The first time I noticed their talent was on a friend’s link on Facebook. Next thing I knew, my lips puckered up, my head was bobbing and my heart was pumping as I watched their highly stylized videos. It was like Gummo-meets-rave-techno satisfying. I am talking about Die Antwoord, an Afrikaans zef rap-rave band from Cape Town, South Africa. The first [...]

Sunday marked the 52nd running of the Daytona 500. The first race of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is also the Super Bowl of the racing season, with nearly 30 million viewers tuning in to at least some portion of this year’s race, and in-person attendance upwards of 200,000.
NASCAR fans are the most passionate fans around, and this passion extends far [...]

Once every four years, people around the world rediscover their passion for curling, speed skating, and skeleton luge.  I’ll certainly be tuning in to the Olympics to see my favorite skippers and sweepers, but I’ll also be on the lookout for excellence in Olympic design, or at least a few mediocre examples.
Olympic host cities face [...]

Uh-oh! Subway’s “I lost weight by eating at Subway” spokesperson Jared Fogle has put on 30 pounds. For years, Jared has been a symbol for everyday folk who want a healthier fast food alternative.
He attributes some of his weight gain to falling in love, causing his attention to focus elsewhere … but that false claim has [...]

Well, it appears Mark McGwire is finally ready to talk about the past – something he refused to do while embarrassing himself in front of Congress five years ago.  He admitted this week that he used steroids and human growth hormone for a decade during his celebrated baseball career.  This revelation wasn’t exactly startling to fans who [...]

Haven’t finished your holiday shopping? Give these meaningful last-minute gifts:

Salvation Army Triple Match Donation

For two days only, all donations made to the Twin Cites Salvation Army will be triple matched.
This unprecedented match has been made possible by three anonymous donors who pooled together $1.25 million in matching funds. It is the largest matching [...]

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In the last 12 years, I’ve had the pleasure of meeting and working with some pretty cool celebrities and athletes, but recently I got to meet my favorite NFL player as a kid.
This year marked the 30th anniversary of the famous – and beloved – Coca-Cola commercial starring “Mean” Joe Greene. In the spot, an injured [...]

One of the great parts of shopping online for Christmas gifts is how easy it is to shift your focus to the stuff that you want.  One minute I’m looking at gardening books for my mom, and the next I’m browsing backpacks and high-end bikes.  This is how I discovered the hole in my life [...]

There’s been a lot of buzz this week about Facebook’s new privacy policy. Basically, Facebook set up new defaults that open your personal information to search engines, thereby opening your posts, friends and photos to a lot more people. You can dial back your privacy settings, but they didn’t make it easy or intuitive.
Why did they do [...]

I have a folder called img junkie on my desktop. That’s where I collect imgs when I am surfing. Junk:
more junk soon…
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