Saturday, December 31, 2005
Thursday, December 29, 2005
Sunday, December 25, 2005
Thinking about summer...
I know it WAY too early to be thinking about summer but...I miss summer! This was one of my last days at the beach - probably sometime in September. I was really annoyed by all the kids and adults that felt the need to harrass the seaguls that were sleeping near me.
Ick
The keyboard. Remember that nasty chair? Well, here's the keyboard that goes with it. Its disgusting.
Friday, December 02, 2005
Fuck Caribou Coffee
I hate big business. I emailed Caribou Coffee last week and got the following response (the text of the article is at the bottom of this post):
Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:42:31 -0600
From: "CustomerRelations" Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
To:
Dear (redacted)
Thank you for taking time to write us with your concerns. At Caribou we
strive to offer products of highest quality while delivering superior
customer service.
Let us take a moment to address your concerns. Caribou Coffee makes real
estate site selections in response to demand for our products. Where
independent coffee houses operate near Caribou, both businesses thrive.
Caribou and LIMU Coffee co-existed in the St. Anthony area for more than
6 months. Independent coffee houses have loyal customers just as we have
loyal customers. It is interesting to note that during the past decade
the chain coffee houses and the independents grew at the same pace.
When Caribou negotiates lease agreements, we will request an exclusivity
agreement, which is a standard practice among most retailers. This
request is made to deter future competitors from entering the market and
does not apply to current tenants in the area. This request has not
always been granted and does not always dictate whether Caribou will
ultimately decide to move into the area.
In the instance of LIMU Coffee, mentioned in the Star Tribune, this
request was granted to Caribou Coffee to deter future competition from
entering the market. The choice of not renewing LIMU's lease was a
business decision made solely by the landlord of this property and was
not effected by Caribou's exclusivity agreement. Caribou Coffee Company
made no request to have LIMU removed from the site. Nor can Caribou
Coffee influence a change in this decision. Our hope is this additional
information helps clarify the matter for you. For your convenience I
have enclosed a press release from St. Anthony Retail Development, LLC.
Thank you again for your comments and for allowing Caribou to be a part
of your coffee experience.
Sincerely,
Jaidyn Martin
Customer Relations Specialist
Caribou Coffee Company
763.592.2200
-----Original Message-----
From:
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 1:05 PM
To: CustomerRelations
Subject: Store Visit Comments
Store:
City:
State: mn
Subject: startribune article
Message: This publicity can not be good for your business. I have made
the decision to boycott your stores now due to this article and the fact
that your company feels the need to destroy small businesses. The great
American way...
Coffee brouhaha leaves owner miffed
Curt Brown, Star Tribune
December 2, 2005
Ever since she moved from Ethiopia to Minnesota in 1989, Gedam Azeze has believed in the American dream. Then a lawyer's letter changed all that.
"I thought if you work hard, day in and day out, you can make it in this country," said Azeze, 40, who works seven days a week at Limu Coffee, her five-year-old shop on Silver Lake Road in St. Anthony.
"Now, I have found out that is not true."
Azeze said she has been told that her lease will not be extended and that her shop has to close by the end of the month. Caribou Coffee, which opened a new outlet in May in the nearby Silver Lake Village Shopping Center, negotiated a lease that prohibits other coffee shops at the development, according to the shopping center's attorney.
Azeze and her customers can only shrug.
"If America is based on free enterprise, why can't we have two coffee shops?" asked Robert Schwalm, a retired teacher from New Brighton who enjoys the seasonal Ethiopian coffee-roasting ceremonies Azeze conducts at Limu. "As someone who believes in diversity, I don't see why can't we have different types of products."
More than 100 of Azeze's customers have signed a petition of support.
"Unfortunately, continued operation in the space by Limu Coffee is not possible," according to an Oct. 24 letter from attorney Paul W. Anderson, who represents the shopping center's management company.
Anderson said his clients have a legal right to decline a lease renewal. "It has nothing to do with the tenant or her background," he said.
