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.
Earth Day came and evening went, the first trial. Our earth is still spinning. Spring also has unsprung, the second […]
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Latest Dispatches
The Opening Act
- 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...
- I shot at the Prez, riff to follow. That riff created a last ruckus of a row of roundball, even if just for an inbounds pass — once they sorted it out at midcourt, but only first after they had sorted it out with sports bartenders having little difficulty transferring from game host ABC, who trumped it, to affiliate network ESPN, for the last quarter and ticks of a clock.
The Wolves ran away with another one in their first postseason series, ratcheting up a third win in their fourth game, but it was not without flareups that literally stopped the clock, temporarily, as seen at two different Hudson sports bars. First, it was near the end of the third quarter and the T-Wolves had built a lead by a bit more than a three, which they would extend to several groups of cheering fans by the time there was a second or two left, and that would quickly become the problem. The game with Denver was on ABC/ESPN, and...
- Pristine Boundary waters may now be tainted but not your CBD. And the alleged villian is Chilean, not Mexican or Venezualian. And the village ‘repossessed’ your garbage can and made you buy an officially approved new one. Welcome to 4-20 and Earth Day, circa 2026. And Mary Jane is now declassified by Trump for purposes of ‘study.’ This is not the Obama or Biden administration.
Social media commentators at all levels and news media alike are — just in time for Earth Day — mining the latest Boundary Waters area news with headlines about the latest rollback of Obama and Biden era environmental protections to pristine water quality for what can, legally, be done with potentially destructive commerce in that region, passing the Minnesota legislature by the narrowest of margins. The reactions have ranged from who cares, to asking if our legislators do care, about the plan to mine metals, backed by a Chilean corporate giant, whose name sounds like a death metal band, and...
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...