow art student at Siegfried Hall whose innovative work showed that she clearly had a future in the arts. My recollection was of a number of very talented young people who seemed exceedingly committed to new visions, not ... [Link]
And so, we have our draft class of 2009.Et là, nous avons notre classe de repechage de 2009.Round 1, Dylan Olsen, to the Chicago Blackhawks.Round 3, Dan Delisle, to the Chicago Blackhawks.Round 7, Max Tardy, to the St. Louis Blues.Am I going to have to be a Blackhawks fan now? Seriously? This is upsetting.Est-ce que je devrai être un fanatique ... [Link]
I'm realizing that I've been living off a list for six months, or perhaps an outline. Large, overarching goals with a million and one different tasks below each, every goal contingent upon the completion of the one above it.It's been this list that's kept my head on straight. Whenever I stand back and look at the big picture, I collapse ... [Link]
Last night I ripped myself off the couch, paused the Kardashians, and traded in my green sweatpants for a sports bra and ran my first 5K at midnight. I was a late entry. After the half-marathon last Saturday, I wasn't sure how long it would take my limbs to stop tingling and actually function -- instead of dangling from my ... [Link]
Pastors for Peace send-off& SALSA DANCE PARTYTuesday, July 7 Lafayette Community Center (3026 Minnesota Ave on the Point)6:00 p.m. beans & rice dinner, presentation by Ellen Bernstein 7:30 p.m. Salsa lessons with Juliana Bertelsen of'Over the Top' dance studio8:00 p.m. until ?: Dance, dance dance!$10 suggested donation, no-one turned awayOnce again, Pastors for Peace is gearing up to defy the ... [Link]
And from this we got Jethro Tull. [Link]
I can't say enough about my daughter's friends.Maybe I'm discounting what most kids their age would do, but the fact that they would show up and be there for her at a highly uncomfortable event was great.Except, that is, for the crazy stalker chick that has been haunting her every move for the past two years.Yeah, amidst all of the ... [Link]
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10:11 Guest at my place this weekend. Cripes! I better vacuum. Where did I put that thing. 20:41 @commandertim Stuck at work... sorry dude. [Link]
Hello, my comrades! Since this is a bilingual draft, this will be a bilingual post.Bonjour, mes camarades! Puisque c'est une repechage bilingue, ce sera un blog bilingue.Incoming tUMD defenceman Dylan Olsen, of the Camrose Kodiaks, was drafted 28th overall by the Chicago Blackhawks. He is the second Kodiak to be selected in the first round. The major buzz over Dylan ... [Link]
Along with my usual projects, the falcons are keeping me very busy. First flights should be coming up this week.The last time I moved back east because the midwest had wiped me out financially, the first job I got was at a junk jewelry factory which got enormous sales from a single earring in the shape of a glove. This ... [Link]
I’ll be happy if they just autopsy his nose. [Link]