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Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
The state has a "rainy-day" fund, but it was not designed to deal with Biblical storms that dumped rain, sleet, hail, frogs, rocks and canned Spam on our heads. It's also a bit thin -- $153 million, one-tenth of the "recommended" amount. Remember that the next time the state issues guidelines about your recommended daily vegetables; apparently just looking at a carrot is sufficient, if we use their...
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Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
James Lileks on bookstore nostalgia : It’s a matter of faith that we miss the small, independent bookstore. I do and I don’t. I recall one such store in a neighborhood where I lived, and the guy behind the counter was sour half the time, and put out books that seemed to suggest we were IDIOTS who needed to learn THE TRUTH about things. Many years ago in Dinkytown there were two – one...
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Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
JAMES LILEKS: “What could be more perfect for Thanksgiving than the nation’s only turkey-based motel and supper club?”
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Saltzafrazz (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
James Lileks has a whole section of his website devoted to The Gobbler . It's been there a while, but it seems he has updated it. "Ah!" I thought to myself, "but does he remember that Gobbler Jingle?" Silly me.
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Cranium Creek (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
James Lileks explains his feelings about a favorite stop. The antique store always hits me on three or four levels – the archivist’s raw naked LUST for more scannable magazines, the horror at the crap some people found lovely, the odd aching sadness for the class of Grandmas now passing from the earth, leaving behind millions of items that filled their homes and idle moments – Mantovani...
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Sore Eyes (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
James Lileks informs us that The Gobbler was once the grooviest motel in Wisconsin. Consider, for example, The Romantic, Purple Luxury Room with King-Sized Bed: If you found yourself so drunk you did not know which way was up, this room had a helpful tactile hint: short carpet, wall. Thick carpet, floor. Barf accordingly. You really have to [...]
