June 2011
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Day 19: “Inside My Head.” Not a...
May 2011
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“It’s one of the most persistent and most vexing problems with our...”
– Freddie deBoer, “non-rhetorical questions and out of control abstraction”
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Day 18: “Intergalactic Cigarette...
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Day 17: Improvised organ melody, with a little...
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Day 16: Just kind of laid-back. I think this is...
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Cityscape: Vikings stadium expects to seek... →
Steve Berg: “Perhaps Target Field’s greatest innovation was its use of existing infrastructure. The Twins were interested in capitalizing on public investments already made in roadways, parking ramps, a bike trail, a bus station and rail transit. In contrast, the Vikings want the public to pay extra for roads that wouldn’t need to be expanded but for the stadium project.”
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Day 15: I was multitracking keyboards and I felt...
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MN Arts Count →
If you “engage in, support, or facilitate creative expression in Minnesota,” as an individual or an organization, please take this five-minute survey for the Minnesota State Arts Board… before the deadline next Tuesday.
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Day 14: Practice for Kate’s midnight puppet...
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“[T]he cleanliness of your electricity determines how eco-friendly it would be to...”
– Why Electric Cars Are Cleaner - Green Transportation - MOTHER EARTH NEWS
Duly noted, though I presume if I primarily charge the car at home and I’m on Xcel Energy’s Windsource program that would make my electric car cleaner. (via swirlspice)
This is actually a key benefit of electric cars: they...
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Day 13: Excerpt from accordion practice for our...
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“I wanted to make it easier for people to pull into Apex on a whim when they were...”
– Bar owner Jesse McCann, one of several Portland businesses that have started offering loaner locks to customers.
(via StreetsBlog)
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Day 12: Before I got started today I was listening...
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Lois Lane, Girl Reporter
deantrippe:
Here are some notes and images from Lois Lane, Girl Reporter, a pitch for a series of illustrated young adult novels I worked on a few years ago for DC Comics.
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Day 11: Back to computer music after a few days...
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Day 10: A quiet contemplation at the fake electric...
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Brain-eating Parasitic Worms No Cause for Alarm →
Actual headline from China’s Global Times.
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Day 9: Accordion improvisation, recorded at The...
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Day 8: “Discordion.” I meant to try to...
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Senate Republicans attempt to repeal reality →
mnpublius:
[A]fter slashing funding for higher education, Senate Republicans decreed that public universities may not make up for the losses by raising tuition:
Under the measure, which faces a possible veto by Gov. Mark Dayton, a DFLer, the state’s two-year colleges would have tuition increases capped at three percent annually. Tuition increases at the University of Minnesota and other...
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Diverse Community Outreach Leaders:... →
“E-Democracy.org is hiring a number of focused part-time one to two month contract outreach positions over the summer in 2011 to specifically recruit diverse community participation across our Neighbors Issues Forums across St. Paul and Minneapolis.
“Do you care passionately about building community? Do you believe in inclusion and raising diverse voices? If yes, then join our...
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Day 7: I wanted to build something on the slogan...
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The politics of constitutional amendments: Lessons... →
Interesting: Noncitizens could vote in Minnesota, until 1896. That’s the only year Minnesotans have ever voted to limit voting rights. (We’ve voted five times to expand them.) Hope that trend continues.
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Mobilizing for Gay Rights: Rally Time Updated to... →
I went to about half an hour of this. It was all sign-waving and slogan-chanting, which is about what you’d expect. Other things you might expect:
The House postponed the vote, I’m guessing in reaction to the rally. When I checked the screens they were talking about cannabis. But not, like, in a stoned way.
Supporters of marriage equality handily outnumbered opponents (but I...
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Day 6: “The Old College Try.” Piano...
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Mobilizing for Gay Rights: Breaking News on House... →
mnpublius:
OutFront Minnesota has updated their website to say that the Minnesota House of Representatives will be taking the anti-gay marriage amendment up for a vote tomorrow. There is a rally planned at the Capitol at 10am. RSVP here on Facebook. A message from OutFront:
Now is the time for action. Contact your representative. If you’ve already contacted your representative, contact them...
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More electronica. The title is...
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Making the Band: Chris Kallmyer composes music for... →
They’re looking for volunteers at all levels to play brass, piccolo, and percussion. “The site specific performance will take place on the Stone Arch Bridge, stretching across the Mississippi playing overlapping melodies derived from the route of the river.”
Northern Spark is a “participatory art event,” June 4-5 from dusk to dawn in Minneapolis and Saint Paul....
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Today’s music is another electronic piece....
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Today's adventure: bike to the suburbs!
I was surprised when I asked Google how to get to the Apple Store and it thought I wanted the one in Roseville. “But I live in Minneapolis!” I said to Google. “My Apple Store is in Uptown!” Google insists I live almost exactly the same distance from each, and as I looked at the map, Roseville began to seem thrillingly exotic. I go to Uptown all the time, but I’ve...
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Volunteer Opportunities for Better Biking →
The Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition is looking for volunteers for Open Streets Minneapolis, a June 12 Ciclovía-style event which will see Lyndale Ave S. closed to car traffic (and open to people traffic!) from 42nd St. to the Wedge Co-op. They need help both on the day of the event and beforehand.
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Last year I started #30daysofbiking in...
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Yesterday’s was all electronic, so...
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“These are the kinds of people who get eaten by bears.”
– An anonymous Obama administration official, in response to Republicans who don’t believe that refusing to raise the debt ceiling would be catastrophic.
(via mnpublius)
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Inspired by Kate’s monster and saw projects,...
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Predictable Bicycle Tragedy Points to Need for New... →
Bill Lindeke: “Whose bright idea was it to create 3-lane one-way streets where cars are encouraged to drive 40+ miles per hour right through Dinkytown, just feet from fraternity row, right in the middle of the most highly-trafficked pedestrian environment in the whole city where you have thousands of college kids wandering around wearing iPods and flirting and playing frisbee and drinking...
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Same-sex marriage in Minnesota: Your turn to speak... →
boomd:
minnpost:
There are few more bedrock issues in our lives than whom we choose to love and marry. We’ve heard plenty from lawmakers in media coverage of the same-sex marriage ban; now it’s your turn.
Share your thoughts over at Jeff’s post, linked above, reply to this post, or reblog with your take. Let’s move past the vitriolic rhetoric and lift up the voices of Minnesota citizens — and...
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Hennepin County Library - Bookspace - Music →
This is kind of cool, kind of. Hennepin County Library patrons can download three MP3s a week from Sony’s catalog - no DRM, no strings attached. You could get a lot more songs by borrowing CDs and ripping them, but this is nice for people who want free music without violating copyright laws.
The local Top 10 is currently dominated by Adele and Glee, although not as much so as the national...