just saw a fellow on a tall bike followed by a hot girl with a little dog in her bike basket, spring has sprung in powderhorn park

good dog!!!!

she is truly an exceptional puppy in every way

these socks have become highly prized currency in this house

Petite León’s owners are ready to change everything — except maybe that burger The south Minneapolis restaurant will close Dec. 31 and reopen as a casual neighborhood restaurant.

this article also cites Petite Leon in their examples of restaurants that have closed, but links to their own coverage of how Petite Leon didn’t really close, but is restructuring to be a cheaper neighborhood restaurant www.startribune.com/petite-leons...

Hospitality Minnesota, like other industry groups, is zeroing in on what it describes as "overregulation" - policies such as paid family leave and municipal $15 minimum wage ordinances - that they say make the state unfriendly to businesses.

like sorry to Hospitality Minnesota but we’re not rolling back our minimum wage

read this article out loud to my partner, the FOH manager of a James Beard nominated restaurant, and their eyes rolled so hard I could hear it

I work in public defense social work and I hear it all the time but we are a radical group for the most part

modern life is hell

yday i went to the ER for anaphylaxis (i’m fine) but today my face is still so swollen that Face ID isn’t working so I can’t log onto MyChart to make my follow up appointment 😫😫😫😫😫

we v lovingly threaten to send our dogs to the hat factory, like “you are going to make such a beautiful hat, and maybe even a stole 🥰🥰🥰”

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

If the hardcore bands guitarist looks like this, you’re gonna die in that pit

I miss the Triple Rock literally every day!!!!

thank god for city pages for this picture tbh

the last time I saw @eddieargos.bsky.social and Art Brut live I wore a t-shirt that I shoplifted from the Uptown Urban Outfitters to the Triple Rock and that was 17 years ago and god they’re so fuckin good live still

handsome boy

huffing my dog’s big ol blockhead as he snoozes post-walk

googling “why does my dog smell so good after he’s out in the sunshine”

NO i’m so so so sorry, what a horrible thing to have happen!

caught this neighbor playing construction noises really loudly on a speaker aimed at our house last night but she stopped at 10:03 so apparently it doesn’t count as harassment 🥴

this morning I watched him pick up a toy and intercept Truffle Fries as she tried to chew on @theisb.bsky.social’s face, incredible dog brother

Coffee Cup the dog is truly the front runner for family MVP this year based solely on how good he is with this puppy and her needle teeth

We also have a solution for this.

what

this is their indie pop album cover for sure for sure, blueberry is lead vocals, coconut plays the synth, watermelon holds down the rhythm section on his drum machine

oh my god why are these people so obsessed with bike lanes??? I personally hate biking (for me, not as a whole lol) and have never been so much as inconvenienced by a bike lane

truffle fries the dog, approximately half a second before she tried to eat my phone

everybody say “good job truffle fries!” for not having a single accident in the house overnight and sleeping all the way til 6:30 AM!!!

they are EXTREMELY good cats

watermelon the cat

coconut the cat on my shoulders

ok i can’t find one of Blueberry but this is Watermelon - he’s the only boy and he is v awkward and clumsy bc he recently had a huge growth spurt, and then Coconut is my special buddy, she’s a diva who is v brave and has learned to politely request ups whenever someone’s standing near her