"It was purely a business decision," Anderson said.
Caribou CEO Michael Coles said his company, which has more than 300 coffeehouses in 14 states, always asks for exclusive deals when it moves into shopping centers. While malls seldom agree, he said, such arrangements are common in a majority of Caribou's shopping center sites.
"I would want to make sure they're not going to put a Starbucks in the center," he said. "We didn't base our decision to go in there on being the only one, we based it on the fact that, whatever existed, no future coffee-shop deals would be made."
Coles said the decision to decline Azeze's lease renewal request "had nothing to do with us. If the landlord wanted to keep the tenant, it should not have granted us the exclusive, and we'd still have gone there."
A statement Thursday from the shopping center's management company, St. Anthony Retail Development, said Azeze first was notified in April that her lease would not be renewed. "Any suggestion by the tenant that it is being forced to close its business is contrary to the facts and without merit," according to the statement.
Azeze, who became a U.S. citizen seven years ago, lives near Caribou's Brooklyn Center corporate headquarters.
She has started looking for a new location, but she's worried about the $60,000 she borrowed from a friend to purchase the store. Her $2,000 monthly rent will be doubled if she is not out by Dec. 31.
She thanked her loyal customers, who found their way to the shop even when road work and construction made it difficult when the former Apache Plaza became the new Silver Lake Road Shopping Center.
"It's very disappointing," she said. "I never thought this kind of thing would happen in America."
Curt Brown • 651-298-1542
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright 2005 Star Tribune. All rights reserved
Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:42:31 -0600
From: "CustomerRelations"
To:
Dear (redacted)
Thank you for taking time to write us with your concerns. At Caribou we
strive to offer products of highest quality while delivering superior
customer service.
Let us take a moment to address your concerns. Caribou Coffee makes real
estate site selections in response to demand for our products. Where
independent coffee houses operate near Caribou, both businesses thrive.
Caribou and LIMU Coffee co-existed in the St. Anthony area for more than
6 months. Independent coffee houses have loyal customers just as we have
loyal customers. It is interesting to note that during the past decade
the chain coffee houses and the independents grew at the same pace.
When Caribou negotiates lease agreements, we will request an exclusivity
agreement, which is a standard practice among most retailers. This
request is made to deter future competitors from entering the market and
does not apply to current tenants in the area. This request has not
always been granted and does not always dictate whether Caribou will
ultimately decide to move into the area.
In the instance of LIMU Coffee, mentioned in the Star Tribune, this
request was granted to Caribou Coffee to deter future competition from
entering the market. The choice of not renewing LIMU's lease was a
business decision made solely by the landlord of this property and was
not effected by Caribou's exclusivity agreement. Caribou Coffee Company
made no request to have LIMU removed from the site. Nor can Caribou
Coffee influence a change in this decision. Our hope is this additional
information helps clarify the matter for you. For your convenience I
have enclosed a press release from St. Anthony Retail Development, LLC.
Thank you again for your comments and for allowing Caribou to be a part
of your coffee experience.
Sincerely,
Jaidyn Martin
Customer Relations Specialist
Caribou Coffee Company
763.592.2200
-----Original Message-----
From:
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 1:05 PM
To: CustomerRelations
Subject: Store Visit Comments
Store:
City:
State: mn
Subject: startribune article
Message: This publicity can not be good for your business. I have made
the decision to boycott your stores now due to this article and the fact
that your company feels the need to destroy small businesses. The great
American way...
Coffee brouhaha leaves owner miffed
Curt Brown, Star Tribune
December 2, 2005
Ever since she moved from Ethiopia to Minnesota in 1989, Gedam Azeze has believed in the American dream. Then a lawyer's letter changed all that.
"I thought if you work hard, day in and day out, you can make it in this country," said Azeze, 40, who works seven days a week at Limu Coffee, her five-year-old shop on Silver Lake Road in St. Anthony.
"Now, I have found out that is not true."
