St. Paul’s parking restrictions make about as much sense as a Samuel Beckett play.
Posts Tagged as ‘St. Paul’
October 28, 2009
Another ‘Wall Street’ That’s Ripping Us Off…
One advantage of living in St. Paul is the parking situation: since there are never any people here, you can basically park wherever you want. Even in Lowertown — the one part of downtown St. Paul that shows regular signs of human activity after 5 p.m. — you can usually find an open meter space. [...]
April 29, 2009
Hot Rod Day at the Capitol
One of the fringe benefits of working at the Legislature is having a front-row seat to all the activity that goes on in and around the Capitol Building. Usually it’s some kind of protest, but there are a couple of unique events that happen every year that always make me stop and look. Yesterday, the [...]
December 7, 2008
Summit Brewery Tour
In hard times like these, it’s wise to get your kicks for free whenever possible. Yesterday, Patty and I (along with an eager group of friends) took Summit Brewing Company’s almost-too-good-to-be-true complimentary tour of its St. Paul brewery — and I have to say that it’s about as good a time as you can have for [...]
November 11, 2008
What I Learned From Being an Election Judge
Last week, when Minnesotans stood in line at their various polling places to exercise their civic duty on Election Day, few probably gave much thought to the people they saw working at the polls — other than to perhaps wonder why they couldn’t make the lines move any faster. For me, however, last Tuesday was different, [...]
October 20, 2008
St. Paul’s Crazy Street Signs (Updated)
The above is one of many “traffic calming” artistic street signs currently located on George Street on St. Paul’s West Side. Patty noticed them on her way to work one day. According to this report by WCCO, the signs don’t really accomplish their intended purpose of slowing traffic, but they definitely add some eccentric charm [...]
August 26, 2008
Pop!
I’ve never reviewed a restaurant before, but I guess there’s a first time for everything… Last night, on our way to check out some amateur poetry at the Artists’ Quarter, Patty and I spotted what I can only describe as a giant glowing pink room through a window at the corner of Wabasha and 6th. [...]
July 14, 2008
Geodesic Dome House, West Side, St. Paul
Way back in May, at the Living Green Expo, Patty and I ran across a map of all the geodesic dome houses in Minnesota, and we noticed that one of them appeared to be in our own neighborhood, just a few blocks from our apartment. We literally spent two months looking for it — on [...]
June 28, 2008
Smokestack go boom.
This morning, Patty and I got up early and walked down the road to watch the controlled demolition of the smokestack at Xcel’s High Bridge Plant. Thousands of people turned out to watch, either because they wanted to witness a little piece of St. Paul history in the making or because they just wanted to [...]
