December 2009
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I just generated a #TweetCloud out of a year of my tweets. Top three words: boys, video, time - http://w33.us/49dq
Amen to that RT @RachelSterne: RT @arrington I wonder if mainstream media has ever covered anything to much as the fall of mainstream media.
November 2009
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How Ballet Can Teach an Orchestra
For the last several months, I’ve been joyfully serving on a task force for the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. As this world-class institution with world class musicians and musical directors evaluates its online strategy and extending relationships with existing and potentially new audiences, I can’t help but be envious of the opportunities that lie before them — music, musicians, live...
Thinking about heading over to the Corral and Bistro tonight. #fb
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WatchI absolutely love Zuckerman’s work and this video is strong. I do wish he would’ve searched for perhaps more esoteric voices, but the endeavor is admirable nonetheless. My post for SOF Observed:
Wisdom Comes at 65 Trent Gilliss, online editor
Last winter I paid a hefty fine to the Minneapolis Public Library. I couldn’t let go of several photography books, including a pair by Andrew...
#IAmThankfulFor Three people. Little else matters. http://post.ly/DVVW
“…transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize…” 3>
“…national reformation as a whole people? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved…” 7>
“…not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be a punishment inflicted upon us for our…” 6>
“…We know that by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world. May we…” 5>
“…the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord.” 4>
“It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and…” 2>
“…wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of…” 11>
“…these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we…” 8>
“…have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened…” 9>
“…us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior…” 10>
“…redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.” -Abraham Lincoln (March 1863). I’m taken aback.
Gold headline. RT @TheOnion: Sports: Kevin Garnett Out 3-4 Months With Pounded Chest http://bit.ly/8K4FYj #fb
Livin’ the High Life. The champagne of beers (long necks) and classic A&B from the Mandan shop. #fb
Complete awesomeness! Dig it. RT @jdickerson: Man under a tree wearing a beret in Dupont Circle reading Milton out loud in the rain. #fb
The boy’s a gem in his slumber. L’s ridin’ w/ the wheelman on his afternoon bus route. Middle schoolers, beware. #fb http://post.ly/DQVL
Minneapolis, Minnesota to Mandan, North Dakota. #longtrek
Reading Niebuhr’s “The Irony of American History” again but this time w/ contemplation + introspection. Reinie GOT human nature. #fb
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“I don’t really stay updated. I am somehow too old for that and far too concerned...”
– - —Thomas Ruff, the great German photographer.
The older I get the more I appreciate no bullshit people who don’t need to be in the know. You can have real conversations with these types of folk, and nobody’s feelings get hurt.
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RT @tomscheck: +1/3 of the state’s school districts have borrowed nearly $300 million b/c of a school payment shift: http://bit.ly/681KZV
We are most human when we share our flaws rather than a sanitized version of ourselves. Poignant column, @lisanjutras. http://bit.ly/8e78co
Groovy. @srgilliss isn’t it “materials”? @RT @NOVAonline We are shooting a 4 part program on material science hosted… http://tiny.cc/CXM3I
RT @parisreview I think past the age of 30 there is no obligation to be clever at all. Cleverness is a burden after that. -Garrison Keillor
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No one writer has changed me more than Albert. Meursault created a comforting space in my darkest hours. http://bit.ly/5RJQwe #fb
This new house in Bryn Mawr (live near to the G’s + 5 mins from dt?) is nicely done. Traditional w/ a lot of space. http://bit.ly/5JnssH #fb
A marvelous story about a choreographer whose mother listened + changed her “learning disorder” into an avocation: http://bit.ly/4ouyxw #fb
“Kid, you’ll move mountains!!!” Dang right. #fb
Boy-king just emptied his stomach in Black Thunder. The aroma of regurgitated chocolate + Goldfish crackers lingers. Up side: no Buble! #fb
RE: Thank you for the feedback. My hope is that our blog serves purposes beyond the radio show, including aspects of p… http://disq.us/46a7i
RT @SOFtweets A Calvin and Hobbes cartoon tweetmeme to kick off Friday: http://bit.ly/2xnzow #fb
Flickr co-founder studied Philosophy at Cambridge and cognitive neuroscience at UBC? absolutely brilliant. http://bit.ly/4cpFwY #fb
The Boy-king rocks the puzzles and shames his old man in the process. Dinosaurs and Cars can be confusing… #fb http://post.ly/D10b
Back in the building and ready to cut some video. Get ‘r done. #fb
If MN is the 6th healthiest state + 2nd in % of bicyclists, why do I feel like (read: am) such a lard-ass? http://bit.ly/3NWtYF #fb
Oh to even entertain the possibility of owning a major sports franchise, much less the Dodgers or Cubbies…. Doin’ it right @mcuban! #fb
RT @tomelko: Ken Vehrkens: Of 100 Latino kindergarten students, 74 will complete middle school, 44 will finish high school, 6 will earn …
Doh! Buble has invaded Black Thunder. #fb
Bella’s not only streaming Michael Buble, she’s now buying his mp3 albums for our boys. My response: Thelonius Monk + Tibetan chants. #fb
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Acting on a Dream
Reading one of my favorite columns and connecting to similar experiences in my job. From my post on SOF Observed:
Trent Gilliss, online editor
There is much to cherish in the latest contribution to the The New York Times’ Modern Love column. And, even as I’m writing this, I’m struggling to commit to a single idea or quote from Kim Barnes’ “That Delicate Membrane, the Heart.”
My first...
I am certain that this reference was lost on Krista! RT @SOFtweets: Eboo cites Wilco: Theologians, they don’t know nothing ‘bout my soul.
FTI. RT @KEverhart: Here are local takes on #tfon: Minn Star Trib: http://tinyurl.com/y93cjhf & MinnPost: http://tinyurl.com/yzomyll