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Notes From Minneapolis
4 November, 2009
27 October, 2009
Demo living room at Ikea with the Vikings game on TV last Sunday. Just like the real thing. (Maybe slightly more civil.)
3 October, 2009
Farewell to the Dome
Jim Caple has a nice piece on ESPN.com on the Dome,
OK, the Metrodome has some issues. But the place always deserved more respect than it got.
It was built in that era when communities had this quaint belief that function was more important than owners’ revenue streams, when the primary goal was to provide a home for as many sports as possible for the least amount of public money (those were the days, huh?). And the Metrodome did that better than any other stadium. In addition to being home for the Twins, Vikings, Gophers and (briefly) Timberwolves, the Dome is the only stadium to host the World Series, Super Bowl and Final Four (it held all three in a spectacular six-month span from October 1991 to April 1992). Heck, at the Metrodome, you not only occasionally got two sports in one day (Twins game in the morning followed by Gophers football game at night) but sometimes got two sports at the same time (Kent Hrbek’s WWE takedown of Ron Gant in the 1991 World Series).
It is sort of sad to see it go (for the Twins) and especially on days like today, but there’s a reason I only went to one Twins baseball game this year: the Metrodome.
24 September, 2009
23 September, 2009
David Byrne likes our lakes!
Bigger is not always better, but we do need periodic breaks from buildings. Industry abandoned the waterfronts over previous decades, and as the docks and the industry that went with them moved elsewhere our cities have begun to reclaim these areas—river walks (look how many people use Manhattan’s Hudson River paths!), lakefronts (the beautiful Minneapolis lakefront paths eventually lead all the way to the Mississippi!), beaches and seashores. In some seaside towns there is no public access to the sea, which to me seems a self-injuring situation. In my perfect city there would be public access to all these areas.
Also, I agree with this,
Seeing cities from on top of a bike is both pleasurable and instructive. On a bike one sees a lot more than from a freeway, and often it’s just as fast as car traffic in many towns.
Which is very similar to what Ernest Hemingway once said,
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.
(Via)
17 September, 2009
17 September, 2009
Your PARK(ing) Day Primer.
Ok y’all, tomorrow is PARK(ing) Day! What is PARK(ing) Day you ask?
PARK(ing) Day is an annual, one-day, global event where artists, activists, and citizens collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spots into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public parks.Pretty awesome right? That’s why Troy and I decided to help organize it in the Twin Cities this year. We’re super pumped that there will be 7 to 10 PARK(ing) spots for you to check out and take a load off at tomorrow between 10AM and 3PM. Here are 5 ways you can follow along and get involved:
- Follow us on Twitter where I will be “live-tweeting” throughout the day. Or at least attempting to.
- Check out the PARK(ing) Day Twin Cities 2009 Map to find a PARK near you.
- Go to the after-party at the West Bank Social Center from 5 to 8PM.
- Follow us on Tumblr as we collect all the documentation from tomorrow’s event and start planning for next year. And boy, do we have plans.
- Join the PARK(ing) Day Twin Cities group on Facebook to show your support. We’re already 110 members strong!
Most importantly, just enjoy the day! If you work in Minneapolis, take a stroll through the warehouse district on your lunch break. You might be surprised!
I’m going to try to make it down to the Warehouse District at some point tomorrow to check this out.
16 September, 2009
A quick one while I'm away
Damn. Just realized I missed the Twin Cities Tumblr Meetup #2. Hope everyone had fun. I’ve been away too long. At some point I will return to blogging, socializing, checking Tumblr/Facebook/Twitter. For now, though, I am super busy (in a good way).
27 August, 2009
24 August, 2009
Twins meetup tomorrow
WinTwin-ers,
The Twins game meetup is tomorrow (Tuesday). Plan on meeting at Grumpy’s downtown and then heading over to the Dome around 6:30. I’ll be at Grumpy’s by 5:30.
If we’ve never met and you have no idea what I or anyone else on this internet thing-a-ma-jig looks like I will be wearing this U of M bucket hat so you can identify our party. Also, if you think you might be late or something email me and we can trade numbers, etc.
Remember you can RSVP here to let us know you are coming.
Anyway, hope to see you there!
