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Komrad Iron
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Minneapolis recluse. I like shiny things.
Sno on ToLo.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Go snow Gophers!
November 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
After many delays, including the layoff and getting rehired for a job, the hat box is nearing completion.
November 29, 2025 at 3:15 AM
There are two kinds of people. Those who are at elf practice, and you. WHY ARE YOU NOT AT ELF PRACTICE?
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
You come here for some wild turkey action
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
New watch arrived during the game. This is a Baltany homage to a 1952 Omega pie pan dial.
It is more stunning in person.
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Red Nose Room opens Wednesday as part of Holidays on Hennepin, MPLS. bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...
bringmethenews.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Snowflake lights are on the light poles on Hennepin Avenue.
November 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Ensuring equity across Minnesota requires revising education policy www.minnpost.com/community-vo...
The PSEO Act is a model for preventing education inequities - MinnPost
We need to revise the Online Instruction Act to prevent inequities like those provided for in the PSEO Act.
www.minnpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Lost child. Possibly Italian on 25th Street near Hennepin in Minneapolis. He's described as concrete and a little bit painted.
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
New Release:
Mysterious Tales of Old Minneapolis
By Larry Millet

OWNER DIES UNDER STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCES AT MINNEAPOLIS MILL!

HOTEL BELLMAN FOUND DEAD IN OSCAR WILDE’S ROOM!

$10,000 REWARD FOR DISCOVERING MY MURDERER!
November 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Because it is Halloween, one of my favorite career questions is, "Why does nobody want to go into Mortuary Science?"

Oh Sweety.
November 1, 2025 at 2:14 AM
And the ribbon is cut and the street is open.
October 31, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Hennepin Ave ribbon cutting ceremony 10 am (WCCO), buses resume normal routes at 1 pm (MetroTransit).

Hopefully this will end building facades being destroyed by cars, but we are talking modern cars.
October 31, 2025 at 1:31 PM
There's a lot going on in my formal dining room since the pandemic.
October 30, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Upholstery leather and turkey feathers. Winter projects will soon begin.
October 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
BREAKING: Major construction activities are reaching completion and Hennepin Ave is set to re-open on Friday October 31st, 2025.

We did it!
October 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Damn it. Most of my wool clothes got hit. Threw out a half a dozen tweed sport coats and all my wool sweaters.
Putting the old fashioned mothballs that are banned in the EU into my closets and clothes storage.
October 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Hennepin Ave is scheduled to open up on November 7.

Next week:
-Final paving week
-Bike lane striping
-Signals turned on
-Street furniture installation

Soon: Mature trees will be lighted and the avenue will sparkle. (Photo for reference. Not Hennepin Ave. )
October 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
BIG NEWS: Hennepin Avenue will open to 2-way traffic next week from 24th to 26th for business access.
October 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
An elephant, chicken, and skunk are all at the watering hole.
October 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Reposted by Komrad Iron
Milwaukee 261 roared through Nicollet Island around noon today on the way to Hopkins from Minneapolis Junction. Some unwise persons standing on the tracks while fishing from the Mississippi East Channel Bridge got whistled at.
October 3, 2025 at 11:19 PM
If I win the lottery, there will be signs.
October 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
New Bible, er... Idea book just arrived.
October 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM