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I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the copacetic middles. Sure, I might offend the bedraggled with my process think and business goals - oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called "email blasters" who muck their data, spray and pray, with nary a peep about "What's to be done with this permission-based marketing?”

- Me, Kevin Quinlan

Heartbreaking Loss Full Hearts

Mixed emotions: here's what a team looks like after leading 4-2 going into the bottom of the last inning of a championship game and losing 5-4. The team that beat them had beat them 3-0 and 8-5 over the previous two weekends, and these St. Paul Hi-Tower boys had the upper hand for most of the state championship game on July 25, 2015 in Moorhead, Minn. They pitched great, they played good defense, and they hit the ball well. Yet as is in the nature of the game, there's a play here, a bounce there, and before you know it momentum shifts and the game can end in an instant. For most of these boys they played together for three straight years, winning two Babe Ruth State Championship titles, and going to the Midwest Plains Regional finals twice. This year they had their sights set on "home field advantage" in Osseo-Maple Grove for the Midwest Regional and then going to the World Series in Tennessee. So when it does end like this, and knowing it was their last game together as this team, I can only imagine the feelings dem boyz have. While they lost a heartbreaker this day, their hearts will be forever full.

#the simpsons #go dils #where my dils at

I wore this shirt to a show on Halloween night (Alt-J), and at one point a girl pointed at me and called me over. She was super excited and said that her mom had just dressed up as the woman from the movie earlier in the day at her office costume contest and won first prize. She couldn't remember the actress's name, and I filled in the blank: Tippi Hedren. Then while holding three drinks in her hand (she was waiting for her friends to come back from the restroom), she said "grab my phone from my purse." She told me exactly where it was, in a top zipper pocket. Then she told me her security code to get into the phone, and where to open up her pictures. There it was: an awesome pic of her mom dressed as Tippi Hedren pretending to scream with fake birds fastened to her top. Three points to this story: 1) I love that a movie like The Birds can still be relevant today and that her mom dressed up as the main character. 2) I love that this girl, holding three drinks in the middle of a dark, crowded bar, navigated a stranger through her purse, her phone security code, and her iPhone photos, then showed me an awesome picture of her mom dressed up as Tippi Hedren. 3) I hope that in another 20 years I'll have a similar experience at a show and this time it'll be someone's grandkid.

#the birds #tippi hedren #alfred hitchcock #halloween #alt-j #altj

Sunshine on Mississippi Shoulders. #mississippiriver #stpaul #minneapolis #minnesota #fall #fallcolors #sunshineonmyshoulders #johndenver

#stpaul #fallcolors #mississippiriver #minneapolis #minnesota #sunshineonmyshoulders #fall #johndenver

#survivorman #gonnamakeyousweat #c+c music factory

VOTE FOR LOBBY

#grand budapest hotel #napoleon dynamite #vote for pedro

Remembering Lara

I’m finding myself reflecting all day on Lara Elhard's passing. I didn’t know she was sick and I didn’t know she had passed on July 25th until this morning when I saw Jen U's Facebook status updates. I was extremely sad to hear this.

It’s amazing how the people you knew in your early years have such a permanent bond with you for the rest of your life, even if you haven’t stayed in touch with or seen the person in many years.

The people you know in grade school through high school is especially crazy close. Few bonds seem more fundamentally strong than the relationship that forms when growing up with, experiencing with, and learning with, the people you live amongst the most in your very early years.

I think about that a lot for my own kids and how the closeness that they feel now with their friends, and the memories that they’re forming now, will be unlike any other relationships or memories that they have in the rest of their life.

I went to prom with Lara my senior year. We weren’t boyfriend and girlfriend, we went as friends mostly. She was a beautiful person inside and out and I remember liking her a lot. I remember how neither of us were dating anybody and how it worked out just perfectly that we should go together.

She was a very warm, compassionate, loving, fun, smart, spiritual person and I will never forget her.

The last time I can recall seeing her was right around the time I got married and before I had kids, I think. So must have been around 1996 or so. We happened upon each other at Dayton’s downtown Minneapolis. It had been awhile, yet we still recognized each other (although it was kinda in that awkward/not-sure “is it really him/her?” way).

As I went back and looked at old prom pictures and yearbooks today, I was especially touched by what she wrote in both my yearbook and on the back of her senior picture. Everything that I’m remembering about her now and reading about her on Facebook is very true. And I am getting inspiration now even today by what she wrote to me in 1986.

It’s days and times like these where you take stock in your own life and become reminded how precious our time is here and how things can change overnight, or even in a minute or a second.

I’m thankful for having known her and how she helped influence me during the time that we really knew each other. And I’m thankful to her now for what she’s bringing to me in the way of reflection and fond memories today.

Your spirit lives on, Lara. Thank you.

Classic Archer.

#archer #sterling archer

They seemed nice.

#tegan and sara #first avenue #minneapolis

A Few Fine Men

We live in a world that has balls, and those balls have to be watched. Who else is gonna do it? You? Being a Twins fan is a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. We weep for Mauer, and we curse the Twins. I have the luxury box seat; you want me in that seat, you need me in that seat.

#Minnesota Twins #joe mauer #minneapolis #minnesota #target field #mntwins