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Post by Kapitan on Oct 21, 2020 11:34:47 GMT
Today's forecast: 3-6" of snow! And no, that is not normal even for Minnesota. The record snowfall for this date in the Twin Cities is 3", so it could be setting new precedent. In the end we got 7.5", so it is a new record for Oct. 20. And it's wet, heavy stuff!
Edit: I see in the newspaper it was 7.9". Which is worse!
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Post by kds on Oct 21, 2020 12:14:55 GMT
I don't want to brag, but it's going to be sunny and 75 in the Baltimore area.
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Post by The Cincinnati Kid on Oct 21, 2020 13:56:15 GMT
Yup, it's going to be in the 70s here, and close to 80 tomorrow. That said, I love a good snowfall, just not until December.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 22, 2020 14:22:47 GMT
RIP to the great James Randi, a magician who devoted much time and effort to debunking fraudsters and scammers.
A great quote from the NYT obit: "Using a singular combination of reason, showmanship, constitutional cantankerousness and a profound knowledge of the weapons in the modern magician’s arsenal, he traveled the country exposing seers who did not see, healers who did not heal and many others."
And for KDS, I'd like to note that it was Randi who designed the guillotine that "decapitated" Alice Cooper nightly on the Billion Dollar Babies tour. Randi joined Cooper on that tour.
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Post by kds on Oct 22, 2020 14:26:16 GMT
RIP to the great James Randi, a magician who devoted much time and effort to debunking fraudsters and scammers.
A great quote from the NYT obit: "Using a singular combination of reason, showmanship, constitutional cantankerousness and a profound knowledge of the weapons in the modern magician’s arsenal, he traveled the country exposing seers who did not see, healers who did not heal and many others."
And for KDS, I'd like to note that it was Randi who designed the guillotine that "decapitated" Alice Cooper nightly on the Billion Dollar Babies tour. Randi joined Cooper on that tour.
I'm actually about halfway through Martin Popoff's anthology style book on Alice Cooper, and just yesterday read several quotes from Randi about that tour. It was immortalized on the concert movie It's Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper. He told a story where he was in the audience with Alice's mother for one show (and least when he wasn't obligated to be onstage). It was the first time Alice's mother had ever seen Alice's show or heard any of this music, so Randi had to convince her that it was all a character, and an act, and she wound up loving it.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Oct 22, 2020 18:14:57 GMT
So, tonight we have the Eagles/Giants Thursday Night Football game and (or?) the Presidential Debate. I think I'll be doing some heavy duty channel-switching!
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 22, 2020 18:22:44 GMT
So, tonight we have the Eagles/Giants Thursday Night Football game and (or?) the Presidential Debate. I think I'll be doing some heavy duty channel-switching! I was thinking I'd watch a movie or surf YouTube. While I'm moderately curious how badly behaved our two candidates can behave (and whether the moderator's mute button will help), I don't think I can stomach any more of that. And Eagles/Giants, well, not my teams.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Oct 22, 2020 18:26:14 GMT
So, tonight we have the Eagles/Giants Thursday Night Football game and (or?) the Presidential Debate. I think I'll be doing some heavy duty channel-switching! I was thinking I'd watch a movie or surf YouTube. While I'm moderately curious how badly behaved our two candidates can behave (and whether the moderator's mute button will help), I don't think I can stomach any more of that. And Eagles/Giants, well, not my teams. I think it'll be worth watching just to see how Trump handles the mute button. How sad is that as a reason to watch the debate...
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Post by kds on Oct 22, 2020 18:38:19 GMT
So, tonight we have the Eagles/Giants Thursday Night Football game and (or?) the Presidential Debate. I think I'll be doing some heavy duty channel-switching! Sounds like I'll see what's on the DVR or just settle on reruns of The Office (US) on Comedy Central.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 28, 2020 17:39:49 GMT
Sad but predictable news out of Minneapolis: the Twin Cities will no longer have a weekly "alternative newspaper" as the last remaining such paper, The City Pages, will close. It began in 1979.
