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A quick search reveals that 13,291 people list “Facebook Sucks” as an interest, whereas 378 people have joined a thusly-named Community. 119 users like Facebook Sucks University. 140 nostalgic people list an interest in “When Facebook Didn’t Suck.”

Ouch:

“It’s our forebears,” said Malia Alexander, 24, interviewed on a recent night at the Black Lodge, an all-ages club next to Interstate 5. “It’s kind of my dad’s music.”

From The New York Times.

Seeking an alternative to running this afternoon, I bicycled first around Miller Park, then to Madison Valley and through the Arboretum, continuing on to the Foster Island loop.

When I saw the sign warning of high water levels and muddy conditions due to unusual dam releases on the Cedar River I thought, “Come on.  It’s almost July. How inundated or muddy could this trail be?”

Yep, you guessed it: Very.

Long story short: consequently I also became wet and muddy, as did my bike (fun) and phone (not fun). Phone seems OK after two hours on the stereo receiver drying rack.  Sneakers could go either way.  Time will tell; the first 24 hours are the most critical.

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Infinitely preferable to the infernal wasteland of a parking lot at that other retailer.

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This is how I choose to remember my time in B-ville.

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Perhaps genetics explain my questionable taste in film.

• The Hard Way (1991) starring Michael J Fox
• Saturday Night Fever
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
• School Daze – Spike Lee
• Terminator II
• Stephen Sondheim 1995 concert (??)
• Schindler’s List
• Crossing Delancey
• Three Tenors: Pavarotti, Carreras, Domingo with Mehta at Dodger Stadium – 16 July 1994
• Driving Miss Daisy
• Jaws
• Ricochet (1991)
• Liberache 1988 biopic
• Nikken marketing promo
• Poland Spring marketing promo x2
• Sports Illustrated NBA Jams! subscription bonus

I have wondered about this amusing Tom Otterness statue for quite a while. I’m told it appeared sometime after the WTO riots, during which the Grand Hyatt and its original Willem de Kooning abstract sculpture came under assault. I love the cartoonish yet heavy-handed satire, all the more so for the sculpture’s opulent installation site.

For months if not years I couldn’t find any photos on the web.  Taking my own photographs of this piece sat on my to-do list nearly as long.  Although I exacerbated a sore heel doing so I took advantage of the lovely weather, ran downtown, and shot my pictures at last.  I still don’t have the full story of how and when this sculpture ended up in front of the Hyatt’s pink marble facade.  That’s a project for another day or another researcher.

Whenever one sees a VC-25A at an airport, as I did last night, one can reasonably expect to be delayed, as I was last night.

We were fourth in line for takeoff when someone in a light blue 747 cut in front of everyone else. I presumed he was in town to celebrate the collar of two abettors of the Times Square bomber, but I should have known better. I’ll let it slide this time but if it happens again I might vote Tea Party in 2012.