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Fair

Kinda Different Posted on 2015-09-10 by kdawson2018-10-27

[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…

Posted in Fair, Food | 8 Replies

Pre-Fair

Kinda Different Posted on 2015-09-04 by kdawson2015-09-04

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…

Posted in Culture, Fair | 2 Replies

Plates

Kinda Different Posted on 2015-09-02 by kdawson2015-09-02

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…

Posted in Moving, Transportation | 2 Replies

LANline

Kinda Different Posted on 2015-09-01 by kdawson2019-06-28

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…

Posted in Internet, Moving | 22 Replies

Parade

Kinda Different Posted on 2015-08-29 by kdawson2015-09-04

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…

Posted in Culture, Public Art | 4 Replies

Driver

Kinda Different Posted on 2015-08-27 by kdawson2019-06-28

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…

Posted in Government, Transportation | 2 Replies

Luce

Kinda Different Posted on 2015-08-24 by kdawson2015-08-24

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…

Posted in Food, Pizza, Restaurants | 6 Replies

Library

Kinda Different Posted on 2015-08-22 by kdawson2018-10-19

[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…

Posted in Books, Culture | 5 Replies

Craft

Kinda Different Posted on 2015-08-15 by kdawson2015-08-16

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…

Posted in Beer, Food | 2 Replies

Graceful

Kinda Different Posted on 2015-08-12 by kdawson2016-06-13

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…

Posted in Public Art, Urban Design | 9 Replies

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