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Pavement onstage at the Palace Theater in St. Paul
A garden extraterrestrial sits on a rock surrounded by flowers. Behind the space traveller a round solar lantern emits an orange glow
Bookmark from Odegard Books, one of several long-closed independent bookstores on Grand Ave in St. Paul
Blue and white yard sign, in front of a small cream-colored house, reads PROSECUTE ICE - VOTE FRAZIER. Cedrick Frazier is the DFL- and labor-endorsed candidate for Hennepin County Attorney
From the NYT: “When asked what he was looking forward to doing first after his election, Brad Lander shared his plans for Wednesday morning: court watching at 26 Federal Plaza during immigration hearings. Lander said he planned to carry that mission forward to Washington.”
Bright pink foxgloves flowering against a wooden fence
In dim nighttime light, a person’s knees are shown at the bottom of the frame. Everything else—garden plants, two solar lanterns, and the yellow stucco side of a garage—is seen through a filmy white haze: mosquito netting
Sticker on the side of a Kohler toilet that reads: POWER FLUSH FLUSHES 7 BILLIARD BALLS TESTED & PROVEN
Delicate, six-petaled white wildflower with yellow-green pistils
Tabby kitty snuggling a woman in a black hoodie
Thread from the daughter of the MN House speaker: “Imagine being the first House Speaker in state history who is also the mother of two school shooting [survivors] and conveniently deferring a gun control bill to the next legislative session.” (Thread originally said “victims” instead of “survivors” before she corrected it)
Hand-scribbled note from a 4-year-old child that reads “NO” with a backward N
Wild blue phlox: five-petaled lavendar flowers
Vocalist Amy Taylor of Amyl & the Sniffers crouching onstage and bellowing into the mike at First Ave last year
dope ass USPS personnel carrying righteous signs and a model blue P.O. Box in the May Day parade
5-year-old Tree Trust crabapple in full blossom with the waning gibbous—I just really enjoy saying “gibbous”— moon just to its right
Gorgeous tabby in profile. She’s on a red sofa, lying on person who’s covered in a wool blanket. In the background is a dark wood bookcase with several houseplants atop it
Lil Mazda parked by the Nokomis Post Office with stickers that read, L to R, “I eat ass,” “Powered by Jesus,” and “Read a fucking book”
Sign reading “WALKENS WELCOME” with a photo of Christopher Walken
Handsome house panther, Reginald Robert, at the living room window. He’s on his hind legs, looking very BIG AND INTIMIDATING
A black wig lying on a downtown Mpls sidewalk
Orange hardcover book from 1936 titled “Cum Along Thru Texas”
Belair Lip Bombs at the Turf Club on 4/3
a taxidermied wild boar
Matt Pelikan, Francis Shen, Anders Folk, Hao Nguyen, and Cedrick Frazier
Back of a stucco 1930s south Mpls 1.5-story house with a Minnesota state flag flying left of center in the frame
Entry in James Boswell’s London diary from today’s date in 1763: “I wonder how I forgot to mention yesterday that just as I was going out to church, a Gentleman called upon me, and who was this but Derrick, who is now Master of Ceremonies for Bath. I unluckily got acquainted with this creature when I was first in London, and after I found him to be a little black guard pimping dog. I did not know how to get rid of him.”
Bernie Sanders speaking on the Capitol lawn in St. Paul for the No Kings rally
Tabby kitty in a Venn Brewing flat box in the foreground; house panther (his flat is from Leitner’s Garden Center) in the background. Both basking in the afternoon sun on the west-facing screen porch
1978 diary entry re Erik Estrada from 4th grade me: “Boy, is he a CUTIE! If only I could meet him. (I dropped Shaun Cassidy) I think I’ll write a letter to Erik. And boy do i hope he answers it! I just think he’s so handsome!”
