Chicago history people: can anyone advise me how busy the Abakanowicz Research Center at CHM gets? If I were to get there at noon on a Friday, would I be able to get in to view a folder of documetns they have? @robertloerzel.bsky.social @backwardsriver.bsky.social ?

Little ditty 'bout Jack and Dianne

Is one expected to wear a baseball jersey to the Baseball Project show?

Rizzo hanging out in the Wrigley bleachers on his retirement day, and Ballesteros hits a homeowner tight to him. which bounces out of his hand...

Was surprised to see Chicago's carbide and carbon building (one of my favorites) featured in crop art at the Minnesota State fair.

Bielefeld dusting themselves off after their loss to Stuttgart in the Pokal final, and defeating Breman in the first round...

Slightly diminish a band Crown Prince Crimson

Minnesota sunsets last night and tonight

@robertloerzel.bsky.social is this something that would be accessible for viewing by the public if one were to visit?

Damn. And his Twins themed compression sleeves were just shipped...

Rhubarb cordial that i started last month and bottled last week, and finally sampled tonight. Worked great in a gin fizz, and also straight up on ice with lemon and cucumber garnish

Stephen Miller "shut the fuck up about Minneapolis" challenge

Oh, this explains why they had a Cubs player (Thielbar) catch the ceremonial opening pitch from a Randolph softball player today.

Espn positioning their closed captioning directly over their score bug in this twins game

*takes off cochlear implant processors and goes to bed upstairs with windows open..."*

I'm from before the internet

Should I stay or should I go

telling my kids this is Cubs' TV announcers JD and Boog.

Pennywise has endorsed Andrew Cuomo.

And you can control hate But only for so long And when you lose control, oh man youtu.be/nvSEcQ4fwVw?...

Midnight Snake Oil

Cannonball Adderall Quintet

A good vinegar soak cleaned up these yellowed thrift store coupe glasses nicely.not bad for $2.50

Remove a letter, ruin a movie. The Cow

Branford Marsalis Quartet at the Dakota tonight. Probably a top 5 show for me, Definitely the most fun show in a while. So much exuberance, joy, and love from the artists: for the audience, for the music, and for each other.

Housequake

The Startribune published this less than a month ago...I think we have an answer

I guess this rules out the MN WIld playing in the My Pillow Center.

to paraphrase an old saying: "If you don't like Trump tariff policy, just wait a minute."

Machine of Loving Grapes

But,if they revoke and tell you and you leave, you can potentially reapply for a new visa. If they don't tell you and catch you before you leave, they can ban you from applying for a new visa (and keep you in a detention camp for an indeterminate time.

Ome wild thing at the MN orchestra concert tonight was our seats ended up smack in the middle of a west fargo middle school orchestra field trip. Tlaking with one of the teachers at intermission, found out that she worked with one of my high school classmates there (I grew up in Fargo)

@violanorth.bsky.social the MN Orchestra has a new cellist (or at least tonight was first time I've seen him), that made me do a double take to ensure it wasn't you. Then I realized he was much taller, and actually looks more like Harry Windsor.

Really enjoyed the Chopin piano concerto at the MN orchestra tonight, but I spent a lot of time trying to figure out if the soloist reminded me of a young JB pitcher, or Rob Blagaovich...

Nobody conquers the Teutoburg Forest!

One thing I've noticed about the MLBYV Roku app is it fucks with my default CC settings by turning them off (not that their game captioning is any good). So when I open another rapp after watching mlbtv, CC are turned off in the next app.

Getting a "network error" on MLB TV on Roku trying to stream any game. But can stream the "Live on MLBN: Big Inning"

How many MSL and NWSL teams are going to have players deported, or denied reentry after playing for their national teams during an international week?

Seems like a lot of drama for a HS hockey game.

The field offices that are being shut down and de-staffed?

Nobody conquers the Teutoburg forest

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