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- Minneapolis is fashionable. That vindicates me somehow. Even though I lived in St. Paul. I think it will be a while until Cardiff shows up in a fashion feature. Unless second-rate gothiness on slightly chubby girls becomes the new fashion rage.- There's nothing special about this video. It just amuses...

Ella dach chi'n gwybod bydd y Cynhadledd Cenedlaethol Plaid Gweriniaethol yn cael ei chynnal yn St. Paul rhwn Mis medi Cyntaf i bedwaredd Medi.Oes na grwp yn Minneapolis yn cael cystadleuaeth fideo er mwyn rhoi pobl pwy sy ddim yn cael cyfle bod yn cynrychiolydd i'r gynhadledd cyfle i ofyn cwestiynau i pobl sy'n cynrychiolydd. Mae'r fideos yn cael eu arddangos ar You Tube.Os dach chi isio gofyn cwestiwn i cynrychiolydd, ewch chi i The...

Ella dach chi'n gwybod bydd y Cynhadledd Cenedlaethol Gweriniaethol yn cael ei chynnal yn St. Paul rhwn Mis medi Cyntaf i bedwaredd Medi.Oes na grwp yn Minneapolis yn cael cystadleuaeth fideo er mwyn rhoi pobl pwy sy ddim yn cael cyfle bod yn cynrychiolydd i'r gynhadledd cyfle i ofyn cwestiynau i pobl sy'n cynrychiolydd. Mae'r fideos yn cael eu arddangos ar You Tube.Os dach chi isio gofyn cwestiwn i cynrychiolydd, ewch chi i The...

I am presently in the midst of revising (FTYPAH: "studying") for exams, so blogging has fallen way down the priority list -- still above housecleaning but well below watching "I'd Do Anything" (a). So, I was all set to let the blog go into its usual other-things-are-happening languishing state, but now Eric has given me something to post.Here are a few videos from a recent performance of the Secondhand Ska Kings at Minneapolis' Fine Line. It's a group of people in their 30s pretending they are still in college. But they are betrayed by the fact that they are in tune:On this one you get to hear funky, funky Eric sing. An interesting thing to note is that Eric is always like this. Watch his mannerisms and this is pretty much how he acts all the time. No, really. Go to his house and you'll...

A quote from me, age 12:"Yeah, but I liked Metallica better when Jimi Hendrix was their lead guitarist."I can't ever decide which I like more about that quote: that Eric bought it; or that I didn't know I was totally full of shit in saying...

This is my old friend Alicia Cordes. Her favourite hobby is stealing babies. I'm not entirely comfortable with this behaviour, I'll admit; but, really, who am I to judge? I can no more disown her than I can my white grandmother.When I refer to Alicia as an "old friend," I mean that I have known her for a long time -- not that she is actually old. We knew each other in high school, which, for our friends in the Home Nations, is something different than what you call high school. High school in the United States generally encompasses those terrible wonderful years from age 14 to 18. Terrible in a wonderful way; wonderful in a terrible way. Like the strange ecstasy that comes from diarrhoea. Alicia's locker was next to mine for those four years. Shoulder to shoulder for four years, on...

Dyma fideo nes i'w tynnu heddi. Mae'n tipyn o hir.Mwynheuwch!...

Mae'r Bencampwriaeth Hoci Pwll yr UDA (U.S Pond Hockey Championship) yn dwad i Lake Nokomis ar ddydd Gwener ger y lle o'n i'n arfer byw . Fel mae lawer ohonoch chi'n gwybod mai Minnesota yn lle oer iawn. Oherwydd hynny, dyma lle mae llawer iawn o bobl sy'n hoffi chwarae hoci iâ. Pan o'n i'n ifanc, mi chwaraees i o hefyd. Oherwydd do'n i ddim mynychu y peth erioed, does gen i ddim tîm i'w cefnogi. Felly, ar ôl edrych ar y safle, dw i'n penderfynu cefnogi'r tîmau canlynol seiliedig ar eu henwau:Adran Agored (160 o dîmau)Big Test IciclesFootlong Meatball sub on white with double pepperjack cheese!Adran Fenyw (5 tîm)St. Pauli GirlsThe Fighting LemursAdran Oedrannus* (20 o dîmau)Minnesota IceMen - (mae ein motto yn "Sometimes naked Often sober, Show us the Ice We'll be right...

