Secrets of the City

I’ll wait for MNspeak to correct the date on the post, as well as the spelling of “Worth Park,” since the keys really are “like right next to each other“, but I don’t expect the NYT will fix the implication that CRC is just a bike shop. The term is completely entrenched now, but there are no mountains here, and to paraphrase Steven Wright: there is a fine line between mountain biking and rolling around in the mud like a pig.
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As a side note about trivia bowls and Northfield, I am still somewhat bitter about St. Olaf’s “College Bowl” day for high school students in 1995, where we could have beaten Chaska (which won that tourney and Knowledge Bowl at state), had they not insisted on a much more familiar name for “Vladimir Ulyanov.”

I was active in Knowledge Bowl for three seasons, including a trip to state in my senior year. If college-level competition is anything like it, these tournaments are no more about the recitation of obscure facts than anticipating the question.

Mauer made the right choice in my estimation. Catchng is tough job, but he stands a better chance of staying healthy all his life.

But, then, I’m also biased because I think NFL football has become a lurid sideshow.

NFL football has become a lurid sideshow

Has become, when wasn’t it?

That creepy nude beach down the hill hardly comes to mind anymore, Mr. Erdmann said.

So the new bike trails killed bare-ass-beach?

weak!

New 7QQ today. Mr. Ian Rans from Drinking with Ian.

the thought of that shot he describes from Grumpy’s is actually hurting my stomach right now.

Yeah, I’m giving up on football’s measly 16 game schedule. Who needs quality when you can have quantity? Baseball’s great, because it’s scandal free, every day is like the first round of the NBA playoffs… from April through October!

I think that shot would be better with Sambal sauce rather than Siracha.

Two articles about Twin Cities in the NY Times!

Woo hoo!

7QQ should either die already or get updated more. Maybe start posing the 7QQs to MNSpeak members or something. I’m going to go through Jennifer Prichett withdrawl she was up there so long.

The problem with 7QQ is that I doubt there are enough characters / scoundrels / bon-vivants in the TCs willing to participate in oder to sustain it on a weekly basis…and while Matt could probably find 12 annual subjects, once a month seems too infrequent.

I’ve never actually seen that Drinking with Ian show. When is it on? My friend is friends with his girlfriend and her blog totally rules.

Oh poor lost Ms. Prichett and her perkiness.

Who needs quality when you can have quantity?

With the Twins, you get both. They even hadda good April for a change.

Vikings? Not so much

“The problem with 7QQ is that I doubt there are enough characters / scoundrels / bon-vivants in the TCs willing to participate in oder to sustain it on a weekly basis.”

I think there are plenty to keep it going weekly. There are 3 million people in this town, after all. I just need to stop slacking off and actually do it. There will be another one next week.

I say either update it regularly, or get rid of it. While Jennifer Prichett may be missed, RT won’t be, and he was up for quite a long time. As long as Matt doesn’t slack off…

It’s fine if you see things that way, but I won’t hold my breath until baseball stops being a lurid sideshow of racists, steroid abusers, and scofflaws.

I wouldn’t hold your breath either. Yeah, baseball’s a seedy little game. Watch the Burns documentary. It’s been a rogues gallery for pretty much it’s entire history.

But it’s not, as Frank Rich calls football: “a Boschian jamboree of bumping-and-grinding cheerleaders, erectile-dysfunction pageantry….”

But then again, Frank Rich could never throw a football because it kept falling out of his limp wrist.

That’s addressing the point.

Anyone who pays ANY attention to the non-event that is the NFL draft is a complete weeny.

What a farce.

Please go away, NFL.

Anyone who pays ANY attention to the non-event that is the NFL draft is a complete weeny.

What a farce.

Please go away, NFL.

Amen.

I was active in Knowledge Bowl for three seasons,

Good grief, knowledge bowl. I hated that activity. I was on my school’s kb team and our qb team for all four years and we were pretty good, but we all hated kb so very, very much. That stupid buzzer strip… Quiz bowl, on the other hand, was great! I miss those public access days…

There are so many different national tournaments for college bowl…good luck to my teammates at CBI nats this weekend!