Well, I can check this one off my bucket list! I went on Almanac, Minnesota's long-running flagship local politics show, last Friday to talk about downtown Saint Paul. I normally avoid doing TV because I hate it, but I'll aways make an exception for Eric Eskola and Cathy Wurzer.  It's very very quick, like all television, but I hope you enjoy it. I haven't watched it myself, but apparently I didn't sound like a moron. You'll notice that I didn't take the bait on the leading question about skyways. Live TV is too short to explain that shit. [Watch all five minutes of glory here ..read more

I had the honor of being a guest with Kate Archer Kent on WPR's Morning Show last week, talking about the Minneapolis 2040 plan with the good people of Wisconsin. It was pretty basic stuff about what the plan was, what it did and din't do, and the political and legal fallout that followed its adoption in 2019. Here's the link (the second segment in the clip). Enjoy ..read more

  [Boston, MA.] [Boston, MA.] [West 7th, St. Paul.] [Downtown, Minneapolis.] [Grand Avenue, St. Paul.] [Mac-Groveland, St. Paul.] [Pepin, WI.] [Location forgotten.] [Portland, OR.] [Portland, OR.] [Portland, OR.] [Portland, OR ..read more

  Eat the Rich ... [Doorway wall. Denver CO.] Her mother told her she could grow up to be anything she wanted to be,  so she grew up to become the strongest of the strong, the strangest of the strange, the wildest of the wild the wolf leading wolves. [Sidewalk. Denver CO.] River's Dream House WHAT HELPS YOU FEEL SAFE WITH OTHERS? [Telephone pole. Denver, CO.] Please help yourself to some of our leftover candy from Trick or Treating last night. Happy Halloween! [Bowl. Somewhere in St. Paul.] There he met with a group of African-American recent retirees, and he ..read more

  [Downtown St. Paul.] [Salt Lake City, Utah.] [Uptown, Minneapolis.] [Loring Park, Minneapolis.] [Portland, Oregon.] [Selby Avenue, St. Paul.] [Uptown, Minneapolis.] [St. Anthony Park, St. Paul.] [Grand Avenue, St. Paul.] [Location forgotten.] [Location forgotten ..read more

  SMILE your on  CAMERA [Porch. Location forgotten, probably Frogtown.] WOAH [Roadside. Pepin County, WI.] [finger pointing] [Chain. Pepin, WI.] Chicken or Rose 40- TURTLE or FROG 35- More in Ally <- [Boulevard. Pepin, WI.] PEPIN COUNTY league of Norweigian Cowboy Mexican-Americans Artist/Poet mystics [Window. Pepin, WI.] JUSTICE FOR GEORG FLOYD [Boulevard. Summit-University, St. Paul.] GLEN MEATS [Contraption. Glen.] LIFE IS MOSTLY froth and BUBBLES Two THINGS STAND LIKE STONE KINDNESS IN ANOTHER'S TROUBLE COURAGE IN OUR OWN [Tree. East Side, St. Paul, I ..read more

Railroad siding in Northeast Minneapolis. Hey! It's been a while since the last bike tour, around about two years. (By funny coincidence, I now have a two-year-old.) AS you might imagine, this one has been cooking in my mind of ra while. We're going to bike around and look at some past and present rail yards, ,certainly a negative / blank space in many people's imaginations of the city. And yet rail yards are all around us, and there used to be twice as many, huge swathes of urban land given over to nothing but railroad tracks and 24/7 industrial activity. They're quite interesting a ..read more

One of the weirdest dive bars in downtown St. Paul (sadly a too-short list) is closing down. Alary's Bar on 7th Street announced it was closing, and possibly rebranding. It wasn't my favorite place, but it was unique! Their odd parking-lot patio alone made it a must-see stop on any downtown St. Paul bar crawl. Alary's grand entrance. Alary's has a great, sordid, St. Paul history, and is the last real link to the city's burlesque past, when downtown was seedy and catered to the debauched, as it did since its days as Pig's Eye.  Along with the Har-Mar Mall, Alary's has the best am ..read more

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  LAKE CHIPOTLE 1.1 miles [Pole. Greenway, Minneapolis.] MEET ME HALFWAY [Tree. Longfellow, Minneapolis.] [light switch] [Tree. Longfellow, Minneapolis.] Season's Greetings [Pole in summer. Longfellow, Minneapolis.] [SENT IN FROM A FRIEND in San Francisco I think.] edna's park [Pole. Cedar-Riverside, Minneapolis.] The lottery. State promoted greed, addiction, and dumb investing. [Pole. Cedar-Riverside. Minneapolis.] 10% RAD [Pole. Como Park. St. Paul.] summer 1981 (82? 83?) JIMMY FLEISHAKER - BARBER ACOUSTIG GUITAR PLAYER RIGHT HERE ON THIS VERY LOCATION, LIGHTNING CAM ..read more