About This TwinCitiesMinnesotaBlog.com
I am using this blog to experiement with the the format, keep my writing skills honed to a razor sharp edge, to tell stories, and to share with perfect strangers some of my life and thoughts and places and things that I find interesting. Throughout this blog, you’ll find hyperlinked references to the people or…
Read MoreVenues
These are the locations and venues in which this blog takes place: Grand Avenue, St. Paul Nelson’s Cheese & Deli, St. Paul West Indies Soul, St. Paul Mall of America, Bloomington Minnesota Thunder – James Griffin Stadium, St. Paul Psycho Suzi’s, Minneapolis Saturday Touch Football, Northeast Minneapolis
Read MoreThe Phalluses Of Tori Amos
The back cover to Tori Amos’ album Little Earthquakes provides symbolic support to the theme of the title track.
Read MoreNew Blog
I’ve decided to abandon my Blogger.com blog in favor of this, new, and improved TypePad blog because I wanted more flexibility and TypePad definitely give me that. If you’re interested, I wrote a post on TypePad vs. Radio Userland software at my e-strategy.com Internet marketing blog. The one big drawback I’ve discovered for TypePad, though,…
Read MoreGrand Devotion
It is fitting that I take today, Mother’s Day, to tell you about something that has been on my mind for some time. This is a story of devotion–in this case to the memory of a mother–that is manifested in tangible form as a small shrine on the corner of Grotto and Grand Avenue, in…
Read MoreFlunk Day
Today is Flunk Day. Otherwise known as Senior Skip Day. This is the day that we irresponsible people leave work early and enjoy the first nice day of Spring. And you know what the opposite of responsibility is, don’t you? It’s called Fun. And that’s what we have: Fun. Flunk Day has it’s origins for…
Read MoreIs The Mall Of America Heated?
I noticed today while doing keyword research that during the past 60 days, 5 people have used the search engines to answer the question "is the Mall of America heated"? I immediately assumed, of course, that that was a silly question. Located in Bloomington, Minnesota, how could the Mall of America not be heated. But…
Read MoreJustice For Sale
The Los Angelese Times published a story today proving that, contrary to popular belief, justice is not just not blind, but that it’s got 20/20 vision when checking out the balance on it’s own personal checkbook. Today Justice is officially for sale–and at the nation’s highest court, no less. We discover this because under a…
Read MoreBlogging The Electorate Fantastic
I’ll be blogging all day over at my other site, Minnesota politics, for election day.
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