- Filter by:
- All
Dude Weather Subscribe to Secrets Minneapolis / St. Paul
MNSpeak: Talk
Local Blog Roundup 03.09.09
Johnny Northside shows us how not to clear snowy sidewalks.
Stuff About Mpls reprints a great Gain Belt ad from 1975.
The Deets asks which MN company has the highest douchebag ratio.
TC Sidewalks looks at the Dinkydome.
Eyeteeth shows that General Mills is reprinting cereal boxes with the old art.
64 Reader Comments
That old Grain Belt ad is vaguely gay, but then again, so was 1975.
Oh man, I used to love Kix cereal...
I'd be happier if General Mills brought back that Cereal Adventure Mini-Golf course. That and their cereal bar with $3 bowls of cereal were the only reason for going to the Mall of America. Plus, it was right by Hot Topic, which covered all my emo clothing needs and Spencer Gifts, which covered all my ironic clothing needs.
@alie
Kix is so much better when you eat it dry than with milk.
Max,the johnny northside link seems busted..
When I was a wee lad, I was koo-koo for Coco Puffs. Used to eat them straight out of the box Saturday mornings while watching Andy's Gang and Hopalong Cassidy.
"Pluck your magic twanger, Froggie."
Kids' tv was oh, so subversive in those days.
At the breakfast table this morning, I came to the realization that I'm a Kellog's man and not a General Mills man. And I'm ok with that.
I bet the people at Risdall are Freaking. Out. right now about how to respond to Ed.
I think it's pretty low. I wouldn't respond to him.
Does it seem like Ed might be the biggest douche bag? He does't seem happy and the jealousy oozes out of every pore of his badly maintained skin like garlic after dinner at Cossettas.
Probably still getting over that gluttonous binge of fried food that he boasted about going on one day in January.
I've always liked that Ed Kohler fella (there's something darkly comically tragic about faceplanting while biking drunk at night in the rain), but I think we may be witnessing the web 3.0 version of a mid-life crisis. Or, perhaps, he's just taking out his feelings about the recession on an easy target. Not that he needs my advice, but I think he'd be better off buying a motorcycle and growing his hair long.
He does sort of look like a chubby Mike Watt so he does have that going for him. He just needs to find happiness in what he has. Attacking people for their occupation is so pre-Obama.
Especially when you can't take having a occupation for granted anymore. Nationwide, unemployment is 8.1 percent and climbing.
A MBA from CSoM certainly can't hurt you.
I've partied with Mike Watt, and I assure you that Ed Kohler is no Mike Watt.
Well there is only one Master of the Thunder Broom! I have had the opportunity to share a beverage with Watt also and he is definitely one of a kind.
A MBA from CSoM certainly can't hurt you.
I think that's a good part of what got us into this mess in the first place.
I have a friend who works at Risdall. I'll have to see what the buzz is over there, but I'm sure it's like a reaction to an annoying fly.
Advanced degrees?
Wow, it looks like the humorless had a hard time seeing humor in that douchebag post.
The Risdall d-bag crowd clearly saw the humor and had fun chatting about it on Twitter when it came out three days ago.
Apparently, I read Ed's blog differently than all y'all.
Well, when someone doesn't get the gist something I write, I usually blame myself.
Rat, I have no interest in entertaining you.
Seemed pretty self-evident that the post was meant as a joke to me.
Never been called humorless before.
here's the problem with sarcasm and the internet:
Ed meant that as a cleverly researched funny-from-the-inside jab @ his pals @ Risdall (correct me if I'm wrong). Max saw that it got some twitter / comment attention, and was ergo worthy of linkage in the local blog roundup (now, mind you, this was at 1:13am on a Monday morning). some of us (folks who aren't caught up the surge of local Advert / Marketing / PR twitterereers, no doubt) seized on this as something worthy of discussion as it appeared on a website of some merit, and seemed a tad mean without an insider's perspective. I will now walk away, you humorless motherfuckers.
The Rat's not much of a kidder.
g_rote, you were collateral damage on my humorlessness comment.
I don't know anyone involved, so I'm not inside anything, or caught up in anything. But the post was based on an Urban Dictionary definition of the word "douchebag". That was my first indication that the post might be in jest.
I didn't think it was funny, but I realized it was a joke.
A MBA from CSoM certainly can't hurt you.
Oh, yeah? Wanna finish paying my student loans off?
I enjoyed the douchebag findings on two levels:
1. That Ed could be so creative with his statistical research to actually go through all that trouble to find out which companies had x number of CSoM grads;
2. That anyone could actually believe that such research had any real serious value beyond satire.
Now, here's a challenge: How many CSoM grads work in state government and how do those numbers compare with the private sector?
Can the definition of "douchebag" be expanded to include all MBA grads?
Did anyone else know that March is Brain Injury Awareness Month?
Spread the word!
It is also Gender Equality Month.
Spread the wealth!
I think that Rat and Bob just told a 2-comment joke...but I will leave it up to Max to make that determination.
I'd like to see other levels of douchebaggery (douchebagness?) be investigated. There have to be a lot of other qualifications for douchebaggity than just an MBA from Carlson.
Anyone have suggestions that Ed could investigate for us?
Ed's piece seems like he is clearly joking.
Suggestions for determining levels of douchebaggery:
--Voice volume talking on cell phone in public.
--Average distance you keep between you and the car in front of you on the freeway.
--Frequency of conversations you start on airplanes/busses with people who are clearly reading and don't want to talk.
What about amount of self-righteous blogging?
Is there any other kind?
So you can just call something humor and all of a sudden it doesn't make you an asshole?
