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| 15.9.13 14:59 | | Why do people beg for @McDonalds to follow them? Seriously, click on any of their tweets - dozens of begging responses. Why? |
| 15.9.13 14:42 | | RT @scottchristBLH: The Manning brothers. http://pic.twitter.com/B2vCBeFmSe |
| 15.9.13 14:13 | | When will commentators stop saying "There could be a challenge here" on automatically reviewed plays? Never? OK. I'm'a keep complaining tho' |
| 15.9.13 14:08 | | English Breakfast |
| 15.9.13 03:45 | | @Markysparkly Ooooh, sorry: http://pic.twitter.com/WJI2ux5Stu |
| 15.9.13 01:54 | | Ah, @drinkingwithian, my old friend @ Grumpy's Bar & Grill |
| 15.9.13 01:16 | | To the gentleman standing in the street hailing me: yes, it's yellow, but there isn't a New Beetle in all of Minneapolis that's also a taxi |
| 15.9.13 00:25 |  | It is Kiss or Kill http://twitpic.com/ddjrmk |
| 15.9.13 00:13 | | ... which still doesn't make sense, but at least makes sense in how it doesn't make sense. Save me, Kiss or Kill! |
| 15.9.13 00:11 | | After studying their amps, now pretty sure previous band's name had been misspelled all over Facebook and is really RYKYGNYZYR |
| 14.9.13 23:44 | | Sure are a whole lotta no vocals here. At least people are live-tweeting the boxing game. #TheOne |
| 14.9.13 23:42 | | It is RYKGYNZR http://twitpic.com/ddjl0l |
| 14.9.13 22:43 | | It is FINK http://twitpic.com/ddjbj5 |
| 14.9.13 22:00 |  | FINK, Kiss or Kill - Grumpy's Bar & Grill (Minneapolis, MN) |
| 14.9.13 20:31 | | Baker's Square (Roseville, MN) |
| 14.9.13 18:03 | | Red Lobster (Roseville, MN) |
| 14.9.13 17:49 | |  Spire Credit Union (Minneapolis, MN) |
| 14.9.13 01:39 | | MAYORAL CANDIDATE #13: BOB FINE (DFL (DEMOCRATIC FARMER LABOR)) Hey look, yet another way to enter a party or principle for a DFLer - and probably another free edit without amending the filing by our Elections folk. Gotta love the government! (Sure hope I'm part of it next year!) But let's get back to Mr. Fine. He BARELY lives in Minneapolis! He resides in Linden Hills awfully close to the border, but he does qualify. He filed on 8/5. Fine, only 64, has been in public service for EVER - at least 15 years on the Park & Rec board, 18 years as a Civil Rights Commissioner, 28 years as a Hennepin County Conciliation Court Judge, Board of Estimate & Taxation, Zoning Board...one wonders why he hasn't already BEEN mayor, but I guess he's been busy doing some real work. He's also coached youth rec teams for almost 40 years. He's leaving the Park Board to run for mayor. I BELIEVE this is his first run for mayor, but obviously he's won several times for Park & Rec board. He's definitely earned his spot as one of the favored eight even if he's near the bottom of that group...which isn't necessarily a BAD thing, mind. I have a great concern that someone has conned him into thinking lawn signs are really important, but maybe I'm wrong and they are. I'm also distressed that he wants to raise $100,000 (he reported having raised just under $4,000 in the most recent filing) because more money = more suspicion from me. (I'm still just under $30, all self-financed, and holding!) Fine carries the special distinction of being the first (and thus far only) candidate to door knock on OUR door - I recognized him right away by his BOB FINE FOR MAYOR T-shirt and told him I was also running, but he STILL talked to me for a while. I asked him why he'd leave a position where he may have had more influence than the mayor had - he said he'd heard that one before, but he thinks the mayor's veto is a powerful tool. (Don't tell anyone, but I also think the mayor's veto is a powerful tool...but mostly for uniting the city council against the mayor. Still...) Anyway, we had a nice talk that probably took up more of his valuable time that he should have bothered investing in me but that left me with a really good impression of him. He's either a good guy or a great politician...perhaps he's both. We could do a lot worse than Bob Fine! He'd make a Fine mayor! I'm really lazy with this profile! Fine lets his Parks experience do almost all of the talking and take up most of his campaign - if you want his opinion on the stadium, good luck finding it. (He's said that knowing now what he knew then, he wouldn't be in favor of it, but it's super easy to say something like that after it's already happened.) I honestly can't tell you if I'd be a better mayor than this guy or not - I really can't! I like him a lot, but I don't think he's got a shot. Am I right or wrong? It's YOUR vote! NEXT: No relation [ Just over a third of the way through! That's both good AND bad news. ] |
| 14.9.13 00:43 | | 52 DAYS TO ELECTION DAY: I received a (get this) snail mail from Mr. Iverson, which appeared to be a printout of an email announcing a Candidate Forum for City Council (Wards 11 & 12), Mayor, Park Board and Bureau of Tax and Estimation taking place at the American Legion Post 99 on Wednesday, October 9. I think this is one I will try to go to (if my email to Mr. Iverson goes through) just for the people watching experience...also to see if the non-candidate attendees will outnumber the candidates. (Suspect it may not.) |
| 13.9.13 23:33 | | Amazing that we were able to watch a stream of such a big show like #CMLL80 live, free and legal. ¡Gracias @terradeportesmx! |
| 13.9.13 23:31 | | I'll give 'em this - the move that finally finished it and got the 3 count looked NASTY. #CMLL80 |
