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You could win $100! Just feed the PDD marketing weasel by taking a privacy-invading survey.
Seriously. Perfect Duluth Day is going to give away $100 to one randomly drawn survey participant. Isn’t that awesome enough to make you want to answer a bunch of personal questions without feeling any reservations or contempt?
Good. Then click this link:
SURVEY IS NOW CLOSED.
Why have PDD’s powers-that-be ignored their natural Minnesota Lutheran shame and commenced prodding you to disclose information that is none of their business? Because that’s how the vicious gears of capitalism work, you silly goose.
We all got bills to pay, yo.
This survey will gather information that PDD’s marketing weasel can use to show other marketing weasels how this Web site is an ideal place to advertise certain products and services.
Rest assured, the intentions of this survey are entirely money-grabbing in nature, just as the rationale of participating in it should be. There are no plans to streamline content on PDD, based on survey results, in order to produce a highly targeted product that is perfectly tailored to your distinct demographic. PDD wouldn’t stoop that low. This is just about selling more of those little squares on the right of the page.
Your info won’t be shared with anyone, and you won’t be put on any spam list or further bothered in any way. It is Perfect Duluth Day’s policy to be as upfront and forthright as possible while taking advantage of you.
Thanks, and good luck.
PDD Contest: Guess how many razor blades are hidden in this apple
Be the first to guess the exact number of razor blades hidden in the apple pictured above to win two spots on the guest list for Evil Dead: The Musical. One guess per person, please. Make your guess in the comments to this post.
Eeeeeck! Crazy moose loose in the hoose!
This must be the spot where mice are inviting themselves into my home. What I don’t understand is: Why rip the siding apart? That’s got to be hard work for mice, and it’s totally unnecessary. I mean, hell, six mice at a time could enter side by side now. If they make the entry much bigger a cat will be able to go in there after them.
Anyway, finding a little black mouse doing laps in the basement sink is a fun way to start the day, isn’t it?
Make me feel better by commenting about infestations you’ve experienced and your innovative and hopefully humane ideas for termanting the lives of the little bastards.
(I’m not including any photos of the mouse or details about how it was executed, because I want you to like me.)
Y2K is so nine years ago
I am looking forward to the movie “2012” coming out next month. I’m glad they didn’t wait until 2012 to release the movie, cause, you know.
Someone has compiled a list of 22 possible ways for the earth to end in a couple years. My favorites are “Rise of the Machines” and “Time Travel Error.”
While watching the trailer for the movie, I noticed they’re not forgetting to save the giraffes, not something I would have put on my short list to save.
I invite you to consider:
1. What do you think is the most likely way for earth to meet its end in two years?
2. What stupid thing would you try to save if you got a seat on a secret government ship?
Another “harsh online critic” of the Duluth News Tribune
John Ramos’ Cheerleader Blog presents: “How to Control the Media: A Rant.”
DNT On the national news
The DNT made national news with their multi-colored Vikings and Packers editions.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Since when are trampolines so damn popular? I mean, sheesh!
A neighbor of mine put up a big trampoline in his back yard yesterday. The weird thing about this, other than that mid-September is a strange time to assemble something that will have to be taken apart in October, is that I have two other neighbors with trampolines.
Can anyone out there identify a city block in Duluth with more than three trampolines? I think my block might have the record.
Bumper Pool
When was the last time you played bumper pool? For me, I think it was in my grandmother’s basement in about 1984. I’m totally in the mood for a game right now. I must get the bumper pool itch every 25 years.
Duluth on AOL
The Duluth housing market is being featured on the AOL homepage right now. It’s time to buy a house, according to this headline.
Free Amazing Console Stereo!!!
I’m cleaning out my parent’s garage. This is free. Complete schematics and owners manual included. It’s in Esko, please e-mail me at sugarfreek at hotmail if you want to check it out. I could deliver it for gas money.
Lose a kitty?
LOST PARK POINT KITTY
Found on Park Point, it’s black/grey/tan and looks to be in great shape.
What do you know about Duluth ley lines?
Would any of you be able to tell me more about ley lines and why Duluth is on this map?
[courtesy of liminalthresholds.blogspot.com]
USOs: Unidentified stationary objects
Can anyone help me figure out what exactly this might be? I was thinking of taking a bike ride from Duluth to Grand Rapids avoiding Hwy 2 and thought this road might be nice, but this “thing” has me puzzled. There’s another one north west a few miles…
What is it?
What are they chucking out the window in Rice Lake Township?
I took a one-mile walk with the dog this evening. Litter found (and picked up / disposed of properly) along the road:
– Minnesota trailer license plate
– The back of a child-size guitar
– Walgreens receipt for three pounds of epsom salts, nothing else ($3.44)
– Note reading: OFFICE MAX
– remains of a Deli Express sandwich container
Balls
Article from the DNT today that I found somewhat unusual:
Duluth police say fetish exercise-ball slasher has been at it again
Remember the house
on Dunedin Ave. that had all those styrofoam tombstones in the yard at Halloween? Well, we don’t do that anymore. But we did collect all those punny names and epitaphs and put them together on a website that I’d like to share with you. NameThatTomb.com
Feel free to submit your own ideas. Join the graveyard!
When spelling matters
From the Duluth News Tribune website: The top searched item is “Hells Angles.”
Hells Angels = badass bikers
Hells Angles = badass mathematicians?
Lost Cat – Found
My wife and I found this cat in a parking lot along (ironically) Garfield Ave last night. I just brought him to the animal shelter. He was super-friendly and had been de-clawed and neutered. He’s mostly black, with a white chin and “socks” on all four feet. Figured I’d post because I know if I’d lost one of my cats I’d want someone to do the same. At the very least I hope he’s re-adopted.
DNTV Showcases Murder Victim’s Blood
In what is perhaps a new low for the Duluth News Tribune, the DNT’s website just posted its first-ever “DNTV Special Report” in which Executive Editor Rob Karwath basically reads the paper’s earlier story about last night’s murder in Duluth’s Central Hillside, apparently as an excuse to show what did not run in either the newspaper or on the website’s text version of the story: a photograph of the crime scene with large pools of the victim’s blood.
In the video, Karwath narrates as the photo appears not just once, but over and over again, interspersed with other photos from the crime scene. Apparently, it is unethical to print the victim’s name at this sensitive time for his friends and family. But it is perfectly OK to showcase photos of the blood that came out of his fatally damaged head.
In addition to the DNTV piece, which at least does not allow comments, there is the text story, which unfortunately has comments open. At the time of this posting, there are 43 comments, which vacillate between racist, asinine comments about the type of person who lives in Duluth’s Central Hillside, and commentary about the shocking disrespect which is allowed to run rampant in our hometown’s newspaper of record.
I ask this, openly of everyone involved with the DNT and the news media in general: Is this how you would have handled this story if the victim were one of your own loved ones? Do you actually think that any of this is ethical?
I’d also like to know what the PDD community thinks of this specific issue. People bitch about the DNT on this site frequently, and even sometimes unfairly. But on this specific topic, I’d like to know what people think.
Personally, I think it’s disgusting. I would link to the video for you, but that would only give them exactly what they are transparently after.