Yn ôl y gwasanaeth tywydd Weather Channel mae'n oer uffernol tu allan. Roedd gwynt cryf ag oer gynnon ni neithiwr — Alberta Clipper oedd hi dw i'n meddwl. Dim ond mis Tachwedd ydy hi, a mae'r tymherydd heddiw yn mwy debyg na mis Ionawr. Mi gaethon ni ychydig o eira cyn Gwyl Diolchgarwch, ond y mae hi wedi toddi'n barod. Wel, dim toddi mewn gwirionedd, wedi cael ei chwythu i ffrwdd. Dw i'm YN edrych ymlaen at y Gaeaf...

The other day I saw Suggs advertising fish fingers ("fish sticks" for those of you playing along at home) on television, which elicited a howling response from myself and a sort of roll of the eyes from the child bride. She did this because she knew that no matter what she did, I was going to insist on telling her who Suggs was.My head is a Rwandan minefield of useless pop culture references -- it is almost impossible to hold a two-minute conversation with me without my working in a joke about some person or band you've never heard of. I don't really have a good reason for doing this. When you think about it, it's a stupid way to hold a conversation. What's the point of a wacky reference to Phyllis Diller (a) if it is no more relevant to the listener than a reference to Valerie Bell (b)?...

I added a link to it a few days ago, but I want to draw your attention to my favourite blog at the moment: Overheard in Minneapolis. It's actually a collection of things overheard in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area, but that probably wouldn't have as nice a ring to it.The quote that had me laughing this morning was this one, which I imagine is the sort of thing that Eric's wife, Kristin, would say if she had...

Man, bulls are so...

Often there is a thin line between public expression of grief and buffoonery. I think that this picture takes a Phillips Idowu-style leap over that line.(FTYPAH: Idowu is a British triple-jumper who currently holds the European...

In watching/reading news coverage of Wednesday's bridge collapse, and e-mailing back and forth with friends, I have been reminded of the things that endear me to the state and area that I am wont to call home. On this side of the water, more often than not when something happens in America, news crews manage to find the dumbest person in town and talk to him. If this were one's only exposure to the United States, it would make sense that some people don't like the Yanqui -- seemingly Americans are incapable of putting together coherent sentences. So it was refreshing to see so many Twin Cities residents speaking coherently and without the sense of melodrama we've come to expect in these sorts of things. If you watch this video clip of survivors, you'll notice a lack of "Oh my God!"-type...

To my knowledge, I don't know anyone who was injured last night (local coverage). Pretty much everyone I know back in the Cities works in other areas. So, at 6 p.m. they would have been elsewhere. The child bride used to drive across that bridge every day to get to work. The I-35 (the road that collapsed) is easily the busiest road in the metro area. From Burnsville to Forest Lake it is almost always slow. Where it collapsed, in the heart of everything, traffic would have been at a standstill even if things hadn't been reduced to one lane. That factor only means that fewer people were affected than would have been.This is a huge shock if not simply because in the Twin Cities people pride themselves on doing things properly. When you drive around, occasionally you will see signs in...

Suddenly I can't remember the name of the furniture outlet that has that whore-like blonde selling hot tubs during Vikings games. I think she also does the same in Indiana. I don't actually NEED to know this, but it's bugging me that I can't...

For those of you living in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, remember that the mighty 3 Minute Hero will be performing tonight (Friday) at Bunkers and Saturday at Fine Line. If you don't go see their show the terrorists...

I don't really have a list of reasons to love Cardiff, perhaps I will make one some day. Somewhere at the top of that list will be the fact that it's not this place.The picture was taken by a former co-worker of mine, Maggie, who asks the question "What city is this??" rhetorically. It is a picture of downtown Minneapolis. The frustrating aspect is that in this city that serves as the cultural heart of the only state to not vote for Reagan in 1984, there is massive (and, let's be honest, tacky) Americana propaganda and a Rush Limbaugh billboard framed by the omnipresence of Borders and the Target Corp.I am thinking of putting this picture on a T-shirt, with the words, "Not The America I Grew Up In," across the top. For everyone who's never been to the Twin Cities, this picture probably...