Nothing says Mother’s Day Beauty like a concrete culvert on the edge of your small yard, blocking the view of the flowers, as they start to bloom. To serve you better by (finally) getting at that drainage problem, and giving you instead, from your fave rocker, a whole buncha gray to look at, not RWB. But you can’t fight either city hall, or a utility company, or both.
An elderly mom got an early Mother’s Day gift, courtesy of three entities who gave: Her a condo made-a stone-a, […]
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The Opening Act
- The Aves and the have nots. The fans cried foul, over too many goals and too few penalties. Putting a man in that box, so he could not fill the net, would help the Wild aplenty. (However wait, the Wild have now flipped it in game three by making a statement. But now their backs are up against the wall.) But spring temps hopefully will hold, and Saturday’s game three and its outdoor watch party held at home will hasten how soon we forget the Colorado debacle, and make it more like Dallas. Recently it’s been viewing from inside the sports bar the away games and in-arena ice of Colorado, amidst our own tundra and its just frozen flowers. Must suck also to be a retail manager and having to decide how many potted ones to put out.
The Wild in their series with The Aves, have generated more cuss words then goals — although there have been quite a few of those too — from those fans watching in Hudson sports bars. Nine and Five scored by the foes make Fourteen, and hey that could be a song title, although a little long — like all the remote slapshots the Wild has been accused of taking. Maybe less of a bust for beer sales. Shit, my team is falling behind further, so yes, I’ll take another. The nets are burning from pucks ripping through, just like your...
- Earth Day? Spring warming up, or more cold? To change it up, spring training delivers a fastball? Or chill out, go officially fishing, although you might strike out? Our mom rules. Does she profit from cards, and go fish, though not poker face? For a few days, the sequence of events, one following another, then soon following another, dominates out calendar’s agendas. And my rambling writing, (which includes siding with Cinco.)
Earth Day came and evening went, the first trial. Our earth is still spinning. Spring also has unsprung, the second day. Flowers but also buckthorn grow. Renewal commences. May Day has passed into the past, the third trial. But regimes still falter and fall. And we harken to it, despite the prospect of potentially going fishless, on this differs-by-state opener. It was cold, to boot. Do trout like such water? They did on one side of the boat in Jesus’ time. — This is not the walleye they are known for, but otherwise the pick of the litter, for Cinco...
- Iron Trump? Bring the frump? Or dump? Bump it up and do The Humpty Hump? Here is yet another song of a generation, yet another parody of Iron Man by Black Sabbath, (it might help to go through the original lyrics first), and it is Ozzy approved as he is one of our children of the grave, and as so is one of the allegedly foggy ones, (no I would not allege that!!)
This is my ode to a couple of old Geezers, as in Butler who wrote words like no other, and like the Foggy Geezer beer often on special, over at Casanova Historic Liquors in Hudson. In the style of Iron Man, by Black Sabbath Iron Trump Lyrics by Joe Winter Riffs by Tony He Owes Me? I am rustic man … I have a rusty plan … Has mad mind lost its way Dull forked tongue or things to say Bomb, make Iran pay Before leaving office or he’ll stay Mine is the Master Plan So mine the straits fast...
Picks of the Week
- At Hudson Hideaway, and their “high” percentage off specials, its 4-20 all over again. —– The leftovers were being laid down in the form of music, via speakers and rehearsals. And the lefse, possibly with hummus, has not gone the way of the Vikings.
Yes smokers, the Hideaway head and vape shop in Hudson, and elsewhere in the Twin Cities area, again on July 10 is offering its specials such as for 4-20 with high percentage off many products, and buy-one-get-more products. The offers typically and for the best deals include glassware. There are other, diverse reasons to shop the remodeled Hideaway. They have added a cigar humidor, and on Wednesday feature extra discounts than even their usual on cigars, and their staff has been called knowledgable in many areas by reviewers. They have, for example, a supply of dream catchers and a wide...
- We rue the day the Irish menus were squelched, but one forges on despite closures of such restaurants and pubs, thus Paddy Ryan’s still remains unique among affordable themed venues of this type in the eastern suburbs
The restaurants in the Twin Cities have largely opened up again, but the pub end from the isle as far as being open means that Irish eyes are not smiling, as bars still cannot serve inside seating, at least past 11 p.m. So the answer as often in the east end of the metro is Paddy Ryan’s in the town of Hudson, just about three miles over the St. Croix River. They are the only such game to be had that’s currently open, fully, as far as very affordable eating (with some prices under $10) and drinking in the Irish...
- When it comes to uncanny resemblance onstage that’s anything but canned, this weekend is what you want, and you also might wish to note the word play in their names, but not quite the same as in this post and my reference to Coldplay. They have done private events, but as is often said if you have to ask how much, you can’t afford them. Better to go to what follows and miss the cover. So Carry On and not Underwood (sorry).
The more things change the more they are the same, such as when band members and their names sound like each other, with bonus points if at the same venue on the same weekend? Shooters Pub in River Falls, as we have not plugged them for awhile because of the Pierce County 25 percent occupancy rule, so they say get there early, has bands on Friday and Saturday that sound much alike name-wise, but couldn’t be much more different as far as stage presence, if this is shown by sheer numbers. First there is the one-man-band of acoustic country, Travis...