Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty expressed his intention to sign the Purity Of Marriage Act earlier this week. Found at The Onion.

From WCCO TV: The Minneapolis Police Department is again defending itself against accusations that an officer went too far during an arrest. Found at YouTube from News1News.

More than 1.5 million views thus far! This video of the entrance for a wedding held in Saint Paul, Minnesota has gone utterly viral:

Up to 1,000 absentee ballot may have been improperly rejected in the past election here in Minnesota. The Franken campaign has produced this video detailing the stories of a few of those people who, through no fault of their own, had their ballots improperly rejected:

I am a huge fan of the Punch Pizza restaurants here in the Twin Cities (and they also happen to be a client of my employer). They are one of the few places outside of Italy that serves genuine Neapolitan pizza. The pizza’s are baked in a wood-fired oven that is stoked to 800 degrees [...]

The BBC’s wonderful animated series Walking With Dinosaurs is going on the road and touring the States. This gives new meaning to the phrase Dinosaur Rock. The shows feature animatronic life-sized dinosaurs that roam the stage as, judging from the clip below, a musical!. Except for the rather unfortunately obvious tracks that run beneath the [...]

At first I thought this was a homemade video to promote tourism to Duluth. Then I started listening to the lyrics, then I discovered it was a music video for a Vinnie and the Stardusters song:

Voxtrot are one of my new favorite bands. They sound very Brit Pop but they’re from Austin, Texas. This video is of them performing Rise Up In The Dirt at 1st Avenue’s 7th Street Entry: This is a neat promotional video featuring the band talking about recording their forthcoming disc in their new studio: More [...]

Since Governor Jesse Ventura made fireworks legal here, we Minnesotans have had to endure a new and rather annoying tradition: the annual fireworks scare story wherein the media grasps at any recent incident, however small, to demonstrate the dangers of fireworks and to run unceasing scare teasers to entice viewers to their evening broadcasts. As [...]

Hurra Torpedo claims to be "the world’s leading kitchen appliance rock group," and, really, who can argue? The Norwegian band rose to prominence on the strength of the following 1995 performance of Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse Of The Heart. (The stirring of the pot at the beginning of the song–brilliant!) Here’s another version; this time, with [...]