doodlr

Jan
14th

Mon

Minnetonka Moccasin drops Target knockoff lawsuit

Target on the left, the Minnetonka original on the right.

I’ve always gotten a kick out of these types of stories about Target. Feels totally against their brand. Or maybe it doesn’t? ”Come to target for cheap Chinese made knock-offs of your favorite local brands!!” Either way, when I ask my buddies who work there about the discount knock-off mentality, they always defend it. Maybe I just don’t understand it. Feels gross to me, but whatever, I’m sure they sold a ton of moccasins!

Jan
6th

Sun

prairiehomecompanion:

Garrison, Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum with the Grateful Dead’s “Ripple”

I got a kick out of this. The show was in San Francisco this week so hey, why not dust off a Ripple.

But it also got me thinking about how much I’ve grown annoyed by the ridiculous predictability of Prince references at First Avenue by every band that comes through town. ”So, this is the place from that Prince movie??” Drives me crazy. It feels like the band is yelling “FREEBIRD!!!” at all of us. And it’s embarrassing - and don’t get me wrong here at all, Prince is awesome and legendary and for sure I’m a fan and I can do the whole Alphabet Street rap and whatever - but jesus that was 30 years ago. That’s still all we’ve got? That’s our namecheck? Between that and the Mary Tyler Moore statue it sometimes feels kinda hopeless around here. And I get that it shouldn’t, that things are vibrant and great, I’m just sayin’.

Also: loved the Ripple, obvs.

Jan
1st

Sun

Dec
20th

Tue

Pre-summer of love documentary about the Haight. Neat stuff. Includes awesome livingroom shot of Pigpen at the 21 minute mark during a brief visit to 710.

It’s curious to see this type of scene and realize nobody has their cellphones out taking pictures or statusing or whatever. Feels so much more in the moment and authentic and sincere. Also probably because of the beards. Damn right.

Dec
19th

Mon

Winter is something we’re proud of in Minnesota, and not to have it is embarrassing. It makes us feel invincible that other states get a few flakes of snow and school is canceled, and we fight our way through blizzards. But you need a blizzard to prove yourself.

—

Garrison ponders this unusually warm Minnesota winter in the News from Lake Wobegon for December 17th (via prairiehomecompanion)

Really great.

Dec
14th

Wed

The following teams have less talent on their roster: Cleveland, Toronto, Charlotte, Washington, New Orleans. The following teams MIGHT finish worse than them: Utah, Detroit, Sacramento, Golden State, Milwaukee, Denver (if it decides to rebuild for next season) and Houston (ditto). Also, the T-Wolves went from the league’s worst coach (Kurt Rambis) to one of its most successful coaches of the past 20 years (Rick Adelman, who has a habit of getting teams to overachieve). And a nucleus of Kevin Love, Derrick Williams, Wesley Johnson, Ricky Rubio, J.J. Barea, Michael Beasley, Anthony Randolph, Anthony Tolliver, Luke Ridnour and the 18-Foul Center Monster (Darko Milicic, Brad Miller and Nikola Pekovic) is surprisingly solid. I hate going deeper than nine or 10 guys, but for this nightmare of a 66-game season, wouldn’t you want a deep team with young legs? How many games will the T-Wolves steal just by being deeper and fresher?

— Simmons breaks down the Wolves chances - in a footnote, of course.

After he put money into the savings accont from his job, Daniel Ganziano’s balance eventually fell to $4.85 and with such a small amount, he ignored it.

However, TCF sent him a letter on Oct. 12 informing him that it had charged him a $9.95 monthly maintenance fee six days earlier because the account had a low balance. That led to an overdrawn account by $5.10, which then led to a $28-a-day overdraft fee. The account was 10 cents over the $5 threshold for which the daily fee kicks in. Young Ganziano’s account was now overdrawn by $33.10.

Ganziano, who works in the nonprofit sector, and her son went to the bank that weekend to close his account, the Tribune reported. But they first had to pay the accumulated fees, which totaled $229.10.

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TCF Bank. Fighter of debit card fee restrictions. Top donor to Michele Bachmann. And active redistributor of hundreds of dollars to their bottom line from a kid with $5.10 in their bank.

When U of MN students flash their TCF cards at Gopher games, do they understand who they are supporting?

(via edkohler)

Yeah, sounds about right.

(via mediation)

Same thing happened to me on an occasional “cash card only” account I kept around. One day I found out they were charging me a low balance fee. Next day I closed the account. Dead to me.

(via mediation)

Aug
23rd

Tue

Jul
13th

Wed

ilovecharts:

-whatilearnedinschool

Local and National context oh my

Jun
26th

Sun

justgettothegoodpart:

New Wilco! Holy moly.

Wilco - “I Might”

Yessir, I’m pretty much ready for this right now.

(Source: driver-suprise-me)