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Songs, stories, poems. Books, bands, baseball, breakfast. New album Blueprint for a Ghost out now on Pig’s Eye Records. St. Paul, MN https://linktr.ee/martindevaney?utm_source=linktree_admin_share

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Volume 14: Illumination (2025) Volume 14 is filled with thought-provoking and moving works by memoirists Sherry Quan Lee and Hedy Tripp; poets Stephani Maari Booker, Donna Isaac, John Medeiros, and Debra Stone…

This Thursday is also the launch party for this year’s St. Paul Almanac, in which I’m honored to have a poem published!

saintpaulalmanac.org/projects/the...

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This Third Thursday with Emmy Woods! 6-8, no cover, cozy.

13.10.2025 14:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’d read this story.

12.10.2025 19:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sounds of Schmidt Art Crawl - The White Squirrel Bar 1:00pm: Filthy Kittens 2:00pm: Sam Graber Band 3:00pm: J-mo on the Beat & The J-Lighters 4:00pm: Emma Jane 5:00pm: Devotion 6:00pm: Scarlett Woods 7:00pm: Casandra Johnson…

Said festival: whitesquirrelbar.com/event/schmid...

12.10.2025 17:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pop-up art crawl festival today at White Squirrel! Bands all day and night, market in the parking lot 2-7. Planning on anecdote being set up for it all, pending that rain…

12.10.2025 17:24 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yes, this is a positive development. Cautiously optimistic, etc. Sorry if it seemed Soucheray-ish. Hadn’t had coffee, been sick, many conversations lately about this, downtown, and the upcoming mayoral race, which…a lotta thoughts.

12.10.2025 16:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Completely true. I won’t turn a blind eye to that. But I just had an exhausting wave of Deja Vu there for a minute. I’m psyched there’s movement.

12.10.2025 15:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sounds great! But…this sounds like several articles that came out before or around the time the stadium opened. Six years ago.

12.10.2025 15:00 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Got my flu/covid vaccines yesterday, had a bit of a reaction, fell asleep at the beginning of the baseball game and woke up at almost midnight in the 14th inning. Very confused.

11.10.2025 13:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

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Blog/News October means art crawls and MEA Two October events starting with this weekend at the White Squirrel parking lot on Sunday 10/12 as part of the Sounds of Schmidt/Schmidt Art Crawl. We’ll be o…

New blog and events up for anecdote:

anecdotebooksstp.com/blog/

09.10.2025 13:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Technically have never seen Grandaddy and man, was Sumday a foundational record. Tonight will be cool.

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This is…most disappointing.

05.10.2025 14:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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And so begins Nebraska month.

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White Squirrel today until 7!

30.09.2025 21:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Just added another anecdote sale for next week at the White Squirrel patio:

25.09.2025 16:54 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1

Come browse books for your happy hour…

30.09.2025 18:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’

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Blog/News Brake Bread, Back Pocket, and upcoming sales… We had our first sale at Brake Bread a few weeks back and had such a great time that we’ll be back for an event on October 18th for MEA wee…

New bloggo up about events and stuff. Check it out if you’re one of them bookish types.

anecdotebooksstp.com/blog/

26.09.2025 21:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Here are the buddies at Brake Bread a few weeks back:

26.09.2025 01:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Just added another anecdote sale for next week at the White Squirrel patio:

25.09.2025 16:54 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1

the ghost runner in meaningful September extra inning games is like someone pouring an entire bottle of ketchup on a delicious steak

25.09.2025 01:30 — 👍 43    🔁 7    💬 5    📌 4
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Family Dinner w. Doug & Sarah - The White Squirrel Bar

Playing a short guest set tonight at Sarah Morris and Doug Collins’ Family Dinner show. Also with Faith Boblett! 6pm music:

whitesquirrelbar.com/event/family...

24.09.2025 14:13 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Next anecdote books pop-up is this Sunday, back at JS Coffee 10-2. I’ll presumably have PA on the radio from Ireland, yelling about the Vikings…

24.09.2025 18:23 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Family Dinner w. Doug & Sarah - The White Squirrel Bar

Playing a short guest set tonight at Sarah Morris and Doug Collins’ Family Dinner show. Also with Faith Boblett! 6pm music:

whitesquirrelbar.com/event/family...

24.09.2025 14:13 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

A friend has to run sound for this event and is appropriately livid.

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Follow up:

22.09.2025 17:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A good list. A few things that took me large swaths of time to learn…

22.09.2025 02:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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The story of a dog that hadn’t seen me in 24 brutal hours in which he spent time at his second residence with his two caretakers and his two beds and more treats than normal.

22.09.2025 00:46 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Including myself and one other guy wearing a Palmer’s shirt, also have seen Triple Rock and 400 Bar shirts at Farm Aid. Oh, West Bank.

21.09.2025 00:27 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

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