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Ben Miller
Minneapolis, MN

July 2
molls: There is a video up on YouTube right now of some Minnesota teens hassling some locals after a recent Gay Pride event. I watched almost the entire thing and then I realized that two of the homophobic kids are wearing dresses. Really, really ugly dresses that might be Snuggies or Snuggie-like things. What’s the deal behind these outfits? UPDATE: According to Preston and another person in the comments: “I used to live in Minneapolis and there is a pretty big Somalian community there. Some of the men/boys just wear regular shit and some go with the Arab/Islamic style of the long dresses.” Oh, just… goddammit, Minneapolis.

molls:

There is a video up on YouTube right now of some Minnesota teens hassling some locals after a recent Gay Pride event. I watched almost the entire thing and then I realized that two of the homophobic kids are wearing dresses. Really, really ugly dresses that might be Snuggies or Snuggie-like things.

What’s the deal behind these outfits?

UPDATE: According to Preston and another person in the comments: “I used to live in Minneapolis and there is a pretty big Somalian community there. Some of the men/boys just wear regular shit and some go with the Arab/Islamic style of the long dresses.”

Oh, just… goddammit, Minneapolis.

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Gizmodo catalogs the oddball Walkmans (Walkmen?) that have appeared over the years. This here was the first “Sport” Walkman, which was waterproof. Yes, for the longest time, yellow signified “sport”. (It still might.)
Gizmodo catalogs the oddball Walkmans (Walkmen?) that have appeared over the years. This here was the first “Sport” Walkman, which was waterproof. Yes, for the longest time, yellow signified “sport”. (It still might.)
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July 1
July 1 Morning Roundup

Awwwww, sweeeeet! The Galaxy Drive-In will be open soon. They renovated that place in about a week and a half (really, it is really, really small) and it looks pretty retro-inviting. Plus, it will have a firepit for s’more makin’! (This capability will be part of any future restaurant concept I dream up.)

heavytable:

It looks like early July will see the launch of Galaxy, the reinvented St. Louis Park drive-in, Coco hits up the Red Ox Cafe in Ham Lake and digs into its history, Iggers visits Brasa in St….
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June 30
Did your cherubic, yet cheeky progeny just feed your fancy pre-planned meal to a hungry raccoon? Is your husband’s Boss/Foreign Client/Government Inspector coming over for dinner unexpectedly? Does a Big Promotion/Window Office/New Hat depend on the successful schmoozing of said dinner guest? Well, run to the drive-thru crap factory down the street, Mabel — Fancy Fast Food will help turn your hilarious predicament (some might call it a situation) into a happy freeze-frame credit sequence in two winks. Pictured: The Tacobellini (Fancy Burrito Supreme)

Did your cherubic, yet cheeky progeny just feed your fancy pre-planned meal to a hungry raccoon? Is your husband’s Boss/Foreign Client/Government Inspector coming over for dinner unexpectedly? Does a Big Promotion/Window Office/New Hat depend on the successful schmoozing of said dinner guest? Well, run to the drive-thru crap factory down the street, Mabel — Fancy Fast Food will help turn your hilarious predicament (some might call it a situation) into a happy freeze-frame credit sequence in two winks.

Pictured: The Tacobellini (Fancy Burrito Supreme)

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Flip Flop Fly Ball: A treasure trove of strange and wonderful baseball infographics, like the above breakdown of a fictional baseball game between the Wu Tang Clan and the E Street Band. Brought to you by Craig Robinson, of “Abba to Zappa”, Minipops and What If… fame.
Flip Flop Fly Ball: A treasure trove of strange and wonderful baseball infographics, like the above breakdown of a fictional baseball game between the Wu Tang Clan and the E Street Band. Brought to you by Craig Robinson, of “Abba to Zappa”, Minipops and What If… fame.
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June 29
June 29 Tweet Rodeo

heavytable:

@TanpopoMN updates their wine list, @DakotaJazzClub promotes their Naked Ginger Cocktail (featuring Naked Grouse Scotch – here are the ratios), @France44Cheese is now open seven days a…
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June 28

fimoculous:

Michael Jackson, James Brown, and Prince on stage together. Prince wins, right?

Yep.

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heyitsnoah: rickwebb: Oh hey. The Netflix prize got beaten. Or won. Or completed. Or whatever. Cool. Winning Teams Join to Qualify for $1 Million Netflix Prize | Epicenter | Wired.com Between the actual value of a 10% increase in quality of the recommendation engine and the incredible amount of press Netflix has recieved as a result of the competition, anyone care to guess how much more than $1 million worth of value they got out of this? They deserved to win simply for the haphazardly mashed up team name.

heyitsnoah:

rickwebb:

Oh hey. The Netflix prize got beaten. Or won. Or completed. Or whatever. Cool.

Winning Teams Join to Qualify for $1 Million Netflix Prize | Epicenter | Wired.com

Between the actual value of a 10% increase in quality of the recommendation engine and the incredible amount of press Netflix has recieved as a result of the competition, anyone care to guess how much more than $1 million worth of value they got out of this?

They deserved to win simply for the haphazardly mashed up team name.

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June 25

I Can Still Rip Off Portions of the Breakdown Choreography

To kick off our freshman year, Tony and I participated in a Homecoming Week skit that recreated “Thriller” and ‘N Sync’s “Pop”. For some reason, my role in “Thriller” consisted of wearing a terrible-smelling $2 Frankenstein mask and fret-syncing the bassline on a Squier guitar.
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12-year-old Ben definitely did not get any of the various art references (or the probable content of the lyrics) in this underrated video when he was lounging around watching MTV on lazy summer 1995 afternoons. He definitely “got” the almost-possibly-maybe naked Janet Jackson, though.
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