Can Things Get Any Kookier in Minneapolis?

I know who Rex will be voting for in the mayoral race.



(Tipped off by the Daily Dish)

Bacon (and bacon-adjacent) News

How was this not a Clock Summit?!

DES MOINES, Iowa – The smell of bacon was in the air Saturday as thousands converged on Iowa's capital city for an increasingly popular festival celebrating all things connected with the meat. Some people wore Viking hats and others walked around with makeshift snouts for the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival. The annual event featured more than 10,000 pounds of bacon served in unusual ways, such as chocolate-dipped bacon and bacon-flavored cupcakes and gelato.

The smell of unique concoctions like bacon gumbo and chocolate bacon bourbon tarts wafted through one of two buildings at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. The other building had an Iceland theme, with a Viking boat and Icelandic dishes with bacon, to honor a group of delegates visiting from the country. Urbandale resident Mike Vogel showed up for a fourth year wearing a head-to-toe bacon costume. He said a widespread love for bacon is the reason about 8,000 tickets to the event sold out in just over three minutes.

Other events scheduled included lectures about bacon and an eating competition. The festival was preceded earlier in the week with a bacon queen pageant and a pig pardon by Gov. Terry Branstad. Festival co-founder Brooks Reynolds, who officially started the event just a few years ago, said it's become the largest bacon showcase in the world. He called the event a "bacon fellowship."

"They can just bond with their fellow man and just celebrate the meat that everybody enjoys," he said.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/02/11/thousands-gather-in-iowa-for-annual-bacon-festival/#ixzz2KtLLIQY4

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Palate Cleanser: Chris P. Bacon

Detroit Summit

I'm gearing up for the pierogi eating contest in Detroit on Labor Day weekend. I've started my training with gyozas, something my Asian digestive system can handle. I'll have to build up my strength to handle the heavy Mitteleuropan pierogis. (If the Marquis chooses to enter, he may have the home-field advantage when it comes to pierogis.) But I'm feeling confident at the moment. Kobayashi is an inspiration. I hope you all can make it to Detroit around Labor Day. It'll be fun--the throwin' up kind!

Come again?

If The Marquis can take his focus off the Robocop campaign for a minute, he should cover this equally compelling story in Fort Wayne:

Around Town

Would you eat here?

Rocky's making them take down the sign.

FB's 2009 Deep Blues Photo Round-Up

MC Chris Johnson; Luther the Devil; happy feet; a keeper of the peace.


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Winnipeggers Mark and Karen; the unfortunately-named Restavrant; ill-informed music critic and inordinately tall blogger rocky dennis (center), blocking the view of a strikingly handsome blues hipster; Rex, Carl, and Clock satellite Jen, outside the 311 Club .


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Stoner, surveying Rex's enormous head; the Brass Kings; the original Clock satellite, Friday; Dirty Trainload.


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T-Model Ford; Restavrant guitarist Troy Murrah; what's that smell?; unidentified tranny; rocky's shockingly pink belly.


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The awesome Reverend Dead Eye; very lickable (I'm told) drummer J State of Restavrant; a Moaner; Lowebow luthier; his wares.


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Omnipresent fan; Radio Moscow bassist; vocalist Melaniejane of Purgatory Hill, in "the zone"; Stoner, in "the zone"; Reverend KM Williams, leading the Sunday Gospel Brunch.


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The legendary Cedell Davis; tough guys; Left Lane Cruiser percussionist Brenn "Sausage Paw" Beck; "He'll flip-a you. Flip-a you for real"; paparazzi rocky, Rex, Jen.


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Potential ass-pocket-of-whiskey; blues fans; a satisfied Stoner.

Do You Know the Way Out of San Jose?

My favorite news story of the week.

Hipsters

Here's a good bit of contemporary anthropology. I wish I had thought of it.

Enough already!

Rex --- wind this thing up, won't you?

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The top Senate Republican said his caucus would block any attempt to seat Democrat Al Franken until an anticipated court case over Minnesota's close election is finished and an official election certificate is conferred.

Texas Sen. John Cornyn said Friday that Republicans would object to seating the race leader Franken sooner. A filibuster would require 60 votes to break — a few more than Democrats currently hold in Washington.

Franken holds a 49-vote lead over incumbant Republican Sen. Norm Coleman, pending the resolution of the absentee ballots. Franken's campaign has declined to say whether he would try to take his seat immediately if the canvassing board certifies him the winner.

Senate Democrats have not indicated what they would do if Franken's lead over Coleman holds up after the recount ends.

The loser can appeal the recount result in court.

Cornyn's threat means it is probable that Minnesota will have only one senator when the new Congress convenes on Tuesday. A court challenge and possible appeals could keep it that way for several months.

AP: 1 in 5 young adults disturbed

CHICAGO — Almost one in five young American adults has a personality disorder that interferes with everyday life, and even more abuse alcohol or drugs, researchers reported Monday in the most extensive study of its kind.

The disorders include problems such as obsessive or compulsive tendencies and anti-social behavior that can sometimes lead to violence. The study also found that fewer than 25 percent of college-aged Americans with mental problems get treatment.

The Wienery lunch crowd?

I was just telling Stoner and the Marquis about this little hot dog diner near the Cabooze.