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Anyone riding the St Paul Classic this Sunday?
I'll put the over/under at posts not referencing the RNC at 12.
Anyway, my weekend involves soup, yard work, football, and cracking down on my writing project. Oh, and maybe a cocktail or two.
No. Landscaping project this weekend (oh, my aching back!). Tonight: Happy hour with friends at Suzie's.
I've been up since 5:30 preparing for the big ass garage sale we're having today; the big ass garage sale that you should totally come to and buy stuff at.
It's at 1515 Natchez Ave. S., Golden Valley
Identify yourself as a MNspeaker and I'll give you something for free. Like a cup of coffee or cold beer or a punch in the nose. Regardless, it will be free.
Bonus to the first MNspeak who shows up at nateek's garage sale asking to buy some "big ass."
garage sale? sounds like a lot of work but fun. hopefully you will get lots of people looking for a deal.
nate...any bikes?
Just looked the address up on Gmaps. How is that Golden Valley?
I'm showing up at the garage sale in 3...2...1...
It's only GV because SLP and MPLS didn't want it.
It was awesome to get a Facebook invite to Nate's garage sale. Is there an online auction component?
I already have a garage, but good luck selling yours!
We're in Golden Valley, 4 doors down from SLP, and we are in the Hopkins school district. I just say we're in Western Minneapolis.
No bikes. I'm hoarding those for when we have guests over and we ride to the new stadium.
No on-line auctioning, although I'll be twittering, facebooking, myspacing, googling, blogging, vlogging, texting, and smoke signalling throughout the day.
There was a facebook invite??? Oh the hurt...
Do you have any items you personally have worn?
Besides the thrill of garage sale-ing... anyone else doing anything this weekend.
Sulking.
Possible activities: find the title to my old car and putting it on Craigslist; paint kitchen nook; touch up bathroom and hallway painting from last weekend; sand and paint/stain picture frames... If I get ONE of these things done I will be content.
Did I mention this is a two day sale? So for you working stiffs, see you tomorrow.
How late is the sale this afternoon?
Nate, if you have an old 50's style formica table and chairs, save it for me, as I'm at work today.
We are going to the open house for the Traditional Foods Minnesota buying club tonight. It is sort of like a co-op and will have tons of local producers selling their foods at a discounted rate. I don't know if we will join, but we are checking it out.
Tomorrow we will be getting the dog some exercise and hopefully doing some letterboxing. Sunday, maybe we will sit around and drink some beers after our grueling weekend.
My best advice for garage sale hosting
1. Get drinking early...I am talking buzz by 10am...switch from bloody marys to premiums at noon.
2. If someone picks something up...sell it to them....give it to them if you have to, hell pay them to take it if you have to.
The only thing worse than organizing a garage sale is having to throw away/take to goodwill or re-pack crap that didn't sell.
also sorry make sure that you got enough wierd crap....70s velvet blazers, toasters that don't work, safety googles....this is the kind of crap that pulls salers in like wildfire.
8:00 to 4:00 both days!
grote has already made an appearance.
Who's next?
Jane and Alie... should we garage sale it up tomorrow morning?? Then go start drinking at 11am.
I thought this year's line of new Ikea products was underwhelming.
Other than overthrowing the government and installing George the Cat as emperor for life and going to the Renn Faire, I have no plans for the weekend.
mb21, I'm down, don't know if I'll be getting up at 8am, though.
No one else is riding the St Paul Classic on Sunday?
What kind of things are you selling? Any goth dresses or go-go boots? If so, I'm there.
FOOTBALL!
Motherfucking Mark Craig stole my comments on a Strib article and padded it out into an article for himself. And for some strange reason, the whole discussion where I posted "disappeared."
Other than overthrowing the government and installing George the Cat as emperor for life
YES
Question.
How much are good vinyl records worth these days?
I mean Classic YES? Thriller? Janis Ian?
What do one charge for priceless relics such as these?
champs, Culpepper's a dumbass.
nateek, anyone else, charge them $20 each. the mnspeak/CINF discount is $.02 each.
Everybody has the Thriller album. That's worth two pence.
See what they're going for on ebay, Nate.
I feel sorry for Culpepper.
