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Talking Minnesotan – 11/06/09

Soiree
Image Soirée au MIA upoaded by Minneapolis Institute of of Arts —– Check out their calendar of events

I think this next item is really cool, Bob Collins and Mary Lucia have put their 5:15 segment online. I know with many folk Bob and Mary can inspire a love’em or hate’em situation, well you can put me in the love’em camp.
MPR News Cut: Fresh Eye on the Radio
Give it a listen.

*Update*Speaking of MPR,if you haven’t seen David Brauer’s, of Minnpost, piece on MPR Executive Pay check it out, especially the comments.

While Secrets of the City has art The Affair
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scandalOnline Protest Promotes Viewer Interaction

Citypages trys to help out Snoop, who was in town last night, with Advice for Snoop Dogg on getting high in the Twin Cities

My only advice to the Snoop Dogg would be don’t exhale, but I’ll bet he knows that already.

Since Crazy stays crazy

I’ll close it out with: Smart went crazy

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Because there’s no important work in Washington D.C.

In myth and legend there’s a magical place East of Minnesota where lawyers go to bask in the glow of happy unicorns. This amazing fabled land is called D.C. and it’s a land of great wealth and everyday is sunny, also everyone gets a balloon when they leave their apartment in the morning and magical faeries called lobbyists sprinkle pixie dust on important government representatives. Oh, and even the most moral get their fill of hookers.

It’s a magical realm,but even with all this glory and happiness it can be a sad land. You see, there just aren’t enough real issues to be legislated. So the important government representatives have to occasionally shake off their hookers, wipe the pixie dust from their clothes, and have a congressional hearing.

The pioneerpress reports House subcommittee chairman: We’re here to help NFL, Vikings’ Kevin and Pat Williams resolve differences

‘It is in all of our best interests for these parties to reach an agreement on this enormously important matter.”

Isn’t that nice? Those important lawmakers want to help those big fat rich men get along with their big fat rich bosses.

Thank God, there isn’t a war going on, or an economy that is in shambles, or a kitten caught in a tree.

It’d be terrible if our esteemed Representatives were to get distracted from the important business of the NFL.

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Should Minnesota Lower the Drinking Age?

Here’s a post with two polls that may or may not be related. I know my own opinions, but I’m really curious about what you think.

Should Minnesota Lower it’s Drinking Age?

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Should the University of Minnesota allow alcohol sales at events?

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Corn Ethanol Fails Again

The strib reports MPCA hits Minn. ethanol producer with $425k penalty

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) said today that the violations by Bushmills Ethanol Inc. of Atwater stretched from 2006 to 2009. They included producing ethanol beyond the facility’s permitted capacity, failure to inspect and maintain production and pollution-control equipment, and exceeding allowable wastewater discharge limits.

Because of Bushmill’s violations, the MPCA said in a statement, the cooperative of more than 400 farmers “created a situation where the facility could potentially emit more regulated air pollutants than allowed by its permit.”

I just want to know when we start to get holding the flaks, that push the BS as “green”, responsible for the damage?

This line really strikes me as interesting “could potentially emit more regulated air pollutants than allowed by its permit”

Hmmm, if only Minnesota had a group that was constantly harping about any air pollutants being bad air pollutants.

… that is if only they weren’t in bed with the Minnesota Corn Growers Association. . .

Well then try this on for size

MIA Wallpaper: Doryphoros

Image uploaded by Minneapolis Institure o Farts errr misread that Minneapolis Institure of Arts

The Doryphoros
120-50 B.C.
Pentelic marble
78 x 19 x 19 in. (198.12 x 48.26 x 48.26 cm)
Greece, Europe
The John R. Van Derlip Fund and Gift of funds from Bruce B. Dayton
86.6
On view at the MIA

HOW To Install Wallpaper on Your iPhone:
1. In Flickr, go to the screen that gives you the option for ‘medium’ or ‘original image’ sizes. Click ‘Original Size’
2. Tap and hold your finger on the image. When you see a pop-up box, choose ‘Save Image’
3. Go to your iPhone’s Camera Roll, choose the photo, tap the Action icon, then tap ‘Use As Wallpaper’

[Ok, I'll grow up now]

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NWA Flight Misses MSP by 150 miles.

Bob Collins breaks the story

And a few moments ago, the National Transportation Safety Board issued a news release detailing a puzzling lapse by a Northwest Airlines flight crew over Minneapolis yesterday: On Wednesday, October 21, 2009, at 5:56 pm mountain daylight time, an Airbus A320, N03274, operating as Northwest Airlines (NWA) flight 188, became a NORDO (no radio communications) flight at 37,000 feet.

