Secrets of the City

Photo geeks, check out this just-posted Flickr photowalk video. Sunday is the next photowalk down at the Minneapolis Farmer’s Market.

I’d comment on those Vikings outfits, but there’s throw up corn pops all over my keyboard. Disgusting.

The new Vikings uniforms would be perfect for a rollerderby team. Or a revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Starlight Express.”

I’m old skool. I say go back to the plain purple with plain white numbers.

Would the 28-year-old suburban whites with anger management problems still shell out $189 for a jersey if the Vikes went retro?

PiPress: No Memorial Day firewords in St. Paul

Firewords++

“Would the 28-year-old suburban whites with anger management problems still shell out $189 for a jersey if the Vikes went retro?”

Not as likely. Nuance is not a hallmark of football fans.

At one of the bars nearby, they have a huge grainy black and white picture of the Purple People Eaters, Eller, Marshall, Page and Larson. Those are bad-looking dudes.

Let me just say that I miss Mitch.

I hear Brad Childress is an offensive mastermind…this is a good start, as those uniforms are highly offensive. Maybe the Vikes management decided the uniforms needed to convey a sense of motion since they are lacking team speed.

They aren’t the ugliest pro sports uni’s ever but they sure ain’t the prettiest either.

Oh man I love those fireworks, bummer. I work down at the Science Museum and its always kinda cool walking around on the grounds for the couple months afterwards finding all the little leftover cardboard casings from the blasts.

i dunno, i kinda like the uniforms and was pleasantly surprised. I never thought I’d be saying that i like purple pants – wow.

I realize Wilf has been putting a lot of money into the Vikings to make it “his” team, but I’m not so big on the uniforms. The ship in front of Winter Park is one thing, but the uniforms weren’t broken, so why “fix” them to make the team look like factory seconds of the Denver Broncos’ uniforms?

Because by changing the uniforms, they force the die-hards to go out and buy new jerseys. And, more reason for all those people with Culpepper jerseys to invest in new ones.

I’m just praying Ziggy is changing up the halftime show. I’m so sick of the lumberjacks and frisbee dogs. How about sumo wrestling? A rugby demo? Something.

boy, minnesotans love any excuse to set of fireworks, don’t they?

I’m pretty sure they set off fireworks here for more holidays than anywhere else I’ve been.

I don’t really want to turn this into another crime post but…

The father was 33…the son was 17…how old is his mother?

Kids having kids never has a good result!

NFL merchandise is licensed, and the profits from those licenses are evenly split between the teams. The only way the team’s “84 Moss” jersey made them more money than the “18 Moss” Raiders jersey is the fact that they sold it directly to the fans. While I’m sure retail markup is good for the team’s bottom line, it’s unlikely that it’s a huge profit center like advertising and ticket sales.

tmayhem: some people around here are easily amused. Watching fifty bucks go up with a big cloud of smoke, but with a bang, not a buzz, is a popular activity throughout June and July. I wish those people would grow up. They’re like the annoying guy upstairs who seems to walk around with bowling balls all night, but can’t seem to hold on.

it’s still a racket

The Vikes changed uniforms — does this mean we won’t have to listen to the opening bars to “Welcome to the Jungle” every 10 minutes in the Dome anymore? God would that be a relief.

Smootie-time!

Remember the “Love Boat”!

Boycott Vikings.

TM- Move to Milwaukee. The Summerfest grounds have a festival almost every week during the summer. They shoot off fireworks usually every night of every festival. And, if you want to see a huge display, go July 3rd to the lakefront. Nothing up here, that I’ve seen, compares. I have no clue who pays for them.

Yeah, I know it’s probably a waste of resources and everything, but oooh, pretty! I’m with Bryan. We share similar views of the river, his from the Science Museum, mine from the West Side bluffs. And when fireworks are shot off from Harriet Island we can watch ‘em from my son’s bedroom window. The kid gets a kick out of it. Oh well.

Nothing is more symbolic of our country fireworks…I mean, who can deny that they love than blowing up a bunch of shit for no reason other than our personal indulgence & entertainment. Fireworks…when carpet-bombing a 3rd world jungle nation just won’t do.

Man…the people of MNSpeak are so bitchy lately that they find a way to bitch about fireworks? Next, they’ll take on candy and the fur of puppies.

Dear j,

I was bitching about America, not fireworks…I would give you the finger if I hadn’t blown it off with an M-80.

There’s no better way to see fireworks in Minnesota than from the deck of a Lake Minnetonka boat with the business end of an Atlanta hooker grinding your coffee.

I have no problems with fireworks, it just seems silly how many occasions they think of to set them off in this part of the country.

I have to admit, though, sunday trips to Wisconsin for beer&fireworks (especially the kind that are illegal here) will probably always be an appealing idea for me.

Here’s some interesting numbers on the ref on the stadium tax.

T, I’d say that map sort of represents taxation without representation, wouldn’t you. I say let’s go dump the stadium in Boston Harbor.

Have people seen this emoticon before? < +o It looks like the symbol for Prince.

A friend and I are going to the Mitch Hedberg tribute Sunday. He was one of my favorites. I saw him live only once about 2 or 3 years ago when he came through town with Dave Attell and Lewis Black. Unfortunately, Mitch seemed zonked out of his gourd that night and had trouble delivering some of his jokes. Yet he was still hilarious.