Awww, I misread that as "sitar porn." I got really excited for a minute.
I just got into my office building. As approached the outside door there was this dude in a green sweater leaning against one of the doors blocking it while jabbing on his cell phone. I wasn't really paying attention but I glared briefly at him, only to realize that it was Andrew Zimmern. Crazy! So, yeah, Plymouth Building, Andrew Zimmern. If you read this, Zimmern. I'm not mad because you just made my morning. My sad, sad morning after the competition in which I was clearly the funniest (no really, I was the only one who got consistent laughter) but clearly not the winner.
Oh, was that last night? How did you place? You were the funniest by far.
I don't know how I placed but the thing you have to understand about stand-up comedy around here is that it's kind of the real-life equivalent of MNSpeak, they all know each other from going to open-mic nights and whatnot and it's pretty clear the judges knew the performers. Basically, it's akin to their being summer-long comment of the summer contest semi-finals on MNSpeak. I knew before anyone performed that I probably wasn't going to win that night. There's a chance I could make it into the top 5 and advance to finals next week but I doubt it. I'm not mad about it, I guess I could go to open mic nights myself and try to get to know more people but I already wasted all my getting-to-know-strangers energy for the year on MNSpeakers.
I hope you've learned your lesson, Bix.
I just read that silly book "Twilight" and now am itching to read the sequel, so I'll be drinking some beers tonight and reading the Sweet Valley High of vampire books. Has anybody else read these?
Other than overthrowing the government and installing George the Cat as emperor for life
Let me tell you, George is the Republican of cats. He's all sweet and cuddly at first, then he flips a switch and tries to eat your face off.
There's already a group of hippie dogs outside hollering that George the Cat is an imperialist.
@kurtis: Yes, next time I'll bring bacon.
@alie: I disagree, I think George is the George W. Bush of cats. I don't think cuddly when I think of Republicans in general. Plus, from what I can tell George the cat doesn't really do jack shit all day but stay the course between his napping spot and his food/water.
this just in. Zimmern is filming the first episode of Bizzare Zombie Foods at the Plymouth Building, and is going to be eating Brandi "snout to tail" for lunch.
this just in. Zimmern is filming the first episode of Bizzare Zombie Foods at the Plymouth Building, and is going to be eating Brandi "snout to tail" for lunch.
She's probably used to that.
[flees from desk weeping, locks self in the bathroom]
I bet he'll smack his lips and chew with his mouth open when he does it, too.
And then kiss her in the face.
"I bet he'll smack his lips and chew with his mouth open when he does it, too"
AHHHHHHHHHH! I stopped watching his show because of that.
You should make people pay you for the privilege of owning a Janis Ian record, nateek. You have to earn a Janis Ian record. The tears, they are flowing!
The Yes you could sell for a buck each, and suggest that those Roger Dean album covers will look "totally kick-ass" over the buyer's beanbag chair.
nate is missing a bet by having his stereo disassembled and non-working. he should be DJing that mothafuckin house partay. He could crank his Best of Bread LP and sell the place out. It'd be like the garage sale version of Yacht Rock.
My new pirate kitty Klaus would like to join George on the ticket
(ARRRRRRRRRRRR-MN)
AHHHHHHHHHH! I stopped watching his show because of that.
Ugh, me too, and I'm [this close] to banning Alton Brown as well.
I don't feel like I was stating anything exceptional about Culpepper, but nothing like it has shown up on ESPN or Fox, and within hours of my posting it, the entire set of comments disappeared, and a column with the same theme, right down to the opening that paraphrases the saying about a man who defends himself in court, showed up with a Mark Craig byline.
Craig's piece is extended well beyond what time I can pour into comments these days, so you can't really call it plagarism, but I'm just sayin'...
Wow, grote, now you're talkin'. America needs the healing power of Bread now more than ever. Throw some Seals and Crofts up in that shit, and you're looking at one smooth dance party.
I vetted Klaus. Turns out he had an incident with a certain tomcat in the not so distant past. Bad for the ticket.