The flight was operating as a Part 121 flight from San Diego International Airport, San Diego, California (SAN) to MSP with 147 passengers and unknown number of crew.

At 7:58 pm central daylight time (CDT), the aircraft flew over the destination airport and continued northeast for approximately 150 miles. The MSP center controller reestablished communications with the crew at 8:14 pm and reportedly stated that the crew had become distracted and had overflown MSP, and requested to return to MSP.

Now, we could wait for a rational or reasonable explanation OR we could speculate wildy.

I think you know which I prefer.

Why did the NWA flight miss the airport?

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A Bob Dylan Christmas Album

Last night, there I was minding my own business when suddenly I was accosted by Bob Dylan and Christmas songs.

WHAT?!

Why?

Bob Collins has the scoop and a few sample songs with Ho ho ho! It’s… Bob Dylan?

Here’s my favorite comment

Matt in Woodbury: “Dylan sounds like a dying walrus that got kicked out of his boys’ choir. This album is worse than snow in October.”

Give it a listen. What do you think?

More from MPR

Best Local Commercial?

Huffpost is running a contest for  The Best Local TV Ads (VIDEO, POLL) and they want to know what we think is the best (worst?) local ad in our market.

Low-budget TV ads, like a great regional wine, just have something unique and all their own. Inspired by Rhett and Link, we decided to compile a list of some of the best local TV ads ever. We’ve com awesomely bad local classics stick in our brain for decades…
But, to finish the list, we need your help. If you’ve got a favorite local TV ad from your area, let us know!. Email us at HuffPostbiz-At-Gmail-Dot-Com with a YouTube link to your favorite awesomely low-budget and a short description of why you think its great

So what do you think, what’s the best local tv ad?

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Saint Paul Art Crawl – Fall 2009

It’s that time again, the most wonderful time of the year,The Saint Paul Art Crawl!

The Eastside Review reports this year has more events.

• Performers Venue: Performers in a wide variety of styles, from the Irish Uilleann pipes to classical piano, folk guitar to spoken word, bluegrass and jazz, will be performing short samples of their talents at Studio Z in the Northwestern Building, on Oct. 9 from 6:30 to 10 p.m. and Oct. 10 from 1 to 5 p.m.

• Paint Along with Tacoumba: Everyone is invited to the Union Depot lawn, rain or shine, to participate in the first public art piece featured in the Art Crawl. Artist Tacoumba Aitken will have paints and canvas available for visitors to help paint. Times: Oct. 10, 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. and Oct. 11, 12:30 to 4:30 p.m.

• Art Vending Machine – get an original piece of art for only $5. “Little gems” cigarette pack-sized art will be loaded in a re-purposed antique cigarette vending machine. This is open during most of the Art Crawl in the Northern Warehouse lobby, outside of the Black Dog Cafe.

Free bus transportation (disability accessible) is available to carry visitors to the various buildings and from some of the parking lots. Use lots on Kellogg and Broadway, or off of Prince Street. There is also parking by the Rossmor Building, the Everest/Hamm Building, and other lots throughout the city.

Who’s in?

Dm me on The Twitters

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First Avenue Gets The Shaft.

The strib reports it’s now First Ave (the club) vs. 1st Avenue (the street)

In their efforts to make more downtown commuters stop, shop and roll out their dollar bills, city leaders have created a major speed bump for Minneapolis’ best known and most bustling nightlife landmark.

The new and inarguably confusing street layout — with bike lanes nearest the curb, and parking spaces nearer the middle of the street — wipes out First Ave’s load-in area. Bands will have to park their buses and trailers a block away and around the corner on 8th Street. So will all the beer trucks and other suppliers. In the new configuration, they would be blocking a bike lane, metered spaces and probably some of that one new lane of traffic going north.

A block might not sound like that far of a jaunt. But can you imagine lugging 10 cases of Summit beer, a $10,000 soundboard, a $15,000 case of guitars or the entire Wu-Tang Clan herbal supply that far through the snow and ice in February?

A couple of things,
1) Bike lanes along the curb between the curb and car parking sounds pretty dangerous.
2) “Wu-Tang Clan herbal supply ” – Is this a weed reference? Does the Clan have so much weed it can’t be carried a block?
3) Is there anything Lisa Goodman can’t mess up?
4) This is an attempt to “be more European”, but how European can we really be? The set up of this country is really different than Europe.

Thoughts?

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