[Note added 2018-10-26] Re: butter sculpture. Turns out that Tibetan Buddhist monks create elaborate sculptures in yak butter. Unlike the Minnesota State Fair sculptor Linda Christiansen, the monks add mineral pigments to achieve a wide … ‣ more…
Went to the Minnesota State Fair Friday and it was not bad. Actually we haven’t gone yet, so the above echo of Mrs. Sundberg is premature. We’ll be heading for the grounds in the afternoon … ‣ more…
Today I put the Minnesota license plates on Maxie the Ford C-MAX Energi. Goodbye, Massachusetts EV. Hello, plain vanilla Minnesota vehicle. The occasion does feel just slightly momentous. It’s not that I have been avoiding … ‣ more…
When the telephone meets the Internet, local loses out. We moved to Minnesota and didn’t immediately install a land-line telephone, with copper to the premises and powered from the central office (i.e., not on the … ‣ more…
The Twin Cities love a parade. For a few more days we will have Pianos on Parade around the metro area. Most of the pianos aren’t in fact moving around, as “parade” might suggest: Pianos … ‣ more…
I went downtown yesterday and took the test for my Minnesota driver’s license. The experience was not the trial by fire that it notoriously is in Massachusetts. Katharyn and I took the bus, which stops … ‣ more…
Finally made it to Pizza Luce tonight. Spectacular. In comments elsewhere on this blog at least two people have recommended Luce in the most glowing terms. Luce has been going for 22 years in the … ‣ more…
[Note added 2018-10-19] Todd Bol, the founder of the Little Free Library movement, died this week of pancreatic cancer at his home in Wisconsin. He was 62. Here is the Star Trib’s obituary. Minnesotans love … ‣ more…
If Groton was pasta and wine, St. Paul may turn out to be burgers and beer. And ice cream. And pizza. The local zeitgeist, and the dominant styles of food being served, will exert their … ‣ more…
Here are a few photos captured on a walk around Mac-Groveland this noon: three sidewalk poems, several stop-sign posts that are more beautiful than they need to be, and a reminder of where stormwater ends … ‣ more…
