“This Fourth Down Conversion Attempt Brought to You By [Your Company Name Here]” Inspired by the “Allstate Catch of the Day,” I’m going to see if the cable channel carrying the University of Minnesota football games will consider creating something called “The Ross Kaplan Extra Point Attempt” (I’m game if the price is right). If...Read More
Bird Watching (of a Sort) It’s hardly scientific, but if you want a quick-and-dirty, statistics-free take on the Twin Cities real estate market, do what I did over the weekend: count construction cranes. Including Downtown Minneapolis, Uptown, and Lake Calhoun (what’s going on at the Calhoun Beach Club??), I counted easily a dozen such multi-story contraptions....Read More
