This blog covers everything except sports and gardening, unless we find a really good link about using dead professional bowlers for mulch. The author is a StarTribune columnist, has been passing off fiction and hyperbole as insight since 1997, has run his own website since the Jurassic era of AOL, and was online when today’s college sophomores were a year away from being born. So get off his lawn.

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Bygone Crime

From the late 30s, a gentler era of miscreant activity More…

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Name that strip mall!

Aerial shots from 1960. More…

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They may want to rethink that ad strategy

. . . because from a distance, it doesn't quite work. More…

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Name that strip mall!

Another installment in our series of post-war aerial photos. More…

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Miscreant Roundup

A fun-filled look at what our criminals have been doing lately. More…

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Is this a little too much soda? Maybe? Just maybe?

Or maybe it's (hic) me. More…

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Name that strip mall!

A new weekly feature: can you identify this featureless commercial structure from a half-century old aerial photo? More…

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Lindy's

What a sign! It wasn't alone in those days. More…

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Great moments in door design

Seen at a rest area on Highway Ten. More…

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Real Favre-o-Lantern, or fake?

I can tell from the pixels and having seen quite a few 'shoops in my time . . . More…

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