Comments for Nina steals Dylan's blog

Comment on ooo, Go Faster! by John

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:42:23 +0000

Well, I’ve heard that the legally-defendable instrumental margin of error, between your speedometer and the radar gun, is as much as seven MPH. I have no idea if that’s right, but, given the three choices above, I’d go with the nine. There’s a little pro bono legal advice from a lowly member of the typing pool…vive le resistance! Okay, back to work for me.

Comment on That’s right, I’m talking about beds by nina

Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:11:35 +0000

My, that’s a tiny bed. You gotta say “Tiny” in a clipped, ‘George Bush-like’ voice also. We remembered all sorts of things yesterday upon viewing our new tiny bed, like the numerous conversations about bed-hogging we used to have. Dylan remembered getting up in the middle of the night and measuring how much of the bed I was taking up and also remembered me complaining about bed-hogging at parties. We also discussed that it wasn’t as comfortable as we rememberd in the store and maybe we could have just bought a fancy mattress pad and a new sofa. But we slept pretty well and didn’t shove each other, so…

Comment on Run away and join the circus by Valerie Berta

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:32:40 +0000

I did…
Just looking online for other circus Moms, and I found your site. Obviously not what I was looking for, but I enjoyed it all the same.

Comment on Why am I wasting time inside blogging? by Dylan

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 15:49:08 +0000

I guess it’s champagne glasses with chocolate handles, which is strange ’cause I don’t recall champagne flutes having handles. My favorite lyric from that song, though is:

“Butterflies scared that they´re gonna be awake all night long.
Dancing in your belly, like a ballerina.
In spite of your efforts to calm them down.”

How many funk tunes have successfully employed the phrase “in spite of your efforts”?

Comment on oh yeah by dylan

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 03:22:06 +0000

I didn’t hate the movie.

Comment on Providence House by John

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:24:56 +0000

The house in which my friend lived alone as caretaker is known as the Lyon House on Oak Grove Ave (the address is now Clifton Place, he says) about a block north of the Hennepin Ave Methodist Church. It always sounded like a fun gig!

Comment on oh yeah by nina

Wed, 31 May 2006 15:10:27 +0000

And btw - Dylan has seen every episode of the Dukes, has a Dukes TV tray (gift from Benno - who did a great Boss Hogg routine with him at our poker games), and actually would like to someday visit Cooter’s Place. But he hated the movie.

Comment on Providence House by John

Tue, 30 May 2006 06:45:45 +0000

Yes! My Mom and Dad moved straight from their hometown in Iowa in 1962 to boarding rooms in Kenwood and the Wedge area. Before they were married, my Mom stayed in a house right around the corner from the Leaning Tower of Pizza that she has always referred to as a “girls club” which, by her description, sounds like a euphemism for a code-violating, overpacked rental house for women only.

I suppose many of these places do hang in limbo while multiple owners fail to agree and nobody has the means or desire to buy and restore them (often to the exacting specs of a preservation group), but there may be no pressing public need to condemn it either, so they just linger.

Here’s a link to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which just added several buildings at Fort Snelling to their list. http://www.nationaltrust.org/11Most/

As I searched, I saw that there are quite a few of these preservation trusts and alliances. Here’s one tracking several Minnesota sites: http://www.mnpreservation.org

Comment on Providence House by nina

Tue, 30 May 2006 03:48:16 +0000

Yeah, it’s amazing to me that this place is abandoned like this. It’s been chopped up in crazy ways, but it is right on campus. There are other houses like this around Providence that have been similarly chopped to pieces. My sister and I speculated that there was some sort of legal thing going on with it, which is why it was abandoned but not resold or condemned. In Minneapolis, Kenwood used to be like this - many of those huge grand mansions were boarding houses back in the 40’s and 50’s.

Comment on Providence House by John

Tue, 30 May 2006 02:49:47 +0000

The historic buildings would be one of the great things about the cities on the eastern seaboard. Do you know if they lost many old buildings during the late 50’s/early 60’s “urban makeover” like we did here in Mpls/St Paul?

The custodian at my work used to live alone in an old mansion in Minneapolis, hired by its owners to be its caretaker in exchange for living there. Being single and in his twenties at the time, he spent most of his time kicking a playground ball across the mansion’s ballroom, perfecting the skill of landing it in the grand piano. I forgot the name of the place; I’ll ask him tomorrow the name of the place. It’s down by Dunwoody somewhere.