Cycled past the Sigma Alpha Mu frat house in Dinkytown, Minneapolis. In 1959, Robert Zimmerman was a member for a short time while he was enrolled at the University of Minnesota. Around that time he began introducing himself as “Bob Dylan.”
Category: Living
Banned Television
Mr. Ratburn walks up the aisle with his husband-to-be, Patrick the aardvark. Finally I found daytime television worth watching, but not in Alabama where the episode is banned.
BNSF Northtown Yard
Every time I cycle past the BNSF Northtown Yard I like to stop and watch.
Less is More
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Less is More
“Less is more” is famously the motto of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969). The idea is to reduce design to its necessary elements. Less famously, Mies picked up the phrase from his teacher, architect Peter Behrens, in Berlin around 1910. Behrens is considered to be the first industrial designer. In the 1930’s Mies…… Continue reading Less is More
Remembering
Cycled through Fort Snelling National Cemetery, surrounded by 225,000 graves of military veterans and their immediate families. Later this month, a flag will be placed at each veteran’s grave marker for Memorial Day.
Drums, Chants, Bison Melt
Drums, chants, bison melt. Lunch at the Minneapolis American Indian Center after a morning of cartesian coordinates and citizenship.
Random Ride
Cycled around Nordeast Minneapolis, frequently changing direction on a whim.
Simple Sunday
Jog, walk, cycle, beer + fish + chips, nap. Sunday.
New Culinary Heights
Achieved new culinary heights: assembled Spam Musubi, a fusion food popular in Hawaii. Minnesota: Spam (fried). The can makes an excellent musubi mold. Japan: soy sauce and nori. California: sushi rice. Next time we’ll add mirin to the rice to make it stickier.