Secrets of the City

What the heck, IT IS STILL THURSDAY!

I agree, esquared. This is an outrage.

Somewhere in the world it’s Friday. Heck, it’s almost dinner time tomorrow in New Zealand already!

If only there were signs posted all over Max’s home indicating what day it was. Someone should just rename Thursday and Friday Day 6 and Day 7.

*Day 5 and Day 6. Distracted by TV and trying to number the days.

Broadcast weeks begin on Mondays, so Friday would only be Day 5.

I want the possum in MY bed.

FIRST!

I had the craziest dreams last night. Guess what they were about.

making sweet man-love to Tim Pawlenty?

Yesterday, I dreamed that Jason drove me to work. Last night, I dreamed I loaned a laptop computer to Sid Hartman!

There is a weird CBS vibe in my dreams of late…

Oh, I just tried the breakfast burrito (sausage, not bacon) at the new Columbia Heights Sonic.

It wasn’t bad. @ $1.99, cheaper than McDonald’s version.

Got my Warren Buffet shirt on today; it’s gonna be a good day.

I’d pay the money to eat this hammy-bacony delight.

So, if bacon is played out, what will become the new bacon?

People generally have a better day when they wear a Jimmy Buffett shirt, but if that’s how you roll, jane, who are we to judge?

Today I’m wearing a retro cool two-toned bowling shirt Mrs. Lungs found yesterday at the thrift shop. I love it!

Bob’s wearing someone else’s clothes.

Bacon is officially played out.

Details had an article on Bacon in the August Issue. Now closeted homosexuals / metrosexuals in small town america know how to mix up a Tequila drink and prepare bacon.

went to The Blue Door last night. good burger, lively joint.

@dougie_D Gravy?

I cannot believe you people talk about bacon that way. Bacon — it’s the new bacon!!!

went to The Blue Door last night. good burger, lively joint.

I’ve gone there for lunch and have enjoyed their tasty mini-burgers. A definite thumbs-up from me, too.

I too am interested in what a Warren Buffet Shirt looks like?

Like this one?

Why Warren Buffet?

Perhaps it looks like this:

Here’s one for the hipper, urban Warren Buffet fan.

A friend made this Warren Buffett tshirt for me b/c I’m a Warren Buffet fan. It looks a lot like the one ryanol posted, but white with red trim, the photo is of Buffett playing a ukelele, and the shirt is a lot smaller.

I am not usually this casual at work, but it is Friday, summer, and WBuffett owns my company, so no one can chide me for honoring him.

I also have a Warren Buffett lunchbox that I used to store pastesl & colored pencils.

Yes, I’m aware I’m a weirdo. That’s fine with me.

Hey, this sounds cool. “Sherlock Jr.” is a great film, too.

Here’s the photo on my tshirt. It’s a DQ ukulele! Get it? (He owns DQ).

I am wearing a shirt of my employer too. Go gophs!

@jane or @justpbob my moms said that dq softserve doesn’t contain any dairy and is actually a corn byproduct. Is she off her rocker?

Nearly everything in Minnesota is actually a corn byproduct, ryanol.

Ryanol, your mom is probably correct.

Dairy Queen Vanilla Soft Serve: Milkfat and nonfat milk, sugar, corn syrup, whey, mono and diglycerides, artificial flavor, guar gum, polysorbate 80, carrageenan, and vitamin A palmitate.

(Info from DQ’s web site.)

Oh, it has vitamin A. Awesome! It’s good for you!

Alrighty so it does contain dairy..the whole milkfat and nonfat milk is strange.

Why take it out when its already your number one ingredient. Food chemistry is strange.

Yahoo says ryanol’s mom is wrong.

DQ’s own allergens alert page says they use dairy, too. [PDF]

I suppose the only way to know for sure is to have a lactose-intolerant friend try a DQ Blizzard or Dilly Bar.

Bacon was played out in late spring of 2008. I even said so right on this site, in June 2008, stating that bacon is SO May 2008, but I don’t know how to find that.

It is still freakin’ delicious, and a wonderful creation.

Looks like your Mom gets partial credit. High fructose corn syrup is in a lot of products these days, especially soft drinks.

She was probably getting this from the Simpsons

Wiggum: Do they have Krusty partially gelatinated non-dairy gum-based beverages?
Lou: Mm-hm.  They call 'em, "shakes."
Eddie: Hum, shakes.  You don't know what you're gettin'.
Wiggum: I know what I'm getting, some donuts!

anything is officially played out the day it gets printed on a bustedT or Snorg t-shirt.