Azeze said she has been told that her lease will not be extended and that her shop has to close by the end of the month. Caribou Coffee, which opened a new outlet in May in the nearby Silver Lake Village Shopping Center, negotiated a lease that prohibits other coffee shops at the development, according to the shopping center's attorney.
Azeze and her customers can only shrug.
"If America is based on free enterprise, why can't we have two coffee shops?" asked Robert Schwalm, a retired teacher from New Brighton who enjoys the seasonal Ethiopian coffee-roasting ceremonies Azeze conducts at Limu. "As someone who believes in diversity, I don't see why can't we have different types of products."
More than 100 of Azeze's customers have signed a petition of support.
"Unfortunately, continued operation in the space by Limu Coffee is not possible," according to an Oct. 24 letter from attorney Paul W. Anderson, who represents the shopping center's management company.
Anderson said his clients have a legal right to decline a lease renewal. "It has nothing to do with the tenant or her background," he said.
"It was purely a business decision," Anderson said.
Caribou CEO Michael Coles said his company, which has more than 300 coffeehouses in 14 states, always asks for exclusive deals when it moves into shopping centers. While malls seldom agree, he said, such arrangements are common in a majority of Caribou's shopping center sites.
"I would want to make sure they're not going to put a Starbucks in the center," he said. "We didn't base our decision to go in there on being the only one, we based it on the fact that, whatever existed, no future coffee-shop deals would be made."
Coles said the decision to decline Azeze's lease renewal request "had nothing to do with us. If the landlord wanted to keep the tenant, it should not have granted us the exclusive, and we'd still have gone there."
A statement Thursday from the shopping center's management company, St. Anthony Retail Development, said Azeze first was notified in April that her lease would not be renewed. "Any suggestion by the tenant that it is being forced to close its business is contrary to the facts and without merit," according to the statement.
Azeze, who became a U.S. citizen seven years ago, lives near Caribou's Brooklyn Center corporate headquarters.
She has started looking for a new location, but she's worried about the $60,000 she borrowed from a friend to purchase the store. Her $2,000 monthly rent will be doubled if she is not out by Dec. 31.
She thanked her loyal customers, who found their way to the shop even when road work and construction made it difficult when the former Apache Plaza became the new Silver Lake Road Shopping Center.
"It's very disappointing," she said. "I never thought this kind of thing would happen in America."
Curt Brown • 651-298-1542
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright 2005 Star Tribune. All rights reserved
Thursday, November 24, 2005
The chair
this is so digusting. This is my coworkers chair. Everyday more crud is added. Hair, food etc... its starting to look like a nest. You should see his keyboard!
Sunday, November 13, 2005
Monday, October 24, 2005
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Me and you and everyone we know
Somebody mentioned that I look like the girl in this film. What do ya think? I'll take it as a compliment
Sunday, October 09, 2005
best pick up line ever...
"Hi I'm a programmer how old are you" spoken in one breath by a drunken idiot who clearly could never have been a programmer. It was funny and he went away looking very hurt!
Thursday, September 29, 2005
God Bless Animal Ark
Click the link the read the daily blog or check out some of the animals up for adoption.
Monday, September 05, 2005
abandoned dogs in LA - from Nola.com
A sad looking dog peers out through the burglar bars in a flooded home in the Ninth Ward in New Orleans, La., Monday, Sept. 5, 2005. Thousands of animals have been left stranded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. AP Photo/Dave Martin
Dogs wait for their owners to return as they sit on top a flooded car in New Orleans, Monday, Sept. 5, 2005. Thousands of animals have been left stranded in the wake of Hurricane Kat
rina.AP Photo/Dave Martin
UGH
This picture is from Noah's wish website - taken during hurricane Katrina rescue - Donations are desperately needed and can be made at http://www.noahswish.org/
God Bless St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Center
read...
