For like a decade now when I’ve asked a young designer to do a pull quote I’ve had to explain what I’m talking about. They’re talented designers but long form print is not a thing they’ve been exposed to.

And speaking of Culver’s, when will they bring back the Curderburger; I’m feeling PROFLIGATE

Watched this movie with the fam recently and I couldn't resist observing, "Oh hmm there is one woman in this movie and her role is 'girlfriend,'" and my husband responded, "That's not true; some of the hostages are women."

Tom Emmer at a town hall in 2016. I vividly remember this episode of This American Life because I was grateful for his willingness to stand up to blatantly racist constituents. When his obituary is written I hope they say what a craven empty suit he was.

I know this has been pointed out many times by many people but I just want to reiterate: Anthropic is basically using Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole as the Claude logo

Checking out the ice cream options near Dad’s place… Cherry Berry is going through something

"Mom. I have something really important I need to show you. Search up 'rubber fried chicken Statue of Liberty.'"

It was brief but amazing.

has anyone pointed this out yet

Rest assured that I, your "what's going on with this ice time?" correspondent, have this on the radar. At first glance I am not optimistic that ice time will be accurately represented.

Elite bathroom design at Bloomington City Hall

I need a word with everyone who said dividing hostas was easy because my hostas called me a dumb bitch and said they’d see me in hell

This is my LAST 👏 CHILDCARE 👏 BILL👏 🎉🥳🎈🍾👯

THE DAY HAS COME! My 1995 & 1996 spelling bee prize savings bonds are real money now 😂

Low-friction ebook checkouts were the #1 thing that helped me get back to reading when my kids were really little. Through that, I discovered new favorite authors--the ones I now preorder in print. (Mhairi McFarlane if you want a specific rec.)

Last year I asked where the hell I was supposed to go after dahlias and the answer is of course peonies

EXCLUSIVE. These Twin Cities restaurants can’t hide their big patios from the hard-nosed investigators at the Business Journal.

When I showed this movie to my kid I surprised myself by BURSTING INTO TEARS at this part

What is the funniest hereditary title I can call my husband now that he has assumed his parents‘ Life Time Fitness Founders Membership

An actual sowing/reaping situation at my house as yesterday I impulse bought a fuckton of perennials and today I have to rent a sod cutter and build a bed for them 😭

Lands' End, why are we putting hoods on rash guards? Do the children yearn for a wet hood?

Things I just learned from my mom in quick succession: 1. My old school has a foundation newsletter 2. They’ve inducted my bully into the Alumni Hall of Fame 🫤

Quote with a fictional band that's not Spinal Tap

The paywall let me view this long enough to learn it's about patchouli, at which point I was like no thanks I'd rather smell like DEET

I swipe away so furiously when I am served content from gardeners in warmer zones. Those bitches don’t know pain.

Killing two hours in Excelsior and I am neither thin enough nor blonde enough to be here

Hi, it’s me, your ”what‘s going on with this ice time” in pop culture correspondent. I just watched the opening scene of Off Campus. What’s going on with this ice time?

the good news: me & my creaky agéd meatsack got all my spring planting done today the bad news: I have to run a 5K tomorrow??? 😭

No one prepares you for those parenting moments when your kid is devastated after a tough game and you hug them tight and they just reek so so bad

I started Bricking my phone on weekend afternoons. Today my son and I sorted the flags of the world into design categories, so that rules.

Today is St. Louis Park’s Buy Nothing Curbtacular! Come through and take home some treasures! sites.google.com/view/slp-buy...

Please join me in giving John Moe money so we can all enjoy Your Best Life in Hell

No one has ever checked in on me the way that Orange Theory is checking in on me while I put my membership on a one-month pause due to tennis elbow

Cub heard people saying that Midwestern tacos were bland and they said "hold my cream of mushroom"

Hey Twin Cities, extremely good job showing up for #indiebookstoreday

Keeping select sweatshirts out during the seasonal clothing switch because they’d be “good for the cabin” even though our friend with the cabin moved away like 5 years ago 😭😭😭

Another day, another round of "Am I filled with incandescent rage because of perimenopause or because of the increasing inequity and inhumanity of society"

Would this fix me. The glass/plate thingy I mean. The pool would fix me no question.

JD playing the long game and trying to win MN in 2028 by soft-launching a Lutheran conversion. He will 110% fuck it up and join Wisconsin Synod instead of ELCA.

We do not need ways to make writing easier so there's more of it. We need ways to make writing harder so there's less of it.

Every wish that comes true in your 40s is some monkey’s paw bullshit

It's spring break but I'm working; I told my son when I left this morning, "Don't have too much fun without me," and he said, "We're going to a dahlia farm and then a very quiet place."

I took a pic with that guy when I went to small claims court in 2013, wearing my most responsible outfit

My kid asked what Palm Sunday is and I couldn’t remember so I googled it, and this is one of those “at no point can you predict what’s coming next” sentences

I’m not a mom, but I’ve noticed that “wine mom” and “Patagonia wearing mom” and “moms pushing strollers” are cited as people who aren’t expected to take political action, or even to hold strong opinions. You all had moms, why do you think so little of her? Because she made you eat veggies? Grow up.

Third-grader reports that some chump boy in her class didn’t know the word sexism and tried to tell her that her project was inappropriate for school. The irony is THICK.

Coach Jackie better not make a Tiktok about this scored with that Phoebe Bridgers song; I may not survive

I guess we’re not calling them bills anymore; we’re calling them “balances available.”

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended