Vic Thorstenson

This is how it all ends, and I'm ready for it.

#OnThisDay Oct 27 1849: The Minnesota Territorial Legislature establishes the first 9 counties: Benton, Dakota, Itasca, Mahkahta, Pembina, Ramsey, Wabasha, Wahnahta, and Washington.

RETVRN [the land to its original stewards] [also political/state lines are arbitrary and useless, but to the extend that they exist:] TO MEGASOTA

🧵 Minneapolis early voting thru Monday. 7 full early voting days to go, but precincts in blue at/above 2022 *total* early vote. Orange = below ‘22’s total , but again, full week to go. Only 1 precinct (7-10 in Stevens Square) is below 70% of ‘22. Pace seems certain to smash 2018 midterm record (52k)

Local angle: The 5th Minnesota at Corinth by Edwin Blashfield. You can find it in the Governor’s anteroom at the Minnesota Capitol.

I could see them doing this to Klob because "what the hell, we're behind and some rich guy is paying for it." But I thought this was a close race - pretty dangerous and dumb for Tiffany's camp.

similar to mailers targeting amy klobuchar in the twin cities

Thinking about that CEO who couldn’t find 3 words to describe her child and i think we need to christen the concept of Socioparchy to describe being ruled by absolutely insane sociopaths

Getting into the spirit of the season

Also nobody named O'Hara, Kowalski, or Ricci. The DAR was shitty that way.

"Change her tune...? Whoever is writing this shit is older than me, and I'm so old I fart dust.

The ONLY candidate with a cherry on top.

This is what counts as a straight line in St Paul

Ever seen the grain silo hotel in Akron? Think it’s a Crowne Plaza franchisee these days.

My home town once called itself the "Mink Capital of the World", but the entire industry there was wiped out by Covid-19 in just a matter of weeks back in 2020. They should take animal disease outbreaks a little seriously maybe?

There was another one of those vertical beams

Everyone who's still an active DFLer/Democrat (I'm retired from political work) needs to read this. Don't take comfort in the fact that it's just as bad or worse on the GOP side. newrepublic.com/article/2163...

This banded sphinx moth sez we can wait a bit before we cut down the peony for the season.

Trivia: Barnes & Nobles' first-ever “superstore” outside New York was 14,000 square feet in a strip mall near Rosedale shopping center in Roseville, Minnesota. - from the Mpls.-St. Paul Business Journal.

A Wall Street Journal reporter just did a line of coke and howled like a wolf

Metaphors are like utiliity poles -- whatever they're doing is too complicated to understand

The 3rd Street/Central Avenue Bridge is the place to be at sunrise - it's that time of year when the rising sun casts the shadow of the bridge railing on the traffic barrier.

#OnThisDay Oct 21 1926: Frank Lloyd Wright and companion Olga Milanoff are arrested at a Lake Minnetonka cottage on charges of adultery. They had fled Wisconsin to escape his messy divorce and her estranged husband. Wright spent a few days in jail before being released, charges were later dropped.

Ashmore Flats (built 1895), 325 6th Ave Southeast in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood of Minneapolis.

I'll plunk down the fifty bucks to buy the thing but we'll need to Fitzcarraldo the SOB back to Minneapolis. I'll need some help. @mndriftless.northsky.social @jnelsen.bsky.social

Attention snow globalists! The periodic MinnBid government auction of confiscated snow globes is back for another round. mnbid.mn.gov/productView/16662

"Do you renounce the Lutheran Brotherhood?"

#OnThisDay Oct 17 1988: City leaders eagerly celebrate the demolition of "Block E", a "skid row" strip in the center of Hennepin Ave. Afterward the diverse group of old buildings became a parking lot. 14 years later the grand development in the rendering was only partly, and very badly, realized.

This is what the Hennepin side of block E looked like in 1969 vs the exact spot today. I don't think it's hyperbole to say this is an abject failure of urban renewal. Like today's Nicollet Mall, we keep designing these dehumanizing places, then get baffled why people don't want to to there.

Since the boulder is derived from dolomite, there can be only one choice for a name.

Yeah that tracks for White Castle.

He came in through the bathroom window

Another voter suppression move.

Vinegar Syndrome's new Minneapolis store is officially welcoming both niche physical media buffs and casual browsers in Dinkytown. The soft opening runs October 16–17, with a grand opening to come. #TwinCitiesGeeks twincitiesgeek.com/2026/10/vine...

Remembering how excited I was when I randomly encountered the passenger pigeon mural in Cincinnati four years ago. Based on a painting by John Ruthven, Martha - the last passenger pigeon who died at the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914 - leads the flock at upper right.

Little known fact: The Gold Medal Flour sign, on the west bank of the Mississippi River, is actually east of the Grain Belt Beer sign, in the middle of the Mississippi River on Nicollet Island.

Yours truly as one of Smokey Bear's cubs c. 1960. My dad wore the large Smokey suit. Another kid and I were assigned the role of handing out the SB comic books and swag.

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