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St. Paul Art Crawl happening now & tomorrow. Open house in multiple historic buildings in Lowertown neighborhood. I'm working info desk at the door at Lowertown Lofts Artist Cooperative 4-6pm. Say hello. My aurora photos on 4th floor Lowertown is celebrating 42 years as the city's Artist District

A single dad & his kids have been taking lessons at my studio for the last year. My front desk just got a call from his friend handling his affairs, notifying that he died, found in bed, no obvious cause of death. I'm stunned, devastated for the kids.

My colleague is founding member of the popular social justice and Black lives advocacy music group out of Minneapolis, Brass Solidarity Members came in today to lead our ensemble class for "Hold On (Change Is Coming)" 🎶 Brass Solidarity meets at George Floyd Square, Mondays at 5:30pm Support them!

The visuals behind David Byrne at Coachella. Appropriately during "Life During Wartime" This is 3rd concert in less than 2 weeks (Springsteen, Lady Gaga & now David Byrne) that I've personally witnessed where an artist has acknowledged the terrible times we are living under this administration.

Trump is getting boo'd at the half empty UFC event. Lol. It's all crumbling.

Coachella is streaming live. Jack White on now. Rainy Minnesota evening is good time to watch from the couch. Lots to choose from but I'm tuning into: Addison Ray: 7:30PM (CDT) NIN x Boys Noize: 10:00PM PinkPantheress: 10:55PM The Strokes: 11:00 PM David Byrne: 12:20 AM ​Justin Bieber: 1:25 AM

Lady Gaga, MAYHEM Ball, Night 2, St. Paul, Minnesota I will be up all night if I try to sift through all my pictures right now but these are my favorites so far! 🧵

Walking to arena to see Lady Gaga. Brought headphones to listen to her newly dropped single Runway. Involuntarily started Voguing in street 🕺 almost got hit by bus. Lol. Jk. Maybe 🤷‍♂️ Since doors opened, operas playing, video of Gaga writing at desk & lights have been red. It's a vibe. Gonna be fun.

Lady Gaga, St. Paul, Minnesota, Night 1. Pin check. Part of the fun of at Gaga concert is showing up early to see all the outfits. I keep it subtle, but my pin game is strong. Check out my double Gaga/Beyonce Telephone ☎️ music video scene pin. Rockin' that tomorrow for Night 2. See ya there

Lady Gaga is near end of her biggest tour. 10 month tour ends in NYC after she plays Minnesota on TH & Fri. Her last MN show was in 2017! I've been worried abt her staying healthy to make it to final dates. Now she has respiratory infctn & canceled last night in 🇨🇦😧🥺😭 Send her healing vibes! ✨️🔮🙏

Forgot to give update about my neighbor eggs. No one participated in my egg decorating 🥲 lol 🤷‍♂️ Except one mystery person... who left a creepy bunny and staged a murder scene?? My egg 🐰 was traumatized.

🐣🌄😍 Beautiful Easter sunset tonight. Looking into Minnesota over the Mississippi River from Prescott, Wisconsin.

My "Peeps in the Aurora" pictures are featured in today's paper for the 2026 Pioneer Press Peeps Diorama Contest! I didn't win any of the major categories but I got two pictures featured and a certificate of participation lol 😎🐣🐰

5 years of Prince eggs. This year is the black crop top suit from the 1986 Parade tour.

If it happens today, on this holy weekend... that will be hilarious 🙏

Courtney Love was guest on Billy Corgan's podcast yesterday. Unexpected but exciting if you're deep into 90s rock lore. The convo is unsurprisingly chaotic between those two lol but fascinating if you can hang in. They drop some grunge gossip nuggets throughout including Minneapolis 90s scene talk

Bruce Springsteen comes out with a powerful, badass intro to his Land of Hope & Dreams American Tour and kicks into Born in the USA. Live in Minneapolis, Minnesota 🎸🎷

I blew out some eggs and left them out for my neighbors to decorate and return so we can all enjoy them. Check out my 🐰 egg. I will post an update at end of the week 🐣

🐄 + 🌚 This afternoon in Maiden Rock, Wisconsin.

First round of permethrin has been applied to the boots and pants for the season. Just a reminder, the ticks are now out and ready to get ya. Happy Spring!

If you see this post a concert photo you took

The edible almost convinced me to purchase the "Bripe" coffee pipe/brewer for the upcoming hiking season. Imagine me, cooked, trying to explain to a park ranger that I’m not doing drugs, I’m just “brewing coffee, dude” 🤷‍♂️ lol with a blowtorch and a copper funnel.

Same location as the No Kings protest in June '25 but now the LRAD vehicle is upgraded and occupied. Cedar St. & Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Minnesota State Capitol, St. Paul, MN.

Bruce Springsteen sings "Streets of Minneapolis" at the Minnesota State Capitol in front of a massive crowd. This is at least 4x larger than the 2 previous No Kings rallies here in St. Paul, MN.

A bald eagle 🦅 flies over the crowd as they march over the Mississippi River on the way to the Minnesota State Capitol 🇺🇸

The No Kings march is moving towards downtown St. Paul, Minnesota and on the way to the Capitol. There are so many people that most of the crowd has not even started moving yet. They're are two other locations in St. Paul where the march is starting from. This is big.

