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I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

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Somehow I had completely missed until today that there is a documentary about the making of Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot called I Am Trying to Break Your Heart. The opening credits are beautiful for both their rendition of film’s namesake song and the black and white photography of Chicago. I also caught myself nodding at this quote from the film:

We’re now in a culture, not just a business, but a culture in which we expect everything to happen [finger snap] like that. Ya know, you have people outside, standing around, talking on cell phones, ya know, the gist of the conversation is “I’ll be there in five minutes.” Who gives a fuck? Just be there in five minutes, don’t talk about it.
—David fricke senior editor rolling stone

Oh, and it’s available for streaming on Netflix.

Ed. Note: The above post has actually been sitting as a draft since Nov. 26, but I was just reminded of it as I was watching Ashes of American Flags, and thus finally remembered to hit publish.

Coincidentally, tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of 9/11, which is the date Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was originally set for release.

The Anonymous mask

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Nick Bilton, giving a brief history of the mask worn by Anonymous members:

Then in 2008, Anonymous embraced it, explained Gabriella Coleman, an assistant professor at New York University’s department of media, culture and communication. “Thousands of members came out from behind their computer and went into the streets to protest the Church of Scientology,” she said. “Anonymous knew if they were going to meet in a visibly public space for the first time, they needed to conceal their identity. They inevitably chose the ‘V for Vendetta’ mask to do this.”

“It had a chilling effect. There were literally thousands of people standing silently in front of the Church of Scientology wearing the same Guy Fawkes mask,” Ms. Coleman said. “The photos and videos that appeared in the news from the protests cemented the mask as the symbol of Anonymous.”

Eerie.

CNN sings praise for the CNN app

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“A lot of people are going to have access to this who haven’t had access before.” —Sanjay Gupta, tonight’s guest host on AC360, describing the updated CNN iOS app that allows cable/satellite subscribers to watch live CNN

Yes, this is going to be great for all those people who pay for cable/satellite service but don’t own a TV.

(About once a month I watch some TV news, and this is the kind of bullshit I get to hear.)

Political quote of the week

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Here in Minnesota we’re a full week into a state government shutdown. Apparently the shuttered state parks are not the only inconvenience being caused by the political gridlock:

“As soon as the Legislature and Gov. Dayton work out their differences, the licensing bureaus will go back to work and we’ll be able to put dozens of topless dancers on the stage and begin contributing much-needed tax dollars to the state coffers,” Langan said.

Ecuadorian restaurants in Minneapolis (we need more)

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A tweet last week from a fellow hungry marketer spurred me to spend an hour of my Saturday morning looking for Ecuadorian restaurants in Minneapolis. Sadly, I only found four (and I already knew of three of them). I learned along the way that Ecuadorian restaurants in Minneapolis must feel obliged to also serve Mexican food to keep the gringos happy; what else explains this City Pages taco challenge?

As far as I know, none of these places serve the most stereotypical Ecuadorian dish, so your best bet is still to call ahead to Chino Latino if you’re craving guinea pig. (Though I only found a single restaurant outside Quito that had guinea pig on the menu when I was in Ecuador.)

The choices (and reviews):

Have I missed any?


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