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In preparation for Art-A-Whirl, the world-famous Rogue Taxidermy Association has launched a new site: Beast Blender. (Refersher: Back in October, a link to the Rogue Taxidermy show at Creative Electric led to Boing Boing linking to it, which led national media attention from the New York Times to Maxim.) This new site, which allows you to construct your own rogue taxidermy Frankenstein, will undoubtably spread faster than you can say subservient ring-tailed lemur. Likeley a nod to the official National Taxidermy Association (which denounced the exhibit), Beast Blender loads with the message "We create not monsters, but spectacular beasts of common animal."
All right, it is time to expand my RSS Reader again with local blogs I haven't read before. If you kow of or have a local blog that produces local content (and it doesn't need to all be local content; just occasional), go ahead and pimp it here.…
WCCO has a list of where to see Independence Day fireworks; what are your July 4 plans?…
An interesting discussion broke on on Twitter today when it came out that Baja Sol's CEO is also the chair of the Republican Party in Minneapolis, prompting some to decide not to eat there (summary and links to the conversation courtesy of Heavy Tabl…
From the Health Insurance Resouce Center: Interviewed on Minnesota Public Radio, Kline says as far as he's concerned, a health reform bill with a public option is a no-go. His reasoning is that it would be ... too successful. (Via)…
At 8:30 AM on a Thursday in early July, I am unable to think of what books were recommended at the last MnRead meeting and in the last MnRead post for future MnRead discussion. So make your recommendations here. Books with local angles (Fitzgerald co…
The PiPress reports: At least, there's one good thing about a bad economy: Burgers are hot right now. Especially the cheap ones. In the past year in the Twin Cities, a mini burger boom has been under way. What new burger joints have you enjoyed? Wha…