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| 5.1.23 22:38 |  |  | Sometimes when you're snowed in you just start trolling the unfortunate souls and/or AI whose incredibly repetitive and deceptive Facebook ads get algorithm'd into my feed |
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| 4.1.23 19:15 | |  | • Shoveling: Phase 2 COMPLETE
• May require one more pass at midnight since it started snowing AGAIN while I was outside
• Extremely unofficial snow cover measurement from the back yard: 19½" - I believe about 10" of that is "new"
• I may have pulled a tricep I didn't even know I had getting my cans to the curb - stay tuned
• This AEW TV show is pretty good
• I have earned snacks
• More notes on each individual photo if you crave detail |
(Prospect Park) |
| 4.1.23 09:37 |
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| 4.1.23 00:04 | |  | Almost forgot I bought some wacky ice cream for 2023! This is a pretty subtle one - in fact, I get more "egg nog" than "champagne" from it but that might just be Van Leeuwen's double-the-yolks gimmick. It's still ice cream! It tastes good! |
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| 3.1.23 09:23 |
 | Staying in all week.
NEXT week, back on the vinyl (Dark) horse and coming to YOUR town (if your town is Minneapolis or St Paul)!
SUNDAY: It's Still The Weekend with DJ Jeff Recommends and CRZ at Dusty's! 9PM-midnight?
TUESDAY: Finally, CRZ has come back to Dark Horse! 6PM-9PM?
Facebook events are comments #1 and #2 if you'd like to pretend you are Interested. E N G A G E M E N T
Do you have empty turntables at YOUR establishment and love music for old people?* Please contact my booker. (My booker is Jeff. OBVIOUSLY)
*I do still own those two Harry Styles LPs tho |
| 2.1.23 00:31 | | Man at the Eagles who had the audacity to select all 8:27 of "Life's Been Good" for karaoke (AND dang in the wrong octave, if we're gonna pick nits) also decided telling me "Dude looks like a lady!" was a compliment... but I did decide to TAKE it as a compliment. Of course, he has several pieces of Vikings paraphernalia on....juuuuust sayin'. At least I was pretty for him! |
| 1.1.23 20:02 | | First show of...what year is it again? 2023? Ouch! (Fraternal Order of Eagles) |
| 31.12.22 21:55 | | Kissing off 2022, pissing off 2023 (First Avenue & 7th St Entry) |
| 31.12.22 19:38 | |  | I can't believe I almost forgot the traditional drink of my people - and I'll have to check last year's photo but I think it escaped inflation this year! |
(Total Wine & More) |
| 31.12.22 16:54 |
 | Hey hey it's my last show of 2022 and I'm finna play 22 requests AT LEAST - check it out at 5PM OH SHIT THAT'S IN FIVE MINUTES! 90•3 / kfai•org / kfai•org/live |
| 31.12.22 15:56 | | https://www.facebook.com/CRZed/posts/10160579994389791 |
| 31.12.22 12:06 | |  |
(Shared from Christopher's cover photo)
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| 31.12.22 11:55 |
 |  | This is hard to tell you. My grandmother, my mother's mother Dorothea Morgan passed away at 2am PST on New Year's Eve. She had taken a severe turn just after Christmas and while this result was inevitable - guess it always is after long enough - it's still somehow a surprise and a shock. She was 94, which as I always say is too young to go, but it was time. She was the eldest and only daughter of six children - having five younger brothers surely honed her sense of humour into the wicked one she carried throughout her life. I believe the youngest brother is still with us but honestly I'm not sure. She grew up in Ocheyedan, Iowa, where her father's house was turned into a museum (which of course has no website, but DOES have a Facebook group: Tracy House Museum), eventually settling down with Grandpa Wayne in Concord, California, where she raised my mother and three other children and worked for the US Postal Service as a letter carrier. Just like her mom, my m!
om is the eldest and the last living sibling (so I guess my kid brother better watch out). She was my last living grandparent. There's probably a whole lot more I should tell you but I've run out of words and even these seem pretty clumsy. Being in Minnesota has insulated me from recent events and having to experience Grandma's last years in person, for better and for worse, so my thoughts definitely turn to the rest of the family and circle of friends who have been up close and know way better than me how things feel and are probably feeling it way more intensely. Mostly, Mom, yes. We'll all grieve differently of course but what's important is that we're still here and can be present for each other as needed - or leave people the hell alone as needed, we're too good at that too. Two photos - mine marks the last time my brother and I and Grandma were all in the same space just before Christmas 2014 which has been my profile pic every Mother's Day since; the other one !
stolen from my aunt Laura, a more recent snap of Grandma, her !
