Slapdash: Archive

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“She has not been effective. Her record is nonexistent. She hasn’t been the...”

– Congressional candidate Jim Graves, responding to a question about Michele Bachmann’s legislative record. To recap: what record?

May 31st

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May 26th

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This Saturday is the third and last performance of Savannah Reich’s Us with Moustaches: A Performance Manifesto. It’s a play about six performers who decide to take their art seriously. It’s very funny. If in Minneapolis, I recommend you cancel your other plans and see this instead.

May 12th

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MNpublius: Senate gives Vikings a sweetheart deal →

mnpublius: The State Senate approved the Vikings stadium last night, making its final passage all but certain. In the process, they eliminated certain provisions in the House bill that made the deal at least palatable. The Senate’s version of the Vikings bill is a sweetheart deal for the Vikings and billionaire Zygi Wilf. A few of the differences include: Kind of revolting, watching the...

May 9th

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May 6th

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May 5th

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“It’s like a weird competition all women are participating in, where no one...”

– Erin Gibson on recent media coverage of women in comedy, and how they look. (via citizen kerry)

May 4th

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May 3rd

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May 2nd

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Notes from an Occupation 17: Dolores Park "Ruckus" →

scottrossi: I’m not one of those tin foil hat conspiracy theorists, I don’t subscribe to those theories that Queen Elizabeth’s Reptilian slave driver masters run the Fed. I’ve read up on agent provocateurs and plants and that sort of thing and I have to say that without a doubt, I believe 100% that the people that started tonight’s events in the Mission were exactly that. OccupySF event...

May 1st

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May 1st

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Apr 30th

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Apr 29th

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Apr 28th

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Apr 27th

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Apr 26th

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Apr 25th

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Next Open Streets event: Sunday, June 10th →

From the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition: Following the inaugural Open Streets event in June of 2011, we are pleased to announce that Minneapolis residents will have another opportunity to explore and enjoy their neighborhood streets without the presence of motorized traffic on June 10th, 2012. Open Streets events bring together families and neighbors to bike, walk, socialize, play and shop in...

Apr 24th

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Walker's Spoonbridge sculpture already restored... →

I hope this post also gets 2000 reblogs, saying things like “I don’t hate everyone anymore,” and “THANKS TO SOAP AND WATER I NO LONGER HAVE TO HUNT YOU DOWN AND KILL YOU,” and “I AM SO BASICALLY OKAY RIGHT NOW.”

Apr 24th

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The top five reasons to donate to Fresh Energy... →

Fresh Energy is a policy organization that is working to pry Minnesota off of fossil fuels - something we need to do. Today only, small donations will be tripled by anonymous donors. So if you’ve got ten bucks to spare, kick it in over here and watch it turn into $30. Magic! Update: Every $10-50 donation today is doubled. To triple it, you need to share it on Facebook or Twitter. See...

Apr 24th

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Watch

Hanson, “Thinking ‘Bout Somethin’” I just really like this video, from Weird Al in the background to the freeze frame at the end, with a smiling, dancing street crowd in between.

Apr 23rd

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“The role of the police officer is to protect and to serve every person who is in...”

– Mayor R.T. Rybak, explaining a city ordinance that the legislature is now trying to kill.

Apr 22nd

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MSPIFF #4

Natural Selection: Conservative Christian on a road trip with her dying husband’s secret junkie son. Really good. Compliance: What will people do if they think they’re being told to do it by the police? Bad things. The Girls in the Band: Women in jazz, from the swing era on. Recommended if you like women or music or humans. Details.

Apr 22nd

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Apr 21st

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(This post and this post showed up right next to each other on my dashboard. Well done, Hannah and Ben.)

Apr 21st

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MSPIFF #3

New Skin for the Old Ceremony: New videos for old Leonard Cohen songs. My main takeaway: that’s a great-sounding recording! Keyhole: Guy Maddin’s surreal haunted house gangster Odyssey. Spellbinding; like a cross between Fritz Lang and a less commercially-oriented David Lynch. God Bless America: I didn’t see this, but I caught some of the Q&A. Bobcat Goldthwait seems like a...

Apr 20th

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MSPIFF #2

Tales of the Night: Animated fairy tales. Pretty, sometimes, but vacant. Father’s Chair: Road trip to find a runaway son. Thoughtful, moving. A Trip to the Moon: Méliès in color, plus a documentary. The gags still work! Tahrir 2011: 3 short docs on Egypt’s uprising. Best: watching cops talk about how they saw it. Brooklyn Castle: A Brooklyn public school’s world-class chess...

Apr 19th

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Apr 18th

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Apr 18th

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Apr 17th

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“Twenty-eight female delegates that year [1976] did sign a “minority report...”

– Sarah Kliff, “How the Republican party became pro-life”

Apr 16th

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“The only instructor I had were Beatles records. For some reason I made a point...”

– M. Ward (via Barry)

Apr 15th

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“I am so pleased that I’ll be back in the game—not just to be back in the game,...”

– Twin Cities news legend Don Shelby on his new job, at a web site where articles from real news organizations are intermingled with press releases masquerading as “sponsored content.”

Apr 14th

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MSPIFF #1

This Is My Land: Hebron: Israeli settlements. Well made, hard to watch. Hope: Noir comedy about a vigilante guidance counselor. Very funny, mostly. V/H/S: Lo-fi horror anthology. Creative and crafty, but my least favorite genre. Details.

Apr 14th

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RailsBridge is coming to JRubyConf! →

JRubyConf is hosting “a free, two-day outreach event targeted at women who want to learn to program…. We will be taking you through every step in the process of deploying a Ruby on Rails application. Men are invited as guests of women attending.” So if you’re a woman who wants to learn to develop web apps, or if you know one, this is a good opportunity. They’re also...

Apr 13th

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