November 2009
19 posts
And all the rooms they smell like diesel
And you take on the dreams of the ones who have slept here
And I’m lost in the window, and I hide in the stairway
And I hang in the curtain, and I sleep in your hat… Tom Waits, 9th and Hennepin
Let’s begin at the beginning, or at least one of the beginnings: before Minneapolis, before St. Anthony and Fort Snelling, before Minnesota was shaped out of...
Put down your shopping bags this Thanksgiving weekend and climb aboard the Holly Trolley, a special run of the Como-Harriet Streetcar feature Santa Claus, carolers, hot cider, and plenty of Christmas cheer!
The trolley runs from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. on Friday (no concession stand this day), Saturday, and Sunday, November 27 to 29 and Saturday and Sunday, December 5 and 6.
The Como-Harriet Streetcar...
Put down your shopping bags this Thanksgiving weekend and climb aboard the Holly Trolley, a special run of the Como-Harriet Streetcar feature Santa Claus, carolers, hot cider, and plenty of Christmas cheer!
The trolley runs from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. on Friday (no concession stand this day), Saturday, and Sunday, November 27 to 29 and Saturday and Sunday, December 5 and 6.
The Como-Harriet...
A recent post by Abigail Deutsch at Poetry Foundation’s Harriet blog, about the streets of Washington, DC, reminded me of an idea I had for this site that I think I’ll revive: the naming of the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Washington, DC, has a very structured, and somewhat complex, arrangement of street names:
First they run from A through Z (A Street, B Street, etc.). Then they run A-Z...
Peabody River
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View Toward Sand Beach from Andy Smith-Petersen
Industrial from Aperture First
The Indian Creek Experience from Aperture First
stark from apparently nothing
Peabody River
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tranquility from dying light
Missed, Fallen from The World in 35mm
Shy … Walk Away from Reflex photos
Coil from Monday Morning Photo Blog
RT @palejude Twin City Grill MOA needs to evaluate its accessibility and happy hour policies #
My DM spam policy: once, it’s probably a security issue and I’ll let you know so you can fix it; twice, and I’ll block. #spam sucks. #
Canadian troops will be greeted on Hennepin Avenue as liberators, eh? — Secrets of the City — Minneapolis + St… http://bit.ly/4vBYKo #
Police...
Over at the OpenSalon version of my last post, there was some reasonable incredulity about my guesstimates of my bicycling weight. To wit:
One of my bikes weighs a little more than I do; the other weighs a little less. On both, I’m expending very little energy to move a combined weight of about three hundred pounds…
Those numbers were more than a bit off. I plead late night grogginess and a...
Peabody River
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Guard of the Vatican Museums from Enrique Vidal
Pyramids to Temples: Egypt to Cambodia from and sometimes i just sits
Triple from d e s o l a t e | m e t r o p o l i s
I’ve been commuting to work by bicycle for about three months now: not a very long time (my wife has been doing it for about twelve years), but long enough that I’ve thought quite a bit about what I gain and lose by using two wheels instead of four for my daily trip.
While I’m not a bicycle commuting evangelist, most of my co-workers know that I bike and a few have asked the usual questions:...
Peabody River
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nov 8 from myphotosquare
Ancient Woodland from absolutely nothing
Weather Report: 1920 from Shorpy
Peabody River
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Reading a book from Psampaz Photography
#82 from lgbravo.com
Eyes on the UN from friskyPics
PCC in need of TLC 2 from Found in Focus
bicicleta from dioptrias
Peabody River
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Tower Underbelly from The World in 35mm
Seafolly from neverhappen.com
Sopot from FotoStamina
Vent a Zumaia from BEGIRADA
Vassoura II from Fotos PPF
Peabody River
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dead essentials from Your Waitress
Petite pluie et hauts talons place des Abbesses from ParisCool
Platja de Zumaia from BEGIRADA
Back from holiday from ??????
A Bad Reputation from Wolfman-K
Road Bicycle Sale, Saturday, at Mr. Michael Recycles Bicycles, St. Paul http://bit.ly/3Yj6ZE #
Minneapolis is a safe place for walking; more of us should do it! http://bit.ly/3I6FA6 #
You Might Be A Twin Cities Redneck If… http://bit.ly/4yPRgN #
Archaeological dig happening in the middle of Saint Paul http://bit.ly/2usVXc #
R1-19 by parisstarlight #photo http://bit.ly/jYXGG #
Newspaper...
Spam—the junk message type, not the tasty luncheon meat from Hormel (pan fried and served on rice, it really can’t be beat…)—is a significant annoyance on all the “Web 2.0” services, but nowhere more so than on Twitter.
Peabody River
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pause for beauty from hanna birke
Roadside from Feldauge
Life Belt from milou
from the view of yokohama landmark tower from 1965 monochrone
an ascetic from BOXMAN fotologue
Peabody River, New Hampshire
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Parure from Elaine
late night bus diversion in traffic on bloomsbury way from rion.nu
Fluff from Anita’s photoblog
104 from Félix Ménard
Photo by David Kohlmeyer Despite our sudden balmy turn of weather, winter is surely on its way. I can tell by the activities in Rice Park.
As I rounded the corner of Market and Kellogg the other morning, I saw the big truck and boom arm putting the big spruce into place for the November 28 lighting ceremony. Over the last couple days, on my stroll to the library, I’ve watched the workers in...