For a really long time, one of my favorite takeout restaurants had two jars of pens (to sign credit card receipts with) marked CLEAN and USED - I think they didn't give up until last year

The restaurant Hells Kitchen in Minneapolis has done a sausage bread for decades that has black coffee and currants and nuts in it - and it's absolutely divine, although I liked it better when they made it with bison sausage.

Such a delight to listen to @warriorsvox.bsky.social call a game like this

I got to ride the Zephyr a few times when I was a child - once in a private compartment they called a "drawing room" like in a Victorian novel. So elegant!

I never heard of the town of Brookdale in Santa Cruz County, where the quake that just rattled everyone in the Bay Area was apparently centered. As an expat Minnesotan, I only know it as a mall that didn't quite make it.

Aldrich, Bryant, Colfax, Dupont;
You can put your trust upon't -
Oh, that's a different song, never mind

I used to do front of house at a theater where, in order to get people back into their seats after intermission, we would clear the men's room and redirect part of the line from the women's - and the women loved it. Every week we'd hear someone squealing "ooh, look! urinals!"

How a Bay Area Attorney Aims to Hold US Agents Accountable for Violence in Minneapolis | KQED Oakland-based civil rights attorney John Burris is leading a legal coalition filing 10 claims alleging abuse by federal agents during the immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis.

www.kqed.org/news/1207765...

OMG! I am going to be in MN that weekend and I have been longing to learn crop art!

A lovely story with a lot of quotes from beloved-in-Oakland Chris Bassett:

When I moved to California in 1992 my mom said "oh, you should check out this sweet little town your dad and I lived in for a while during WWII, it's called Palo Alto" and even then I knew enough to snort

The Oakland Coliseum had any number of sponsors over the 25 years I was an A's fan, and I never heard anyone say O-dot-co or McAfee or Network Associates who wasn't being paid to do it except in jest. Giants fans had to say "Oracle", Pac Bell etc or resort to a coy "our ballpark in China Basin"

The good thing about that kind of name for an existing facility is that no one will use it except the team's staff and broadcasters. No parent will say "Hey kids, hop in the car, we're going to Uniqlo Field!", no player is going to reminisce about the first time they got off the team bus there.

+1 for the person you can hear politely adding "and ovaries!"

Thanks for this wonderful reporting and writing. As a teenager I spent many hours in Shakopee visiting my grandparents, bored out of my mind - I would never have expected to voluntarily want to return, but now I do to support these good people.

Even when the fly balls end up getting stuck in the last pile of filthy snow that refuses to melt!

I hadn't remembered until seeing your post, but my dad was also a South alum - although much farther back in time - so it was a good motivator to join in.

Good story, although from this quote it seems USA Today is unfamiliar with "hella":
“Most important part of our story is human connection,’’ she said. “Really that's all I want in my life is human connection and damn now connect with a hell of ton of people.’’

I'm just glad that I could bring Oakland to a lot of people.’’ 💚💛🥁

Former Giants exec aims to spread the Oakland Ballers experience to entire Bay Area (Gift Article) Yeshayah Goldfarb joins the Ballers as the team's first president after 24 years as a key member of the Giants' baseball operations group.

In two plus years, the @oaklandballers.bsky.social have made an indelible mark on Oakland. After a record-breaking season, they are ready to take the next step as a franchise & they’ve hired the person they believe will lead them there. On new team president Yeshayah Goldfarb’s vision for the team:

Lost Mitten Rediscovery Relay

The show being "I'd Rather Be Right" and the movie being "Yankee Doodle Dandy", in which James Cagney as a tap-dancing FDR sings "When I was courting Eleanor I told her Uncle Teddy, I wouldn't run for president unless the work was steady"?

I enjoyed this thread so much, thank you! In late 2015 I was at the next table to Warren Spannaus and another old DFLer I couldn't identify having breakfast at the Normandy Kitchen. After summing up the prospects for 2016, the other guy said "of course it SHOULD have been Paul" and Spannaus agreed.

I was interested to learn recently that the reason the soldiers whistle the tune in "Bridge Over The River Kwai" is because the more accurate version where they would be singing "Hitler - has only got one ball" wouldn't have made it past the censors

Frey had only been in office for about a month, and a lot of the other volunteers were from the suburbs, but still I thought it was funny people didn't recognize him (and had to ask someone from Oakland for the information).

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, in a flannel shirt and casual jacket, stands in front of a small group of seated people wearing parkas and sweatshirts that say "Crew 52"; they are volunteers at the 2018 Super Bowl.

Eight years ago today I was volunteering at Super Bowl 52 in Minneapolis. We were told there was a special guest, and the guest jumped up and thanked us all for representing the city. A couple of other volunteers asked me afterward if I knew who that nice young fellow was. "It's the mayor", I said.

It's @rfwill149.bsky.social 's fault

We're in a poem @jorgeleon17.bsky.social @ross-coe.bsky.social @cassmoni.bsky.social @denny149.bsky.social @rfwill149.bsky.social