Minneapolis Michael

Nov 7, 2009 12:59am

i bet you never would have guessed, i listened to Festival 8 tonight.

Nov 7, 2009 12:42am

minusmanhattan:

This version of Loving Cup with @Phish & Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings rips so hard, possibly the best version ever.

This does rip. So. Hard. I’m about 6 days behind on this, but bear with me, please.

Nov 6, 2009 11:39pm

steveanderson:

Festival 8. These guys really know how to put on a festival.

I JUST downloaded the shows tonight and am listening to the “Exile” cover as I type. Amazing.

Nov 6, 2009 11:25pm

“ Blink appears to have been written not for people who don’t read books but for people who read only books that spend years on the bestseller lists, books you can talk about with your boss or buy in bulk for the marketing department. ” - From this incredible critique of Gladwell’s work from The Nation by one Maureen Tkacik, otherwise known as Moe from Jezebel. (Well, she used to write for Jezebel, and, if my memory serves, do the brilliant Pot Psychology.) Don’t get me wrong, I really like Gladwell, but this kind of puts it in perspective.

Nov 5, 2009 9:22am

Franken talks about his smokin’ hot aides - Minneapolis / St. Paul News - City Pages - The Blotter

Put aside, for a moment, the fact that these two aren’t “smokin’ hot” and look at Franken’s response:

Ian Punnet (IP): … (do you have any) comments on having the hottest aides in Washington Senator Franken?

Senator Franken (SF): I have a great staff, and many of the men on the staff are very good looking.

DC needs more smart, intelligent, genuinely funny Senators.

Oct 26, 2009 11:19am

I’m still coming to terms with yesterday’s loss. Watching this ten times in a row helped a little bit.

Oct 22, 2009 1:29pm

It’s nice to see people outside of Minnesota slowly start to realize what a million Minnesotans have known all along: Al Franken is (going to be) one hell of a Senator.

Oct 21, 2009 7:41pm

easing in

these first few back are going to be quotes, alright?

Oct 21, 2009 7:39pm

“ Dana Goodyear’s profile of Avatar director-writer James Cameron, titled “Man of Extremes,” in the current New Yorker is smoothly, beautifully written — a pure-pleasure, warm-butter read ” - WELLS! I want to read this Goodyear piece yesterday.

Oct 20, 2009 9:55pm

“ I don’t know what I see when I watch football. It must be something insane, because I should not enjoy it as much as I do. I must be seeing something so personal and so universal that understanding this question would tell me everything I need to know about who I am, and maybe I don’t want that to happen. But perhaps it’s simply this: Football allows the intellectual part of my brain to evolve, but it allows the emotional part to remain unchanged. It has a liberal cerebellum and a reactionary heart. And this is all I want from everything, all the time, always. ” - And this isn’t even the best passage, it’s just the last one. From this excerpt from Chuckles’ forthcoming book, “Eating the Dinosaur.” I read somewhere a few weeks back that this new Klosterman book is his best work yet. This essay doesn’t lead me to believe any differently.

Sep 20, 2009 12:49am

Think back to when you were ten (or however old you were in 1993). This would’ve blown your mind. And now, for the most part, it’s all rather mundane.

Sep 17, 2009 11:40pm

ESPN's Big Plans For Its Local Sports Sites

liquidchroma:

comScore statistics show that the average number of unique visitors to the ESPN Chicago site for May, June and July (555,000) was more than the averages for the sports sites of the Chicago Tribune (424,000) or Chicago Sun-Times (256,000)

This could get interesting. I figured these local portals would just collect relevant content from across the ESPN empire—it seems they do, to a point—but they’re actually getting into things like high school coverage.

Ben, allow me to add my two cents.

I think ESPN is providing a model, and blazing a trail, for other national media organizations (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, e.g.) to “get local.” And, at the same time, tipping their hand to other media markets. As soon as ESPN enters the top 15 markets - Minneapolis included - (which I believe they have plans to do) they will, as the above stats prove, crush the local media because they have the resources (money, time, people) to do it.

After ESPN has succeeded with this model, expect other national media companies - the Times and WSJ to name two - to follow suit and reap the same benefits (pageviews; revenue).

It’s incumbent upon the Star Tribune, the Pioneer Press and every other large to mid-size daily - and every other local media outlet for that matter - to realize the ONLY way to survive is to get hyper local, and fast. If they don’t, may the content gods have mercy on their souls.

Sep 15, 2009 11:58pm

“We’re going to play a tasty setlist for you guys tonight.” And that they did. Tonight, at the Cedar, Megafaun was megafaun(king) awesome.

Sep 7, 2009 10:41pm

“ These are sunny, long-shadowed days in New York City; September is the deceptively glorious season of loss. The city is reborn but perhaps not quite rejuvenated: Our slightly weary-looking mayor is running for a third term, looking not so much like a raffish billionaire as late-issue Mayor Wagner. Our trademarked paragons of wealth and celebrity—Trumps, Hiltons, Diddys—seem either recession-worn or just a little silly. The valiant New York Times, gallant as a Rudyard Kipling regiment, is fighting for its life, waiting for the bugle calls of reinforcements or mini-payments. Wars grind on, the recession spits few gold coins, the one-woman ambition generator named Hillary R. Clinton is exporting her Lucy Van Pelt–like certitude to other nations, her replacement senator a genial mockery of the system. The Yankees are winning, that’s true, with a brutally efficient iteration of the team, but the long summer and the economy have draped gray through the town and even our lovely new mascot president seems careworn and drained. ” - And that is how you write a lede. From Peter W. Kaplan’s amazing feature on David Letterman’s ascent to the top of late-night television (well, kind-of). Boy, do I love Dave.

Aug 24, 2009 1:31pm

Even if Favre pans out to be a complete and utter bust in Purple, he’ll still have this pretty awesome Sears spot under his belt.

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