messaround

rad hood ornament at on a car at the minneapolis messaroud at memory lanes this afternoon.

weird tree

not much going on, so this is it...

it's a tree across 26th from the new french with a weird branch.

rats!

so this is actually the "august 20th" post...

there are these rat traps like every 20 feet behind the nestle plant in st louis park (?). the cedar lake bike trail goes right behind the building, and thankfully i have yet to see any of the "little buddies". not sure about heading passed there after dark, tho. YIKES!!

the birds are cute, but maybe a rat's nest would be more appropriate... (not at all disparaging any fine nestle products, which i'm sure are all of the highest quality, and absolutely delish)

unfortunate typo

there was an al franken fundraiser / obama speach watching gathering at the parkway theatre in so. mpls this evening. here's the sign that was behind the bar.

the picture kinda sucks, but in the larger version you can better see the typo on the last named beer - of course it should be "negra modelo". wonder if somebody had a little too much "barack on the brain"??

late night train

had to stop for this train while biking up 27th late tonight.

see that stop sign? that's for bikers on the greenway. from my experience, it must be too small for most of them to see.

"dirty" tree

in 2004 john waters directed "a dirty shame".

if you've seen the movie you'll know what i mean when i say that i think this tree may have auditioned..


it's esp clear if photo is cropped, and look at it from this angle...

fyi...anybody in town for the rnc - don't bother asking me where this is ;-)

ice skates on a wire

saw these ice skates chucked up on a wire behind the lake street k-mart while heading down the greenway last saturday...

so does this mean that there's an "ice" dealer in the area?? or is it gang thing?? or just dochebaggery??

maybe somebody should chuck some quad skates somewhere along the greenway to mark it as an fruit boot free zone!!

need more letters

noticed this tonite at the st anthony main movie theater, whatev it's called now.

stop loose gravel

i saw like a million of these signs today while trying to make a shortcut from the columbia heights unique thrift store and the salvation army. anybody who knows that area will agree that there really isn't one, but i had forgotten that, and, well...



there wasn't any "loose gravel" yet, but i'll bet there will be in the next few days.

i TOTALLY agree with the "stop loose gravel" sentiment, cuz it's so dusty, and it totally SUCKS to ride a bike on, and to me it just seems like a totally lazy way to "repave" a street.

yeah, i know...it says "stop, 4 way, loose gravel", but i'm ignoring the "4 way" part. also this reminds me of some comedian who was complaining about "kids these days" not protesting, and the the only "protest" sings he ever saw were "end road construction". i think of that everytime i see one of those signs - wish i could remember who it was. oh well...

midtown global market artcar show

just happened to be at the midtown market, and took a sec to check out the 6 or 8 artcars that were parked nearby.

this was the coolest, cuz it has a berrie's "paula" statue on it, and those are cool. not as cool as sillisculpts, but still...

minneapolis library queue

was at the main mpls library this morning a bit before they opened at 10, and was suprised to see all of the people waiting to get in to the actual library. there must have been like 30 or 40 people!!



i haven't been inside the library part yet, but i'm sure it doesn't have as much "character" as the old library. esp on the 2nd floor with the chess players, and the use-at-your-own-risk bathrooms!!

blood

noticed these drops near the door of the 55406 post office today. sure looked like blood.


then about 5 feet away i saw this, so yep, blood it is. looks like a the person used a napkin or papertowel to sop it up.

a couple of months ago there was an unwrapped, but unused condom in the rocks like 2 feet away from where the blood napkin was today.

bread

new french bakery monday midnightish, through window on 26th.

YUM!!!!!!!

protected

morevalu store at bloomington & 26th.

"Protected" seems more than a little bit of an overstatement.

really? "protected"? how? in like the same way that one's eyes "protect" them from somebody doing something to them imply because they can SEE the other person?

yeah, that's effective...

hope that's wine

today's picture isn't from today, cuz i really haven't done anything "fun". so here's a litle something i snapped LATE friday night...

yeah, it's a urinal no, i'm not trying to make some sorta dada-esque statement. the thing that caught my eye is the purplish spill (?) on the floor. i hope for THAT dude's sake it's wine, and NOT something that he produced! (well, unless he eats A LOT of beets or borshch)

i know, not v exciting, but gotta keep my 1 post a day thing going...

mpls footy

so thanks to mnspeak, and specifically the deets, i learned yesterday that there's an austrailian rules football team (or league maybe?) in mpls.

here's their site: http://mnfooty.com/

i checked out this morning's game, and it seems super rad. i would totally recommend checking out their next game in sept.

tagged and bagged

i noticed this tagging on wednesday, and THAT actually is what kinda put in my mind to do a photo blog thing.

i'm of two minds re: tagging. 1 - public sorta property like underpasses, bridges, telephone poles, shit like are things that i guess i don't really have a prob with people leaving their marks on. oh, and train cars too, cuz some of that shit is v nice. ( i know A LOT of people will disagree with that, but that's just how i feel about it). 2 - personal property, tho, is totally different. those cocksuckers need to leave THAT shit alone. really. just fuck right off. there's NO call for defacing some individual's or group's shit. especially something as benign as a super cool sign at a community garden.

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bonus story:
ended up at the hopkins goodwill, was looking through the books, and wondered how there are 2 random books in sanskrit between danielle steele and joe eszterhas. WEIRD!

also grabbed these skates, but didn't have a backpack or bag with me, and couldn't find a good one at the gw, so did this:

THAT didn't work so well, as i kept smashing my knees into them, so i stopped at the target that's right off the trail in slp (i think), and after almost buying a clearanced "cars" back pack, decided on this large cloth bag thing that was in with the purses. it worked GREAT!

cheese siesta

taken on phone at cub food at lake/hiawatha 9:19am thursday 8-14-08.

so i can't imagine that this is intended to be offendingto the store's customers since there are MANY hispanics (or isit latinos? sorry, but i'm not up on the politically correctterms to be used to describe groups of poeple) that shop atthis store, but it just struck ME as sorta weird.

is the dude in some sort of cheese induced coma? or is he just sleepy? either way, what does it have to do with cheese?

what's next? a little black dude by the watermelon, or an obesewhite trash woman in the chips/soda aisle, or, meh, just comeup with your own nonsense stereotype.

here's the deal...

so here's the deal...

i'm out and about a lot in south minneapolis. more specifically in the longfellow, seward, powderhorn, and phillips neighborhoods, and the greenway.

i figured that since i'm always noticing stuff while i'm out, why not snap a picture of anything that i see that strikes me as cool, or sad, or suprising, or shitty, or whatever.

the plan is to post like picture or two each day, and post it here. sometimes with commentary, sometimes not. sometimes they'll from a phone camera, sometimes from a "real" digital camera, so the quality will vary.