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Jennifer Brooks
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Minnesota Star Tribune columnist. Your source for dumpster fires. I think you're pretty great.
Worst case scenario: we start running pics of property Texas
November 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Knew we should have used a picture of the Sod House…

1880sodhouse.com
Welcome to Sod House on the Prairie
Experience the 1880s prairie and have some Laura Ingalls fun.
1880sodhouse.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Slop on slop on slop!
November 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Ahahahahahahaaa!
November 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Let's see where this journey takes us.
November 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
What light pollution steals from us, the camera gives us back!
November 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
... No.
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
If you’re going to write a love letter to the neighborhoods, you’d better celebrate Saint All.
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Let Anne Paine teach you to play the ukelele! m.youtube.com/watch?v=W5Ba...
Beginner’s Ukulele Lesson #3
YouTube video by anne paine
m.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
When I left the Tennessean to come up here, Anne Paine threw a going away party that was half glitter-based craft project and half firing pellet guns off her back porch.
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
GASP!
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
This is my only musical fun fact.
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
A friend of mine wrote the story that inspired Bonnie Raitt’s “I can’t make you love me.”

www.tennessean.com/story/entert...
This Bonnie Raitt hit was inspired by a newspaper story about street drunks | Story Behind the Song
Bart Herbison of Nashville Songwriters Association International sits down with songwriters Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin to hear the Story Behind the Song "I Can't Make You Love Me."
www.tennessean.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
ART!
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Bluesky, it is said, never gives up this thread.
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Every typo is an opportunity, my friends.
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
November 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM