Oh Minnesota in March. Today and tomorrow will be all about the snow dramarama. There have been school closures (a pretty rare thing) but not for my son. Though I did receive conflicting robo calls from the school district and the school about whether or not students would be dismissed early today. Either way, the roads are seriously rough. Spin outs and accidents and cars in ditches everywhere. Snow emergencies have been declared in both St Paul and Minneapolis. I am content to stay put at home with my car safely stowed in the garage. And I’m once again thanking my lucky stars that my landlord pays for snow removal service. I’m sad I’ll likely be skipping kickboxing tonight due to the inclement weather. But it’s not worth putting myself in danger just so I can go punch and kick others, even though I love it so.
Five good things, plus one sticky one, for this wildly wintry Tuesday:
- National Archives: Searching for the Seventies. Some seriously awesome shots! Oh, and speaking of that era - “if you ever wonder what is wrong with people who were children in the seventies…” - yes, this includes me. Enjoy this crazy classroom film, via your daily cartoon.
- I like what these folks are doing. The New Traditionalists: The back-to-basics movement ranges from food to fashion to art, with one thing in common - taking up old trades to forge a new lifestyle
- Looks like we have until the end of the month to check out the Guinness Book of World Record-breaking giant Lite Brite mural at St. Paul’s Union Depot.
- I do love watching Thom Yorke dance. First in the Lotus Flower video and now with the wonderful Fukiko Takase in the new Atoms for Peace video for Ingenue
- If Only Every City Had a Masked Lucha Libre Defender of Pedestrians
- Clearly I am in favor of documenting and sharing certain aspects of my life via social media. I was an early adopter of blogging, flickr, twitter, facebook, pinterest, now vine and more. But I am selective about what I share. This piece brings up some very good questions about Google Glass - not what it’s like for the user - but for everyone else other than the user.
Last weekend was a busy one. Dinner with a friend and swimming with my son Friday. Kickboxing Saturday along with house cleaning and then a house show. All day brunch at our place Sunday. And later that night I had a funny photo shoot with a band. We trekked outside, in the dark, up and down snowy hills and along railroad tracks to get to a ravine. I was bundled up and wearing my hiking boots. The actual photography part took maybe 15 minutes and then we slogged back to the cars. I went straight home. Where I decided to take out the trash. And that’s where I wiped out on ice, hard, in my alley. The heck? Earlier I was fine while hiking through treacherous icy locations, like a sure footed little goat. Guess I just wasn’t paying enough attention in my own back yard. At least I was so bundled up in layers under my puffy parka it cushioned my fall, even when I landed on my elbow.
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