Month: June 2006

  • The Crafty Frank Crosetti

    The Hidden Ball trick (from the fabulous Retrosheet), via The Hardball Times. Check out Frank Crosetti’s impressive run from 1936 to 1940. The Twins, by the way, have been victimized three times.

  • Why I Name My Cars

    Gina L: A chassis shape we can appreciate It occured to me yesterday while reading a vapid article on the merits of “Post Modern Girlfriend” (I don’t believe it was in The Rake, but alas I myself suffer from vapidity often.) why I hate many recent BMWs. I have always understood “post modern thought” to…

  • Wanly yours,

    The big news this weekend is the Guthrie opening, of course. And I’ll be there. I won’t elaborate too much on how I feel about that (uh, excited), considering that there are many other things going on this weekend, and in some instances they won’t involve such logjam traffic. There’s Twin Cities Pride, for example.…

  • A Chocolate Fig

    I sometimes miss my chance to support the local-food-movement, mainly because many Saturday mornings come at the expense of Friday night revelry and not even the promise of a breakfast brat could lure me to the market. With the opening of Golden Fig & River Chocolate Company Fine Foods on Grand Ave. in St. Paul,…

  • Timmy on Taxes

    Ready. Aim… A big whoop engendered yesterday by the Growth and Justice gang’s ad in the Strib yesterday indicating the willingness of 200 upper income Minnesotans to pay more tax to fund education, transportation and health care got the expected response from Tim “I answer only to David Strom” Pawlenty: “If those people want to…

  • From Arbus to Zero for Conduct

    For those of you who cherish your brain cells, the moguls in Hollywood have chosen to cut us a break this weekend, leaving the big-budget extravaganzas alone, and giving us… well, virtually nothing. There’s a lot of movies around town, but I think your best bet’s at the Walker Art Center. If it were me,…