Gift link. From my colleague Cari Spencer: Residents organized to keep their neighbors housed during Operation Metro Surge, and convinced state legislators to pass a rent relief bill in May. Some fear it won’t be enough. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/h...
Is there any local group as well-represented in the Strib as the commercial real estate lobby?
But I want my LPs in one tab and my Blu rays in another
After a near-miss at a record store, where I almost bought a second copy of a Donald Fagen album that I already had, I made a spreadsheet of all my physical media. Next stop, setting it up as a lending library for my friends
I use Google Docs, which works great on mobile. If I'm at a record store, I'll often use discogs to look up the runout codes on something I'm interested in buying, but it often makes me more likely to buy than less
The thing I love most about my dad is his boundless curiousity. He's 79 years old and still adding skills. A woodworker for decades, he just took a class and learned how to make oval-shaped Shaker boxes. His approach to the world with that kind of humility is something I hold close to my heart.
A year or two ago, he saw this IKEA mirror/key rack we had by the front door and, unprompted, made us one for the back door. Meanwhile, it was my job to get plugs for the screw holes and match the stain, and I still haven't done it a year later. And he's still hungry to learn more
two small chairs in the boulevard so kids can watch this animatronic monarch butterfly moving its wings while landed on a flower sculpture in someone’s front yard in seward
minneapolis is such a special place
I do not own any Laserdiscs myself, but I did have stretch where I was buying them as novelty gifts for other people. This included the eBay purchase most likely to put me on a list, a Laserdisc copy of Dunston Checks In
Jon Collins
Every week it's four more frantically hammered out schemes to fill commercial space purchased at the overheated mania of the just-pre-COVID economy. Surely the next one will be what bails out Minn. & Co.