I walked 15 mins into downtown St Paul but turned around to go back home. That wind is getting brutal and I don't think I'll survive 3+ hours without a scarf and a hat.

📣 Reminder for those attending St. Paul rally: Last June at No Kings we all lost cell reception bc the cell towers were overwhelmed. I'd be surprised if it doesn't happen again & probably much sooner than it did last time. Be aware, plan ahead with your group & know how to get back to your car.

I’ve been delivering groceries for Mexican grocery store since January. Today was first day they had no orders for me. I think families starting feel more comfortable leaving house? When I started, it was devastating. Palpable fear from people cracking door open to size me up before taking the food

Last night was all about fighting the clouds. It's always a frustrating mission when the clouds are trying to ruin a good one but I caught some clear northern sky 11pm-12am on Wisconsin side of St. Croix River. I bought some Peeps on the way for a snack and to be a seasonal photo prop! Lol 🐰🐣

Beautiful orange/pink sunset in the west and a full rainbow to the east 🌇🌈 Tonight from top of the St. Croix River bluffs on the Wisconsin side.

This guy stole a guitar from a mom & pop music shop, Modern Day Music, on S. Robert St. in West St. Paul a few hours ago. Spread the word to help a local fav music store. The idiot will probably be caught before the night is over.

Happy Peeps season to those who celebrate 🐰

Unless there are criminal investigations starting, I don't give a F about Kristi Noem being fired. She being replaced with another moron with a violence fetish. Markewayne Mullin has publicly fantasized shooting journalists, told witness to stand & fight him on Senate floor & thinks Trump is god.

I'm seeing spectacular shots of lunar eclipse. However, I'm gonna bet I'm only one who got it on a Gameboy Camera! 😎 Clouds ruined eclipse phases in Minnesota but I got the full moon before that. Behold: 2-bit grayscale, 0.014 megapixels (🤣) via eyepiece projection on a 60mm Mak 🔭 w 20mm eyepiece

ICE thinks we're dumb but I clocked this dude immediately at Ramsey Sheriff office (skyway) downtown Every "woke" sticker on a blacked out tinted truck lol "ICE out" "Fuck Trump" "🌈" "Free Palastine" 🇲🇽 Cali plate not in database yet but masked driver floored it when I took pic They're still here

If you get up early & look west, you MIGHT catch the blood moon lunar eclipse 🩸🌚 5am-6am CST It'll be low on horizon. Makes for cool pic bc able to include a foreground below the blood red moon even w phone camera. Clouds will be problem in Minnesota 😢😭 but might get lucky??🤞🙏 My pic from 3/15/25

ET snowman outside the Union Depot, St. Paul, MN

"We send our love & eternal gratitude to the families of the fallen (American soliders) & sadly, there will likely be more before it ends. That's the way it is." - Our psyochopathic POTUS who can not satisfactorily explain why he started this war with zero public support.

The Paul McCartney doc was great. Follows him '69-'81 as he goes solo after the breakup. No surprises but good archival footage and fresh new commentary from Paul & Wings members. Makes for a good addendum to Get Back. Reminds you why & justifies how much we all love him. Starts streaming on Friday.

Anyone see/seeing the new Paul Mccartney doc this weekend? Unreleased music and making of Band On The Run! Only a couple showings in MN and only a handful of seats remain in the 3 theaters playing it in the metro area on Sunday.

They are in downtown St Paul at this very moment casing restaurants that close soon and the 3 hospitals. Observer friend was followed home into downtown by 2 confirmed ICE plates this morning. Took her pic and drove away, didn't hide it. This ain't over at all.

Light pollution maps are so very useful but gotta remember to look at area north of your location, making sure horizon is also free of light pollution My fav map now has tool to show you that from anywhere Example: my pic from Finland, MN w/ dark northern horizon as good as it gets (Grey color) 😍

Let's not get too excited yet but Valentines Day aurora is possible tonight if she keeps charging up 💚💝 Europe already seen some action in last hour. Isle Royale is seeing it now. Probably not worth taking a trip but if you're up north already, try taking a pic facing north over the next few hours.

Pop up noise demonstration outside confirmed hotel hosting ICE in downtown St Paul. These smaller demos stop right at 10pm on the dot to avoid breaking noise ordinance. The priority is maintaining visibility over many nights of annoyance. Dedicated protesters make a lot of noise

I didn't notice on Sunday. Billie Joe from Green Day was rockin' the Minnesota rebel loon on his Les Paul Junior 🎸 at the Super Bowl. His wife is from MN and they have a house here. He mentions it everyone they play MN.

Gotta watch all highlights of Pam Bondi deflecting every single question this morning. Never been more embarrassing & alarming public crash out from anyone at this level of power in the history of United States. In any other admin, she'd be fired within hours They all know they're going down🔥🔥🔥

NSA, CIA, FBI, ICE & Police watching the ring camera "lost dog finder" commercial:

The least viewed sunset of the year is the Super Bowl sunset but I got ya 🏈🌅