Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Every hometown's got the ominous megastructure. What's yours? 010
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The first thing I thought of was Pawel Pawlikowski’s black and white films. This still is from “Ida” in 2013. 100
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Piker is a relatively minor podcaster. Elon Musk is the Republican Party’s biggest donor. He spent last week on the social media platform he owns, questioning whether Jews count as White, or even as Europeans. Why don’t we ask every Republican candidate about that? 1204
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Here’s Bevin, wearing his obnoxious Trump suit, trying to troll Democrats at their booth at the KY State Fair in 2019. 142
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 29/08/2026They told us so on another gloriously amateurish album cover 010
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I love how so many of the NWoBHM bands wanted their own Eddie, and how Riot chose a man with a harp seal pup for a face. 120
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 28/08/2026MIA had a really interesting show about the crackdown on art and artists in Nazi Germany. This one moved me just because Madame Yvonne, a graphic designer, looks like graphic designers I have known. It brought it home to me in a way I didn’t expect. 110
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 27/08/2026In line to see the Crop Art at the Minnesota State Fair. I’ve been waiting more than 20 minutes. 171
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026And in MN, centrist Angie Craig quickly throws her support behind the victorious progressive Peggy Flanagan. 0274
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I found this baby cardinal in my backyard the other day. Ma and Pa Cardinal shrieked at us, but my wife got baby into a plant container and put it back in its tree. Can’t stop thinking about it. 200
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 30/07/2026My wife and I play an online game called Worldle, in which you must identify a country based solely on its outline. It’s a source of shame for us that we are so bad at identifying countries in Africa. But here’s the thing: We don’t work for the State Department. 330
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 28/07/2026These are all the versions of The Odyssey my family has in the house. The Oliver is the one that gets all the buzz these days, but obviously the one that’s most faithful to Homer is the Godzilla. 000
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Death Valley Girls at the Turf Club. Finally got to see one of my favorite bands of the past 10 years. 120
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 14/07/2026A photo of an ICE thug slipping on Minnesota ice this past winter, seen reproduced on a T-shirt in San Francisco this summer. Last week, ICE killed someone in Houston. Today, ICE killed someone in Maine. From north to south, from sea to sea, Americans despise this agency. 020
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Famous chef and gourmand Paris Hilton has a line of pink cookware at Ross Dress for Less. 020
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I loved seeing the mascot Phryge (a Roman Empire-era hat adopted by the French Revolution) wearing a Tahitian flower crown. 030
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 12/06/20261950s TV personality The Amazing Criswell was a flamboyant weirdo who loved hearing the sound of his own voice as he made predictions that would never come true. He ended up in Ed Wood’s notorious movie “Plan 9 from Outer Space,” but he had the skills necessary to be the world’s first trillionaire. 010
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 07/06/2026I stopped at a record sale in St Paul and picked up two albums I had been looking for: Fairport Convention’s “Unhalfbricking” and World Party’s “Goodbye Jumbo.” Oddly, both have alternative covers. I didn’t recognize them. 010
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 05/06/2026He’s probably thinking of how you become the Highlander. A lot of people get those two jobs mixed up. 1100
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 14/05/2026The Net is a 1995 thriller in which Sandra Bullock plays a woman whose identity is wiped out on the Internet and she has to rebuild her life. There was more cultural optimism and excitement about technology in the 1990s than there is today, but there was also a lot of anxiety from the beginning. 0160
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 26/04/2026The size of the grain of salt with which you should take anything said by this administration. 000
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Me whenever I see mockups of what the White House ballroom or this stupid triumphal arch are supposed to look like. 4588
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Yes, @sanderfeinberg.bsky.social shared the original, which was more cropped. I regret sharing an altered version. 220
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I’ve never seen Catholicism described this way before, but it makes sense … 010
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 20/03/2026My wife says I’m going to be run out of the state for this. 120
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Just thinking about how the O in the LA band Love’s logo combined the male and female symbols more than a decade before Prince’s similar “Love Symbol.” 100
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Since I’m seeing a lot of Douglas Adams quotes to honor the late author’s birthday, I’d like to share this one, from “The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.” TBH I can remember very little about this book, but these opening lines pop in my head every time I travel. 120
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Cafesjian Art Trust, Shoreview, MN. Small little museum with a lot of works in glass. Mr. Cafesjian was apparently friends with Chihuly. I don’t particularly care for Chihuly’s work, but I liked some of the pieces. 100
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 24/02/2026You mean why he was turned into a tea kettle/ power transformer? That is beyond me. 110
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Pete finds Laura Palmer’s body after dawn on Feb. 24. This time of year, dawn in Northern Washington state is at about 7 a.m. Cooper enters town at 11:30 a.m. that day. Where was he coming from? Did he fly in from DC? Even accounting for the 3-hour time difference, he made awfully good time. 110
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 24/02/2026I had one of these back in the day. Nowadays, I can get more sounds and programming options on my phone, but I miss hitting those clunky buttons. 110
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 12/02/2026I like this a lot but I feel the need to point out that the photo was taken at maybe the St. Pauliest intersection in St. Paul. 010
Will @willcrain2.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Bay Area guys who married Minnesota women wear the Rebel Loon. (Billie Joe and me, today.) 121
