Joe Mitchell

I went to the Hickory Nut Gap farm 20 minutes out of town if you want to stick with the fun name theme, I think it wasn’t much to write home about but a nice stop on a drive to see mountain scenery

The river is called the French Broad. This isn’t a recommendation but it is a fun fact

You should never be venmoing people for anything less than $20. If you bought someone a beer, they owe you a beer, they don't owe you money, or you just like them enough to give them a beer

You don't have to swallow frogs Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.

I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.

Sean McPherson is a great local music person, and he left his gig at Jazz88 to lead or co-lead
the new citycast thing. I assume public radio cuts may have impacted that decision but I enjoy Sean and trust that anything under his direction will be good.

Cloud Devotee

Utah's Dixie - Wikipedia

it’s not great
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They had a pitcher named Grant Balfour which seems like the 🐐 in this category to me

It would be more honest if more people would say "I am doing OK amidst the horrors being suffered by others." It's actually not true that everything is terrible for everyone right now. We're living under unequally distributed fascism.

My opinion: Basically E-W where Lake and Lagoon are split, and 26th-36th N-S. I think this is anodyne enough that I won't be cancelled for it??

They have made this convention last eleven hours with exactly one vote taken. Might be high attrition even as I acknowledge it’s always like this.

Good news! They just told the person ahead of me in line that they’re out of the vegan walking tacos so this won’t happen again

Folks, we're changing the word from "gloomy" to "moogly" effective immediately. We'll evaluate in 2027 and determine if the word should revert to "gloomy" or if we'll keep "moogly."

it feels old fashioned but i am a genuine believer in integration!

Resisting an urge to call out to the other passengers to tell them to appreciate this blessing from the Metro Transit divinities

Riding a brand new bus on the D line this morning; it’s so lovely to feel the crisp dimples on the seat cushions

Just walkmogged some waitcucks at a traffic light’s pedestrian crossing. Enjoy the cold, dears - I’ll be over here, fifteen steps ahead of you and in touch with my city’s heartbeat

No it makes sense the way it is

From the PrinceVault dot com website entry for "When You Were Mine": While specific recording dates are not known, the album sessions took place from May to June 1980, in Prince's North Arm Drive Home Studio in Orono, Minnesota (credited as "Somewhere in Uptown"), and completed in June 1980 at Hollywood Sound Recorders & in Los Angeles, California.

Prince was the original "radically redefine the boundaries of Uptown Minneapolis" guy

Extremely cool!!!

I think these are MNDOT fences and sidewalks

Babysitter night to howl with @abbricot.bsky.social !!! 🐺

If you’re willing to get fancy/expensive, the food at Mint Mark was incredible.

Most Minnesotan thing ever is a complaint from a neighbor that the guy in front of him is standing up in the fourth quarter of a closeout game

Cousin @ellieeeeeeeee.bsky.social and I know that it’s Wolves in 5. #AWOOOOOO

Curt Autry 1d Follow THIS CARDINAL celebrates both Mother's & Father's Day. It has a rare genetic mutation called gynandromorphism, causing it to have male plumage on one side of its body and female on the other. Birds like this have both an ovary and a testis. #fliesbothways

Conclave (2024)

I absolutely love this bit, thank you

A sketch of a can with a bird on it

Weed seltzer? No thanks, I’d rather have this can ibis

🎵Love that chicken from POPENO🎵

For this window between Francis’s death and the white smoke at the end of the conclave, I believe the chicken restaurant should rename themselves POPENO instead of POPEYES