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Dear Prince from Minneapolis Please represent No moons over Miami Or product-placed breasts Just play your guitar For your pests from the Midwest Do it for Lovey and Dungy And Obama and Op...

Jim Walsh Dear Prince from Minneapolis Please represent No moons over Miami Or product-placed breasts Just play your guitar For your pests from the Midwest Do it for Lovey and Dungy And Obama and Op...

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William Faulkner hated giving speeches. He once said, "I'm just a farmer who likes to tell stories." But on December 10, 1950, he went to Stockholm, Sweden to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This i...

Jim Walsh William Faulkner hated giving speeches. He once said, "I'm just a farmer who likes to tell stories." But on December 10, 1950, he went to Stockholm, Sweden to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This i...

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Ladies and Gentlemen, members of the jury. Those of my trade, we are like the badger or the mole. We work alone in darkness, guided by tiny candles which we do not share, sweating to give birth...

Jim Walsh Ladies and Gentlemen, members of the jury. Those of my trade, we are like the badger or the mole. We work alone in darkness, guided by tiny candles which we do not share, sweating to give birth...

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I am sitting on the carpeted floor of my family's new apartment in Palo Alto, California, drinking a lukewarm bottle of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. It is Friday, Sept. 27th, 2002, my daughter's fourth...

Jim Walsh I am sitting on the carpeted floor of my family's new apartment in Palo Alto, California, drinking a lukewarm bottle of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. It is Friday, Sept. 27th, 2002, my daughter's fourth...

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Cameo, "Word Up." So my friend Meghan and I go to the still-fabulous-after-all-these-years Arnellia's for the late show Friday night by these '70s funk stalwarts, not really expecting much. We're ...

Jim Walsh Cameo, "Word Up." So my friend Meghan and I go to the still-fabulous-after-all-these-years Arnellia's for the late show Friday night by these '70s funk stalwarts, not really expecting much. We're ...

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Molly Maher & Her Disbelievers, "Let's Pretend We Never Have Met" (from the forthcoming CD Balms of Gilead). All hail the new honky-tonk heroine of Minneapolis, who plays every Wednesday at Nye's,...

Jim Walsh Molly Maher & Her Disbelievers, "Let's Pretend We Never Have Met" (from the forthcoming CD Balms of Gilead). All hail the new honky-tonk heroine of Minneapolis, who plays every Wednesday at Nye's,...

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MySpace Nation to "Prairie Home" Star: "Maybe You Should Try The Search Engine" By Jim Walsh Not long after my friend Brianna helped me bumble my way onto my MySpace account, I found myself sit...

Jim Walsh MySpace Nation to "Prairie Home" Star: "Maybe You Should Try The Search Engine" By Jim Walsh Not long after my friend Brianna helped me bumble my way onto my MySpace account, I found myself sit...

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by Jim Walsh Don't sprain your brain trying to put into words what Bill Batson means to this town; all you'll come up with is some jive about him being somewhere between The Foshay Tower and Firs...

Jim Walsh by Jim Walsh Don't sprain your brain trying to put into words what Bill Batson means to this town; all you'll come up with is some jive about him being somewhere between The Foshay Tower and Firs...

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What About You Boy? by Frederick Manfred "What about you, boy? Is your work going along? Are you still making candles Against darkness and wrong? The whole thing is to blast. Blast and blast ag...

Jim Walsh What About You Boy? by Frederick Manfred "What about you, boy? Is your work going along? Are you still making candles Against darkness and wrong? The whole thing is to blast. Blast and blast ag...

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Viet Nam, "Welcome To My Room." Saw these classic New York rockers open for the Lemonheads a few weeks ago, and was properly slayed, but it was this one -- as heard on The thankgodonceagainforthe...

Jim Walsh Viet Nam, "Welcome To My Room." Saw these classic New York rockers open for the Lemonheads a few weeks ago, and was properly slayed, but it was this one -- as heard on The thankgodonceagainforthe...

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Brianna Lane, "Porch Light Song." Had a handslap-on-the-forehead moment with this songwriter last night; one of those "how could I not know about you?" things that's happening more and more these...

Jim Walsh Brianna Lane, "Porch Light Song." Had a handslap-on-the-forehead moment with this songwriter last night; one of those "how could I not know about you?" things that's happening more and more these...

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Saturday, January 20, 2007 Turf Club BILL BATSON'S 50th BIRTHDAY PARTY Hypstrz Mighty Mofos Superhopper ...

Jim Walsh Saturday, January 20, 2007 Turf Club BILL BATSON'S 50th BIRTHDAY PARTY Hypstrz Mighty Mofos Superhopper ...

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Lorraine Fideler Heyer Heyer, Lorraine Fideler of Mpls., passed away Jan. 2, 2007. Survived by daughters, Barbara (David) Brown and Jean (Jim Walsh) Heyer; grandchildren, Sara and Madalyn Bro...

Jim Walsh Lorraine Fideler Heyer Heyer, Lorraine Fideler of Mpls., passed away Jan. 2, 2007. Survived by daughters, Barbara (David) Brown and Jean (Jim Walsh) Heyer; grandchildren, Sara and Madalyn Bro...

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More photos from my night with the Hamm's Bear... ...

Jim Walsh More photos from my night with the Hamm's Bear... ...

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"If that cute-straight-white-married-male-with-kids can make me, a dishy-married-trans-goth-dark-knight-of-the-soul named Venus (of All The Pretty Horses fame), laugh under an American flag in t...

Jim Walsh "If that cute-straight-white-married-male-with-kids can make me, a dishy-married-trans-goth-dark-knight-of-the-soul named Venus (of All The Pretty Horses fame), laugh under an American flag in t...

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I wrote a column for City Pages this week, but it got killed because there wasn't space for it. It should run next week, but given the way the newspaper biz is going, I'm putting it here to make s...

Jim Walsh I wrote a column for City Pages this week, but it got killed because there wasn't space for it. It should run next week, but given the way the newspaper biz is going, I'm putting it here to make s...

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I feel so much better. ...

Jim Walsh I feel so much better. ...

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On MTV's Nocturnal Grooves last night, there was a triple-play of Ludacris/Mary J. Blige's "Runaway Love" (a truly harrowing portrait of teen abuse/murder/runaways), The Fray's "How To Save A Life...

Jim Walsh On MTV's Nocturnal Grooves last night, there was a triple-play of Ludacris/Mary J. Blige's "Runaway Love" (a truly harrowing portrait of teen abuse/murder/runaways), The Fray's "How To Save A Life...

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MNSpeak recently had a spirited discussion about this area's history of producing good music critics. Many of them are still working today, and many of them got their start, or found their voice, ...

Jim Walsh MNSpeak recently had a spirited discussion about this area's history of producing good music critics. Many of them are still working today, and many of them got their start, or found their voice, ...

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