I take back my Mike Watt comparison and now I think Andrew "Dice" Clay is a better comparison.
Spells you are supposed to get a job first and then let them pay for your MBA.
Dougie, the joke was that Ed wasn't calling them douchebags, but that he had based his criteria on a peculiar definition of the word douchebag found in the urban dictionary.
I'm not saying Ed is or isn't an asshole. Not my point.
And yes, self-righteous blogging is a great measure of douchbaggery.
So you both win.
I guess we chalk this one up as a clunker along with 99% of all blog posts that are supposed to be funny.
I still see this odd thread of bitterness run through Ed's posts against people that have the personal skills to achieve and advance in corporate America.
Here's a good definition (from Urban Dictionary)
You know you've found one when you would rather rub Purell in your eyes than speak to him/her.
This thread has a high douchebag quotient by the criteria set forth in my head. I am not disclosing said criteria because it is proprietary information. Just know that a lot of this thread meets it.
I take that post as a direct assault on my command of the douchebag related SERPS.
at least I still have"douchebag of the day"
I used to report on the intricacies of general douchebaggery but have since found the subject less appealing.
Kudos to Ed for taking up the fight.
On a side note: I find people that post retweets more than original tweets to be somewhat douchebaggy.
"Can the definition of "douchebag" be expanded to include all MBA grads?"
Hey! I'm not a douchebag!
/granted, I haven't graduated yet...but still.
Also, spells, yeah, supposed to make your work pay for advanced degrees...
with Ryanol on retweeters. But I just call them Twittertown Criers.
I thought we retired the term douchebag anyway.
I think we can all just generally agree that there are a lot of assholes in this world and they are everywhere doing all sorts of assholish things (like sending bitchy emails) and the world would be a better place if people were less assholish. Including all of us calling other people assholes. Also.
Oooh, bitchy passive-aggressive e-mails. Now that's being an asshole.
I think we need to simplify things and go back to the days when everyone was a dick.
As in: "You're a dick."
Straight forward. Easy to spell and say. I like it.
Yes.
I think St. Thomas MBAs are actually more douchebag-intensive.
Spells you are supposed to get a job first and then let them pay for your MBA. Also, spells, yeah, supposed to make your work pay for advanced degrees...
Heh. I was working at a small local investment bank at the time....they only gave $3k per year. Tuition increased an average of 15% a year, and taking 2 night classes a semester meant 3 years of tuition increases.
My classmates in the executive MBA program were much lower in the douchebaggery quotient than the snot-nosed 22-year-olds we used to thrash at foosball in the MBA lounge.
spells, I only get 2K a year, and still have to come up with 25%. It's been a looooong road.
Oh, and I find the working adult program at Metro blissfully low on the douchebag quotient.
You going to run off with some guy there?
Hardly, unless I want to become a homewrecker...
cat likes...sorry, I can't even bring myself to do it. too easy.
HEY CINF. You should've brought it. Sometimes easy is good.
But, I liked you better when you were who you were before.
Hey cat,
Are you just a little self absorbed?
Yeah, let's stop with the personal aspersions. kthnxbai.
Aww. CINF knows what I meant.
If you, PC, don't get it, well then, self-absorption it is!
Max's personal aspersions smell like fish.
But taste like chicken.
Yeah, that Cat, what a fun, sane, brainy, stylish, self absorbed jerk.
And I wonder who CINF was before. All I know about CINF is he fucking hated his job one day, and when MNspeak backed him up, he turned and said he no, it's okay, he likes his job. I worry about CINF.
Post new comment
Today's Talk
MinnPost Goes Viral
MinnPost (or, at least, David Brauer) is reporting that one story on their site has given them their single biggest traffic day yet ("Six figures worth of hits in 24 hours"). That story? Eric Black reported that at the University of Minnesota, d…
Smoke signals: a roundup of local tobacky tales in the news.
Here's an update on local smoking related stories we have discussed here recently. First, the Senate version of the cars and kids bill died in a committee hearing yesterday. The same fate happen to the statewide smoking bill as well, as you may recal…
Islamic Mortgages
From MPR: "For many Minnesota Muslims, it's been virtually impossible to buy a home, because Islamic law forbids the paying or charging of interest. To help close the home ownership gap among Muslim immigrants, the state's housing agency has lau…
The Wrestler: Minnesota's Contribution to Rassling Movies
Let's not dwell on the recent tragic news about Verne Gagne. Instead, as it turns out, the entirety of the Gagne-produced 1974 film The Wrestler, shot in Minneapolis and featuring many of the region's wrestling greats, is availablein entirety on YouT…
TC Condos
Inspired by the anti-condo Liberate Uptown Web page, Uptown TC blog asks: Do condos mean the death of the neighborhood?…
Twitter: The End of the World?
Joe Soucheray finally discovers Twitter, doesn't understand it, and doesn't like it: "I have yet to read an explanation of the phenomenon that can avoid pointing out that essentially it means nothing." Anybody want to explain it to him? There …
- Contact:
- Secrets Staff
- Write to Editors
- Send Press Release
- Reprint Request
- Work at Secrets of the City
- Our Address:
- Secrets of the City
- 1500 Jackson St. NE, Suite 435
- Minneapolis, MN 55413
- (651) 356-8714
©2002-2009 Entropy Publishing, LLC. No part of this site may be reproduced in any form without the express written permission of Entropy Publishing, LLC. except that an individual may print for personal use and/or forward articles via e-mail to a reasonable number of recipients for personal, non-commercial purposes. Thanks to FAMFAMFAM and Tango Project for their icons.
Media Partners