A black tabby (Reginald Robert) and his gray tabby sister (Stella Marie) loaf on the back of a red sofa. Behind them is a bookcase with houseplants on top
Heirloom sweet pea seedlings looking stoked to be here
“THE EPSTEIN FILES” in giant all-caps lettering, and a cartoon drawing in the lower right corner of trump papering over those words. He’s attempting to cover them with other posters labeled “Greenland,” “Venezuela,” “Tariffs,” “ICE,” “Supreme Court,” “UFO Files,” and of course, “War with Iran”
“An ICE agent accidentally fired his department-issued firearm while inside an Eagan hotel room in December, sending a bullet into a neighboring room, according to a police report. The gunshot occurred Dec. 18, at the Hampton Inn Minneapolis-Eagan, located at 3000 Eagandale Place, as the agent attempted to change a part on the gun, the report said. The bullet traveled through the agent’s shirt and through a wall, then hit the headboard of the bed in the adjoining room. The guest in that room was walking down the hall toward the room at the time. Nobody was injured and the agent was not arrested or charged. The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to requests for comment.”
Graffiti on side of Lake St bus stop that reads FUCK ICE SAY IT TWICE
Tabby curled up on a red blanket: with her two front paws she’s holding her back right paw; the back left paw pokes through in front of her face (which is seen from the top, her chin resting on the blanket).
Tiny white building with a black roof and an L-shaped pink neon sign on top that reads “Ho Ass Diner.” (Assuming this image was AI, I looked it up: this was, for a time, a real diner on Long Island.)
Gorgeous closeup of a jet black house panther with white whiskers, perched on his Purrniture tower & gazing out the window to the left
Ewan McGregor submerged in “the worst toilet in Scotland” in the 1996 movie Trainspotting
Perfect precious tabby princess side-sleeping with one paw partly covering her face and the other paw hanging adorably out over the sofa’s edge
Gorgeous, green-eyed black kitty, perched on his cat tree, gazes over a pachira aquatica (money tree) houseplant toward the camera
More vivid-red-and-green aurora in the night sky at Lake Nokomis, south Mpls
Fiery red (and in parts, bright green) night sky over a lone hardwood tree at Lake Nokomis in south Mpls — thanks Northern Lights!
the Austin, TX all-women punk-metal quartet Die Spitz playing I Hate When Girls Die (Monday night at the Fine Line)
TWO baskets of freshly harvested heirloom carrots ☺️
Heirloom carrots fresh from the soil of my backyard garden
Smiling middle-aged lady in blue sweater wearing a red “I Voted” sticker outside Nokomis Community Center
Scarlet maple tree looking west across Lake Hiawatha in Mpls
Cartoon drawing (from the 1970s I think) of Superman. With a lil devil-may-care curl on his forehead
Dude (movie character from We’re the Millers?) wearing a baseball hat with a collarbone tattoo that reads “NO RAGRETS” [stet]
A Jack o’ lantern, lit from within, that does kinda resemble Burl Ives i guess
The midsection, photographed from the side, of a woman wearing a red, black, & white plaid flannel shirt. The shirt has a hard-to-notice vertical opening at the waist that is a LINED POCKET 😍
Picture of adolescent girl (Linda Blair’s character in the Exorcist) hovering several feet above her bed, with copy from the Trylon underneath that reads: Sunday, October 26–Tuesday, October 28 (1973, 122m) dir William Friedkin w/Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair. Young Regan (Blair) is acting out in increasingly cruel ways. As her condition worsens, her mother (Burstyn) seeks the means to combat the demonic forces at work. Psychologically scarring many young children (this film programmer included), The Exorcist set the standard for the definition of scary. SUN 3:00 5:30 8:00 MON/TUE 7:00 9:30
A woman with long bangs and streaked brown-and-blond hair stands in a field of wildflowers and conifers. She is wearing a backpack, a gray tank top, and around her neck, a magenta bandana
Gorgeous black kitty, perched on a screen porch cat tree, stares at camera