Jan
1st
Sun
1st
Dec
20th
Tue
20th
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
19th
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
14th
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.
—
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
23rd
Jun
26th
Sun
26th
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
New Wilco! Holy moly.
Wilco - “I Might”
Yessir, I’m pretty much ready for this right now.
(Source: driver-suprise-me)
Jun
19th
Sun
19th
Ah yes, the return of the “buck up and be a good dad” articles on Father’s Day. They never get old. Always such an odd editorial choice, but I won’t be offended, and I hope you other dads won’t be either. I’m sure the intentions were good.
So what say we go drink coffee and tinker in the garage for a while. We can get back to self actualization in the morning, right? Right.
Hi kids! It’s great being your dad. For real.
May
22nd
Sun
22nd
In the lead-up and aftermath of last night’s happenings, I was perhaps naively surprised to discover Steve Gottwalt’s twitter page was protected. Doesn’t that seem weird? I think it does.
It would be interesting to know how many elected officials maintain “public but protected” social media outlets like this. Does it cut along political leanings? Association with controversial legislation? Tenure? Gender? Send in the turks.
