Casey Darnell

Walgreens seems hellbent on creating the worst customer experience possible at the Uptown Minneapolis location

Pitchfork reader score off to a great start 🫠

The new-ish Metro Transit route 17 buses have charging ports 🥳

Weren’t you on the clock

Today’s transitmaxxing adventure in Minneapolis:

• 17 bus 🚌 from the Wedge to Northeast Mpls
•🚶to Marty’s deli 🥪
• 🚶 back to stop, 17 🚌 to downtown
• Transfer to Blue Line train 🚊 to the Mall of America
• Blue Line 🚊 back downtown
• Transfer to E line BRT 🚌 back to the Wedge

Why is this Minneapolis 311 form stuck in 2010 UI/UX hell

I reached a new high of pettiness today: Reporting the city of Minneapolis to its own 311 form for failure to remove snow/ice on its sidewalks along Mueller Park

Man next to me on plane is licking his fingers

Where’s a Minneapolitan to scream in the winter without a car? Looking for winter screaming locations

That awful “You’re 60 she’s 30” ad in downtown Minneapolis (8th St and 3rd Ave) has been replaced with something much more wholesome

Boo to hostile architecture, anti-homeless benches at new Metro Transit E Line bus shelters in Minneapolis 👎

There was a trio of Chris Evans movies playing on my flight: Me watching Materialists and then two people watching Gifted and Knives Out in the row in front of me. What % of the Delta movie selection stares Chris Evans

Maybe our global tech infrastructure shouldn’t be so reliant on a single company…

I didn’t know the Minneapolis Convention Center’s auditorium looks like this, that’s crazy

Marty’s Deli needs to stop creating beautiful sweet treats that tempt me so viciously

Chicago in the summertime is so tantalizing

This is my take on where Uptown is, though I accidentally cut off the area around the Bde Maka Ska pavilion on the east side of the lake.

I live by the Uptown Diner. I think I live in the Wedge/Lowry Hill East but I tell people I live in Uptown if they look confused

This news headline from 2021 lives rent free in my mind; “In hospital room, a CNY mom says goodbye to her teen who loved cars and couldn’t outrace Covid”

Walking Minneapolis, from top to bottom We trekked (almost) the vertical length of the city, a novel way to experience the place you live. Just be sure to pack a rain jacket.

We tried the Minneapolis 'Broad City' challenge, aka walking across the city from the top to the bottom that's trending on TikTok. I loved seeing 12 miles of the city on foot, despite the rain! Would you try it? @startribune.com www.startribune.com/how-to-walk-...

They can’t keep getting away with this

“I always tell the kids, ‘So when you see pigeons on the sidewalk, or in a playground, remember that some of these birds have the blood of heroes in their veins.’ ”

“He arrived wounded through the breast, and with his right foot nearly severed but the tube still attached. The message was read, the artillery corrected, and the shells stopped hitting the men of the 77th and started hitting the Germans.”

Pity the Barefoot Pigeon Bumblefoot, string-foot, and falcons are just a few of the hazards that New York’s birds have to brave.

The pigeon Cher Ami supposedly saved the encircled unit of more than six hundred men later known as the Lost Battalion, who were part of the 77th Division of the U.S. Army during WWII.

I’m cooking for one person and Aldi has me feeling like the subject of an elementary school math problem.

“Johnny has 7 lemons and 6 onions. How many soups of 2 lemons and 1.5 onions can he make?”

The Young Pope - Wikipedia

I'm calling it. The next papal streaming obsession: "The Young Pope" starring Jude Law as a very naughty American pope

“Las Vegas didn't have a single inventor, but several individuals and events contributed to its development. Moe Greene is credited with the idea of building a city as a desert stopover for soldiers. Bugsy Siegel played a significant role in building the Las Vegas Strip”

Google’s AI overview is presenting fictional lore from The Godfather as real history. Moe Greene is a fictional character lol

W 25th St and Humboldt

The Minneapolis tulip house is back in bloom 🌷

Xcel Energy Center exterior superimposed with the Portillo's logo, plus Chicago-style hotdogs, Italian beef sandwich and chocolate cake

My offering for the new Xcel Energy Center naming rights: the Portillo's Center or alternatively, the Portillo's Glizzy Superdome

His tweet started with “this bitch” WHILE THE LADY IS RIGHT NEXT TO HIM