The Hobbit pt 1

The spouse just said I “was singing Coldplay like you’re Glen Hansard”

Today I voted against contracting with the drone company Skydio and I was proud the City Council voted down working with a company that contracts with ICE. Metro Surge was a test of our constitutional rights. Opening up the door to further erosions of our civil liberties would be a massive mistake.

Hit me with your favorite Traherne poems ⚓🕯️

I guess I should put my winter clothes away

I miss @abenjamin.bsky.social on here

Hehe has anyone else yet noticed the Copenhagenize index section about us locates Minneapolis in Wisconsin?

There are men at Boucheron in t-shirts, basketball shorts, and sneakers

When someone saw a slave catcher in the area during the Underground Railroad, they would blow a horn to warn people and others would come out of their houses and blow their horns too. Just like we do with our ICE whistles We are part of a tradition of resistance and I think that’s beautiful

Like many of us, I have bands or albums that by every cultural indicator I should like but for reasons that often escaped me I didn't. For instance as an aged hipster I should be all about Mitski, but she's never clicked for me. I didn't dislike the music, but it never called me back for a relisten

I still marvel at the fact that in the early 17th C Nicholas Ferrar *walked* back to England from Italy. Like how in the world was that possible?!

It's a curious feature that NE folks are perfectly comfortable saying every minor neighborhood in the quadrant is "Northeast" but many other parts of town get quite precious in their regional distinctions

Did...something happen (positive) in TEC recently? I emailed the vocation hub folks to ask for a resend of the invite and they got back to me in less than an hour??? Goodness

10 years married today, by which time my former marriage had fallen apart. It is a joyous comfort that my spouse and I have a rich and rewarding partnership. I am so grateful!

there is no new deal without the influence of actual socialists and communists within the larger roosevelt political coalition

Don't know how to seamlessly make this about the movie but one of the reasons I think learning just Koine is ridiculous is because you won't get the opportunity to read Homer, whose Greek sings with the timbre you'd expect of a world's great poet

On having complicated feelings about my lenten reading open.substack.com/pub/adalehun...

What are your favorite devotional poems by an Anglican? ⚓🕯️

Two thoughts: 1) I’m so glad I worked in food service for so long 2) inasmuch as to perform the virtue of justice is to submit the will to reason, a planned economy is inherently more virtuous than an irrational trust that the free exercise of passions will yield virtue automatically

The family just watched Rookie of the Year (‘93) and the spouse and I were thinking that Chicago used to be the the center of wholesome cinema and were wondering what happened there What’s Chicago-based these days other than The Bear?

We’ve reached the stage of phone addiction where I run into men at the urinal peeing with one hand and scrolling on the other. Seems unsanitary…

You ever pull just your left buttock when you bowl?

My latest research project is a deep dive on habits/virtues/vices on a corporate, political scale to see if I can get traction w/ my sense that you can indeed, contrary to popular opinion, on-ramp ppl to a moral baseline through social justice What are you working on?

A study in beige

One of my runaway favorite albums of the year so far is Ber's (pronounced "bear") debut "Good, Like It Should Be." It reminds me of peak 00s local indie, but if Jeremy Messersmith were a woman who had Kacey Musgraves influence www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt28...

Got this Summa from the Hennepin County library, which is rad, but I gotta say this 1911 translation is extraordinarily clunky. I’ve got the Latin but I’d have to dig it out There is a newer one, right? That was published with Latin facing on the opposite side?

We observe men with soft flesh to be quick witted - de anima ii, text 94

Amy Grant, Keith Green, Petra, Point of Grace, Avalon, etc

Andy Serkis absolutely slays at voicing the lich for Vox Machina. Between him an Ron Perlman's lich for Adventure Time we've got an abundance of riches

Around 11 years ago, on a whim, I bought a pair of vintage Banana Republic linen pants. They were pleated, they were baggy, they were 5 inches too short, but they marked the first advance into what would become a style journey Pour one out for the OG because they're being retired

Imagine a driver saying to a friend who lives in StP: "Oh man, have you made it over to X street in another part of town yet? They just had a mill and overlay"

We need public bathrooms simply to be a decent place to live. I'm not going to bike or bus in to Nicollet Mall for public toilets, & I'm not going to do it just to walk around without cars or sit on the library seats I'm not a tourist, I live here!

this story is a really really important one and i would ask everyone to please read the whole thing and share it. if you have been opposed to secret police you should know that our sheriffs are doing a lot of basically the same stuff.

New York looks to be the vanguard. Hell yeah, comrades

Sooooooo can I bike home or...?

Is it preppy, or am I about to try to sell a marching band to your town and run off with the librarian?

Was recently on my way to pick up my kids from work and 50ft ahead of me a young teen on a lime scooter flew across the street from an alley at full speed without so much as a look in either direction /

A nice morning ride with weirdly a lot of climbing. I swear it wasn’t supposed to rain in the AM when I left

Three minutes to #criticalrole

- Prince, obviously - Floyd B. Olson - I don't really know sports well. Daunte Culpepper gave me a really good tip when I was waiting tables at Stella's... - Ilhan

43 is sort of silly, right? 44 is cool, 45 has a ring to it, but you can’t do anything neat with 43

Great for a cool summer evening of petrichor youtu.be/KmXKSz38g88?...

I know we just reopened this but this intersection needs a redesign and soon. Super worried it’s only a matter of time until a ped or cyclist is seriously injured

I can only ever be who I am

The weather is divine right now

Is this meme Millennial cringe? Then I am cringe

THANK YOU. I'm so glad finally not to be the only one out here saying this. People from the City act like I'm an ungrateful, crazed grump when I point out that there is no complete bikeway in NE I appreciate that the author also points out how infrequent in sparse transit is in the neighborhood

This video is fascinating in that it basically amounts to a man learning about gender performance, but through Ralph Lauren rather than Judith Butler youtu.be/0QXZKkaMdwQ?...

Taking a group photo can be so obnoxious because full grown adults will act like they've never taken one before, making it an endeavor rather than a 30 second operation like it should be! Tall ppl in the back Shorter ppl up front Squish closer together so the camera gets everyone That's it, geeeeez