Will and the Loons

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@mnaurorafc.bsky.social community owner Wanderer who planted roots late in life in beautiful Minnesota, trying to stay curious & kind Day by Day. ⚽️ fan. Book and music lover. Embracing my inner child and my outer old man. #YNWA

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Will and the Loons@wmrine· 16d

Cover of the band Cake’s 1996 album “Fashion Nugget,” which, as is typical of their covers, shows the band name and title on simple script, and has a simple and pointless one-color graphic, in this case, a crown, in the center.

Will and the Loons@wmrine· 16d

The cover of Aimee Mann’s 1995 album “I’m With Stupid,” which shows her looking into the refrigerator, her face hidden behind the open door, on which colorful fridge magnets spell out her name and the album title.

Will and the Loons@wmrine· 16d

American II: Unchained

The front cover of Johnny Cash’s 1996 album “American Recordings II: Unchained.”

Will and the Loons@wmrine· 16d

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains.

A picture of the cover of Uncle Tupelo’s 1992 album “March 16-20, 1992.”

Will and the Loons@wmrine· 16d

From a 2022 Tweet by linguist and author @dannybate.com. Taken in Peebles, a town in the Scottish borders. I was as amused by it as he apparently was and saved it. (He also had a monthly podcast, “A Language I Love Is,” although it’s been quiet since March.) I haven’t managed to go see it myself.

Screenshot of a Tweet from June 2022 by Dr. Danny Bate, a linguist, that reads “I didn’t realize until today’s walk around Peebles that I could have a favorite road sign.” Below it is a European style caution sign (inverted red-bordered triangle) that has a picture of a lamb appearing to jump and below which it reads LAMBS JUMP UP FROM NOWHERE.

Will and the Loons@wmrine· 16d

What’s your sign? LAMBS JUMP UP FROM NOWHERE

A European highway caution sign (an upside-down red triangle) that reads “Lambs Jump Up From Nowhere.” It’s posted along a low rock wall beside a green pasture that extends to the horizon and the hill in the background. I think it’s from Scotland.

Will and the Loons@wmrine· 16d

Same guy that frames a potential government shutdown because Dems won’t approve his voting suppression bill as a fight between “Trump and the Left”

A link of a New York Magazine story featuring a pic of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and headlined, “Trump and the Left May Insist on Government Shutdown This Fall.”

Will and the Loons@wmrine· 23d

Tweet from former Real Madrid midfielder and German national team player Toni Kroos (himself a World Cup winner in 2014), dated today, stating that “Football won.”

Will and the Loons@wmrine· 23d

The prez beat you to it.

Screenshot of a skeet from yesterday saying the prez had activated his usual curse against his favored teams when he goes to sporting events. In this case, it was after he had taken the side of the Argentine team after it was pointed out that they had breached FIGA rules against political banners at games, when players had held a banner saying the Falklands belong to Argentina (not the UK) at the end of the England game.

Will and the Loons@wmrine· Jul 7

Same guys I’m seeing this morning are also talking like these ESPN headlines: “We’re gonna figure out who did this to us!” “_____ really let us down!” Like, before the Paraguay and Oz games, based on the past year, I wasn’t positive they’d get out of the group. It was a fun ride.

Screen shot of the headlines on ESPN about the USMNT’s very predictable loss to Belgium Monday night:

“Who’s to blame for USMNT’s World Cup exit? Rating every player’s performance”

“Belgium handed USA a World Cup reality check — and now the inquest begins.”

Will and the Loons@wmrine· Jul 2

So nice to see our future US Senator, just hangin with the homies at the Black Hart. Especially nice after yesterday’s US Supreme Court ruling.

Lt Gov Peggy Flanagan, wearing her Team USA hat and holding a bottle of Corona in hand, just talking with the people in the crowd gathered at the Black for US-Bosnia match at the World Cup.

Will and the Loons@wmrine· Jun 25

Yesterday, we had a “cat tour” in my small Minneapolis neighborhood and it drew more than the prez for his big 250th anniversary rally. The Wedge Cat Tour is an annual walking tour where you can literally meet people’s cats or kittens. It’s quirky and fun, unlike a Trump rally.

Will and the Loons@wmrine· Jun 22

Don’t know if this is still up, but we saw this one on MN 11 between Beaudette and International Falls 11 summers ago.

A Minnesota Adopt-a-Highway sign showing that the coming section has been adopted by “Family of Dog Kisses.”

Will and the Loons@wmrine· Jun 20

Happy Midsommar, everyone!

An 20-foot-tall inflated replica of a red Swedish wooden horse, flanked by the flags of Sweden and Minnesotas, the two countries I come from. At today’s Midsommar celebration at the American Swedish Institute.