Bacon has been audi5000 for a long time.

I grilled bacon last weekend. It was terrific.

Good point ryanol.

Wonder if the phrase/concept “jump the shark” will ever jump the shark?

Dairy Queen Vanilla Soft Serve: Milkfat and nonfat milk, sugar, corn syrup, whey, mono and diglycerides, artificial flavor, guar gum, polysorbate 80, carrageenan, and vitamin A palmitate.

I’m never going to DQ again b/c I don’t want to get mono!

Nominations for the new bacon? Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’”

@Kwatt

Is it just me or does Adam look like a bootleg Seth Meyers? Also, Mary Jane is batshit insane. I didn’t realize just how insane until yesterday.

What’s with that kiss on the MN Opera ad on this page? They both look like the REALLY don’t want to be kissing each other.

My new bacon is the new Spinal Tap album.

Seth Meyers – yes! It was really bugging me who he looked like. Mary Jane, very crazy. It was the stuffed cat that sold it.

Also, the show’s really taken a turn for the gay in the last few weeks. First Adam and Rafe, now Philip III. I got a chuckle though out of Victoria and Nikki’s reaction to Victor finding out about it.

Totally off topic.

So yesterday I said I might give a prize to my 100th twitter follower, provided they are awesome and not spammy. And it’s none other than g rote! What does he get? (Although I think the answer is he got to meet Tim Gunn and that’s enough.)

Geoff has more than he deserves already.

Bacon? A Journey album? Gravy? Alcohol? How about just glory.

Glory, smothered with gravy, with a side of bacon, while listening to “Don’t Stop Believing” and drinking…well, I don’t know his drink of choice, but something good.

@kwatt

I wish they’d bring back Dru and pair her onscreen with crazy Mary Jane. It’d be the most epicly batshit crazy duo on TV. Yeah, as soon as I saw New Adam (much like New Coke) I thought that he was Seth Meyer’s brother or something.

Also, did you find it odd that he acts like he can’t see anything in front of him to the point that he doesn’t even bother trying to look at people when they talk to him but somehow he can see the screen/keypad of a cell phone without holding it that close to his face?

Yes, he’s a terrible actor. Dru can come back anytime, she just fell over a waterfall.

OK, so it’s not my job that sucks today (it’s actually way cool since my boss is out of town till Wednesday, then I’m off next Thurs/Fri), it’s my condo’s property manager who sucks.

We’re trying to get bids for new windows. We didn’t like the screwups in the ones from their preferred vendors and our board pres sent her an email noting what we didn’t like (it was fairly insulting to the vendor). She forwarded it to the vendor. He came back with a condescending/bitchy response. She forwarded that to us. Then she got pissed at us because we’re now pissed at the vendor.

Anyone have recommendations for a good window contractor who wants to bid on a 19 unit condo building in a historic neighborhood (windows must meet energy tax credit).

Not that I want to bring everyone down with me, but this criminal complaint against the South St. Paul mother is one of the most depressing things i’ve read in awhile. Talking your kids into a suicide pact (allegedly)? Hideous.

I went to this little speakeasy in NYC recently (you had to go through a phone booth in a hot dog restaurant to get there) – ANYWAY I had the best cocktail ever. House-made bacon-infused bourbon, maple syrup, and other stuff I don’t remember because I surely blacked out.

Today in That’s Racist! (But Not Really)(tm) news, I offer this poor naming choice:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8118721.stm

@ CINF: We’ve put in a dozen Andersen windows in the last two years. I’m sure they’d be more than happy to do it. They make them here, too. I strongly suspect they wouldn’t be the low bid, though.

Bixby: those wacky Africans! What will they think of next?

Funny!

Bixby: I’m brainstorming possible sister-companies to Nigaz, and opting to keep that to myself.

I think that eazy-e, were he still alive, would insist that the correct spelling is with two Gs.

@justpbob

It’s the crazy Russians too.

@DeRusha

I shall do the same.

Randy: Check the list of vendors at the last Living Green Expo. Several exhibitors specialized in upgrading windows in old historic buildings.

@Jason I’m brainstorming Brotha-companies, and I, too, will keep it to myself.

@Bixby All Russians are crazy, girl. At least all the Russians I’ve met.

The Coke Zero I was counting on to get me through the afternoon just exploded all over my desk. FUCKING A.

Once again, Kevin swore on MnSpeak!

I was thinking about opening up a wall-papering business in a neighboring country. It was going to be called “Hangning Chad” — well — maybe not.

Hangning = Hanging. Damnit!

^^boo.

