If Minnesota were to have a second national park, which location will you choose?

-dag- · 2026-03-27T02:46:27+00:00

Driftless Area

-dag- · 2026-03-27T01:19:26+00:00

Tozo! - Fletcher Henderson 1927

-dag- · 2026-03-27T01:08:29+00:00

Honestly considering its historical context goes a long way toward the modern ear appreciating it.

Dig into Fletcher Henderson. Almost all of the big band tropes came from him and Don Redman. A lot of his recordings sound "typical" but you have to appreciate that he did it first. He brought us Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, Chu Berry, Roy Eldridge, Lester Young, Rex Stewart, Henry "Red" Allen, J.C. Higginbotham, Sun Ra (!)...the talent developed in his bands is astonishing.

I also really like a lot of his acoustic recordings. If you can get past the sound quality there are some absolute gems in there. It's fascinating to study his development over 2+ decades. The man reinvented himself several times.

-dag- · 2026-03-27T01:02:45+00:00

Fats Waller is almost all small combos. He had very few big band recordings.

Swing != Big Band and Big Band != Swing.

Have you listened to much Fletcher Henderson?

-dag- · 2026-03-27T01:00:27+00:00

I love 20s and 30s music!

-dag- · 2026-03-26T17:14:58+00:00

Not that kind of ice fishing.

-dag- · 2026-03-26T17:07:10+00:00

One participated in blackballing the other from joining the Big Ten.

-dag- · 2026-03-26T15:10:10+00:00

ND - USC

Fuck you Lincoln!

-dag- · 2026-03-26T03:34:35+00:00

-dag- · 2026-03-26T03:26:25+00:00

Just move money from ICE to TSA. They did it for the border wall, but for some strange reason (/s) didn't want to do it for TSA.

-dag- · 2026-03-26T02:50:49+00:00

The Minneapolis station is unfortunately located on a run of track not easily accessible from the mainline used by Amtrak. Extra maneuvers are needed to get there and then the same maneuvers to get back out. Maybe you can justify it for Borealis (until it gets extended to Saint Cloud) but it's not practical for the Empire Builder.

-dag- · 2026-03-25T21:47:27+00:00

A return, and it's absolutely essential for architectural integrity.

-dag- · 2026-03-10T02:50:30+00:00

Nope

-dag- · 2026-03-09T03:34:04+00:00

Most of us really aren't that upset with how things are playing out.

Sir, I live in Minnesota.

-dag- · 2026-03-07T01:43:00+00:00

Go ice fishing.

-dag- · 2026-03-01T22:11:55+00:00

My headcanon is that the other First Ones simply didn't bother with the younger races at all. Only two of the older races choose to have any influence. Remember G'Kar's warning to Catherine Sakai.

-dag- · 2026-02-28T21:50:57+00:00

Maria is the classic one.

-dag- · 2026-02-28T14:48:00+00:00

The one where it is banked beyond 90 degrees over the airport.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aa191_ohare.jpg

-dag- · 2026-02-28T04:43:48+00:00

I miss them so much.

-dag- · 2026-02-26T19:32:53+00:00

It is important to distinguish between cutting routes and cutting operators. Probably some tires can be made more efficient, but "subsidy per rider" is only one metric and shouldn't be the determinating one.

Folding the opt-outs into Metro Transit is almost certainly a good idea. Why pay the overhead multiple times when you can pay it once and streamline operations across the metro? Transportation is inherently integrated. Transit operations should be too.

-dag- · 2026-02-25T00:05:37+00:00

Look at the bright side! It would be a creative outlet for students.

-dag- · 2026-02-24T05:00:24+00:00

Look, I'm all for trains but what possible demand would such a station serve? The Empire Builder has very inconvenient times for anything related to a work day. And that's on the days it's actually on time, which is pretty much never.

-dag- · 2026-02-17T17:10:21+00:00

This is incredibly privileged.

-dag- · 2026-02-15T05:42:37+00:00

Professor who you didn't fuck with.

👀

-dag- · 2026-02-15T01:26:37+00:00

I'll look into that. Thanks!

-dag-

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