Sunday night I had had enough of Imus. It wasn’t quite, “Get me back to Anna Nicole,” but the pile-on was complete … in terms of Imus. As I’ve said previously the whole episode is fascinating for the sense of cultural tipping point it brings. Worse things have said by worse chronic offenders. But several … Read more
LECTURE AND PERFORMANCE Your Brain is Not Your Friend! Tonight is the monthly Cafe Scientifique happy hour forum at Bryant Lake Bowl. And this month’s guest speaker happens to be Dennis Cass, author of Head Case: How I Almost Lost My Mind Trying to Understand My Brain. Cass, who was working as a freelance journalist … Read more
Dane Smith, the Star Tribune’s capital guy for umpteen-God-million years — that’s a joke — has traded up to a job as president of his former boss, Joel Kramer’s non-profit, Growth and Justice think tank. I quote the release here: Hello friends and colleagues, We invite you to join us in welcoming Dane Smith as … Read more
St. Paul Pioneer Press union chairman issued this note today regarding ex-publisher Par Ridder’s system for squeezing ad execs. Obviously Ridder’s successor, Fred Mott, was willing to play along. 21-year veteran terminated after two years on so-called ‘PIP’ Fri, April 13, 2007 at 12:56 Longtime advertising account executive Larry Olson was fired today — after … Read more
lingonberries are a part of our flavor…. OK, it’s here people. This is the real Retaurant Week, the one you’ve been waiting for. Now get out and EAT to feed the libraries. Not only do you get to eat in the aid of young, fresh minds, but you have a chance to sample what our … Read more
I suspect I’m not alone in believing there are at least two elephant-in-the-room-sized topics the Star Tribune’s in-house, salaried, reader representative/ombudsman, Kate Parry, could have moved on Sunday rather than a fusty dissection of ethical overreaching in the Eric Black-Doug Tice blog, “The Big Question”. But that’s just me, I guess. I mean, Parry’s own … Read more
He took her somewhere. She went willingly. They went together. It wasn’t exactly as if she were lost, although that description would work for the sake of melodrama or metaphor. She didn’t, though, have any melodrama left in her, and she no longer had any use at all for metaphor. Things exactly as they were … Read more
I hope you dressed for work today ready to head straight out. You’ve got a full evening ahead, so you best pick up the phone, shoot out an email, or turn around and yell, and see who’s going with you. Work hard today. Don’t dawdle around on the computer all day long. Limit your MNSpeak … Read more
The following circulated through the Star Tribune newsroom last Friday on its way to Gov. Pawlenty: Dear Guild members, You might be interested in this description of how Star Tribune management is treating our brothers and sisters in the Advertising Operations Department. There will be more information on this soon. Respectfully, Unit officers Dear Governor … Read more
Take another kick at my heart. Or as Tom Kelly would say: Oh my. It must have something to do with cosmic vibrations or something. Joe Nathan can take comfort in the fact that Mariano Rivera blew his own first save today, on a two-out, three-run walk-off homer to Oakland’s Marco Scutaro, who in this … Read more