In its series The Slice, WDSE-TV presents short “slices of life” that capture the events and experiences that bring people together and speak to what it means to live up north.
In this edition, Adam Dailey and Rick Kollath talk about the thrill of ice climbing at Duluth’s Quarry Park.
Well, unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know the Twin Ports made world news last night. Not quite the way you would’ve wanted. Never how you imagine it. Turns out it wasn’t some sophisticated human trafficking meth ring after all, but just some maladjusted nordic tween who probably masturbated to video games before he went on a random killing spree affecting thousands of lives and casting a dark shadow across the land. And I didn’t know when I posted this song, that it would perfectly come to embody how I felt the next morning that at least this thing, for once, had a positive outcome. We’ll see. I have no idea what they’re saying in “Tip my Canoe.” But it seems joyful and like a release. Perhaps along the lines of a budding romance when you feel that anything is possible. Of youths too innocent to know better, before life takes it all away.
And now, a little heat from Cambodia …
Well, unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know the Twin Ports made world news last night. Not quite the way you would’ve wanted. Never how you imagine it. Turns out it wasn’t some sophisticated human trafficking meth ring after all, but just some maladjusted nordic tween who probably masturbated to video games before he went on a random killing spree affecting thousands of lives and casting a dark shadow across the land. And I didn’t know when I posted this song, that it would perfectly come to embody how I felt the next morning that at least this thing, for once, had a positive outcome. We’ll see. I have no idea what they’re saying in “Tip my Canoe.” But it seems joyful and like a release. Perhaps along the lines of a budding romance when you feel that anything is possible. Of youths too innocent to know better, before life takes it all away.
Martin Pattison