Chris Steller

Anyone have any experience in dealing with a subscription bombing attack?

Focusing on the ‘PR’ in ‘NPR’

My Cute Onion

Just have the Safeway CEO read grocery prices for five minutes, I guess

Do not do this, @npr.org

Love 2 hear Christie’s auction house manager on NPR News reading auction house ad copy

Pie tin holds three vintage porcelain dolls, three cap guns, three tiny plastic groomsmen, three tiny plastic bridesmaids in blue ball gowns, a small plastic bride in a while ball gown, four small plastic babies, and a strand of pearls.

Today's haul looks like a recipe for a Dateline episode

HMO:MCO::STD:STI
is my little mnemonic

Managed health care organizations left out of Minnesota's review of Medicaid spending

Less zoomed-in image if you need help as I did

The Minnesota Star Tribune. MONDAY, MARCH 9, 2026. State's fraud analysis omits MCOS.

It’s a tough morning after DST for most people, but it’s a great morning for newspaper readers who know what MCOs are

It might, hard to say these days.

Monday Mornin' Comin' Down

Dumb time change.

Yazd, in Iran.

A city of courtyards

An urban form that responds to harsh hot summers, and cold dry winters

3:10 to Yuma (bus replacement service)

YouTube video by SoulAsylumVEVO Soul Asylum - Black Gold (Official HD Video)

youtu.be/KpiFDrFEGvE

From experience, that's a pain in the ass shot to try and make even in a regular curling match, let alone trying to get it to /move/ like that without sweepers helping. Well done.

looks like we're in for our 503rd consecutive Extremely Normal Week

I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a movie that turned on the assassination of a board member before

You *will* understand the opening montage of The Rockford Files

Saw Hudson Freeman at the Entry tonight. Definitely a “this guy is about to blow up” vibe. I’d describe his sound as Elliott Smith-like with just a pinch of Built to Spill. I’m not usually ahead of the trends like this. Shout out to the always locked in @solace.bsky.social for turning me on to him.

Thank you.

Mackintosh

… I think that makes “Rhythm Nation 1814” roughly the midpoint

Might go fill the tank.

Chart showing price increases

⚠️ Holy shit:

Oil now approaching $120

I’m enjoying just going with it

The Minneapolis Sound then peaks in 1987 with “Sign O’ The Times”

The Sounds of Settlement. The long fetch of the Minneapolis Sound began in August 1678. Father Louis Hennepin, a Belgian priest, and his party were traveling up the Mississippi, looking for the Northwest Passage, when they encountered two Native …

I’m not sure everyone realizes the new Prince book traces the “Minneapolis Sound” back to 1678.