So Beth, make an excuse and come visit us. You’ll enjoy the hell out of it.

After what Jack Tatum did to Daryl Stingley in 1978, fuck the Raiders.

Oh, m’god, that’s just lovely. thank you. I’d expect the Queen would approve the musical selections, so now we know what Elizabeth thinks of the King of Saudi Arabia, damn the government’s position.

Do you know if there are any videos of that encounter? I just did a quick search and came up short.

Going forward, I want to see more brass and woodwinds sections dressed in bearskin caps like this.

Yeah he sure loved his ejections, because he sure wasn’t that good at winning the ballgames. Point of order- is the series between the Yankees and the Tigers being played in New York? Gardenhire teams sure as hell like to roll over and show their bellies on the Yankees, a tradition that the Twins are carrying on to…

I wouldn’t go into his brain even if you gave me a hazmat suit. This guy is just lost on me, and always has been. He’s like the anti-Canadian.

One of the Traitor Tots

Could he pull off the whole Aretha thing, where in everytime her body is seen in repose, she’s dressed in a different outfit? He could go from Navy uniform, civilian suit, and a nice button down shirt at another viewing. This way, he could be buried in an ‘Elizabeth Warren in 2020' t-shirt, with his arms crossed his…

eminent domain

Look! Tribble turds!

When I go to Sam’s Club, which isn’t that often, I always stop in baking mixes and pick up this beauty. This is the best brownie mix I’ve ever had, and when you commit to it, you get four mixes in the box, so you either go for a brownie orgy of mammoth proportion, or it allows you to make one giant pan of them if you…

Did you have to do anything special to get the retro to my birthday month? I’d always heard about that whole ‘reduced by $1 for each $2 over that limit you ear’ thing, and didn’t know that is doesn’t apply once you get to your retirement age, until my wife read it a couple of days ago. We’re going to sit down tonight…

When I moved here long time ago, I was told that Minneapolis was a Midwestern city (gridded streets) and St. Paul is an East coast city, with some grid, but also weird shit like 6th & 5th streets merge to become 7th Street. St. Paul has a downtown that shuts down when businesses close, but pretty cool neighborhoods…

Everyone bitches about how downtown St. Paul rolls up it’s sidewalks when the work day is done. It’s true, but you can take advantage of that by some really great restaurants that are in town. The Downtowner Woodfire Grill is on West 7th Street, two blocks from the Excel Energy Center (home of the Minnesota Wild…

I asked that for years.

I had a supervisor at a former computer company (later bought out by another one) who we’ll call Dan. Dan had a attitude, and he made it plain that he didn’t like me. I preferred to work second shift, and he did as well. I found out over time that Dan used to be a roofer, which made him uniquely qualified to supervise…

Boy, the whole ‘Minnesota nice’ certainly didn’t survive very long after Norwest Bank merged with the old Wells Fargo; that was 1998 to about 2012 or so? They’ve been in the crapper since.

I hated The Heart of Darkness because of how dense the writing was. Once I found out that Conrad was not a native English speaker, it suddenly made sense- he feel in love with the language, and we all had to suffer because of it. I found it funny that through the 1970s, everyone used that story’s framework to hang…

Our daughter had put serious thought into decorating her half of a dorm room, then found out that the roommate was a clinically depress wet blanket who hated lights, and wanted to hang out in bed in the dark. The cool lights and the cool decor items were lost on most everyone, so She hung out next door with the girl…