I can't believe all the negative stuff out there about George already. Alie you are dis-invited to the White House. Your loss too because he is set to have the most kick ass ball of string party that motherf*cker has ever seen. Barney the dog can suck it with his little Christmas videos...
turns out he also likes to play fetch....probably not catlike enough for a strong cat on cat ticket.
champs, what's that saying about a man who represents himself has a fool for a client. Someone should have told Daunte that a few years ago.
How the hell can someone be so egotistical to think they should just be handed a three year/six mill contract when they haven't won a game in three years?
He should have gone to Green Bay. Rogers couldn't stay healthy when he was on the bench. Dude would have been starting by Halloween and had a multi year deal from the Packers or someone else next year.
As for your comments, they may have taken them down precisely because Craig was already working on a column.
I get to go argue with our former property owner about money he claims we owe him (which we don't) and money we know he owes us (which he does). It's this guy. Should be fun.
dude good luck on that one cinf...that bastards as crooked as they come.
Having worked in Multi Housing Real Estate...I can tell you that the contracts/leases are pretty one sided and generally the landlord doesn't lose to many battles.
As soon as they do...they change the lease so they don't the next time.
ryan, this one's a bit different. He converted our building to condos, so it's not a standard landlord/lease disagreement. Should be an interesting meeting.
George, wait til the ruthless liberal media figures out that George is connected to those feline extremists Heathcliff and Felix "Silent Killer" The Cat.
And no, this is definitely NOT a Wisconsin reference.
My nominee for your cat's administration's military leader.
Can someone tell me how to do the magic trick of posting photos right into MNspeak?
Andyst: a friend recently bought the full set ot Time-Life 70s soft rock. It's amazing how the likes of "Baby I'm-a Want" you have held up.
<img src="URLOFYOURIMAGE">, Jane.
<img src="http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/onion_imagearticle2934.jpg"> =
< img src="address of your photo">
get rid of the space between < and img
haven't we had enough of this cat controlled military industrial complex already?
Do you think Klaus should wear a monacle ala colonel klink, how about a shoe polish mustache....would that make him more electable?
I've been wondering about the photo-in-threads magic myself. I guess this is as good a place as any to practice.
Thanks Kurtis & Ryan!
use it wisely my child....and by wisely I mean post lots of photos of your cat...
I never knew either. I present you with Kitty Carryall (a.k.a. Corky Nuggets) in a birthday hat!
There are few more intriguing studies in human behavior that sitting and watching people sift through your discarded stuff.
If it weren't for the preparation, I could do garage sales for a living...
Kitty Carryall just looks drunk.
Do you think Klaus should wear a monacle ala colonel klink, how about a shoe polish mustache....would that make him more electable?
No. And get rid of that picture of him lurking in the bushes. It's Putinesque.
there are far too few typos for that comment...are you sufficiently drunk?
Have you offered anyone a cocktail yet?
I love the pic of the kitty in the bushes!
(And yes, Kevin, she does look drunk....and a bit surly.)
yeah that was right before he climbed about 15 feet up a tree....now he doesnt get out as much.
It's amazing how the likes of "Baby I'm-a Want" you have held up.
Oh, Jane. Dear dear Jane.
You must've been teargassed or peppersprayed or something to be making such comments.
So wrong. In so many ways...
America needs the healing power of Bread now more than ever. Throw some Seals and Crofts up in that shit, and you're looking at one smooth dance party.
And Andy. I'm shocked and dismayed. Your powers of critical observation are usually so incisive and spot-on. Have you peaked at 28?
Next people will be telling me that Journey is the hot new thing.
What's the world coming to?
Next people will be telling me that Journey is the hot new thing.
Don't be speaking bad about Journey.
mb21 were you born and raised in south detroit?
I think she was, actually!
Don't be speaking bad about Journey.
OK, I won't say anything bad about Journey.
But you must know, MB, you can't stop the tides of history.
To quote Robert Christgau (from above): "Journey sucks. They sucked in 1981, they'll suck in 2033, and they suck now. Who gives a fuck what Tony Soprano thinks?"
Of course *She* was just a small town girl, and *He* was a city boy born and raised in South Detroit, but I won't split hairs there.
*She* was just a small town girl
Correct on both DouglasG.
@arthappy I'm guessing the people at the 6 sold out concerts I have been to in large arenas would disagree with you. So instead of Tony S, who gives a f*ck what you think?