Times-PicayuneMonday, September 05, 2005Thibodaux church sheltering petsBy Millie BallStaff writerTHIBODAUX - The young woman from New Orleans, her 7-year-old daughter and their pet poodle were sleeping under the altar at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Center on the Nicholls State University campus.The Rev. Jim Morris said he gazed down at the family that had been banned because of the dog from the regular shelter for victims of Hurricane Katrina. He told a colleague, "Our altar has never been adorned more beautifully than it is with these people seeking the sanctuary of God."Morris has a dog named Blue. He understands."I went over to the school shelter Tuesday night and saw all these people outside, looking dejected and clinging to their animals," said the slender 44-year-old priest with friendly blue eyes and sandy hair he hasn't had time to comb lately. "They wouldn't let them inside. So I said, bring them on over to the church."The first night there were 130 people with "all these rottweilers, poodles, Chihuahuas, cats, birds, even a pot-bellied pig. It was unbelievable. We had no kennels or cages - PetSmart and Petco donated them later - and people slept on the terrazzo floor and on the pews. We had no electricity. It was like Noah's Ark."Sunday, there were 53 people still here with their pets. People chatted with one another, sitting on mattresses donated by locals, kennels holding their pets beside them. Volunteers and owners were returning with the leashed animals after their walks. One volunteer chased a Chihuahua that got lose. Others smiled since they'd been in that situation too, one time or another. Volunteers served burgers. So many donated clothes that were piled on long tables in the hall, it was hard to navigate through it."Some people say we're stupid because we wouldn't leave our animals," said Cora DeRussy. "It's why I'm in the predicament I am now, but I'm glad I'm stupid."An employee at Dillard's in eastern New Orleans, she lived on Vicksburg Street in Lakeview, and watched from her perch in the kitchen sink while one of her dogs swam in the water dumped in her house from the broken canal, and eventually drowned. Wearing a donated blue muumuu Sunday, the 65-year-old DeRussy said when two men in a boat rescued her Tuesday afternoon, she got them to row around the house until she spotted Amber, her collie, its head poking out of a window.Now Amber, who swallowed a lot of polluted water, is at Ridgefield Animal Hospital nearby, recovering from her ordeal. Dr. Paul Seemann Jr., a veterinarian, shook his head. There would be no bill for any of these refugees' pets - or almost anyone else from New Orleans last week.Carole Montet is another of the many people here who are grateful for the Catholic Center. There was no way the recently retired special education teacher, her sister, Patricia, and their 80-year-old mother, Lillian, were going to leave their cat in the attic of their flooded house on 28th Street in Lakeview, a block from the 17th Street Canal.McGinty, an orange tabby, was oblivious to the Montets' story as she slept curled up on a floral cushion in the cluttered office at the Catholic Center. Carole Montet, who said her brother in Mississippi had borrowed her car so they couldn't leave, looked through oversized tan-rim eye glasses and told how she punched out the ventilator in their roof of their one-story home to crawl out; how the two men who rescued them in a boat lifted her mother out, and then paddled them to the roof of a nearby two-story house - but the water went up 4 feet in 20 minutes. So they paddled the boat to another rooftop, and eventually reached a rescue point where Lillian lay in the sun for four hours until a bus arrived and took them to Thibodaux."Leave McGinty?" Carole Montet asked, as if that were a ridiculous question. "This cat helped my mother get through her hip surgery; McGinty inspired my mother.""She's family," interjected Lillian Montet from her wheelchair where she said in the air-conditioning, wearing a black flowered dress, a green parka and a heavy knit, smoky blue sweater."It was terrible," said Patricia Montet, who's in her 30s. She lifted both hands to cover her brown eyes."Our animals are the only semblance of normalcy we have left," Carole Montet said. "You've lost your home. You've lost your job. You have no possessions.""I didn't get my pictures or my albums," said her mother sadly. "The animal is the only semblance of your old life," Carole said.Jack Weber, who lives on St. Denis Street near the Fair Grounds in Mid-City, got out with his family too. That includes his wife, Ollie, 56; their daughter, Tamara, 30; and their mixed dalmatian-retriever mix, Spartica. "That's