Jay Gabler
TagThings Minnesotans Get Emotional About
Being more than a flyover state
Happy hours
Parking
New foods at the Minnesota State Fair
Potholes
Condo construction in Di..
The Ten Most Intriguing Cities in Greater Minnesota
10. Albert Lea. Home of the most epic highway rest stop in the state of Minnesota. There’s outsize wooden statuary, there’s a veritable fo..
Ten Questions Raised by a Viewing of the First “Transformers” Cartoon Episode
When they were learning to talk on ancient Cybertron, how did the Transformers decide which ones would be black, which ones would be Brook..
20 Secrets Minnesotans Won’t Tell You (Except Just This Once)
For two blocks right in front of the Valspar plant in downtown Minneapolis—on S. 3rd St., between S. 10th Ave. and S. 12th Ave.—there are ..
The Wit and Wisdom of Cybertron: Quotations from Transformers boxes
“Look good and you’ll have the world in your pocket.”
– Wideload, Throttlebot materials transport
“He who has fuel, has power.”
– Octan..
18 Mini-Golf Art Holes You Won’t Find at Walker On the Green
The Kris Martin hole. You’re informed that your ball has been buried somewhere on the Walker’s grounds.
The Matthew Barney hole. You mu..
The Six Best Reasons to See “Star Trek: The Exhibition” at the Mall of America
1. The real-time Star Trek timeline. And by “real-time,” I mean imaginary future time, but denoted via conventional contemporary enumerati..
The Pros and Cons of “Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith”
Pros
“Revenge” throwback in the title. It’s a tidy inversion of George Lucas’s decision to revise the Episode VI title from Revenge of th..
Atari’s E.T.: Why it deserves its strangely legendary status
The recent discovery of the rumored trove of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial Atari 2600 cartridges buried in a New Mexico landfill was, for vi..
Go For It!: The most quintessentially ’80s board game ever made
“NEW CARS, EXPENSIVE HOMES, EXOTIC VACATIONS! THIS COULD BE YOUR LUCKY YEAR!”
The back of the Go For It! board game box promises that i..
What Your Choice of Drinking Water Says About You
Tap water: You’re walking around annoying everyone by saying in a loud Larry David voice, “That’s right, nothing like a glass of that good..
“The Unknown Known”: Donald Rumsfeld throws his hands in the air like he just doesn’t care
The Unknown Known feels like a movie that was frustrating to make, and not just because we can repeatedly hear director Errol Morris’s exa..