What about opening a clothing store in another African country with Ms Sarandon called Sudanly Susan? Better? What?

kwatt’s main problem is that we was counting on a Coke Zero to get him through the day, when it should have been a gin Martini.

I had a nice lunch with Mrs. Lungs at The Lagoon on Rice St. I luv their spicy chicken lunch special!

In other news, is there some requirement in the North Loop requiring residents to all have precious little dogs? Every day I walk to and from my car, I feel like I almost trip on at least 2 tiny dogs.

I was going to open a driveway repair company, but couldn’t figure a non-offensive way to make the radio ads work.
“Get your driveway re-tarred”
or
“Blacktop cracking? Get some more on!”

DouglasG: I suggest a story that sells only military smoke grenades. I’d call it “Guerrillas In The Mist.”

How about a northwest African restaurant that specializes in dinner time bread called The Moroccan Roll Cafe. I probably should stop now.

Store, rather.

I’d blame ethanol, but I haven’t had any. For that, I blame the smoking ban.

Does anyone know what the French call it when you lob a grenade into a kitchen?

Just one more: A service in eastern Africa that helps monks transition to secular life called Kenya Help a Brother Out…

@Jane — I do.

A gin martini would put me out of commission for the weekend.

Hee! It’s a good one, no? Bad-good.

Really bad-good!

Of course, the brisket dinner at Maverick’s isn’t helping either.

Speaking of the French, Bastille Day is coming up. Any special plans, MNSpeakers?

I wanted to celebrate in true historic fashion by helping an aristocratic sadist escape prision. Help me decide which one I’ll spring on Tuesday: Denny Hecker or Bernie Madoff?

Petters already spoken for?

I’m taking my puppies to the Barbette Bastille Day celebration. Can’t wait!

Does anyone know what the French call it when you lob a grenade into a kitchen?

And the answer is:

Linoleum Blown-apart.

Sorry.

oh boy.

those wacky Africans! What will they think of next?

It’s okay, though, because, you know, they’re like bruthas or somethin’.

CINF- We had Window Outfitters do ours. It was not cheap, but they did a fantastic job. The owner is very professional and has a customer service focus. The installers were very respectful and clean. It was done in two days and we have some crazy sized windows. One of our double hung windows is 6′8″ tall and about 4′6″ wide.

Does anyone know what the French call it when you lob a grenade into a kitchen?

I’ve eaten at some French restaurants here in the States where the answer would be:

“A service to the public.”

can’t wait for this day to be over, tomorrow its life on a boat, flippy floppies and drinks with umbrellas.

Bacon clothes = just wrong. But I frickin’ love the DQ Ukulele guy. I GET IT!

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road–who has read it?

Movie coming out October, trailer here.
Awesome.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/weinstein/theroad/

I wonder if I can get MnSpeakers to represent at Pins for Pets on August 9. A team of Dead Hoboes?

http://pinsforpets.org

I got into an argument with Mother Bixby re: the proper pluralization of hobo. She is not on the side of her daughter’s trivia team. It was then that I disowned my mother.

Does anyone know what the French call it when you lob a grenade into a kitchen?

Linoleum Blown-apart.

Stolen for comedy routine. Thank you, I would give you credit but I think it’s probably best no one know where that joke came from.

I agree. My aunt told it to me, and so it is possible it is an oldie (but a goodie!).

LAST!

Oh, and congrats, max, on officially (and finally) being named to the MinnPost staff as a Daily Glean author. Perfect fit!

Dang it Bob! Why did you add a comment after “LAST!”??? I was going to do “SECOND TO LAST!” or maybe “PENULTIMATE!” and see if we could get the whole thread to do a mirror-image comments of itself.

Loosers, all of you.

I’m the last of Mochanistas.

(Yes, I intentionally misspelled “loosers.” Sue me.)

esquared: Totally off topic. So yesterday I said I might give a prize to my 100th twitter follower, provided they are awesome and not spammy. And it’s none other than g rote! What does he get? (Although I think the answer is he got to meet Tim Gunn and that’s enough.)

Jason DeRusha: Geoff has more than he deserves already.

Sorry I missed this exchange…I was relaxing in the Spa at the Ritz Carlton Beaver Creek all weekend and never bothered to find the business center.  What did I win?

@g rote – that. You won that. Good work!

@esquared If I don’t get at least a wink or a hug I’m unfollowing you and reopening the contest.

Late breaking smoking ban news, from Jason’s Station: Tank’s gets tanked.

Where’s the Great Theater anymore? Not the usual line up the The Producers, Cats and the The Lion King one more time