my family."Their roof blew off, then the sheetrock fell as the family moved from room to room "until there wasn't more room," said Weber, 58. A wiry man with a neat moustache and gray hair, he works as a bank messenger for the Board of Liquidation.Then the ceiling fell down, and they managed to get in their little boat - avoiding five or six guys chasing them and trying to steal it - and took on a neighbor Leon Gomez, who's in a wheelchair, and Gomez' rottweiler, ODB.After getting no help from a man in an official looking boat, another man paddled by in a child's inflatable plastic wading pool, and he told them to get to I-610, where they slept on the concrete until their rescue the next day by helicopter. Weber's wife and daughter got separated, but at least they know the others' locations.Weber was smiling Sunday and wearing new pants, socks, a Pride of Arcadia T-shirt and his old shoes he said can walk over nails. He was on his way to Laredo, Texas, to join up with his family. He also wore a new wooden cross he picked up at the center. "I wear it for good luck," he said.And he'll arrive with Spartica. Gomez still has his rottweiler, which Seemann said is one of the largest at the shelter, maybe 160 pounds.Seemann, 48, who grew up in Metairie and went to John Curtis and St. John Lutheran High Schools, has gone to the shelter several times to check on the pets and give shots. And he's also treated other pets from New Orleans, mainly ones who have gotten in fights.Saturday night, he had five emergency calls after dog fights, all at homes where several families gathered with their various dogs. The normal rate is one every two or three weeks. "I think it happens when "the dogs are establishing new territory and dominance." On the information form, one New Orleans resident wrote down "under water" when asked for his address, Seemann said.Morris looked happy and content as he looked over his temporary flock of humans and pets. "Animals calm people down. And pet lovers usually have gentle hearts. If you go in the other shelter, people tend to sit still and idle. Here, there's a lot going on. And what's wonderful is the way our students are volunteering and helping wherever they can. For us this is a mission that helps the evacuees and their pets as well as our students who are here taking care of them."
Copyright 2003 NOLA.com. All Rights Reserved.
Times-PicayuneMonday, September 05, 2005Thibodaux church sheltering petsBy Millie BallStaff writerTHIBODAUX - The young woman from New Orleans, her 7-year-old daughter and their pet poodle were sleeping under the altar at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Center on the Nicholls State University campus.The Rev. Jim Morris said he gazed down at the family that had been banned because of the dog from the regular shelter for victims of Hurricane Katrina. He told a colleague, "Our altar has never been adorned more beautifully than it is with these people seeking the sanctuary of God."Morris has a dog named Blue. He understands."I went over to the school shelter Tuesday night and saw all these people outside, looking dejected and clinging to their animals," said the slender 44-year-old priest with friendly blue eyes and sandy hair he hasn't had time to comb lately. "They wouldn't let them inside. So I said, bring them on over to the church."The first night there were 130 people with "all these rottweilers, poodles, Chihuahuas, cats, birds, even a pot-bellied pig. It was unbelievable. We had no kennels or cages - PetSmart and Petco donated them later - and people slept on the terrazzo floor and on the pews. We had no electricity. It was like Noah's Ark."Sunday, there were 53 people still here with their pets. People chatted with one another, sitting on mattresses donated by locals, kennels holding their pets beside them. Volunteers and owners were returning with the leashed animals after their walks. One volunteer chased a Chihuahua that got lose. Others smiled since they'd been in that situation too, one time or another. Volunteers served burgers. So many donated clothes that were piled on long tables in the hall, it was hard to navigate through it."Some people say we're stupid because we wouldn't leave our animals," said Cora DeRussy. "It's why I'm in the predicament I am now, but I'm glad I'm stupid."An employee at Dillard's in eastern New Orleans, she lived on Vicksburg Street in Lakeview, and watched from her perch in the kitchen sink while one of her dogs swam in the water dumped in her house from the broken canal, and eventually drowned. Wearing a donated blue muumuu Sunday, the 65-year-old DeRussy said when two men in a boat rescued her Tuesday afternoon, she got them to row around the