Monday in the Twin Cities

Twin Cities on the Cheap
Minneapolis-St. Paul is terrific place to experience culture sans money. The Minneapolis Institute of the Arts is free. The Sculpture Garden, featuring Spoonbridge and Cherry, is also free (you may have to pay to park there, though). There are a lot of theaters, and if you think rush tickets are too expensive, there are also a lot of colleges with solid theater departments. If you're lucky, you could even get invited to a wedding reception at the Minnesota History Center, which features a great view of St. Paul from the balcony, and a view of the capital from the dance floor we were on. We here are this blog enjoy getting invited to weddings: the amount of food and booze we get usually surpasses the amount we spend on a gift (not to mention the free fun experience, and, oh, supporting those we know and love as they wed).

Sexism on Kare 11.
On Friday evening, Julie Nelson and Diana Pierce were the anchors. An "Al" (I think Allan Costantini) was doing a feature on e coli in spinnage. He held up a brush, and then said to the anchors something to this effect: "Do you two know what this is? Oh, of course you both know, but for all the guys out there, this is a vegetable brush." Possible Flurries and I just looked at each other open-mouthed, both thinking the same thing: "Did he just say that?"

I suspect Allan Costantini got into TV news in the 1970s in time to say things like, "It's anchorMAN, not anchorLADY" and "I heard their menstration attracts bears."

Vikings win
The mood of the town should be good. You can read about the Vikings at my anchor blog, Pacifist Viking.