#1 daughter and her #1 daughter-in-law. No flowers, please! If you are so moved, you may make a donation to the charity of your choice and/or visit the Tracy Museum. Meanwhile, tomorrow's another year - we're still here. I love you all! |
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| 30.12.22 22:15 | | Ugly sweater? I AM an ugly sweater (Mortimers) |
| 30.12.22 10:28 | |  | Part Wolf mirror with my sticker somewhere on it (19 hearts), Debbie Gibson, Krista Wax, ⸘Interrobang‽ on Mort's marquee, WITCH, Kelsey Cornhat, Sparks, old ketchup and The Stonedest - it only took 10 likes to make my Insta Top 9 this year, but I also only took 183 grams this year (so far).
Tying for 9th with 10 hearts: Rosegarden Funeral Party, American Cream Band, the ONE WANK sign |
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| 29.12.22 19:48 | |  | Man wearing THIS 🇬🇧 jacket remarked to the entire theatre on the fact that I dressed up in a clean hoodie to see him ;-) 😁 |
(The Parkway Theater) |
| 29.12.22 17:13 |
 | JUST IN: I've been invited to be the Special Guest of Downtown Jeff at his monthly vinyl residency at Dusty's! By accepting, I have probably also guaranteed that the Lions/Packers game will flex into the Sunday Night Football spot...but Dusty's has TVs and let's face it, you don't need to HEAR the game - you need to hear Australian punk 7" singles and ... I dunno, probably "Sandstorm" by Darude since I know EXACTLY where it is in this house. Event link is comment numero uno! |
| 29.12.22 08:29 | | TONIGHT: Not super interested in the movie (the movie is fine, I will love the movie) but VERY excited to see a rare live performance from Simon Husbands himself and very intrigued by the possibility of cover performances......? Tickets are almost sold out btw so make your mind up |
| 28.12.22 19:51 | | LET'S GO (First Avenue & 7th St Entry) |
| 28.12.22 16:32 | | The big show is tonight at 8! SEE YOU THERE
https://www.facebook.com/events/507704934705495 |
| 26.12.22 11:07 | |  | Happy Boxing Day, everyone! |
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| 26.12.22 11:05 | |  |
(Shared from Christopher's cover photo)
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| 25.12.22 19:13 | | IT'S TACO TIME (Mortimers) |
| 25.12.22 02:42 | |  | MERRY CRZMAS!
(📷: Yo Ritchie) |
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| 24.12.22 17:07 |
|  | Live for the next four hours on your radio and on Mixcloud at kfai.org/live!
(Shared from KFAI - Fresh Air Radio on Mixcloud Live)
Broadcast live to your community of fans and tune in direct to creators from every genre
http://kfai.org/live |
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| 24.12.22 12:31 | | THIS JUST IN: I will be covering Temposphere tonight. Suddenly I need four hours of content instead of two! Please throw me some requests. Just for fun, let's make them NOT Christmas tracks - there'll be plenty of that in the first two hours |
| 24.12.22 03:03 | |  | Good work, everyone |
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| 24.12.22 02:30 | |  | Okay, that's a lot of sexy cuts... ask me later how the Cub parking lot felt (it felt hard. And VERY WET)
BUTT. I'm home alone (alive) and well and it's only four below...think I'll have a strong beer and pass out |
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| 23.12.22 16:06 | | If I commit to going to Electric Feel: 2000's Indie Rock & Pop Holiday Party NOW, I PROBABLY won't back out in six hours. SEE YOU THERE |
| 22.12.22 23:43 | |  | Settling back in to more mundane house news, had to drag the space heater down to the ground floor for the seemingly yearly thawing of the downstairs toilet (which is now working just fine - we'll keep some warm air on it while it remains around -10)
I believe I have now earned a more traditional 11:30PM ice cream as it's now too hot to sleep upstairs... but I will resist the temptation to crack open the window ;-) |
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| 22.12.22 09:48 | |  | So! The preliminary diagnosis was that the water heater part of the system was taking priority over the radiator part of the system, which wasn't so great since I wasn't actually using THAT hot water. Also, this feels like kinda a hidden "feature" of linking the hot water heater to the boiler I wasn't aware of a year ago....to be fair, it didn't bite me until now, but I feel like we had some -10 days back in January?
The tech (hats off to the company for sending somebody out IMMEDIATELY) was one of the crew who INSTALLED this thing last December - he made a call to find out what needs to be tweaked. ("Boiler tech support" sounds hilarious.) In the meantime, he'd forced the boiler to get boiling while ignoring the water heater and we've finally seen an uptick in the thermostat's reported temperature - up to 51 from 50, wheeeeeeee
Whatever is happening was surely a result (a snowball?) of it being pretty much below zero all day (and much of the previous two days) - the radiators just weren't keeping up and maintaining the house temperature the way they were supposed to with the way the heaters were running.