house until she spotted Amber, her collie, its head poking out of a window.Now Amber, who swallowed a lot of polluted water, is at Ridgefield Animal Hospital nearby, recovering from her ordeal. Dr. Paul Seemann Jr., a veterinarian, shook his head. There would be no bill for any of these refugees' pets - or almost anyone else from New Orleans last week.Carole Montet is another of the many people here who are grateful for the Catholic Center. There was no way the recently retired special education teacher, her sister, Patricia, and their 80-year-old mother, Lillian, were going to leave their cat in the attic of their flooded house on 28th Street in Lakeview, a block from the 17th Street Canal.McGinty, an orange tabby, was oblivious to the Montets' story as she slept curled up on a floral cushion in the cluttered office at the Catholic Center. Carole Montet, who said her brother in Mississippi had borrowed her car so they couldn't leave, looked through oversized tan-rim eye glasses and told how she punched out the ventilator in their roof of their one-story home to crawl out; how the two men who rescued them in a boat lifted her mother out, and then paddled them to the roof of a nearby two-story house - but the water went up 4 feet in 20 minutes. So they paddled the boat to another rooftop, and eventually reached a rescue point where Lillian lay in the sun for four hours until a bus arrived and took them to Thibodaux."Leave McGinty?" Carole Montet asked, as if that were a ridiculous question. "This cat helped my mother get through her hip surgery; McGinty inspired my mother.""She's family," interjected Lillian Montet from her wheelchair where she said in the air-conditioning, wearing a black flowered dress, a green parka and a heavy knit, smoky blue sweater."It was terrible," said Patricia Montet, who's in her 30s. She lifted both hands to cover her brown eyes."Our animals are the only semblance of normalcy we have left," Carole Montet said. "You've lost your home. You've lost your job. You have no possessions.""I didn't get my pictures or my albums," said her mother sadly. "The animal is the only semblance of your old life," Carole said.Jack Weber, who lives on St. Denis Street near the Fair Grounds in Mid-City, got out with his family too. That includes his wife, Ollie, 56; their daughter, Tamara, 30; and their mixed dalmatian-retriever mix, Spartica. "That's my family."Their roof blew off, then the sheetrock fell as the family moved from room to room "until there wasn't more room," said Weber, 58. A wiry man with a neat moustache and gray hair, he works as a bank messenger for the Board of Liquidation.Then the ceiling fell down, and they managed to get in their little boat - avoiding five or six guys chasing them and trying to steal it - and took on a neighbor Leon Gomez, who's in a wheelchair, and Gomez' rottweiler, ODB.After getting no help from a man in an official looking boat, another man paddled by in a child's inflatable plastic wading pool, and he told them to get to I-610, where they slept on the concrete until their rescue the next day by helicopter. Weber's wife and daughter got separated, but at least they know the others' locations.Weber was smiling Sunday and wearing new pants, socks, a Pride of Arcadia T-shirt and his old shoes he said can walk over nails. He was on his way to Laredo, Texas, to join up with his family. He also wore a new wooden cross he picked up at the center. "I wear it for good luck," he said.And he'll arrive with Spartica. Gomez still has his rottweiler, which Seemann said is one of the largest at the shelter, maybe 160 pounds.Seemann, 48, who grew up in Metairie and went to John Curtis and St. John Lutheran High Schools, has gone to the shelter several times to check on the pets and give shots. And he's also treated other pets from New Orleans, mainly ones who have gotten in fights.Saturday night, he had five emergency calls after dog fights, all at homes where several families gathered with their various dogs. The normal rate is one every two or three weeks. "I think it happens when "the dogs are establishing new territory and dominance." On the information form, one New Orleans resident wrote down "under water" when asked for his address, Seemann said.Morris looked happy and content as he looked over his temporary flock of humans and pets. "Animals calm people down. And pet lovers usually have gentle hearts. If you go in the other shelter, people tend to sit still and idle. Here, there's a lot going on. And what's wonderful is the way our students are volunteering and helping wherever they can. For us this is a mission that helps the evacuees and their pets as well as our students who are here taking care of them."
