Secrets of the City

Kudos to Kare 11 for revealing the breed of the attackers.

Kudos to Kare 11 for revealing the breed of the attackers.

Although the breed of the dog owners, if discovered, will be sanitized for your protection.

I can’t help but feel bad for the people who lost their dog. They seem like good people trying to get buy. I feel bad for all of the dogs and the people who lost their dog. It is obvious that the pit bulls where trained to kill or where severely abused. I hope they catch and prosecute the people who own the pit bulls. What kind of looser neglects animals like that.

Maybe it’s not the breed, maybe it’s because people who would let their dogs just roam like that and teach their dogs to be aggressive PREFER pit bulls.

Nobody ever mentions that though. It’s easier to blame a breed that to blame society.

Its not the breed, it is the owners, duhhh. Make the owners pay for this and take responsibility for their animals’ behavior.

Oh and to the Pomeranian owners: In hindsight you could’ve had a proper fence without massive holes in it. Anyone dog owner knows that a solid fence is required. If another dog or person passes by most dogs go nuts. Who know what would happen if they could break through the fence.

I swear I’m not trying to drive traffic to WCCO, but look at the web poll on our home page. You have to scroll down beneath “coupons.”

Well done, web producer Eric Henderson.

Ha! Jason, that’s hilarious.

I voted with the 62% yes. We are totally crushing the other yes.

Heh, love that, Jason!

Jason, there should be another item that says “Hell yeah!” Man, it’s cold outside. I just finished an interview with Smokey Robinson and I almost didn’t go because it was so cold. My momma had to talk me into it–otherwise–we could have done it over the phone!

Meh, it’s not that cold. I still remember now going to school because I forgot to plug the car in to keep it warm overnight, and it wouldn’t start. Now that’s cold!

I think my heart froze instantly when running between skyway accesses without a coat.

It is cold!

Not cold enough.

Let’s set some records!

Still biked to work today that means it is not cold enough!

And also having no snow around sucks.

I just think if it is going to be this cold, I would prefer it to be colder, like -60, then work would be called off.

Still biked to work today that means it is not cold enough

No, it just means that you’re a freak of nature who can withstand the lung bursting cold.

This morning strands of my hair blew in my mouth for a second and froze. It’s too damn cold.

That City Pages story was boring bullshit.

Apparently this weather makes vlad feel like he’s back in the Siberian gulag where he was raised.

Vlad’s parents came over here to escape it and the kid regrets it.

Some people gauge part of their self worth by the amount they suffer.

That City Pages story was boring bullshit.

I was hoping for some sort of information on the endowment of said author!

You can’t take a name like that (Cockplenty) and not produce the goods.

Stop the threadz! I just agreed with Rat and Maz.

You can’t take a name like that (Cockplenty) and not produce the goods.

Shoulda called himself Buck Naked.

The story was fucking pointless. The punch line — you need a big dick to be in porn? Really?

Pastor Bucknaked

If you want a really well written account of the AVN awards you should pick up David Foster Wallace’s book Consider the Lobster. It’s the first chapter. I’m guessing that the next Patrick Strait story will be review of a John Updike novel.

If you want a really well written account of the AVN awards

mmkay

does porn pay better than my job?

Depends. Do they pay by the inch?

heh!

Pastor Bucknaked?

Well then, back up and try again!

Depends. Do they pay by the inch?

or the Ounce?

either way I can probably cash in

“Tim Cockplenty” went about it the wrong way. The first step is getting tested and getting papers from the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation.

Check out the link on that page entitled “Porn 101″.

I just think if it is going to be this cold, I would prefer it to be colder, like -60, then work would be called off.

For sure, record setting colds would be interesting to be a part of. I have trained myself to be able to spend a night outside when i is -12F so, I don’t feel threatened.

Apparently this weather makes vlad feel like he’s back in the Siberian gulag where he was raised.

Hmm, cliche comments…. I would’ve thought that being able to embrace the cold would’ve won me some street cred with the native Minnesotans….
Oh well…

No, it just means that you’re a freak of nature who can withstand the lung bursting cold.

This morning strands of my hair blew in my mouth for a second and froze. It’s too damn cold.

Actually, while cold can damage your body in many ways, your lungs are probably safe at almost any temperature that may hit MN. I recently learned this in a NYT Article: “Too Cold to Exercise? Try Another Excuse”

Anyway, I hope we still have another shot at super low temps.

Also, I would like this much snow (a picture taken in MN btw):

I would’ve thought that being able to embrace the cold would’ve won me some street cred with the native Minnesotans….

I think there are some Minnesotans here who think you have ulterior motives for your enthusiastic embrace of cold.

Cold weather doesn’t bother us (mostly), we deal with it, and can enjoy winter. But it’s not a cause.

