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Former Minnesota Twin, Torii Hunter, is taking time off of playing to deal with his 17-year-old son Darius. Torii’s son was arrested, along with another adult and three juveniles, after being investigated for sexual assault on a child. He is out of jail on $15,000 bond. Hunter has been placed on the restricted list for the Angels indefinitely. The team has agreed to let him take as much time as he needs to (hopefully) smack his son upside the head.
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Tagged Angels, arrested, crime, Darius Hunter, Sexual assault, Torii Hunter
Soul Asylum performing “Summer of Drugs” live in Minneapolis on 12/23/05 at First Avenue. Soul Asylum released this song in 1994. It was one of my favorites in high school. You can buy it here.
Michael Bland best known for playing with Prince, is on the drums. Bland now drums for Nick Jonas. Yes, that Nick Jonas.
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This is Igor Vovkovinskiy, the United States’ tallest man at 7 feet 8.33 inches, with Minnesota Timberwolves center Nikola Pekovic. Pekovic is 6 foot 11, but you would never know it from this picture.
A Dairy Queen in MN teaches us what people mean when they say “Minnesota Nice.” Oh, fer Pete’s sake…
A celebration of slang. When traveling across the United States, it sometimes feels like the locals are speaking a whole different language. That’s where the Dictionary of American Regional English comes to the rescue. Read their definitions here.
Posted in Art & Design, Cool stuff, Minnesota, Retro
Tagged Minneapolis Moline, Minneapolis Moline patch, Minnesota History, MM, MN agriculture, tractors
There’s a room in Minnesota that’s so quiet it becomes unbearable after a short time. The longest that anyone has survived in the ‘anechoic chamber’ at Orfield Laboratories in South Minneapolis is just 45 minutes. It’s 99.99% sound absorbent, it’s the world’s quietest place, but stay there too long and you may start hallucinating.
When it’s quiet, ears will adapt. The quieter the room, the more things you hear. You’ll hear your heart beating, sometimes you can hear your lungs, hear your stomach gurgling loudly. In the anechoic chamber, you become the sound. (via The Presurfer)
Source: Yamato IBM research centre
Source: Orfield Laboratories
Michael Beasley tries to rub own knee, misses, rubs Anthony Tolliver’s knee instead.
Check out these cool Minneapolis Bike Gang logo designs by Allen Peters.
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Tagged Allan Peters, bicycle, logo art, Logo design, Minneapolis bike gang logos, Minnesota Art, Mpls bike gangs
Imperial Drag was an American rock band, active from 1994 to 1997. The group, formed after the breakup of Jellyfish, released one album and scored one rock hit single in the U.S. before disbanding. The group’s glam rock-influenced image, however, failed to win fans over in the wake of the grunge era. I remember discovering them in July of 1996 at the Taste of Minnesota. The show was still one of the best live shows I have seen. I still enjoy the album to this day and urge you to rediscover them yourself.
The lead singer, Eric Dover, auditioned as lead vocalist for the first solo album by Slash of Guns N’ Roses. Dover recorded vocals on the Slash’s Snakepit album It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere before rejoining keyboardist Roger Manning (Jellyfish) in the Imperial Drag. Dover has also been a session musician for Alice Cooper. He now fronts a band called Sextus.
Buy the song Boy or a Girl here.
Visit the Imperial Drag fan site here.
