Category Archives: Minnesota

Notable stories from the Land of 10,000 Lakes.

HAMMS Event: A Minnesota event you should not miss

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If you are someone who likes to shop local and support small business, then I have the event for you. Held in the former Hamm’s Brewery shipping dock on the East side of Saint Paul, Minnesota, this event will house a number of pop-up stores offering a one-of-a-kind collection of unique gifts and artwork. Here is just a sampling of what you will find: jewelry, apparel, cosmetics, pet products and cool home accessories. Not only do you get to shop, but you’ll get to meet the newest Minnesota small business makers while enjoying food trucks and local brew.​

A Minnesota Market with a Twist! http://www.hammsevent.com/ — May 3rd, 2014 #HAMMS2014

General Information
Located at the former Hamms brewery shipping docks in the Everest Building.
Saturday, May 3rd 2014
10 AM – 4 PM.
Cost = $10 (buy tickets here)
Free parking.

I will be giving away  pair of tickets on the Duck Duck Gray Duck Facebook page in the coming weeks, so Like us today so you don’t miss your chance. 

“Jesus Make It Warm!”

A frustrated 4 year old shoveling snow demonstrates what we are all feeling this winter.

You missed a spot

Someone in front of him needs to break suddenly.
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Minnesota Cancelled

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The Podunk Poets: Country music the way it should be played

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The nearly lost male/female country music duo is back in classic fashion. This is a band that you need to be into right now if you call yourself a country music fan. Like their Facebook page. 

Annual MLK Day BLACK SALE!

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Global Village, an irreverent retailer offering clothes, jewelry, incense, instruments and other global imports, offered “25 percent off everything black!” on Monday, meaning any merchandise with the color black in it was on sale.

WTF?

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A Lorde “Royals” Parody by someone from Hopkins Minnesota

Lorde – (Hopkins) Royals Parody by Molly Dworsky.

Savor EVERY bite

Cremation woodfire

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I just lost my appetite.

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Minnesota Jack Frost

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Monday Music Rewind: Trip Shakespeare – Snow Days

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Trip Shakespeare was a Minneapolis-based alternative rock band of the late 1980s/early 1990s. The band included Dan Wilson and John Munson, who would later go on to be founding members of Semisonic.

Across The Universe is an album released by Trip Shakespeare in 1990. It was the band’s first release on A&M Records, the major label that they had signed with earlier in the year.

Calling “Snow Days” “Trip Shakespeare at its best”, Newsday described it as “an eccentric blues about the kind of blizzard that shuts down school…a lovely evocation of childhood in the Minnesota winter.”[11]

“Every time we worked on the song in the studio, it seemed to snow,” bassist John Munson claimed of “Snow Days”. “When we were mixing the song in New York, it snowed there for the first time in years on Thanksgiving,” said Matt Wilson.[12]

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