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I honestly don't know how I would survive Slow Horses if I hadn't already read the books. The show isn't 100% faithful, but I've been prepared for most of the big plot points.

Me, four years ago, "it's cute that crop tops are coming back" Me, two years ago, "well, I can probably hide a crop top under some overalls, but I'm too old to wear them openly." Me, this summer/heat wave fall, "Crop tops are ideal for perimenopausal women."

Cross country meets are fun, because you can immediately figure out which schools have good football programs. (Girls from the school dominate as a first place team. Boys are trying really hard to not be a last place team.)

Something poetic about Carleton getting Lynx the #1 seed.

So... the interview about the new Luther Seminary sale makes it look like there's nothing to worry about. But the buyer has been trying to get data centers established all over the metro after he got caught misappropriating funds. elkriverdatacenter.com/research-ana...

We have some tickets to the Lynx next year, so I may already be watching vids to prepare my Axl Rose cosplay. (Maybe the redhead I need the work to emulate.)

I'm reasonably sure that my life has peaked as of today, the opening of Deviant Crop Art.

I'm finding humor in aging when I do the same things I teased my parents about when I was a teen. Today: where are the two pairs of glasses I like? My mom eventually found one of the pairs she lost when I was 16 in her flower beds. At least I haven't been using a trowel recently?

I really hope this was one of the Winona cameras.

"Sorry I was late, I was hanging Crop Art nudes" was not an excuse I was prepared to use today. I just went with an "appointment" excuse.

I also think this gets to the fundamental question about who the fair is for. The fair started with farm kids. I don't want a fair without them. How do we balance marketing outside of Minnesota with marketing in Minnesota.

I wrote about the influencer-fication of the Minnesota State Fair for @stribgoingout.startribune.com :) with my amazing colleague Rachel Hutton :)

We have a mentally and emotionally broken man in the Senate and there's nothing we can do to remove him. Yes, I'm talking about Fetterman. Meanwhile, we don't even know if Mitch McConnell is alive.

I love Naomi Osaka. Just that. Also Coco Gauff. I just love those women.

Reminder that we had Senator Al Franken because he paid for a hand recount. This isn't even the first time this century a candidate paid the fee.

Sometimes it helps to have friends who are daily fair goers. Especially when they can snap a pic of the crop art you were too busy finishing to photograph

Time between meeting Peggy Flanagan and talking about crop art.... .5 seconds. I would apologize, but I know I'd do it again.

Nope. Nope. Do not mess with Cloud. She joined the Liberty in a year when all Lynx fans hated the Liberty, and we STILL all had love for her.

How much library karma did it take for me to get both Yesteryear and Correspondence during Crop Art crunch time?

Michelle Tafoya thinks it's seed art.

You cannot tell me that Jack White turned down this chance to play his song with them.

the World Cup final will be between two teams that Cape Verde played even through 90 minutes

I love Tyler Adams. I loved watching him play with McKennie at Leeds. I was so ready for this to be a historic year. I could not watch tonight, because I couldn't watch them lose, even if that was best for the World Cup.

In the run up to the 2020 election, I had coffee with a mentor who told me that we weren't ready for universal healthcare because people liked their doctors. I had to explain changing doctors 3 times in the previous 5 years based on insurance decisions. These talking points don't last forever.

As someone in higher ed, this is not it. Your girls could get funding without all of the lost weekends and sports fees if you just spent as much on education as you do trying to tear it down.

Can't wait for Alexi Lalas to bring Carly Lloyd on to talk about how all of the missed penalties today are because the players negotiated for their worth.

Colin Firth as the out of touch, doddering, rich Englishman academic in the Young Sherlock Holmes is really shaking my world.

What are the chances these things are related? bsky.app/profile/tayl...

It's Title IX month. Learn more about the fight for gender equality in the Civil Rights Era and the continued need for vigilance today. Read Long Lead's latest feature TITLE WAVES today: title-waves.longlead.com

My campus has some questionable art that has remained on display to avoid offending a donor. How much money do you think I'd have to donate to have this on permanent display next to the football field?

The motivation to participate in the 100 mile garage sale was the bins of clothing my oldest left behind when she moved to college. But the thing I'm happiest to have sold is my Sinema dress. I had owned it about two weeks when this picture was taken and I never wore it again.

In my parenting world, the first vaccine parents pushed back against was for HPV. 10 years later, my child's acne doctor responded this way (spiel followed by relief) when we chose birth control over a months long antibiotic course will always have me link vaccine denial and American Puritanism.

Jill Moe/Me/Christy Klancher (This is a crop art joke. And Christy, sorry if you would prefer to be Timothy. But we can all agree that Jill is the composed one with a longer history of hilariousness.)