Amanda C 🥄

Since I more clearly named reading as a hobby, I’m more particular about the resources I put towards it. Money is part of it, but time is huge too.

I’m far more brutal about ditching a book I’m not into, and comfortable making plans to be cozy and reading for hours.

I’m just sowing dragon’s teeth in the fields the way ATHENA TOLD ME TO, jeez.

YouTube video by Elvis Costello - Topic Welcome To The Working Week

Traditional Monday music here from one Costello to another. youtu.be/FJTIIfhk2k4?...

you say "i asked chatgpt"
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"

an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

Montreal 76 olympics poster with a mod beaver wearing a rainbow sash

Two Montreal Olympics hotesses in red and white outfi (looking like an Emirates stewardess) holding a giant black beaver with a red Olympic sash across it

I'm not old enough to remember it specifically, but had I known I would have asked my parents for an Amik (Algonquin stylized beaver) stuffed animal, official mascot of the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics.

can't hear you over the sound of this curling brush

Nothing has changed here.

So you might ask - how will we know when things have changed? For me it’s all the kids back in school.

oh shit i think my camry needs one

Scariest cab ride of my life was in Boston; cabbie really wanted to chat about hockey (because I was from MN???) and spent most of the trip looking back at me and yapping, seemingly driving to Back Bay by sensory memory.

Imagining the dog teams being part of the Parade of Nations and wearing sweaters and being SO GOOD????

A road-salt splashed yellow arrow-shaped sign painted on a gray concrete sidewalk is located next to a textured tactile paving tile. The sign points toward the top-left and reads "Board the B Line HERE" in bold blue and red lettering.

📱 | Saint Paul, MN (2026)
Buses are a democratic floorboard. No algorithms or paywalls, rather temporal trajectories over public arteries. The cast of characters reminds me I'm not the only person living here. A bus is the city’s nervous system in real-time. #MetroTransit #photography

Just like I eventually stopped "hearing" the vuvuzela note during the 2010 World Cup, I'm sure the whistling drone sounds during the #Olympics will fade into the background.

Things have not improved. The government won't comply with court orders. Agents are behaving more aggressively. Schools are offering remote learning into April. The tapering of national media coverage has emboldened DHS.

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

One reason Minneapolis remains in the world's eye is we have one of the most robust & independent media ecosystems remaining in the country. You all need this...and more! @mprnews.org @startribune.com @sahanjournal.bsky.social @minnesotareformer.com @minnpost.bsky.social @racketmn.com etc.

Hometown laundromat owner and high-end dry cleaner compete for customers... and love?

Pretreated Rivalry

Homeless Oregon youth got $1,000 a month for two years. Most found housing after • Oregon Capital Chronicle Oregon is the second of its kind in the nation to implement the direct cash transfer program after New York City.

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."

A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.

Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

Sneakers (1992)

Do any of my Twin Cities followers have recs for in-town movers? I'm moving to a new place in a few weeks and the last movers my wife and I hired sexually harassed us (The Move Crew! Don't hire them!), so I'm looking to vet the people we hire this time a bit better

We peaked at HayNet

I submitted this in a music league round of “worst songs to wake up to” and a bunch of my friends had NEVER HEARD IT BEFORE

Public Service in America: A Decade of Danger and the Choice to Fix It Violence against public servants is rising. Here’s what to do about it.

Threats to public servants have increased at every level of government and across every state in the country since 2013. Isabella Ulloa and Abby André explain what can be done to stem the rise of political violence and make public service safer nationwide.

People have been shouting for years that no one should be a billionaire, that wealth on that level is personally poison and societally catastrophic, and now we have millions of terribly written emails demonstrating in the clearest terms that every one of those shouts was impossibly correct.

Up at Silverwood Park in St Anthony, MN, they built an ice carousel. Drill a hole in the ice, put in an outboard motor, cut the ice in a big circle, fire up the outboard, ice carousel.

People do fun weird shit outside in Minnesota all winter long. Park was packed. It’s delightful here.

twin cities drum collective protest against ICE on nicollet mall in downtown minneapolis. drummer in front of the mary tyler moore statue has a trans rights flag and the other drums say “PRINCE WOULD BE PISSED” and “ICE OUT”

Worse service to taxpayers one of the completely predictable outcomes of Trump gutting the IRS modernization project and DOGE cutting jobs.

This is also my son's school district, this is our community, these are our neighbors and friends and children. I love living in Heights, more than ever.

I blew my whistle from my front step as observers chased off an ICE truck following a school bus doing drop offs last week. Monstrous.

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

Monster Jam is going to be in Minneapolis and please god if anyone has any connections for me to be in the presence of Grave Digger, IT WOULD MEAN THE WORLD.

I don’t even need to go to the event, just need to meet that truck.

Photo of Saint Brigid's shrine in Faughart, County Louth, Ireland. Landscape with trees in dappled sunlight, a stone womb shaped shrine, with three children looking at a statue. Tradition holds that Faughart, is the birthplace of Ireland’s iconic matron saint Brigid.

Happy St. Brigid's Day! Today marks the end of winter, spring is stirring. St. Brigid is Ireland's matron saint, not as famous as St. Patrick, but she could turn water into beer. And when a man insulted her, she made his eyeballs implode. Celtic goddess, patron of healers & poets.
#Imbolc #fullmoon

Not sure about a hang, but I do celebrate Gary Retrograde, the brief time when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman (March 8-21)