ghandi mahal

go here for delicious...



they're located just south of lake on 27th ave (ya know, kinda by the town talk).

i'm no expert in indian food, but THIS is the best i've had. YUM!!

oh, and 2 things:

1 - i have NO association with the restaurant
2 - i DO realize that this is becoming a "27th and lake" blog

more bike rack probs

the "note" says "not a bike rack".

maybe not, but it IS a nice sturdy pole at the ivy building.

oh, and the obama sign from a few days ago has vanished...

denny's skillcrane breakfast idea

the must be the post-equinox light, but at around 6:00 as i was walking by the denny's across from the town talk dinner, that there's a skillcrane near the door:



so the idea of a skillcrane based self-serve breakfast bar popped into my head.

really! won't it be totally awesome? there could be dif skillcranes for eggs, and pancakes, and hashbrowns, and toast. i suppose bacon and sausage could be in the same one, since they're both super greasy.

it could be a charge by the ounce set-up, or better yet ALL YOU CAN EAT, cuz it'd really turn into all you can GRAB, which from my experience would not be much.

there'd probably have to be different types of claws or scoops depending on the food item, but that shouldn't be a problem.

there could even be a self-serve desert thing with pudding and/or ice cream!

the only drawback that i can see if that this sorta thing might not be very sanitary if the machines aren't thoroughly cleaned.

so, there ya go. if anybody actually reads this and wants to run with my idea, it's all your. best of luck with it.

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totally as an aside...one of the most satisfying breakfast's i've ever eaten was after a skullcranes show in cedar falls, iowa. golden fucking pancake, indeed. (pretty sure it wasn't a golden pancake, but it was STILL delish) on my mind cuzza breakfast, and well, "skill", "skull"...

$2.50 seizure inducers

sure they look like loads of fun, but i can think of many potential probs with these...

signage etiquette

so this obama sign is planted outside of the ivy arts building on 27th & 27th...



made me wonder what the signage etiquette is for businesses and such where not all of the people/biz's actually support a candidate.

i'll keep my eyes open to see if mccain or nader or whoever signs sprout up over time.

patrick's cabaret

it looks like the work on the building is done, and there's brand new flag too...

tall bike

snapped this while headed downtown on the train...



i think it'd be so super cool to ride one, but i would undoubtedly kill myself by falling right off, or from not being able to stop.

take THAT subway

noticed these at rainbow...



the picture DOES NOT do them justice. they're enormous!! looks like they're mostly bread, but still...

ear

super busy in real life today, so no "exciting" mpls pix.

i DID take delivery of a piece of art that i purchased like a month ago at a show at the vine arts center in the seward 'hood.

it's entitled "ear" and it's a woodburning piece by clint peterson. don't really know many deets about the dude, and REALLY wanted to buy a dif piece that was nfs, but thought this was pretty cool.

bike rack jackass

is this like the equivalent of those dicks who have to park there "awesome" car diagonally in a parking lot resulting in 2 (or more) spots being taken. seriously this dude (it's gotta be a dude) is taking up like at least FIVE spots.

actually much ado about nothing, since the other rack had only 1 bike on it as well. parked correctly, i might ad.

lake/hiawatha rainbow.

left behind

didn't venture out today, but here's a picture that i snapped friday night of a bike wheel locked to the rack near the federal reserve...

was there some sort of bike "rapture" that i hadn't heard about that left this "naughty" wheel behind? or i 'spose it's more likely that the bike's owner just forgot about the quick-release thing, and somebody snatched the rest of the bike. yeah, prob the 2nd one...

idiotic

so on my way back from here...


i noticed this...

seriously...

it had been raining on & off all day, but the sprinklers still had to come on to water the grass at that newish office building on hiawatha by the bike bridge.

a terrible waste of water in the 1st place, but also many of the things were out of whack, and one was totally spraying into the parking lot. dumb.

des moines

no post yest in honor of 9-11.

nah...not really, was out of town in beautiful des moines, iowa.

it rained on an off all day, and when leaving town at like 9pm, saw the result of poeple undoubtedly driving TOO FAST during the downpour that took place about 10 min earlier...





also, stopped in beautiful downtown ames, and was glad to see that the parking meters still take other coins, but WHY would anybody use a quarter?

ralph nader as adam

so i saw this nader poster and immediately thought of the sistine chapel. in the photo nader would be adam.

sure hope the "big guy" ("big gal?) upstairs has a sense of humor...

altho, i guess it IS true that voters are what give politicians life, so maybe it's not THAT bad.

(oh, and this was taken on my phone at arm's length and it was super sunny out and i had no way of seeing how the photo was going to work, but it DID, so maybe it's "meant to be")

skol's magical fishing seahorse

there's a super cool mural on the 25th street side of skol liquor, that includes what appears to be a seahorse that is possibly magical, and is fishing (i cropped out the string and catch, cuz it's blocked by some stupid bus bench).

marlboro 420

sure, now it's only the price, but maybe someday it'll be a brand name.

sign at the loring park super america.

downtown

guess it's been a while since i walked down hennepin ave, since i hadn't noticed that shinder's was closed. i can recall WAY back in the day when this space was like the shittiest burger king in the world.

saw this empty razor box outside of target...

surprised to see that those things are even still MADE!

lady liberty takes a break

noticed this while walking passed the "liberty tax" office near rainbow on lake/minnehaha...

another dirty tree

last week i did a blog regarding a "dirty" tree, referencing john waters' dirty shame.

well, today i noticed this tree like 3 blocks away from the last one...

and just like last time, flipping the photo helps...

nice WOOD!!!!! literally.

half staff

the flag that's in front of the arby's (or maybe car-x) near lake/hiawatha looks like it's at half-staff from the corner of lake/27th, because there's a supertall power pole behind it. i don't know how many times i've caught it out of the corner of my eye and wondered what was going on.

rock turtle and target barf

rock that's painted to look like a turtle in slp on the bike path in the "cobblecrest neighborhood":

barf by the bike rack at the target in slp by 169:

kinda weird, cuz i was eating a banana when i snapped this, and i knew somebody who hates bananas cuz they reminded her of the barf cover-up stuff from her old school.

minneapolis water

was at city hall to tcb, and HAD to grab a drink of the delish mpls water at one of the drinking fountains.

YUM!! (hope it wasn't one of the "lead pipe" ones, or whatev the recent problem was...)

also, in retrospect, maybe shouldn't've been snapping a picture inside city hall what with all the rnc paranoia. saw A LOT of cops, they were like everywhere.