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Category: Events
Good morning. Today is "Mayday Day" in Minneapolis. Mayday is a holiday widely celebrated by the community of South Minneapolis. People from North, Northeast and Southeast are welcome, but I'm not sure they know about it. People from "soutwest" Minneapolis ARE from South Minneapolis and...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:01 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Minnesota
... if you live in the Red River or Minnesota River basins near anything that looks like water....
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:19 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Minnesota
You probably assumed that "valet parking" and "regular parking" were distinct things. Well, you know what happens when you assume.....
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:56 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ethnography
But that isn't always how it goes. On today's radio show, Steve Borsch was talking about the way in which social networking (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) is playing out -- as an extension of social interaction more than as a new form of shopping mall or...
Posted by Greg Laden at 2:49 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Minnesota
The Minnesota Vikings will not be in the playoffs this year, but the team has nonetheless become interesting, possibly more interesting than if they were still in the running....
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:09 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Republicans
"She gave me some line of baloney, and I thought, 'well, she's fibbing to me.' You could tell, and I thought, 'well, I'm going to check it out.'
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:26 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books
I've become very interested in Minnesota history, and by interested I mean annoyed in many cases. The first thing white Minnesotans did was to exploit the Indians. The second thing they did was to throw the Indians out, move them to reservations, kill them, and...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:31 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Landscape
This is the most challenging time of year for duck watching. But it may be easier than one thinks to bump into a wolf in the forest....
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:59 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anthropology
There is a swath across the map of Minnesota that runs northwest to southeast across the state, separating the major biomes of the eastern two thirds of the country, and for complicated reasons. North, it is colder, south warmer. Much of the moister in the...
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:49 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Lakes
When I was a kid, I spent a lot of time at lakes, but the idea of walking around a lake hardly every occurred to me or anyone else. This might be because the lakes were either really big (like the Great Sacandaga Reservoir) or...
Posted by Greg Laden at 5:10 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