I saw members of Journey sitting together in the business class lounge of Singapore Airlines in 1993.
Your powers of critical observation are usually so incisive and spot-on. Have you peaked at 28?
I peaked around 23, when I wrote my final zine and graduated from art school. I invite all of you to join me in my epic fifty-year decline into inanity and obsolesence!
And surely you can appreciate the difference between the slick corporate rock of Journey and the earnest man-garbage of Seals and Crofts.
Or, uh, earnest Ba'hai man-garbage, pardon me.
Thanks for the photo help. What if I just have a photo on my computer, not in Flicker or whatever people do to get their photos on the internet?
Here is my practice one of my kitty. He's yawning, I assure you. Just funky timing with a goofy camera. But it is the only known photo of him with a URL. Oh man, the preview looks huge. Sorry in advance if I broke something.
roar
Whoa.
Aaaaah! Kitty is going to eat the internet!!!!
RAR!
It must be on the internet somewhere to post them here Jane. So, you would have to upload your picture to some internet place before it can be put here. (I use my blog space for this purpose...)
Just came across a report titled "Beaver Damage Control Grant." Kinda afraid to read it.
"Beaver Damange Control" is an awesome nickname for someone named Grant. "Oh, here comes ol' BDC,"
"Beaver Damange Control" is an awesome nickname for someone named Grant. "Oh, here comes ol' BDC," his friends would say when he came walking down the street.
Jane!
don't be afraid of beavers kwatt
Perhaps that was Mary Tyler Moore's nickname for Lou Grant...
Ensmallened.
don't be afraid of beavers kwatt
Why not?
oh shit I totally forgot about the st paul classic. is registration still open? I had been meaning to do this. I've even biked around st paul a fair bit lately, so I'm not totally unfamiliar with the route.
By the way, if your photo is huge, you can scale it down by using the smaller width and height numbers. Such as <img src=" Image on the internet" width = 400 height = 300> to scale it back. So,
Same picture, but it isn't eating the entire site...
Sorry! In my defense, he IS a really large kitty. And he WOULD eat the internet if I let him.
Thanks (Max?) for fixing. I prefer the larger size for dramatic effect, but I guess I gotta be reasonable.
My weekend will be a series of contrasts. It will begin with a "quiet relaxing family evening," according to my wife. I asked her if we could rather have a "really loud, stressful evening." She indicated that we could sit down, drink wine, and talk about family finances.
Sunday I play golf at Hazeltine with a rich friend of my dad's. (Note to self: open golf course at Hazelden.)
Then I fly to Las Vegas on Sunday night.
I will wear a white suit, wraparounds, gold chains and hit this hard in preparation for client meetings on Monday/Tuesday.
Oh... DouglasG, thanks for the info. I will immediately learn how to get my kitty on the internet so I can post photos all the time. The 2nd bit about re-sizing is a little advanced for me; no promises I won't make someone ensmallen a photo again.
So instead of Tony S, who gives a f*ck what you think?
That was Robert Christgau who said that, little miss pissypants.
Sunday I play golf at Hazeltine with a rich friend of my dad's.
I was invited by the Club to play a free round there once and I turned it down. Had to work. They've lengthened 13 to 250+ yards for next year. Ouch. That's a mighty wallop.
There's something so delicantly cheesy about the Luxor Hotel.
And surely you can appreciate the difference between the slick corporate rock of Journey and the earnest man-garbage of Seals and Crofts.
Um, yeah. I really liked Seals and Crofts when they did H.R. Pufnstuf.
I asked her if we could rather have a "really loud, stressful evening."
That sounds sort of awesome, actually. If anyone ever gives me a talk show/DJ-ing gig/etc., I will call it "Really Loud Stressful Evening With Andyst."
More practice, this time trying to resize. I just pasted in Doug's sample size from above. Oh! It looks like it worked!!!
Now, how the heck am I ever going to remember all this?
I have inexplicable hate for the Luxor. I feel enraged the minute I step inside.
I heart Vegas though! I wish I were going this weekend. I'm going in December, and it can't come soon enough!
I played in a scramble tourney at Hazeltine last year. I dreamt the night before that on the first tee I shanked the ball so bad I wanted to give up golf.
