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Maybe we should have stopped after Friendster.
Obligatory Middle Aged Minnesotan Post Re: The Replacements.
Unlike the “Tim” box set, which radically remixed that album (to good effect, IMO), the “Let it Be” set keeps a great album as it is (also a good idea IMO).
The alternate takes are interesting, if only to show they got it right in ‘84.
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I ran across this online somewhere and I’m convinced it was written by a skinny, pale ancient Egyptian with a pompadour, who called himself Mor-Osiris.
November 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
IMPORTANT HISTORICAL RESEARCH
Number of past members of long-running but now defunct UK bands, according to Wikipedia:
UFO: 27
Whitesnake: 42
The Fall: 43
November 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
They say the coverup is worse than the crime, but sometimes the crime is really, really bad, and the coverup is just embarrassingly obvious.
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Epictetus: “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”

Insane Clown Posse: “Magnets, how do they work?”

The POTUS: “Nobody knows what a magnet is.”
November 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My social media last was full of Northern Lights photos from Twin Cities people, including some in my St Paul neighborhood, but when I looked out my window, I couldn’t see anything remarkable. What am I doing wrong?
November 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I thought it was an Insane Clown Posse joke, but no, the POTUS really just said nobody knows how magnets work.
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Found in an old box in my Storage Closet of Despair
November 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This is the kind of messaging Democrats need.
From the top rope
November 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Just saw the term “hopescrolling.”
November 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
November 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
It seems like Mike Johnson holds a press conference at least once a week during this shutdown. Is Hakeem Jeffries doing this, and I’m just not hearing about it? If he and Chuck Schumer are not doing this during the shutdown, why the hell not?
November 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I’m a lifelong news reader. I used to like Sunday mornings, because I could have time to relax and read all the news. But these days, reading the news just makes me feel worse. I’m starting to dislike Sunday mornings because I have too much time to read the news.
November 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I saw John Waters speak tonight and he talked about going to Hearst Castle for a fundraiser that was honoring his friend Patty Hearst. He was chatting with a man at the reception and he asked, “So, how do you know Patty?” The man said, “Oh, she robbed the Hibernia Bank that my parents owned!”
November 2, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Just thinking about how when Lloyd Cole sings “she looks like Eva Marie Saint in ‘On the Waterfront,’” he pronounces it like “Eve Marie Sawnt.”

youtu.be/gSc46sEZdl4?...
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
YouTube video by LloydColeVEVO
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
My favorite sculpture at the Minneapolis Institute of Art has got to be “Naked Man Drunkenly Propositions an Eagle”
October 27, 2025 at 2:25 AM
A good 200-300 people came out for No Kings in lovely Grand Marais, Minnesota.
October 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Reposted by Will
You gotta just block these accounts without interacting. They're doing this the night before No Kings so they can selectively grab quote posts and replies about how nasty people are being. It's extremely transparent. Just block and move on.
Yes, it does look like the government accounts joining Bluesky are real, including Homeland Security and the White House. They're tweeting about it on X.
October 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Currently looking up inflatable frog costumes for the inevitable deployment of the National Guard to Minneapolis
October 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Describe your Bluesky account with a single image
October 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
[Michael Stipe voice]
October 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
After last week’s stupid manufactured outrage about Bad Bunny, I braced myself for people getting mad about Rush choosing a woman to play drums.

But so far, I have not heard anything negative about it.

Well done, nerds. Well done. I’m proud of you.
October 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
One minute and 53 seconds of power pop bliss, including the abstract outro.
Turn it up.

youtu.be/-IF0OKHcLYY?...
Skateboard Tattoo
YouTube video by illuminati hotties - Topic
youtu.be
September 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Hi, it’s me, the guy taking a couple minutes away from a busy work day to correct a Star Trek meme page for some inaccurate information it posted about Mary and Percy Shelley.
September 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Some day, I’d like to loosen up and be the kind of person who doesn’t care that Black Sabbath rhymes “masses” with “masses” in the first line of “War Pigs,” but at this advanced age, I guess it’s not gonna happen.
September 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM