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JeanneL

@jeannelakso.bsky.social
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Food, books, my front porch and the view from elsewhere. Car-free transit fan, music listener, pastry lover. Seeker of the ultimate biscuits and gravy. Writer, meditator. Diversity is strength.

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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 22h
The style of parenting exhibited today at SFO is distinctly lackadaisical.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have three things to report on the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. 1. It’s extremely hot today; high of 86. 2. There are a quarter of a million hippies and hippie wannabes in Golden Gate Park, at least half over 60. 3. Nudity is legal here.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The situation this afternoon during Los Lobos’s set. I regret not taking video of the swirl.
A large crowd of people in Golden Gate Park. Only one person in a tie dyed t-shirt is visible, but represents multitudes of attendees.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the best fish taco, at Tacos El Patron on Fillmore.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Heading off soon to a 3-day outdoor music event attended by 750,000 people. The things we introverts do for love of the person who mostly lets us hang out in the porch with a book.
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strangepuppy @strangepuppy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
South Minneapolis. 
Paste-up on a utility box. 
Image: a heart
Text:
“We love our public schools”
“Defund the MPD.
Invest in education.”
fx via defunct app, Etchings.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Guthrie’s “Waiting for Godot” is solid, with a very good cast. Jim Lichtsheidl is especially good. But I really miss Jeune Lune’s swing-for-the-fences take-no-prisoners approach to theater.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Now THAT’S a mayor! Instead of preserving and maintaining the status quo for landlords and wealthy donors and drawing a veil of secrecy over police department over-spending, do something meaningful for Minneapolitans and our cultural institutions.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So who’s the shithole country now, eh?
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I remember what I wore. Both days.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My appetite says it’s fall today.
Bowl of Japanese mushroom curry and rice with bright red pickled eggplant.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Just did our own Kingfield garden tour. In the gray light of late morning after all the rain, people’s gardens are looking vibrant in the last days of summer.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Finn Fest was more entertaining than the MODE Festival. Meaning several dozen reserved Finnish Americans are more fun than several empty blocks of Nicollet Mall punctuated by cop cars used as road blocks.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Made turkey chili this morning with cannellini beans and home-grown cherry tomatoes. Also it’s extra spicy because allergies. I just need some Mezcal. For later of course.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Any of my Kingfielders know why we’ve been regaled by sirens all afternoon???
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Finished a fiction book today that was so delightful I can only follow it up with a teeny book on physics and Virginia Woolf’s last novel.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Some of my favorite creative luminaries are in the Twin Cities this week and next! I have tickets to see two of them and hope to see the third as well!
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Okay, which of you has a cat named Juice Box? I think I need another photo.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Monarch Festival was a delight! So many tiny and bigger people dancing in butterfly wings.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Anybody know what was happening at Incarnation Church today? We saw people in all-black formal attire arriving around 11am and some leaving at 3pm. I was thinking wedding (can the couple demand everyone wear black now?) , but four hours?!!? Fancy wake?? Wha?
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Seems like this disaster was predestined. Or maybe it mourns its own occurrence.
Smashed bottle of Dang! brand root beer on the sidewalk outside the hardware store.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If anyone needs some chairs this sale on the 3800 block of Lyndale has a couple…dozen. Plus four mannequin heads?
Yard sale featuring a mystifying number of wooden chairs
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My favorite grated raw heirloom tomato sauce in my favorite Teiko Tanaka bowl. Waiting for the hot cooked pasta and that moment when the scent of garlic, basil, and fresh farmer’s market tomatoes hits.
Tomatoes, basil, garlic, balsamic vinegar, salt, pepper, porcelain bowl made in Golden Valley sometime around 1980.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I was once trapped in Ye Olde Mill in a boatful of coworkers. Highly recommend “Escape from Ye Olde Mill” as a team building exercise.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Pro-labor, and very much pro leisure.
A can of kombucha, a new library book, and a backyard table from the POV of a comfy chair in the shade.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It saddens me greatly that when someone here refers to an “ignorant racist buffoon,” I have to wonder which one of tens of thousands they are referring to.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Well, the replacement cabinet doors estimate came in. It is in actual mathematical fact 25% of (aka 75% less than) the online estimate from the “what replacement cabinet doors cost in your region” website. SFO, here we come!
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Door County peaches and sheep’s milk yogurt on Beyond the Breadbox honey wheat bread.
Ripe sliced peaches with yogurt on a slice of toasted honey wheat bread. Wisconsin peaches!
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I didn’t get cheese curds at the Fair yesterday so where should I get them in Minneapolis instead? #skiptheline
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Oddly menacing pretzel. Which I think has sticks put into it upside down now that I’m looking at it. @jrnorton.bsky.social @billchilds.bsky.social @amyrea.bsky.social
Woman holding moustache-shaped pretzel Uber her nose.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Unexpected tableau from Hamline Church Dining Hall.
Tray of condiment packets and a bottle of Cholula sauce on a red and white checkered tablecloth. Cholula!
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My hair looks perfect. Good Fair trip with @heavytable.com folks today. Results on Substack tomorrow for our lovely subscribers.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Cottage cheese, rye crisp, cherry tomatoes, and acetaminophen. Pregaming State Fair eatathon
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Kensington Breakfast Blend is brewing and my State Fair backpack is ready.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Look for a dozen food nerds in matching t-shirts. One is me.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I used to quote her in seminars on branding/cutting through the bs.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Just bought tickets to see David Strathairn at the Guthrie in “Waiting for Godot.” I’ve had a mad crush on him since “Brother From Another Planet.”
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Neighbors are having a S’mores fest tonight. This is coincidentally not unrelated to my previous post.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Just watched “The Menu” with Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy. Dark. Hilarious. Still processing.
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✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Mpls 📣
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It’s so great that the company that made our kitchen cabinets twelve years ago is still in Thorpe,WI and happy to make replacement doors for us. Twelve. Years.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Michele Tafoya thinks the Halloween Blizzard is a myth.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Thinking about making a gin cocktail subbing maple syrup for honey and calling it a Tree’s Knees.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This is how to Little Free Library. This one on Garfield has its own operating manual inside (which indeed is bigger than the outside).
Little Free Library replica of the Tardis. A blue British phone box made of wood.Books inside the Tardis Little Free Library, including “The Tardis Handbook”
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Craving 7-11 onigiri and ice cream bars.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I think I finally understand the need for the word “cringe,” not just intellectually but on a soul level.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My current line of work is requiring me to go eat some cake this afternoon.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is exactly what one of my teachers refers to as “a sandwich problem.” I’m stuck between two friends heading towards a conflict, and all I can do is let them work it out.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Brains. Today I had instant recall on the name of the shade plane I put on the ground 10 years ago (cimifugia racimosa, aka snakeroot). Yesterday it took 40 minutes to excavate the name Tina Smith.
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JeanneL @jeannelakso.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Just saw a white SUV ON Hennepin and 6th with a vanity plate: “BUTTSSS.” A bold choice.
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