Copyright 2003 NOLA.com. All Rights Reserved.
Saturday, September 03, 2005
Don't forget the animals...Donate to the Humane Society of US to help the animals stranded by Katrina.
Rescue personnel help a hurricane survivor and her pet, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2005, in Knoxville, Tenn. Over a hundred people from New Orleans, were tranported to Knoxville.(AP Photo, J.Miles Cary)
A horse stands in floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina Saturday, Sept. 3, 2005 in St. Bernard Parish near New Orleans. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
HSUS Website here
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Saturday, August 20, 2005
Sunday, August 14, 2005
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
It's officially unofficial or something like that
I'm gonna try to buy a house! I checked my credit reports yesturday from annualcreditreport.com (free reports once a year) I also paid for my credit score from Equifax and my credit score was considered EXCELLENT! WTF? I had no idea. The actual score was 786 out of 850. So... I might take the next step and call my realtor next week and start the process. Atleast find out what I qualify for and what I can afford. I might not be able to buy anything based on my pathetic salary but I'm gonna try. So anyone with any home repair skills better start coming up with excuses... cuz I'm going to need some help!
Monday, August 08, 2005
I would imagine if you could understand Morse Code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy
I love(d) Mitch Hedberg...
This shirt is dry clean only. Which means... It's dirty.
I saw a human pyramid once. It was totally unnecessary.
I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.
I bought a seven dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.
I type a 101 words a minute. But it's in my own language.
The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.
Once I saw this wino who was eating grapes, and I said, "Dude, you have to wait".
I don't have a girlfriend. I just know a lady who would be really mad if she heard me say that.
This shirt is dry clean only. Which means... It's dirty.
I saw a human pyramid once. It was totally unnecessary.
I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.
I bought a seven dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.
I type a 101 words a minute. But it's in my own language.
The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.
Once I saw this wino who was eating grapes, and I said, "Dude, you have to wait".
I don't have a girlfriend. I just know a lady who would be really mad if she heard me say that.
Sunday, August 07, 2005
Mick Sterling at St Anthony Main
I love St Anthony Main, what a great place to listen to hang out, eat, drink and listen to music. Mick still rocks, apparently he just wrote a book but Anna wouldn't let me buy it. She's no fun.
Saturday, August 06, 2005
Saturday, July 30, 2005
Another day at the beach...
I'm so lazy, I spent the day laying on the beach, listening to music and reading... Ran into an old friend at the lake - what a good excuse to have some Fat Elvis ice cream!
Thursday, July 28, 2005
Sick Saver???
Sunday, July 24, 2005
heat!
Oh my god! It was so hot on saturday night that my smoke detector kept going off. My landlord was out of town and had to drive 2 hours back to the cities to fix it. We think it might have been caused by the humidity. Needless to say, I left for the night and slept on my mom's air conditioned porch. Between the alarm going off every ten minutes and the unbearable heat, I just had to get away. That's what I get for giving my air conditioner away. I'd even buy a new one if I had someone handy enough to get installed correctly. I never feel like its anchored well enough when I do it. Oh well, summer in Minnesota is short...
Also, its the last day/night of my vacation. UGH. I almost completely forgot about work for the whole week! 20 more hours to use up before August 12th! wooo hooo!
Also, its the last day/night of my vacation. UGH. I almost completely forgot about work for the whole week! 20 more hours to use up before August 12th! wooo hooo!
Thursday, July 21, 2005
Art cars
2:00pm - 3:00pm
ArtCar Parade!
Beginning at Grand Ave. and Lake Street going West on Lake Street to Lyndale Avenue, then heading north on Lyndale to 28th Street.
