Trade advertisement for Plexiglas facing panels, Rohm & Haas Co., Philadelphia, featuring installation at Har Mar Regional Shopping Center, Roseville, Minn. Progressive Architecture October 1964 Image: US Modernist Collection via @archive.org; archive.org/details/usmo...

I admit I feel a bit mournful that it seems like we have entered into “basic bro” winter—the long stretch of winter months where temps resemble cold winter days across the country. Sunny and 35 degrees is nice! But it’s Kentucky winter cold. I would rather be Mars Cold than Kentucky Cold.

Fence Panel, Needham Market

A south Minneapolis vintage license plate dealer says ICE agents came into her store looking to buy plates. apnews.com/article/immi...

Five years ago I caught my dumbest ban

The last time the Vikings were in a Super Bowl, these were the local musical offerings in Minneapolis. Few will recognize more than one name. (But #humblebrag I think I do)

Fantastic 🤩❣️

I feel like this was on the cover of my copy of cyborg manifesto?

Looking for Superb Owls? @snackeru.bsky.social 's Walter Library's got 'em.

From the somewhat blurry images posted at store.nytimes.com/products/new..., it looks like four days' NYT front pages since Jan. 8 may have been missing a mention of Minneapolis or Minnesota: Jan. 12, Jan. 21, Jan. 22, and Feb. 3. Still, that would mean Minn. has been on the cover 28 days out of 32.

Don't make me mute "Fabio" just to stop seeing her in my Bsky feed ...

Someone actually told me they weren't watching the Super Bowl because Bad Bunny was playing and "Why can't they have a good ol' American band play instead. Well, he's from Puerto Rico which is American but also:

Some of the music that happened in Minneapolis the day the Vikings last appeared in the Super Bowl, January 9, 1977. Published in the Star Tribune. Kickoff that day was at 2:30 Central.

Rare instance of top 2 stories in B Section both being about sheriffs

bought myself a turntable and proper stereo equipment, and oh my god have spent the last 24 hours melted into the couch experiencing my favorite albums for the first time again

No mention of Minneapolis or Minnesota on the front page of the NYT today. When did that happen last? @chrissteller.bsky.social

I was working for the NFL that day at that VIP party, and all they did was string us along the hallway/lobby leading to the auditorium in the convention center. So I backed all the way up until I was holding open a door. I held the door for Chelsea Clinton and Joe Walsh, among others.

Before he was hired to ruin the Washington Post, this fool was mostly known for bugging Hugh Grant's phone. He was a ridiculous hire then and a goddamn disgrace now.

Johnson and Jackson are the only two ex-Vikings QBs who *played* in a Super Bowl that their team won. (Bono, McMahon, Wilson, et al. all warmed the bench).

$100 and I'll tell you how to not get caught

Is Sting at the Super Bowl pregame in Minneapolis in 2018 the equivalent slot to what Green Day is doing today?

Low ticket alert: only 19 tix left for the 35mm screening of MASKED AND ANONYMOUS I’m introducing at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social on Tues, March 3! musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

underrated complaint tweet

My favorite classic horror film is THE HOUSE ON GARFIELD AVENUE (1979) (ALT: quoted post includes photo of a triple window in a blank stucco wall with bushes and a possibly dislodged window frame at the bottom)

How may times are we allowed to post CZECH MATE when someone from Czechia wins a medal before it gets annoying?

Good morning to rowhouses

The spring Olympics scream for pogo stick based sports.

I deleted some posts I made about a @nprnews.bsky.social 1am headline news item last night that I thought was inaccurate. @burakkorii.bsky.social let me know how the report might have accurately reflected some facts I didn't have. I apologize to NPR and thank them for hearing out a listener anyway.

But if we DID add a Fall Olympics and a Spring Olympics, then we would get to invent sports and events for them …

I love sports

this is what it looks like inside my mind

@ournewhomecoach.bsky.social Who said the Swiss had no culture. This is to get rid of the evil spirits. More cowbell.

US elite institutions be as ethical as Burning Man challenge via @henryburke.bsky.social

the late, great David Johansen once said that there were songs that he loved with mistakes and when he covered them, he would notate those mistakes and do them as well because to him, that was part of the art in those songs and I stand by that sentiment.

Underrated tweet

An opinion I pretty firmly hold is that everyone should make a song, paint a painting, act in something, and write a book even if all of those things end up being objectively terrible

People who do “quote post a thing” and then stop quote posts? Wrong uns.

Dr. Allan Abbott breaks the world's paced bicycle speed record by riding 140 mph (225 km/h) at the Bonneville Salt Flats, August 1973 HT @raafwolf.bsky.social

The Finnish team still gets to go home to Finland so

my last day of class i am burning bridges with every mfing student that did nothing and made me spend half my time responding to AI slop about bullshit they don't even know

The funny thing is that the Muppet performers tend to be fairly unsentimental about the puppets once they're off their arms - a reporter was once shocked that Henson traveled with Kermit in a suitcase, much to his amusement - but once they're there, they are ON, even if they're sitting next to them

Plus, what's next for CBS, after turning the rotation of Edward R. Murrow in his grave into a perpetual motion machine.

the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style

When you see a young Chekhov in the first Act, you know there’s gonna be a middle aged Chekhov in the last act.

Snow falling in Uptown

Bluesky compressed the image, here it is full-sized... you can actually see the clock tower at UC Berkeley across the bay: adobe.ly/3ZUEXTM

I think Arrival was the exact sort of big budget moved for grownups that the Academy should honor.

Do we have an anthem-based theory of international relations? I think there's something there.

Joan Miró : Portrait of Joaneta Obrador, 1918 Oil on canvas 69.5 × 62 cm | 27-3/8 × 24-3/8 in The Art Institute of Chicago This is part of a group by Miró documenting his early efforts to deal with revolutionary developments in modern art (Fauvism & Cubism) and to forge his own direction. More👇

"I can't believe Lindsey Vonn would keep going. It's gonna ruin her knees" MF, you can't stop posting and it's ruining your life