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Anyone got a Light?

Remember what happened a year ago?

Ca-chee and Nick sure remember. Here's to our good friend Scott. May his jaw never ache again.

We've come a long way, baby!

"The Good Wife's Guide" comes from a 1955 issue of "Housekeeping Monthly." (Not sure who did the underlining and circling; I got this through e-mail.) Hard to believe this was less than 50 years ago...

Tony D.

More Fun with Google Image Search

The Anchor Bar. I stole this from the Minnesota Film and TV Board website.

Ridin' the Rails.

Does anyone out there have any experience with the Eurail Pass? V-Nick and I are spending 2 weeks or so travelling in Europe after the Low tour in Spain and we are considering the Eurail Pass. The thing is spendy however and I was wondering if it will be worth it. It does give us lots of flexibility to stop and visit wherever we please but flying is super cheap.

The only places we have definite plans to be are Spain, Amsterdam (our departure point) and Stockholm.

Thanks for any advice.

The smoking debate...

While I enjoy the benefits of going to the brewhouse and coming home smelling nothing like smoke, I don't agree with the city wide ban on smoking in restaurants / bars etc.

My reasoning is that each store should have the right to say whether they are a 'smoking' or 'non-smoking' establishment. It isn't your right as a non-smoker to demand that any place you visit should be smoke free. It is, however, your right to eat somewhere else. You don't like how a business is run? then don't support it. If 70% of the people want non-smoking establishments, then businesses will cater to your needs. Supply and demand at it's basics. However, right now, 70% of the people are deciding what 100% of the people are able to do.

The government is over-stepping it's authority in saying that you may not allow smoking in your restaurant. It should be the right of the business owner to declare what they will or will not allow.

We have liquor licenses, maybe we should have tobacco licenses. Then consumer's would know ahead of time that a business allows smoking.

Anyway, that's my opinion. What's yours?

Duluth Symphony Orchestra

Does anyone have a season ticket & can't make it to one of their events from now till Dec? I'm taking a music class & need to write a review of one of their performances.

R.I.P. Superman

The Sucker MCs Follow Him Like Cattle

"I wear a cowboy hat
My fucken belly's fat
I'm rhymin' hip hop now
The fuck is up with that?"

--Brad Nailer

Doesn't Maria look like the woman in "Her Tears Became Birds and Flew Away" by Bridget Riversmith?

I think so...

(this post originally contained a photo of the painting but was removed at the owner's request)

In Defense of Flip-flopping

From Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Self-Reliance."

"The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.

"But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity: yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee.

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. -- 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' -- Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."

Rock the vote! ROCK IT!!!

I filled out my absentee ballot tonight, since I'll be in Missouri on November 2nd. (And, quite possibly, still hung over from Halloween. Better to do it now while I'm of semi-sound mind.)

Best part about absentee voting (besides the voting part): the enchantingly teensy-tiny pencil that the nice folks at the county election office enclosed with my ballot. It's like something a pixie would use, if a pixie had a need for a writing utensil. Montana may be backasswards on a lot of things, but they are light years ahead of the game when it comes to tiny pencil technology.

2nd best part about absentee voting: when you vote at home, you can make your own fun. Like with a pirate hat. And beer. Try pulling that off at the neighborhood polling place. Those senior citizens manning the polls are all about the voting, sure, but not so much about the rocking of it.

God bless America. And teensy-tiny pencils.

Crikey lots of posts...

A friend asks...

"Who sings the 'I like it in Duluth' song?

The chorus is: "To tell you the truth/I like it in Duluth."

It's stuck in my head..."

...anyone?

I blogged too soon

I just found one more:



Will the real Godsey please come forward?

Meet the Bloggers II

Of all the bloggers I searched by full name in the Google image library, only "Scott Lunt" produced a photo of the Scott Lunt we all know and love. I'm going to use the bogus image I found instead, however, as I present:



Scott, Tim and Nick

I chose to search two bloggers by nickname:



Ca-Chee and Lumpy G

And what happened when I searched for "Paul Lundgren"?



Pretty much what anyone would expect.

Meet the Bloggers Update

I thought you all might like to see some new pictures of PDD's bloggers. So I searched Google's image library and collected a few to share. I'm sure my method is 100 percent accurate.



Barrett, Maria and Edgewood



J.J., Zoey and Tomasz

More to come. Yay! Fun!

All-Time Record!

Someday, we will scoff at that number.

road trip!

foggy & i took a road trip to grand rapids on saturday to attend a memorial bonfire in honor of a friend's brother who went missing in the woods while hunting. the weekend was beautiful & sunny with all the trees changing colors. as usual, there was plenty of debauchery involved: