Archive for December, 2008

The Twin Cities Weird List - The Master List

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Hi Everyone,
             I’m glad so many of you are enjoying the ongoing Twin Cities Weird List posts. I thought it would be helpful to create a master list of all of the weird things I have written about, complete with links to their respective posts. As I add new oddities [...]

The Twin Cities Weird List Part IV

Friday, December 12th, 2008

The weirdness continues with today’s post featuring a bridge whose builders ignored the fact that “the shortest distance between two points is a straight line”, and a surprise celebrity cameo. Also check out previous installments of the weird list: part I, part II, part III or check out the ever-growing master list to see all of [...]

The Twin Cities Weird List III

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Welcome back to another exciting edition of the weirdest and wackiest the Twin Cities has to offer. Today’s post features two more Minneapolis oddities: a misshapen mill and a misnamed park. As always, please comment, especially if you know more about any of these strange places, know of any other odd spots in the Twin [...]

The International Flavor of Midtown Global Market

Friday, December 5th, 2008

This post is the third one in a series of posts I am doing about your favorite places in the Twin Cities (Minnehaha Falls and the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden were the first two). Don’t worry, the “Weird List” series will continue on Monday. DK (check out his website at http://www.dk-today.com) suggested the Midtown Global Market as [...]

The Twin Cities Weird List II

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

The first installment of the Twin Cities Weird List has been immensely popular so far. Here is the much anticipated (I assume) second installment in my ongoing posts about weird things in Minneapolis and St. Paul. This episode features a flying car of biblical porportions, and anomaly in downtown Minneapolis that surprisingly did not evoke [...]