| 13.9.13 23:29 | | RT @C_MoralesD: Volador JR pierde su máscara tras 17 años de carrera, su nombre es Ramón Ibarra Rivera, tiene 32 años y es oriundo de Monclova, Coahuila |
| 13.9.13 22:13 | | Blue Panther should have put up his armpit hair while he was at it #CMLL80 |
| 13.9.13 22:04 | | @AKATheMaskedMan Was "Rooty Poot" uttered? (Lie to me if you have to.) |
| 13.9.13 21:23 | | @HackmanRSPW http://deportes.terra.com.mx/en-vivo/ahora/80-aniversario-del-cmll/ |
| 13.9.13 20:45 | | Has Cubs been on TV yet? #CMLL80 |
| 13.9.13 20:43 | | How does Terra know to deliver me an ad in English before the #CMLL80 stream? TECHNOLOGY! |
| 13.9.13 19:28 | | Listened to 808 State - 606 |
| 13.9.13 19:23 | | Listened to The Undertones - Jimmy Jimmy |
| 13.9.13 19:20 | | Listened to Toby Keith - Frosty The Snowman |
| 13.9.13 19:05 | | Instant response to Jeffrey Alan Wagner's new YouTube ad: http://youtu.be/4lYHU6vEiDc #MPLSmayor #stribpol #MPLS13 |
| 13.9.13 17:02 | | [+] Listened to Nero - Welcome Reality |
| 13.9.13 15:58 |  | Can of Diet Dr Pepper |
| 13.9.13 15:00 |  | SYMC closing quote: 25.08 ▲0.11 (Range: 24.75 - 25.22) |
| 13.9.13 13:11 | | [+] Listened to Justice - Audio, Video, Disco |
| 13.9.13 11:44 | | TGIC |
| 13.9.13 11:32 | | @TheKFV I must have needed that - thanks "brah" :) |
| 13.9.13 11:24 | | @dbrauer I'm probably just grumpy over the Wagner video - I'll be sure to let you know when I've finished my series (which is also insane) |
| 13.9.13 11:21 | | @TheKFV It's distressing that this is the kind of baloney that will get a candidate attention in this race, yes. I'm losing my idealism! |
| 13.9.13 11:11 | | @dbrauer "Insane?" Shouldn't EVERYBODY be doing this? (I'm only a third of the way through myself but I DO have almost two months left) |
| 13.9.13 10:41 | | YOGURT OF THE DAY: STRAWBERRIES 'N BANANAS #yogurtoftheday |
| 13.9.13 10:35 | | @jjyeley1 @ChicagolndSpdwy SPEED DICE: 8 |
| 13.9.13 09:59 | | Symantec (Roseville, MN) |
| 13.9.13 09:56 | | Listened to Cocoon - On My Way |
| 13.9.13 09:54 | | Listened to Giorgio Moroder - Underdog |
| 13.9.13 09:49 | | Listened to Judge Jules - Essential Mix 2013-09-07 |
| 13.9.13 09:47 | | U.S. Post Office (Minneapolis, MN) |
| 13.9.13 03:14 | | @DomDerringer We should talk. |
| 13.9.13 02:31 | | Finally, I would be remiss if I didn't note that MPD (correctly) flip-flopped on their decision to pull their open data. Again, bravo to MinnPost for making noise and getting results! (Link to MinnPost: Update: Minneapolis Police Department restores accessible data format) |
| 13.9.13 02:27 | | 53 DAYS TO ELECTION DAY - MAYORAL CANDIDATE #11: JOHN CHARLES WILSON (LAURAIST COMMUNIST) (Let's do a little catch up!) Wilson, 47, collected bus schedules as a child and got more peculiar from there. On his campaign website (which currently has three pages - unlike his personal site, which has at least ten) he starts right off describing his time "locked up" in the mental health system. From his "What I Believe" page, he starts right off with "First and foremost, I believe that Laura Ingalls Wilder is God. This is due to visions I started seeing at the age of 15." and to be honest...this is kinda where he lost me. (I DID try to watch the video on his "party's" Facebook page but tonight I learned that even I have a breaking point when it comes to "opposition research.") His principle is a combination of his Wilder-centered "religion" (although he also says he's an atheist) with good ol' fashioned communism ("the best form of government"). He had a Libertarian phase in high school, which may or may not have been a stepping stone to his committal. The tagline on his campaign site is "Your 2nd Choice for Mayor of Minneapolis!" which is an interesting tactic in the Ranked Choice Voting era. (...even if I think he should be pretty close to your 35th choice.) I have more Likes than him, and I am very thankful for that. He lives in Whittier but has a lot of stuff in Seattle in storage - in fact, as I type this he's beginning a train trip to go get it. He'll be back next Sunday. I don't know how much of his stuff he can take on Amtrak. Amongst other adjectives, I think my favourite one Wilson has used to describe his campaign is "non-hygienic" - I don't totally know what that means, but I believe he's probably the only one of the 35 to use the term. He also describes himself as a "psychiatric survivor" and has authored a autobiography entitled "The Conscience of a Communist." He intends to run for office as long as he is alive. That sounds like he may have a pessimistic idea of how far he'll get this time around. This is his second run for mayor; in 2009, he received the coveted 11th place out of the eleven candidates, amassing 137 votes. (To his credit, he uses this result to rebuke accusations that his is a "vanity" candidacy, asserting that finshing 11th out of 11, behind the admitted non-serious candidate..." isn't exactly the greatest stroking of an ego. His Party or Principle THEN was "Edgertonite National," which I also believe ran a grand total of one candidate...although there may also have been a presidential run in there as well. Or maybe he was just president of that party. "Edgerton" is another manifestation of his transit fascination - and now we've come full circle. I think I can honestly tell you I would absolutely be a better mayor than this guy. Am I right or wrong? It's YOUR vote! NEXT: NOW we'll get to the only candidate to knock on my door while I was home (so far) |