2014-11-21

*** Sidewalk Weekend! ***

Sidewalk Rating: Worthy

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I found my bicycle (I didn’t know I had one) in the same place I must have left it. Which enables me to remark that, crippled though I was, I was no mean cyclist, at that period. This is how I went about it. I fastened my crutches to the cross-bar, on either side, I propped the foot of my stiff leg (I forget which, now they’re both stiff) on the projecting front axle, and I pedaled with the other. It was a chainless bicycle, with a free-wheel, if such a bicycle exists. Dear bicycle, I shall not call you bike, you were green, like so many of your generation, I don’t know why. It is a pleasure to meet it again. To describe it at length would be a pleasure. It had a little red horn instead of the bell fashionable in your days. To blow this horn was for me a real pleasure, almost a vice. I will go further and declare that if I were obliged to record, in a roll of honour, those activities which in the course of my interminable existence have given me only a mild pain in the balls, the blowing of a rubber horn—toot!—would figure among the first. (15)

[The steam plume in Downtown Saint Paul.]

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http://usa.streetsblog.org/2014/11/18/the-parking-tax-benefit-a-7-3-billion-subsidy-for-traffic-congestion/#.VGzSA9LAYpk.twitter


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http://www.humantransit.org/2010/03/streetcars-vs-light-rail-is-there-a-difference.html


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http://www.wired.com/2014/10/4-acre-spider-web-engulfs-building/


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http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/10/3-d-map-of-the-adolescent-universe/


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https://twitter.com/conradhackett/status/534596873193926656


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http://www.startribune.com/local/yourvoices/280768742.html


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http://urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease/i-94-corridor-draft-eis-options-disregard-data-community-and-taxpayer-concerns/

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http://stuffaboutminneapolis.tumblr.com/post/101380645699/wr3n-slowly-fading-autumn-at-loring-park


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http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2014/10/sometimes-overwhelming.html

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http://www.wired.com/2014/10/meet-wizards-lords-rule-suburbs-utah/



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https://placesjournal.org/article/play-war-paintball-battlefields/


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http://www.perfectduluthday.com/2014/11/16/wonderful-duluth-photos-1972-flood-part-one/


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http://www.streetsblog.org/2014/11/19/chinatown-business-group-fed-up-with-placard-parkers-hogging-spaces-all-day/


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http://stuffaboutminneapolis.tumblr.com/post/103171994879/sarahbdanks-a-night-of-steel-wool-spinning-at


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http://stuffaboutminneapolis.tumblr.com/post/101434993784/minneapolis-then-and-now-3800-washburn-avenue


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https://medium.com/re-form/back-alley-poster-show-102f87a95e0f


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http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/stageandarts/283230401.html

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http://curbed.com/archives/2014/11/03/ikea-assembly-instructions-james-chapman.php


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http://stuffaboutminneapolis.tumblr.com/post/103014803949/hclib-design-proposals-for-minneapolis-city


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http://curbed.com/archives/2014/11/18/rejection-hurts.php


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http://curbed.com/archives/2014/11/03/santiago-calatrava-chicago-spire-dead.php

2014-11-19

Signs of the Times #97

BUS RIDERS
HAVE A SEAT ON
ME

[Truck. Lexington Parkway, Saint Paul.]


 PADELFORD
PARKING
HERE

[Boulevard. West Side Flats, Saint Paul.]
 
NO 
PARKING
VIOLATORS
WILL BE TOAD

[Lowertown, Saint Paul.]


BICYCLES
ROLLER BLADES
OR 
SKATE BOARDS

[Pillar. Isanti County.]


SECRET
LURES
INSIDE

[Pole. Grand Marais.]


NO
BICYCLES
SKATEOBARDS
ROLLER BLADS
ON
SIDEWALK

[Stop sign. Grand Marais.]


Please No Pets or Food

[Steps. Grand Marais.]

THE BEAVER HOUSE
IS FOR SALE
For BLDG and LAND
MDSE is NEGOTIABLE

[Window. Grand Marais.]

Sidewalk Flotsam #5


[Downtown Saint Paul.]


[Somewhere with brand new curbs.]

[Territorial Road area.]

[Downtown Saint Paul.]

[South Minneapolis.]

[Old Town Stockholm.]

[Saint Paul probably.]