Coming to a neighborhood near you: The trifecta of yellow pages print directory spam from our three local yellow pages spammers. This is from a home on Pierce St NE in Minneapolis. It looks like Qwest Dex led the charge with three books to rot in the rain. Yellowbook followed on with a book to [...]
My Run Minneapolis project has been happening. I’m a bit behind on the blogging. Here was last night’s run through NE Minneapolis starting from Hennepin Ave E & Buchanan St NE. This corner is home to the EZ Stop. Remember when they used to sell really high octane gas here? What happened to that? Some [...]
Our local mainstream media sites get some well-deserved crap over the cesspool they foster in their stories comments. But, did you know that TwinCities.com actually passes the torch to their commenters? For example, a story from 2 weeks ago called “More Twin Cities Community banks in red” generates the following error: It’s gone and you [...]
Minnesota’s latest online news start-up, BringMeTheNews, is in the process of launching (officially Sunday) with their first story out the door regarding for Sen. Norm Coleman’s current health. There isn’t much to see yet, but that wouldn’t stop a blogger like me from having an opinion. Here are a few. 1. They know how to [...]
I like ramen and I like variety, so it’s hard to beat this aisle of United Noodles: $14 bought me this stash from just the first 1/3 of the aisle: That’s 28 different varieties of ramen. I’m going to be busy. And salty.
Pit Toilet, Wildcat Mountain State Park, Ontario, WI TP, originally uploaded by edkohler. The Cucking Stool has found an incredibly impressive TP display in a highly unlikely place: a pit toilet in a Wisconsin state park. I hadn’t realized that Wisconsin’s state parks were so high end. Impressive.
Real estate charts and cheesiness? That’s right in my wheelhouse. MAAR provides some interesting perspectives into the local real estate market without the “now is a great time to buy” spintasticness you tend to hear from anyone directly tied to closed real estate transactions: via Jason Sandquist
I’ve written before about the recurring justification trotted out by people working in the slowly-dying print yellow pages industry in response to people stating they no longer find print yellow pages valuable. It really is amazing that anyone in the industry would actually bother trying to convince people that they should be using something they’ve [...]
Judysbook.com has 10 reviews of El Norteno on E Lake St including one from me – their first – from July 12, 2005. This past spring, someone named foodieem went to El Norteno then ripped the place on CitySearch (syndicated onto Judysbook) under the title “Everything Bad” and gave it a 1-star review. Here are [...]
I like coming up with 30-day challenges. Here’s one for the StarTribune to consider: For 30 days, don’t run any promotional stories. No trend pieces based on press releases. No movie reviews. No reports about TV shows. No restaurant reviews. No profiles of local businesses or business executives. No gardening pieces featuring featuring the latest [...]
