The Deets

This just in from St. Paul’s fasolamatt, who’s currently out in SFO. The Westin Market Street comes through with a darn nice fold.

The Other Mike and I took on two Longfellow Community Avenues last night: 44th and 43rd from near their Northern ends to their Southern stop at Minnehaha Park. We started by heading North on 44th, crossing Lake Street past the East Lake Dairy Queen (which is open): Two blocks later, we hit Dorman Ave, went [...]

CityPages.com has integrated a relatively new feature called LikeMe where, as the name implies, they attempt to create venue recommendations for places to eat, drink, and do things based on what people “LikeMe” do. In theory, it’s a great idea for a restaurant review website or website feature. However, here are a few things you [...]

Here’s a hint: both photos are facing South: Whadya think?

My posts regarding CityPages and Village Voice Media have been darn popular with everyone other than CityPages employees. So popular, in fact, that while talking to a friend tonight, they suggested, “Why not charge for them?” Sure, beer was involved in this conversation, so I know they were on something, but I think they may [...]

Parents, think twice about leaving your children with this man: What kind of person: 1. Has an H2 2. Doesn’t wear a seat belt 3. Sips on a beer while in the driver’s seat. 4. And flicks off a camera so he can send in a picture to The Deets That would be Kyle with [...]

Dave Williams runs a get rich quick using Google scheme at a site called Dave Gets Green where he sells some sort of secret something or other. It’s hard to tell for sure. Regardless, here’s a little trick Dave Williams uses to lie to visitors to his website. Notice that Dave Williams says he lives [...]

Back in October, I wrote a post about Verizon Yellow Pages publisher, Idearc Media, where I explained that their delivery policies hurt Minneapolis neighborhoods when they distribute books to properties that are foreclosed, boarded up, or already have rotting phone books out front from other phone book spam companies. Clearly, their policies also hurt the [...]

Run Minneapolis: Southwest Minneapolis was the start of today’s run where I took on the border of Minneapolis with Edina and St. Louis Park. Starting from 54th St W and France Ave S, I worked my way North. I passed the Arthur Murray Dance Studio where I learned how to dance well enough to consummate [...]

The very Southeast Corner of Minneapolis was the venue for my latest run (Friday night) with a dip into the Minnehaha and Morris Park neighborhoods. For those not familiar with how Minneapolis’ neighborhoods are named, here’s a breakdown: The first tier generally describes the direction that quadrant of the city is from downtown: North, South, [...]