“O-for-3” Realtor Look out, Modern Family, there’s another terrific TV show that’s sending up Realtors. Comedian Louis C.K.’s eponymous “Louis.” On a Season 2 episode titled, “Moving,” Louis is shown a Manhattan apartment by an agent who brightly announces, “you’re going to love this place. It’s completely updated, spacious, and very light.” Louis takes a look, turns to the agent, and...Read More
Long Live the (Hypertext) Link! If you write, I dunno . . a couple thousand words a month (a week?) on your blog, you’re naturally attuned to subtle shifts in the style and usage of the English language. Like . . . no one underlines anymore, because it’s confused for a hypertext link. See what I mean? What does...Read More
Blog Bartering Thanks to Sunrise Cyclery at Bryant and Lake Street in Minneapolis’ Uptown neighborhood. First for being open at 10:15 a.m. this morning (all the other Uptown bike shops apparently open at noon on Sunday); and second, for adjusting my 9 year-old son’s bike at no charge. Hey guys, how about a free plug instead? ...Read More
“Gee, That’s So Nice of You!” It wasn’t Minnesota Nice that prompted me to repeatedly yield the right of way on the single file path up (and down) Camelback Mountain this morning. I had no choice — I needed all those breaks to catch my breath! I ultimately made it half-way, which I consider a...Read More
Negotiating 101 I don’t play poker (or do international diplomacy), but my day job — selling residential real estate — does involve a fair amount of negotiating. So, I think I can say with some confidence that good negotiators don’t usually announce, “I don’t bluff,” as President Obama reportedly just said about dealing with Iran’s...Read More
Some Minnesota fathers teach their sons how to hang dry wall and hunt (or so I’m told). Me? I can explain why the Amusement Park is named “Crackerjax,” not “Crackerjacks” — or at least have a pretty good educated guess. Which is, if they named it “Crackerjacks,” they’d get sued for copyright infringement.Read More
