Secrets of the City

Half of today’s stories could have been called “What the hell is wrong with Wisconsin?”

Seriously.

re: smoking.

Is improv considered theater? It doesn’t meet any of the “criteria” set forth by the judge but it seems like they might be able to have a case if they played that angle. I’m not particularly familiar with the ins and outs of the law.

I’m a little disappointed Mark Benjamin didn’t use the “it’s just like burning the American flag” defence in the Shakopee Valley News. He’s a bit like Larry Craig — a gift that just keeps giving.

Of couse, you could say the same of tuecer’s mom.

The MDH has a fact sheet on the subject, B, under “theatrical productions”

That sheet didn’t define a “theatrical production”, which I think is the crux of the issue.

In another blow to Minnesota bars allowing smoking, a Sixth Judicial District judge has ruled that the acting going on in a Babbitt bar this winter wasnt of the caliber to exempt the actors from the state smoking ban.

So. Then. If the bar. Hires. professional actors…
To act. In their smoky “performances.” They might get away with this?

They might get away with this?

If the goal was to hold a play in a bar, and smoking is a bona fide part of the performance of the actors, I would think it might. But that’s not what this is about. This is about knowingly and willfully violating a very clearly written state law, and then bragging about it.

They thought they were being clever and cute, but it’s just as max said in this MNspeak heading.

A fine cast with with nuanced low-key performances.

But the play needs a villain to round out the plot.

That’s it. I’m going to buy a bar. Then I’m going to commission Max to write a bar play of the environmental sort that involves every one in the joint. Then I’m going to hire real actors. Then I’m going to allow everyone to smoke.
Oh, and I’m going to make the actors wear fishnet stockings and call “dahling.”

Rat, you can be the villian of my bar play. As long as you wear fishnets and call me “dahling.”

Do I have to shave my head like Jeff Bridges did?

Over at the Anti-Strib, I’m known as “Darth Bob.”

This is more like the real me.

You’re a dirty bandwidth thief?

You know, people who go crazy about hotlinking are so Web 1.0. And there is a stick in their ass they badly need removing.

Err, it looks like I’m a dirty little bandwith thief, too!

That WAS a nice photo of a cute puppy, BTW.

You know, people who go crazy about hotlinking are so Web 1.0. And there is a stick in their ass they badly need removing.

Huh? Can you provide some context for your ire, Max?

Click on Bob’s “This is the real me” link.

Please create a “dirty little bandwidth thief” category for me, max.

(slinks away)

Would it have been okay if he’d put the puppy on his own server?
I’m so confused by your anger… Jeez, am I becoming Minnesotan?

I’m not angry. I think it is silly for people to block hotlinking by replacing an image with a “dirty little bandwidth thief” image. I mean, honestly, how much is that bandwidth costing? A billionth of a penny?

Now that I have been shamed for a billonth of a penny, time to jump to another thread and make fun of Steve Marsh, like everyone else.

If anyone is in the mood for post work drink with a bad puppy (bad Bob! Bad!), I’ll be at O’Gara’s in Saint Paul tonight instead of my usual haunts. I’ll be there from 5-7, at least.

Thanks for the clarification miller. It is all so much clearer now. I’ll be back, I need to go buy a new tube top and jean skirt.

Bob- why do you always pick the nights I can’t go?? I’ve been wanting to meet the stache in person for awhile now.

My loss, mb. I didn’t pick this night, either, I would prefer to be at Mrs. L’s side tonight, enjoying home, hearth and hound while watching Almanac and drinking gin & tonics.

(Before anyone give me grief about the tonic, it’s Seagram’s, fur God’s sake! Drowning that cheap bathtub swill in tonic water is considered a mercy killing!)

Tonight’s a benefit for asthma camps, so it’s a bit of work and pleasure — more pleasure, if any MNspeakers stop in. Hell, I’d even welcome Marsh.

Nobody should give nobody grief about a G&T. It’s a classic.

One day Bob, one day.

Not sure how my comment towards miller ended up in that comment. Should have been in the Steve Marsh thinks calling girls names will get them to like him thread.

Nobody should give nobody grief about a G&T. It’s a classic.

That’s what my wife calls ‘em, too: G&Ts. She likes the way I fix ‘em.

Are you hitting on me?

I thought you would never notice!

(bats eyes, smiles shyly)

Rat, you can be the villian of my bar play.

When it comes to the anti-smoking Puritans, villainous behavior becomes me.

As long as you wear fishnets and call me “dahling.”

If it’s consistent with the character.

Did I tell you that in Shakespeare’s day, guys like Bob would have closed the theaters?

I wrote about these kids last year, and I think they are worthy of a link today. High school students building a vehicle that gets 866 miles per gallon? Color me impressed.

Of couse, you could say the same of tuecer’s mom.

THAT’S QUITE ENOUGH, ROBERT!