Archive for the ‘Minnesota Pride’ Category

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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Halloween is gone, but not forgotten.

Shame Sombrero

“the sombrero is for anyone who doesn’t show up in costume.”

Image uploaded by The Queen of Subtle

Sadly I missed Q.O.S.’s Halloween party, but it sounds like everyone had a blast.

I did take the kids out (one was a ladybug and the other a goldfish, the wife was Little Bo Peep) and then we handed out candy.

Also, I made a scary 30 second video with my cameraphone to terrify the wife.

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Between groups of kids arriving the Ladybug and I would walk around the street in front of my house. I’d drag my leg through the leaves and clink the machete against the road. Several kids stuttered out a “ya..ya…You’re really scary” as they they tenatively held out their bag for candy.

What did you do for Halloween? Was your costume horrifying?

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Even More New Authors!

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Lake Harriet Bandshell uploaded by cichlee {novella}

Just the other day I was contemplating, much like the above image, about bringing on even more authors.

Unlike the beautiful image above I wasn’t enjoying the serene beauty of our lakes, I was being tossed out of a car at 50mph for not paying a debt in a timely fashion. ( Grandmas, what are you going to do right? )

That’s when it hit me, the road. Just kidding, it was the car behind us. No really, I think it was Bob Dylan on a motorscooter.

I digress.

What I really mean to say is more awesome writers!

Jon will be covering local outdoors, biking, and whatever else catches his interest.

Meghan likes to write about music and set things on fire. She can actually burn down a rock pile with just an ice cube and flynt.

And last to the party will be, Kara who will be starting mid-November and is going to take up the helm of fashion and intrigue . You may know Kara from MnDaily where she’s been rocking the fashion scene.

Please treat the new authors right, they are friendly, but armed and extremely dangerous.

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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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New Authors!

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(photo Uploaded on September 15, 2009 by Opheliac9 )

This weekend while in a powermad rage fueled by ether and wild animal phermones I had most of the old Metblogs authors purged from the site.

BWAHAHAHAHAAA MUahhAAAAAA HA!

I would have also had them sent to Siberia, but upon consutling my Counsel it appears I do not have the authority to banish. Yet.

That said, I’d like to thank them for all their interesting contributions and hard work and perhaps we’ll again share a space in the Internets. (or Siberia)

Now, once again, I am recruiting authors. If you’re interested or know of someone that would be a good fit, shoot me a DM me on Twitter, email The Tempestlargo @ yahoo .com, or for a good time call . . .

Lastly, but certainly not leastly, I’d like to welcome new authors Ashley and Twodolla.

Twodolla aka Wendy has actually written for Metblogs in the past while Ashley says she’s up to the challenge and promises to keep the extreme drinking and petty thievery to a minimum.

I’m looking forward to both of their posts.

By the way, has anyone seen my wallet?

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It’s Saturday so get your get-going got-on.

I’ve been outside all morning and I can tell you it’s going to be a great day in the T.C.

Need something to do?
Check out this video TwinkieJiggles sent me in the middle of the night.
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Need a little more to do? Go follow to Public Media Camp or just check the Twit feed #PubCamp. Via @juliaschrenkler

Dollar, dollar bill. Ya’ll

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Minnesota Flickr groups to watch right now

Citypages rounds up the top twelve Minnesota Flickr groups to watch and Metblogs makes the list.

Twin Cities (2,049 Members)
Minnesota Marvels (710 members)

Minneapolis Photo Mob (633 members)
Everything Minnesota (493 members)
Greater Minnesota (461 members)
Minnesota Thunderstorms (215 members)
Minnesota Music (164 members)
Minnesota Twins (129 members)
Minnesota Vikings (53 members)
Minnesota Timberwolves (tagged only — no T-Wolves group!)

Thanks to everyone that posts to our group! Keep the pics coming.

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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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Just Another Music Friday – 10/02/09

Local Rapper P.O.S. is on tour and yesterday he maked MTV’s BuzzworthyThe Buzz On: P.O.S.

VIA

Check him out when he rolls through your town or hit him up on The Twitters.

Here’s one of my favorite P.O.S. songs “P.O.S. is ruining my life”
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Share in the bounty of Jason DeRusha Day

Thanks to the power of social media, WCCO reporter Jason DeRusha is getting his own official day this Monday, September 21…

I made this poster to help promote it…
Jason DeRusha Day, September 21, 2009

Get the poster here.

Print if off. Put it up at work. Post it in the hallways. Then be sure to TwitPic yourself holding it with the #derushaday hashtag.

You know, just spread the love!

UPDATE:
@sloped is auctioning off the “original” DeRusha Day poster on eBay.

There’s a party tonight (Monday, Sept. 21) at Om. Details here.

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