Category Archives: Minnesota

Notable stories from the Land of 10,000 Lakes.

Minnesota Timbertrolls: The TV Series

A new video starring the Timberwolves players set to the theme of Family Matters. It’s wonderful.

Minnesota Love

The state of MN has a lot of endearing qualities.

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OMG MOVE!

If you live in Minnesota, you know that driving here can be FRUSTRATING! I think it’s because we are passive aggressive in nature. This license plate sums up my feelings pretty well. We all know who the bad drivers are in Minneapolis.

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Free Brother Ali music download

The Bite Marked Heart
Minneapolis rapper Brother Ali has dropped a new EP. Entitled The Bite Marked Heart, the seven-track effort features guest appearances from Phonte and Stokley Williams, among others.

Stream and/or download the project for free here. Yes, I said “FREE.”

Amazon has some other good tracks too, so check them out.

Ali’s fifth LP, tentatively titled Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color, is due out later this year.

Vince Flynn’s Kill Shot chronicles the rise of a CIA Superagent

Buy Vince Flynn Kill Shot book

In Vince Flynn’s latest page-turner, the stakes are higher than they’ve ever been as Mitch Rapp embarks on the journey that will turn him into America’s most deadly asset. Flynn is known for delivering shockingly realistic situations in his political thriller / assassin books. Every detail and protocol appears to be extensively researched and accurate. Something us mystery/espionage fans appreciate.

His latest book is called Kill Shot. It is hitting stands today. The book is actually a prequel to his later books and follows the story of how Mitch Rapp became the CIA’s superagent.

Exerpt from Simon and Schuster: In the year since the CIA trained and then unleashed him, Mitch Rapp has been steadily working his way through a list of men, bullet by bullet. With each swift and untraceable kill, the tangled network of monsters responsible for the slaughter of 270 civilians in the Pan Am Lockerbie attack become increasingly aware that someone is hunting them. Rapp is given his next target, and finds the man asleep in his bed in Paris. In the split second it takes the bullet to leave Rapp’s silenced pistol, the trap is sprung and he finds himself in the fight of his life.

Buy the book here.

145 Waterskiers set new record

Leaving everyone in their wake: Waterskiers set new world record as 145 people are pulled behind a single boat. Full story. Did you know that water skiing was invented in Minnesota? True story.

Waterskiers world record

Photo Source: Mark Seaton

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Photo Source: Mark Seaton

Photo Source: Mark Seaton

Old lady packing excessive heat

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Perfectly horrible placement for a cruise ship ad

Unfortunate Juxtaposition spotted in today’s edition of the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter, a full-page ad promoting cruise line packages just to the right of a full-page article about the Costa Concordia disaster.

Newspaper layout people should know better than this when a disaster has occurred.

Unfortunate Juxtaposition

Six dead, 16 missing is the latest count in the Costa Concordia disaster. A couple from Minnesota are among the missing.
(via Copyranter)

Green Bay Packers linebacker tackles fan

Green Bay Packers’ Brad Jones tackles a fan that ran on the field during the second half of an NFL football game against the Detroit Lions Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012, in Green Bay, Wis. The Packers won 45-41. (via NESN)

Green Bay Packers linebacker tackles fan

Green Bay Packers linebacker tackles fan

2012 radio changes for the Twin Cities

New changes to the Minnesota airwaves have recently been announced. Update your presets accordingly.
WLTE 102.9 Minneapolis102.9 is now a Country station. I guess Love 105 will have to provide the fix you need for the sappy stuff.
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B-96.3 Hip-hop is now a new “adult” Top 40 station still playing some old cuts. Recent news says it will be less “teeny bopper” and host a bit more of a talk element.
Tony Fly and Perk from Channel 11 will be doing a morning show I guess.

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So what do you think of the changes?

Here is the station I miss the most.

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