Whether it still qualified as a true alt weekly is questionable, as it had been bought in the 90s by the owner of the Village Voice, and has for years now been owned by the major local paper, The Star Tribune (which itself is owned by a larger, [Wolves owner] Glen Taylor-owned media company).
When I first moved to Minneapolis, City Pages was great. It was THE source--especially with the online world still in its infancy--for local music and arts information, as well as interesting original reporting and offbeat nationally syndicated columns like Dan Savage's, back when it began each entry with a phrase now no longer deemed appropriate! And of course, it was free. You'd find it all over the U of MN campus, in racks around downtown and Uptown, and basically around every commercial district throughout the city.
RIP, City Pages!
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 30, 2020 1:33:06 GMT
An email exchange with some old friends about yet other old friends got me nostalgic and, cutting to the chase, listening to some music I recorded about 20 years ago. A lot of it feels like it's by a different person, even a child-nephew or something; yet in some ways it feels like not just me, but me yesterday. Parts of it make me feel like a proud dad; others make me feel cringey. And I'll bet I wouldn't have predicted which were which.
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Post by B.E. on Oct 30, 2020 2:19:31 GMT
Funny, I had a similar experience just a week or two ago. My iPod Classic finally died for good, so I dug my iPod Mini out of storage (it's only 6GB! ). On it were about a half dozen or so of my first recordings (from about 12 years ago). I'd estimate 90% of it was 100% cringey. There was one song, that I had completely forgotten about, where I thought, "hmm, I might be able to make something of that." Man, back then I could play bass, but I couldn't write or sing! Amazingly, I haven't erased them from history, yet...
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Nov 2, 2020 12:13:36 GMT
Where I live, Trick Or Treat was supposed to be last Thursday night, but was cancelled due to rain. Now it is tonight. What is the acceptable protocol this year? Obviously the kids will be wearing masks, well some of them. Due to social distancing, is handing out candy appropriate? I know some people put the candy in a basket or something and just let the kids take their own. I guess I'm afraid to do that, thinking that a few kids might scoop it all up.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 2, 2020 12:34:54 GMT
Where I live, Trick Or Treat was supposed to be last Thursday night, but was cancelled due to rain. Now it is tonight. What is the acceptable protocol this year? Obviously the kids will be wearing masks, well some of them. Due to social distancing, is handing out candy appropriate? I know some people put the candy in a basket or something and just let the kids take their own. I guess I'm afraid to do that, thinking that a few kids might scoop it all up. Trick or treating was a non-factor this year here. I never did hear anything official about whether it was allowed, encouraged, forbidden, etc., and so I was ready for it. But not a single kid. (I did see a few bowls out on front porches that seem to have been there for the purpose of self-service.)
Actually that isn't TOO unusual anymore, though: the past decade or so, trick or treating seems to have become a fully organized, planned activity, usually in specific places (e.g. malls, parks, parking lots) as opposed to the fun door-to-door adventure it was when I was a kid. You occasionally still see kids out, but not often. Kind of sad, in my opinion.
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Post by kds on Nov 2, 2020 13:30:34 GMT
Where I live, Trick Or Treat was supposed to be last Thursday night, but was cancelled due to rain. Now it is tonight. What is the acceptable protocol this year? Obviously the kids will be wearing masks, well some of them. Due to social distancing, is handing out candy appropriate? I know some people put the candy in a basket or something and just let the kids take their own. I guess I'm afraid to do that, thinking that a few kids might scoop it all up. Trick or Treating was scheduled on a weeknight? A weeknight two nights prior to Halloween? I can't say I've ever heard of that. We took our son out on Halloween to my old neighborhood (we live on a dead end street, so there's no trick or treating), and we were pleasantly surprised that there was no much activity. Lots of people were out, and lots of people were handing out candy. I think at the tail end of a shitty year, people wanted to give the kids a fun night.
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