February 2012
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A beacon for all Twin Citians.
One of my favorite pieces of anything I read last year was Dan Sinker’s extended, real-time novella of fake @MayorEmanuel tweets. It was great for many reasons, but principally because it started as a not-that-funny one-off joke (Rahm Emanuel likes to say “fuck”), and then, once it had captured its audience’s attention, slowly built into this sprawling, surreal love letter...
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Programming note, and movie magic.
I’m a little worried, gang, that writing a weekly column (it’s here) will cut deeply into S. 12th writing time, and that this blog that we have all enjoyed together for so many years will devolve into an anemic gallery of links to “look what I am doing!”-type things.
I won’t let that happen, though! I promise! I will still post boring stories from my youth and...
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Two new pieces posted today.
Both pretty Minneapolis-y.
At Quodlibetica, a short essay on photographer Paula McCartney’s new book, On Thin Ice, In a Blizzard, and the way we talk about weather in the Upper Midwest. The images in the book are McCartney’s beautiful photograms of ice, created in the dark room:
It seems at first like this exercise may be McCartney’s way of exerting control over powerful natural...