With you it doesn’t seem as much about loving the weather as it is advancing some kind of agenda. Because you forward it pretty much every time you comment.

I’m a native Minnesotan and I hate the cold. Every winter I make plans to move somewhere warmer. Sometimes I actually go.

From Vlad04’s NYT article: The big question was, Is it ever too cold? Dr. Castellani said. The answer is no. People go to the poles, people are out there when its minus-50 degrees, people do incredible things, and safely. There really isnt a point where you can tell people it is not safe anymore.

I bet there is. Someone should see if Dr. Castellini wants to go skinny-dipping on Titan, Saturn’s icy moon.

I used to mine on Io, the innermost of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter, but then the polydichloric euthimal I was taking made me want to kill hookers and Federal Marshall O’Niel had to shoot me out into space.

I think there are some Minnesotans here who think you have ulterior motives for your enthusiastic embrace of cold.

With you it doesn’t seem as much about loving the weather as it is advancing some kind of agenda. Because you forward it pretty much every time you comment.

WTF? Agenda? Am I a politician or something? Totally lost me. My only agenda is to push my limits and see how far I can go without hurting my body.

My only agenda may be to make people whining about weather looks like pussies.

I am in no way trying to overthrow the MN government or to push the GAY agenda though.

If you have other theories to what I am conspiring to by taking part in outdoor activities during the winter, please elaborate.

Bizzare..

Every winter I make plans to move somewhere warmer.

So did I. Lived in Miami for a year and a half. A college dream was to live in Florida.

Until I moved there.

Did it, done it. Got it out of my system

Seems The Rat hit a nerve with vlado.

If you have other theories to what I am conspiring to by taking part in outdoor activities during the winter, please elaborate.

We’re just crabby and whiny because the cold sucks.

And I’ll fully own my being a whiner.
I’m down with snow, but not this freakin’ cold.

My only agenda may be to make people whining about weather looks like pussies.

I guess you would be the one to know that.

No nerve hit. I don’t mind discussing things or being criticized.

Basically, I am allergic to most of people’s discussion of weather. In the summer it is too hot and everyone needs AC, in the winter it is too cold, waaah, waah, waah.

The winter is a lot more interesting to me, because the cold appears as an intriguing challenge. The colder it gets, the more interesting it becomes whether I will survive my biking, dog walks, sleeping outside in the winter.

I for one, embrace all season that the beautiful state of Minnesota has to offer.

On the other hand I am not fond of the whinny people who need to be in the perfect 65-75 degree temperature range 365 days per year.

Oh and I slept in this thing below when it was -12F at night:

I have nothing to say.

I’m a native Minnesotan and I hate the cold.

Today is the one of the two or three days I have every year when I genuinely and truly miss living in Los Angeles – or, rather, I wish fervently I had enjoyed living there as to avoid having the tears from my watering eyes freeze on my eyelashes. This kind of cold is just messed up.

This (and other) conversation(s) aside, I just watched Vlado’s BWCA slideshow and it made me extremely nostalgic… Nice photography, Vlad!

(And adorable, photogenic doggy.)

The only time The Rat feels really cold and can’t stand Minnesota is in April.

That’s a cruel month. Wind, damp cold, grey and endless pissy rain.

I despise February. Why does the shortest month feel like the longest?

This (and other) conversation(s) aside, I just watched Vlado’s BWCA slideshow and it made me extremely nostalgic… Nice photography, Vlad!

(And adorable, photogenic doggy.)

Yes, the BWCA is an amazing place. Pristine nature at its best. One of Minnesota’s true treasures.

I was able to get up there for four days this winter. If I had more time, I’d love to go on a winter camping trip there for 5-6 days.

Imagine winter there, 0 people, complete isolation, pristine snow only disturbed by animal tracks. The stars at night…

Anyway.

Actually for some people with Sports Related Asthma execising when it’s cold can cause some serious issues if you don’t prepare!

The NY Times article linked to earlier says the danger is from the dryness of the air, not it’s temperature. Cold air doesn’t hold much moisture, which is why it seems that it’s the temperature that induces the symptoms.

Volunteers with exercise-induced asthma, whose airways tended to narrow after exercise in the cold, breathed cold air or room temperature air that was equally dry. Their airways narrowed in response to the dryness of the air, not its temperature, Dr. Rundell said.

That doesn’t make it any easier to breath outside when its cold and humidity is extremely low. I’d like to find any case where the interior humidity approaches what it is when its -10 F outside. It’s nice research but extremely unusable in practical application. It just never gets as dry inside as it does outside.

the cold is annoying, but I’m still out walking around in it

and in the summer I refuse to buy an AC. It’s such a waste of energy. I just have a couple fans that I run when I’m home, but I’m not even home that much when the weather’s nice.