Minneapolis

We sent The Skullcranes off today at a BBQ at the lead singers house. Thanks Keeler and Johnson for your hospitality.

It’s so Joe.

Rock N Roll

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Bye Bye

In a Star Tribune article from last summer new legislation that Rep. John Lesch wants to ban pit bulls, chows, wolf hybrids, Akitas and Rottweilers is outlined.

They want to ban these dogs because of ‘bad things happening’ with these dogs. First off, yes, there are bad people that do bad things. Does this mean you should reach into the rights of everyone in the entire state and exclude their rights & the rights of their animals when they have done nothing wrong?

There are no bad dogs, just bad people. I have no problem with making the owners accountable. I have a big problem with BSL (Breed Specific Legislation). I have a problem with this because it’s a huge infringement of rights AND it doesn’t address the problem of people being attacked by dogs.

If you are interested in more on this topic, visit the A Rotta Love Plus web site breed specific legislation section which is providing many links and information about the activity around the legislation.

My husband sent me a link to the Star Tribune web site, 13 Seconds in August, the 35w Bridge collapse. It’s the top story on the site today.

I think this is a well formed work of journalism for the new century. It informs the public, it tells an amazing story and the part that really makes it a 21st century approach is providing a mechanism for survivors to add detail to the story. Everyone in MN and probably the country felt this tragedy in a visceral way. To provide an extension of the information and present it to the public as a work in progress is brave and valuable. This is a nice example of evolveing journalism for today — thanks Star Tribune.

I’m a very lucky person because I am surrounded with amazing people that I have the honor to call friends. Three of them are featured below. Leslie, Mollie and Caleb are the Misty Mountain Misfits and they rock.

I went to camp yesterday. That’s two weekends in a row I’ve been camping. This weekend was indoors at Flat Earth Brewing. I met several interesting people and had a great day of conversations and creative inspiration. I went to get that and I was not disappointed.

Today I’ve been sorting through my notes from it. One site that I did manage to capture was The Uptake. It was a really interesting time to find out about the site because I went there and immediately the content was relevant to me. Perhaps us podcasters share a demographic, so it might not be surprising.

There is a video about something that happened last week here in the Twin Cities. A video about the visit our president made to the state for a fundraiser. At the time it didn’t feel right that the president was causing such a traffic jam here (of all places-the bridge falling down recently massively screwed us in terms of BAD traffic) for fundraising. I’m guessing there would have been a less intrusive approach to coming to MN to raise money for Norm Coleman. I’m not saying he should not have come, but he really inconvenienced the entire population. I guess you don’t have to be considerate when you are president. This one has certainly shown himself to be unaware of what the people he is supposed to be serving need.

It was just there. I drove on it because it was the road. I didn’t even really know it was a bridge. When they said it had fallen, I couldn’t even mentally picture where it was exactly, but I knew I had been on it and so had everyone I know a gazillion times and any of us could’ve been there at that moment. And now it’s gone.  Just not there anymore. It’s really hard to grok. I keep thinking about it. I manage to occury my mind and time with other things but then I drift back. There is so much available on the internet and the impact is so large I don’t think we still quite know what has hit us.

Just want to send a message to all people that know I live in Minneapolis that I am safe. Thomas is home safe too.

I just found out that American Apparel is coming to Minneapolis.

I want to jump high in the air and clap. I love this store.

It’s almost as exciting as the summer we got IKEA.

I’m glad you’re coming, Minneapolis is a good place to be.

I’m giving a talk tomorrow about Blogs, Podcasting and RSS. I’m speaking to the MN Women in Communications organization. Here’s the info.

I’m actually really excited to be sharing this topic, one that I’m very passionate about, with a group of people that want to utilize these tools in their work. I’ll be talking about the context of social media and why it brings these delivery mechanisms (blogs and podcasts) to the fore in terms of their power and effectiveness.

I got to do another photo shoot yesterday with some super cool soon-to-be rockstars. The Skullcranes will rock your world. Check out this preview from the shoot.

You can see the whole shoot here. It’s a little dark, by I’m a photoshop kid, so I can fix anything.