It sounds like I may be a test case for other folks who will call in with the same problem. They adjusted some settings, then wrote it up as a warranty call, no charge. I guess I can now name them - it was Snelling Heating, who came off my boss' recommendation last year.
It will take a while to get equalized but we're on the road back to the 60s! I'll keep you posted. I know you love the episodic stuff! |
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| 22.12.22 06:11 | |  | WELL. Think I'll call somebody |
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| 21.12.22 18:39 | | Just went downstairs and glimpsed at the thermostat which said it was... 52! I wonder when the heater was turned off. It's definitely on now! |
| 21.12.22 16:28 | | I don't wanna say the weather sucks, but I'm apparently breaking a streak of 14 weeks when I don't find my way to BK for a $3 Impossible Whopper by midnight |
| 20.12.22 22:12 | |  | Five days since Nora told me this existed, and Cub helpfully put it on sale, so let's try it. When I think "Old Bay," I think "it's for crab!" so it seemed that the perfect delivery medium would be to slather it on some Morey's imitation crab flakes. With the primary ingredients of cayenne peppers and vinegar, this seems to be on the Tabasco side of the sauces but it is a lot thicker than Tabasco. It's definitely spicy - perhaps too spicy for some Minnesotans! - but not overpoweringly so although my tongue is still pleasantly tingling a while later, although that might be more the vinegar than the other ingredients. It would be PERFECT on oysters, a food I have never eaten at home and have no intentions to (although there are a few spots out there where it'd be a mandatory appetizer). What can I say? It delivers, it probably tastes like you'd expect, and if you think you'd like it you probably would. This jar will probably last me long enough to start to dry u!
p, get super concentrated and then get REALLY interesting. I guess I should put it on some of those Herr's chips once things get REALLY blizzardy and I've been in the house for 72 hours straight - STAY TUNED TO THIS SOCIAL NETWORK |
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| 18.12.22 13:26 | |  | Today is the 16th anniversary of Kim and Tonya getting me on Facebook using my alumni ucr•edu address which I'm pretty sure finally broke for good a year or two ago. It's been so long ago Facebook can't remember it, find my first status, let me respond to it OR make it world-readable so you can see it too!
Also, sixteen years on Facebook is probably like a hundred in real life, so yeah I'm still living forever |
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| 18.12.22 03:30 |
 | UPDATE: The crack staff at the Quarry Taco Bell definitely gave Kris & I our order and probably also the order of the car behind us, guaranteeing I will have acid reflux and/or nightmares in the next three hours. Still tasty, tho |
| 17.12.22 22:15 | | Don't cry because it's the last one this year, smile because this year is mercifully anyway over (Mortimers) |
| 16.12.22 23:51 | | Better late than late! |
| 16.12.22 22:01 | |  | After 1, after 2, after 3 |
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| 16.12.22 19:12 | | LET'S GO HOCKEY (Xcel Energy Center) |
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| 15.12.22 20:11 | |  | Well, these didn't particularly NEED to exist, but they're a nice diversion from the same ol' tater chips. (From the Robbinsdale Hy-Vee) |
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| 12.12.22 10:27 |
 | Still have MySpace invites, probably... but somebody SERIOUSLY broke MySpace over the past decade - like even more than it was already broken. It's sad, really. |
| 12.12.22 09:38 |
 |  | Work is celebrating 1,000 days of working from home by....having us all get together for a big meeting and potluck. Well, okay. I chose to celebrate with an office yogurt and boy, there has been some innovation while I've been ignoring the yogurt section. This is definitely a colour not occurring in nature (that is named Red #40) but it tasted pretty much like all the Skittles. Apparently there's also a Berry Skittles but I'm OG and wouldn't know what that might taste like. I got got by the Midway Cub who sold me a yogurt with a freshness date of yesterday, which they surely shouldn't be doing for full price - ALSO, dang, yogurt costs, like, twice as much as it did when I bought it back before inflation |
(Centennial Office Building) |
| 10.12.22 16:48 |
| Live at five with the Weekend on KFAI! Kris followed me here but I may not give him a live mic this year! Find out on your radio at 90.3 and online at KFAI•org - I may also point the live video camera over at him instead of me (nah, you NEED to see this shirt and my clean shaven face) |
| 9.12.22 17:26 | |  | A glorious reissue hath arrived!! |
(United States Postal Service) |
| 9.12.22 16:59 | |  | Famous last words, from seven years ago tomorrow (as I hear him knocking about across the hall) |
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| 9.12.22 16:56 | | Visiting tomorrow |
| 8.12.22 18:20 | | Happy December 8th, the day Joe Pera reads the church announcements. |
