The Twins organization just announced that general manager Terry Ryan is resigning. This is a huge blow for the franchise. More than anyone else over the past decade–Tom Kelly, Carl Pohlad, Torii Hunter, you name it–Ryan fostered a “Twins Identity” that relied on the farm system, pitching, and the most thorough scouting and information retrieval … Read more
Ah, the dilemma of being an upright mammal. Each of us — excepting strict vegans, of course — must make peace with his or her spot on the food chain. Are we carnivores, herbivores, or pesci-vegetarians? Do we eat fowl but not red meat, because cows have sad eyes while chickens are mostly irritating? Is … Read more
HBO exploits your voyeuristic tendencies. (You can stare for hours.)
Chevron tries to show us the future of energy. This kind of model is one of the most attractive and dangerous tools we can employ to affect our public policies. (I mean, it is Chevron, after all.) The site demands a serious discussion. What do you think?
These trash shadows, inspired hybrids of sculpture and shadow puppets made from various household refuse, caught our attention this week. Prude that I am, I don’t much care for the whizzing-themed installation. Other than that: What a great way to recycle!
It seems like it would be a peripheral issue, but I never cease to be amazed at how many actual newspaper consumers, or “intense readers”, as Joel Kramer is describing his target audience for MinnPost.com, lock up with the notion of reading their news off a two-pound, desk-bound computer. They all want to flop somewhere … Read more
ART LECTURE They Call Him Heap of Birds What a name! Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds. Or is it VI? His name seems to be in all capital letters everywhere. What does this mean? Is he… just that kind of guy? Perhaps. With exhibits across the world — from the MOMA; to … Read more
This month’s Vanity Fair has an article about a new online news website, newser.com, that includes Michael Wolff, former Pioneer Press editor Tom Doctor, and High Beam Research. The article, “Is This the End of News,” is definitely word a read.
Last month, seven U.S. soldiers wrote an op-ed piece for the NY Times which gave lie to the sunny sunshine glowing the past two days from General David Petraeus’s ass. Today, we read in the Times that two of those men have been killed in Iraq…in a truck accident. Senseless.
He didn’t exactly fall on his sword, but you gotta like Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for resigning because his popularity had fallen to Bush-like levels. The NY Times put it like this: “Mr. Abe, deeply unpopular, had already been written off by Japan’s political establishment and news media, his political future measured in months.” … Read more