Will and the Loons@wmrine· Jun 19

The best seats in the house are the ones where your people are. Thanks to Wes and @blackhartstp.com for throwing the best party around.

Football fans gather on the patio of the Black Hart of St Paul to watch the US face off against Australia.

Will and the Loons@wmrine· Jun 10

Happy Maurice Sendak day!

A page from Maurice Sendak’s In the Night Kitchen showing three bakers in white baker’s hats making cake, one holding a wooden kitchen spoon like a guitar, and they are singing “Milk in the Batter! Milk in the Batter! We bake cake! And nothing’s the matter!”

Will and the Loons@wmrine· May 29

Thinking about all the brave folks in Newark, bravely facing off against ICE agents and police, trying to spring the detainees who are holding a hunger strike to protest being fed rotting food and having to endure overflowing toilets and other unacceptable conditions. Photo by Adam Gray on insta.

A silhouette in the window of an ICE detention center, with coils of barb wire in the foreground

Will and the Loons@wmrine· May 23

This whole thread, with this imperative in bold and underlined and lots of exclamation points.

Will and the Loons@wmrine· May 21

Ever since I saw this poster as a kid, I’ve always hoped one day we’d make it work.

Vietnam-era poster expressing a Vietnam-era wish: “What if they gave a war and nobody came?” This is written in cursive over a painting whose bright colors are straight out of Van Gogh. It depicts a scarecrow made from rusting metal pieces and wearing a gas mask, set in a grassy field filled with spring flowers, spreading back toward green hills and a deep blue sky, in which the sun sparkles.There’s no one around but the seven white doves perched on the scarecrows arms and flying around its head.

Will and the Loons@wmrine· May 20

A picture of fictional singer Otis Day, with the equally unreal band The Knights behind him, both from the 1978 movie Animal House.

Will and the Loons@wmrine· May 1

It’s always funny/not funny that, given that the inspiration for the holiday was the huge, nationwide strike for the 8-hour workday of 1 May 1886 in the US, that English-speaking countries pointedly avoid observing this day. Have a good holiday, Derek!

Map of the world showing countries in the northern hemisphere, highlighted in black, that don’t celebrate international workers day on May 1. English-speaking counties are most prominent: the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, and Australia. The Netherlands, Denmark, Japan and Saudi Arabia are also highlighted. India and South Korea are indicated red for partial observance, by certain religious or ethnic groups.

Will and the Loons@wmrine· Apr 26

Cheers back with a local Maibock from Urban Growler.

A half-full glass of a golden colored beer (a Maibock, a Spring beer from Germany, or, in this case, Minnesota).

Will and the Loons@wmrine· Apr 26

Forty years ago this morning, Chernobyl reactor number 4, not far from Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. The worst-ever release of radiation from a nuclear power plant and which affected hundreds of millions across Europe.

A photo showing a building, a nuclear power plant, with one side blown away and rubble piled below.

Will and the Loons@wmrine· Apr 23

This is us in that crowd along the fence.

Kid looks at flowers, balloons, cards and other mementos, many purple, left on the chain-link fence surrounding Paisley Park after Prince’s death.

Will and the Loons@wmrine· Apr 22

Spinach and mushroom deep-dish pizza from Zachary’s in Oakland, California.

A picture of a slice of deep-dish “Chicago style” pizza sitting on a white plate that Chicagoans tend to say isn’t Chicago style and which is made in Oakland, California. The cheese is on the bottom, topped by a layer of spinach and mushrooms and the top is a deep layer of tomato sauce. It’s been topped with flakes of basil and crushed red pepper.

Will and the Loons@wmrine· Apr 22

10 years ago, and I am surprised to be so sad. (These were actually at Paisley Park, two days later.) From a time before almost everything that shapes now.

A young boy leans down to look at a guitar and flowers and cards and purple balloons all left along the fence surrounding Paisley Park in Chanhassen.

Will and the Loons@wmrine· Apr 19

That would have been extra-amusing when I was there about three weeks ago.

A view of a rest area closed because of piles of snow blocking the entrance, with the Mackinac suspension bridge in the background. Sunny and with blue skies.

Will and the Loons@wmrine· Apr 19

I guess we mostly escaped it down here in the southern latitudes.

A moped with just a few clumps of snow on its headlamp, mirror and seat. The nearby ground has none.

Will and the Loons@wmrine· Apr 5

If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery. #bridges #Mackinac #Michigan

A view from the front seat of a car approaching the towers of a suspension bridge, while a truck is approaching on the opposite lanes. It’s a bright sunny day and the sky is blue.

Will and the Loons@wmrine· Mar 24

Coming back from the East Coast. The snow may have melted in Minnesota but it’s deep in da Yoop, and there’s lots of ice still in the Mackinac Strait and on both the Lake Michigan and Lake Huron sides of the bridge.