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Think the River Falls music fests are fine? While here, and especially if you stayed too long, stop by Bo Jon’s Flowers and Gifts, as it even has much more. If it’s any gift idea, you’ll find it at this five-some family business. In combinations. If its where you hail from, they’re branching out into Minnesota. I’ll name drop these among the bounty of brands: ikebana, Biedermeier designs, Hogart curve designs, Western Line designs …

So you went out to get her some killer flowers of a kind originating in say Kashmir — high but […]

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There is a madman (madcap drummer?) inside my head that keeps nagging at me, gnawing at me, quoting Kinks. Actually it’s my editor(s). So here is how a writer builds up a neurosis when the computer screen fails in so many ways and you have to start anew with your precious prose and the deadline is two minutes to midnight away. Events will not restart later, although sometimes I wish they could. Like last week. But wait, salvation …

So I gotta retool. Fast. And these are not gigs when you can be a diva and show up late

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Tip-top radio talker Tom is back after a short break, new and even more uncensored, which is (or isn’t) unusual these days. —– Takes me back to when he interviewed for several minutes my model friend Bree, of bikini fame on many local lakes, but still perfecting a land of ice and snow with her auger. But not all were enthralled, as there might be young needers-of-a-more-(or-less)-perfect role model at the trade show.

Like many, although more intelligently than most, Tom Barnard has never been one to be too filtered when forging forward

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My niece now in North Austin will toast with Texas Tea? Not beef roast, as this is Easter. But this report is a (basically geography based) bundle of what kind of brunch you can find around north and central St. Croix County. —– And from this meaty metalhead, more telltale-tone, Easter egg-hue hints on our era and age and Agave too, in the category of Uncategorized.

For Easter and local brunch, this is like Texas, done big or go home and and make it yourself, although

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