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Choosing a New Small Business CMS: A Digital Strategist Solves Her Own Problems
Last week I groaned and admitted that I need to redesign my website, sooner rather than later. The last design from 4 years ago really isn’t hitting the professional spot where I’d like my web presence to be. My internet aesthetic ideal has evolved. My business has completely evolved. Most of the major content and […]
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Chinese 5-spice Fried Chicken: Sunday Dinner Gifset #3
Because I can’t stand to dig through any more articles about gun violence without wanted to cry tears of blood, this week’s Sunday Dinner considers the pinnacle of patriarchal hegemonic media cloaked in the auspices of feminism: Women’s Health magazine! Magazines like Women’s Health are simultaneously hilarious, semi-informative (without women’s media maybe it wouldn’t be common […]
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A New My Antonia & Getting More Out of a Phone Selfie
Sense/Perspective #7: The Imagination of Limits Tired Moonlight, a film by Brittni West Connections: I have met Paul D, who is in Tired Moonlight, although I didn’t know he was in the film until I got to the theater. There is a whole world out there, not that far from here, of which I know […]
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Genius! A Chicken Recipe, Short Film & Poetry
Sense/Perspective #6: I Just Don’t Use That Word Lightly Fall Harvest Cider Roasted Chicken with Walnut Goat Cheese + Grapes by Half Baked Harvest Connections: I made the chicken recipe and then I ate it. Cooking meals — not just dishes — is a fail-safe way of inducing satisfaction in my own skin. After traveling to […]
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Sunday Dinner Gifset #2: Corn Pesto
Last week was a particularly rough one for domestic gun violence in Minnesota. I read the Star Tribune and added some quotes from the worst stories. I also made a corn pesto recipe from Epicurious. Quotes from: 1 2 3&4 5 Related: here’s an On Flavor essay about sweet corn.
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Risk-takers and Appropriating the Humor of Stock Photography
Sense/Perspective #5: Everything but the Arty Art Stuff Sent September 17, 2015 “Shame” by the Bad Bad Hats Connections: None, as far as I know. H/T to Chris for putting this in my feed and giving me a renewed sense of self. Music is easy: there are formulas, beats, and tropes I’m going to go […]
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On Flavor: Sweet Corn
Sweet corn season drags high expectations with it: a collective American memory of youthful pleasure, ear after ear of sweet abandon. When roasted, it smells like a used bookstore housed next to the bakery responsible for Proust’s madeleines. In late July, the corner vendor at the farmers market heralds its arrival like a superhero movie. […]
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Pop Art, Political Art & Too Much of One or the Other
International Pop at the Walker Art Center Connections: The founder of the company I work for is on the board of the Walker, and the company has worked with the Walker closely this year, but none of it had anything to do with the art inside the museum and the Walker doesn’t care about my […]
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Lucid Dreaming: Mark Ehling, Marcia LaCerte & Jes Reyes
Sense: Viewed (read) / Perspective: Like Eating Your First Meal at a Really Great Restaurant River Dead of Minneapolis Scavenged by Teenagers by Mark Ehling Connections: Mark is friends with and has collaborated with Will, my husband, and read more below. If more artists were total jerks and fartfaces who you’d never want to associate […]
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Comfort Art: Abstract Instagram, Pieces of the Leonardo Exhibit, and Girl Rock
Sense: Viewed / Perspective: Whatever is the German word for equal parts comfort and intrigue Instagram account: Emiel (@emiel_sudetak) Connections: None [EDIT 9.7: I found out after this was sent that I do, in fact, know Emiel, and that he’s my friend’s husband. I thought that one person could be aware of multiple Emiels, but […]