On the first tee at the tournament I shanked the ball so bad that I wanted to give up golf.
That would be awful. A shank of an elevated tee would go a long way and feel even worse.
It seems as though all of the Strip properties have added luxury suite towers. The Wynn is adding Encore. The Luxor added its suite tower (where I'm staying). And now Planet Holleywood is also adding a tower.
And all of the pools are now "European style."
So, I got that going for me...which is nice.
(And ladies and gentlemen, with that last comment, all of MNSpeak had to sleep with the hall-lights on tonight. Goodnight! I'll be playing here all week!)
You cat people creep me out.
Didn't I suggest a MNSpeak golf tourney around two years ago? Is that something we need to consider once again?
Yes to golf tourney. Make it a cheaper, public course, please.
I think we'd need something like the Columbia golf course. Ample fairways, ample greens, ample beer carts.
And since they finished the construction on Central it's actually pleasant to golf there.
This is for you Bob!
I would love to golf.
I would love to golf, too, but all I can actually do is bang a ball all over the place for a few hours and swear a lot.
speaking of stair porn, backing up my data to my new (TERRABITESSSSSS) hard drive so I can wipe and reinstall windows on the old one is taking for-fucking-ever. seriously I've been transferring files all day (since like 10ish). I didn't realize I'd accumulated so much crap over the last couple years.
Many thanks, Douglas! I likes me reptilian pets!
but all I can actually do is bang a ball all over the place for a few hours and swear a lot.
Unless U R Tiger Woods, that is golf...a good walk spoiled, as Mark Twain called it.
This thread was better when cats were here.
Hank is not particularly fond of cats, or dogs, or people, or other iguanas, or....
oh shit I totally forgot about the st paul classic. is registration still open? I had been meaning to do this. I've even biked around st paul a fair bit lately, so I'm not totally unfamiliar with the route.
I think pre-reg is closed, but you can register on site on sunday. That's what a friend did last year.
Minneapolis Ride is next weekend too.
schweet. I think I'll leave my fixie at home for this, though. them hills!
Is eggshell a suitable finish for bedroom walls?
I'm TOTALLY in for golf. mb and I get a cart.
On the first tee at the tournament I shanked the ball so bad that I wanted to give up golf.
aeklund, do you want to explain why that sentence is so scary for me with Interlachen pending on Sunday or should I?
Yes
I used eggshell for everything except the bathroom. The shine off the glossier finishes annoys me.
You want a tough place to hit tee shots, play Legends. I seriously lost 13 balls there.
Yes.
I wonder what NOT_Jane would have to say about this topic???
It's not Interlachen, Nate. It's Hazeltine. Don't show up at Interlachen, Nathan. They don't allow people like you there.
Thanks, I used Satin on the front door, and I don't think I'd mind it in a few other places, but probably not in the bedroom.
I'm thinking I may start repainting that this weekend.
Somebody needs to take charge of this golfing thing....
I'm out. I'm a tennis guy. I find golf to be a "good walk spoiled."
I wish I played tennis. It looks fun. I'm also disappointed that ESPN is taking over the US Open. USA was great. ESPN ruins everything it touches.
What, the painting? Well, not being from here, I tend to prefer a splash of color. I say eggshell is fine, but paint one wall a different color. It really adds some life to an eggshell-dull room.
I used Satin on the front door, and I don't think I'd mind it in a few other places, but probably not in the bedroom.
There is a joke in here somewhere...
I concur, one other color wall is very nice.
eggshell finish, not eggshell color. It's between flat and satin.
I'm going to most likely go with a darker blue with some gray color. Probably will then door the closet doors in an accent color.
That was Robert Christgau who said that, little miss pissypants.
For your information, mb has not pissed her pants since last March.
Well there was that one incident dowtown, but in all fairness I wasn't even wearing pants when it happened.
Good information to know...
For what it's worth, I don't mind a few Journey songs. I do, however, find their newfound semi-cultish status (courtesy Sopranos) to be a bit ludicrous.
Keep on peein'.
I think you mean "don't stop peeing."
WHAT THE FUCK IS THE PROBLEM WITH THE TWINS' BULLPEN. Get outs, fuckers.
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