Saturday July 23rd 10:00am - 1:00pm
ArtCar Gallery
Midtown Public Market, Lake Street and 22nd Avenue (between the Midtown YWCA and the Light Rail Station). Get an up-close and personal look at the ArtCars!
ArtCar Parade!
Beginning at Grand Ave. and Lake Street going West on Lake Street to Lyndale Avenue, then heading north on Lyndale to 28th Street.
Saturday July 23rd 10:00am - 1:00pm
ArtCar Gallery
Midtown Public Market, Lake Street and 22nd Avenue (between the Midtown YWCA and the Light Rail Station). Get an up-close and personal look at the ArtCars!
fat elvis!
banana ice cream with swirls of peanut butter and chocolate chunks! Lake Nokomis concession stand. YUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Mad Hot Ballroom
This was such a great movie!!! Its playing at the Edina Theatre
NEW YORK REVIEW
In this entrancing, funny, and moving documentary, contemporary kids of many social and ethnic backgrounds shimmy their self-conscious hips to the merengue, swing music, the rumba, the tango, and the fox-trot. Ballroom follows a New York City public-school-system program that teaches fifth-grade students ballroom dancing, and the film climaxes with a citywide competition that’ll have you rising from your seat to root for your favorites. First-time director Marilyn Agrelo leads us like a good dance partner: Her cameras capture the drama of rehearsals, her subjects’ alternately hilarious and heartbreaking after-school chatter about their ambitions, dreams, and everyday frustrations; she even sketches vivid portraits of the students’ dance teachers (memo to Hollywood producers: Suave, witty Rodney Lopez at P.S. 115 in Washington Heights is already a more magnetic screen presence than two- thirds of the current male movie stars we’re subjected to). The winning school is never in doubt, but it doesn’t lessen the pleasurable tension and suspense—you’ll waltz out of Mad Hot Ballroom not merely exhilarated but with renewed respect for after-school programs and the work that teachers can do in children’s lives. — Reviewed by Ken Tucker, New York Magazine
Check it out here
NEW YORK REVIEW
In this entrancing, funny, and moving documentary, contemporary kids of many social and ethnic backgrounds shimmy their self-conscious hips to the merengue, swing music, the rumba, the tango, and the fox-trot. Ballroom follows a New York City public-school-system program that teaches fifth-grade students ballroom dancing, and the film climaxes with a citywide competition that’ll have you rising from your seat to root for your favorites. First-time director Marilyn Agrelo leads us like a good dance partner: Her cameras capture the drama of rehearsals, her subjects’ alternately hilarious and heartbreaking after-school chatter about their ambitions, dreams, and everyday frustrations; she even sketches vivid portraits of the students’ dance teachers (memo to Hollywood producers: Suave, witty Rodney Lopez at P.S. 115 in Washington Heights is already a more magnetic screen presence than two- thirds of the current male movie stars we’re subjected to). The winning school is never in doubt, but it doesn’t lessen the pleasurable tension and suspense—you’ll waltz out of Mad Hot Ballroom not merely exhilarated but with renewed respect for after-school programs and the work that teachers can do in children’s lives. — Reviewed by Ken Tucker, New York Magazine
Check it out here
Day of shopping
A good day to be in an air conditioned car and stores! We started out the day at The Wild Roast (creme brulee french toast!) and then off to the Salvation Army in the warehouse district. (Target sample stuff and lots of other Target goodies go to Salvation Army) I scored! A great bittersweet mixing bowl for $8 and a super cute string of bright colored paper lantern lights. Not sure what I'm going to do with the string of lights, maybe the kitchen?! Then off to SR Harris for fabric. Spent a fortune. Why didn't I just buy those expensive pillows from Room and Board? Probably be cheaper in the long run. After that we decided to head over to The Shoppes at Arbor Lakes in Maple Grove. Ick, the suburbs but its a really nice open air shopping center. Great stores - Anthropologie, Smith and Hawkin, Pottery Barn etc BlogItemURL>
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005
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