May 2010
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Dressing for success.
I knew I was going to have to bike all over Minneapolis today at mid-day and I have finally realized, after three years as an elitist urban bicycle jerk, that you just can’t do that in a dark suit and remain respectable or not die of a heat stroke. So I thought I would suit up in my Martha’s-Vineyard-yachting-casual outfit for the day: a stripey blue dress shirt with sleeves rolled up...
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langer asked: If I were asked to survey which American cities most occupied my imagination that list would likely begin in New York and end in LA, doing a complete flyover of the country's interior. If pressed I might entertain New Orleans or Chicago, along with San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle--but Minneapolis wouldn't even be in my radar. So I must ask: five years back, while still in Kentucky,...
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Know your pre-Beatles boy/girl duos.
Shirley & Lee: very salacious*
Mickey & Sylvia: somewhat salacious†
Paul & Paula: not very salacious ‡
* The way Shirley sings “feeeeels so good” is filthy. Plus they’re both from New Orleans, so you know they’re up to no good.
† Listen to how Sylvia says “C’mere, lover boy.” Also, Mickey was from Louisville!
‡ Though this is truly a...
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The Museum of Broadcast Communications' entry on...
Though the series was set in Florida, Cougar Town was initially developed as a critique of cougars. As the cougar situation in America dragged toward conclusion, however, the series focused more on characters than situations—a major development for situation comedy. Characters were given room to learn from their mistakes, to adapt and change. Courtney Cox became less the rigid cougar and...
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You can buy a can of Andy's Beer on eBay for one... →
Would you say that buying it, opening it, emptying the 1978 beer into a sink, sanitizing the can, and then somehow transforming it into a usable beer-drinking vessel with the assistance of local DIY craft consultants is:
a very good idea?
an excellent idea?
the greatest idea I have ever had?
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Art-A-Whirl! Here is an annotated map! →
So of course, while I am in Portland this weekend, I am missing Art-A-Whirl in Northeast Minneapolis. You’ll have to see it all for me.
Here’s an interactive map I annotated for the Onion A.V. Club with some of the highlights. If I were you, I’d be sure to not miss Isa Gagarin’s book release party at the Sandwich Bar for Peace, Brock Davis’ show at Creative Electric,...
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“In 1970, working under the pseudonym Allan Fish, I made an exhibition in the...”
– Tom Marioni, in his memoir Beer, Philosophy and Art: The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art. I think the title and subtitle would be better if they were switched.
This was a very entertaining book, and good preparation for Portland. Marioni is a conceptual artist, and...
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“And yeah, the mention of Relational Aesthetics cannot be uttered in Chicago...”
– Charlie Vinz, a man whose word I always trust, in the S. 12th comment section today. I knew it! Bourriaud is now safely nestled between the pages of Studs Terkel’s Talking to Myself (in a tip of the hat to Vinz’s no-bullshit Chicago pedigree). No one will ever know. Except you, reader.
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The ____________ House.
Because it’s chilly and rainy here in Minneapolis today, I’m wearing a cruddy old 1960’s varsity-style jumper that says, in yellow letters:
BIRC WOOD CE
This is a very old article of clothing. It used to say BIRCHWOOD PALACE, before the H, P, A, L and A fell off. This was the name of the party house I lived in off-and-on through college, a three-story Victorian house stuffed...
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Portland, Open Engagement, S. 12th and you.
Later this week, S. 12th will be switching over to a special, one-time-only all-Portland format. I will be traveling out west for the weekend to attend the Open Engagement conference at Portland State with a whole assortment of other Minneapolis and St. Paul-based artists and social practice enthusiasts. Some of my more imaginative colleagues are taking the Empire Builder Amtrak out, and you can...
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A Friday night challenge for you, reader.
Here’s a fun* activity. If you’re a blogger, find a post you know for a fact you wrote after having a few beers, preferably after you’d gotten home after a night out.
It doesn’t have to be embarrassing or anything. It’s probably better if it isn’t embarrassing, actually. It doesn’t even have to be obvious to the reader that you were drunk. But you have to know that you were...
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This one’s for you, N. Don’t let your...
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Annual May Day Parade Craigslist Missed...
As a public service to the lovestruck counterculture enthusiasts of South Minneapolis, it is a tradition here at S. 12th to post all the missed connections from the May Day Parade the following week. Here’s who we’re on the lookout for this year, street team:
A man that indiscriminately loves every woman on the southside wearing skirts and boots (seconded).
A 33-year old woman...
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