March 2010
“There’s saving literature, and there’s saving it by scrapping the stuff that...”
– Sarah Ball has a really nice takedown of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and all those other awful Austen-pillagers. (via newsweek)
February 2010
“The onslaught of megaselling relationship books like Elizabeth Gilbert’s...”
– Hannah Seligson in the WSJ
““Too much partisanship and not enough progress” is the sort of airy haiku that...”
– Ezra Klein, on Obama and the HC summit (via newsweek)
Perfect Porridge: State of music blogs, 2010 →
"Minneapolis New Breed" starts at the Southern...
Tonight is the first night of the new show at the Southern Theater, “Minneapolis New Breed”, which showcases some of the less traditional performance groups in town.
One of the pieces is from my friends in Supergroup, who have been building a show over the last several months with four separate elements and no unifying theme. The separate crazy elements were the then assembled...
Jason DeRusha: Reporter, Breakfast enthusiast →
WatchJeff put this out on twitter and it’s hilarious. Many, many, many choice quotes; I think my favorite is “he asks if we’re cool…”
Nat Thompson runs a pretty great blog, but makes...
“Along with those reasons, “increased usage of social media is definitely driving...”
– Brian Stetler in “Water-cooler Effect: Internet Can Be TV’s Friend” in the NYTimes
“At this point the story diverges. California surfers and counterculture figures...”
– Lee Svitak Dean, “Tacos Go Global” in the STrib. Tonight at the Bell Jeffrey Pilcher, University of Minnesota history professor, talks tacos.
“Appearing on Meet The Press this past weekend, Pawlenty spoke in favor of...”
– Well that’s just awesome.
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“What will the 10:45 per day generation expect? First they will expect a...”
– John Sviokla in “Brand Management and the 10:45 Per Day Generation”
“But a group of 20 volunteers persevered Saturday, and after a carefully...”
– Nick Ferraro of the PiPress was embedded with the mission to retrieve Oreo the goat. From the experience he produced a 1200 recap of the harrowing event, and it is the best thing I’ve read in a local paper in a really long time.
Social media, distribution, ambient communication,...
Here’s a challenge for you social media/journalism/new media/marketing/techie folks out there. This week, when you’re going through your normal routines of reading through your bookmarks or RSS reader or Twitter stream or Facebook page or Google Buzz or whatever, every time you encounter the word social media, replace it with THE ISLAND ON LOST. Here’s a good example from...
“Some Southern states have their tent cities. Here in Minnesota, a small group of...”
– Jon Tevlin, from “Homeless, with wheels: Rest stops become home”, in the Star Tribune
“Call them the new poor: people long accustomed to the comforts of middle-class...”
– Peter S. Goodman, from “The New Poor” in the NYTimes
I’ve been playing a lot with this...
“BE CAREFUL, LOST. Seriously, if that is the only explanation for the numbers,...”
– Gabe’s LOST recaps at Videogum are my favorite.
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Rapper from group actually called LMFAO gets in... →
Every single sentence in this article is comedy gold.
“Acting with bipartisan force and unusual speed, the Minnesota Legislature voted...”
– Warren Wolfe and Rachel E. Stassen-Berger in the STrib
Funny, the Paw didn’t mention dropping these folks from medicaid on any of his national press interviews so far.
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