This tiny old cemetery is about three miles off of Tower Avenue in Parkland, a town south of the city of Superior and east of the town and village of Superior, near the Nemadji Golf Club, at the end of Cemetery Road.

Apparently it’s called “Solitude Hill,” despite the fact that a short distance away is the shot-up orange sign that reads: “No hunting or trespassing without permission. Only NRA members need apply.”

Is it haunted? Go there at night and then let us know.

Minnesota Senator Al Franken loves Big Brother.

Photo taken June 3, 2013. According to Thom Storm, this is the latest date snow has stayed on the Chester Bowl ski hill by about a month.

Image and stickers available courtesy of your friends Bratwurst.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGp20S3q__s

Ask the City of Duluth to use eminent domain to claim vacant houses for our affordable housing stock.

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With several filmmakers coming to Duluth and making films which extol the … er … um grittier nature of our fair city, I’ve come to wonder if we aren’t letting others define how others see us with their films. Firstly, hats off to anyone who can herd all the cats and get a film or video made, I know because I’ve done it.  I’m not decrying the fact that these director/producers are here and making us look “horrible” or licentious or evil cultish. Truly, thanks for shooting your show here! But come on! Isn’t Duluth worthy of something cute, quirky, poignant, beautiful or at least just mundane? You are correct to say, “STFU Baci and just make a film yourself!” and you’d be spot on to say so. I wish nothing more than I had the time to put toward making a film, set in Duluth, that showcased how perfect our days here are.

This morning’s Gander Mountain promotion, “Great Holiday Deals” displays the Bushmaster .223 paired with a 2000-round case of ammo. Both are on sale this week.

Isn’t this the type of weapon used in the Sandy Hook massacre?

I will produce and ship this sign to anyone who would like to stand next to Mr. Jankowski in Bentleyville and exercise their First Amendment rights. The sign is approximately 2′ x 3′, printed on corrugated plastic, two sided, with arrows pointing in both directions for your convenience.

This time with a side of, “WTH is going on in the Chancellor’s (former) office?” Is it time for Rod to hang up the UMD gloves?

Duluth News Tribune: “UMD investigates two new complaints against Raymond”

Duluth News Tribune: “Ex-UMD official: He advised firing Raymond, was demoted”

Old PDD Post: “Regarding Rod Raymond”

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Apparently making homemade trailers for movies that don’t exist is becoming a trend. Here’s the latest in the series.

Well, here’s something. I guess it’s the next in the series of weird Duluth-related trailers. (Previous one: Duluth: A new film by Nicole Brending).

The 750 stars of Glensheen’s Jack O’ Lantern Spooktacular need carvers to help them get ready for their big event.

Carvers Needed: October 20 through October 24 at Glensheen, 3300 London Road.

Groups, families, or individuals are welcome to carve pumpkins for the Spooktacular, which takes place October 25 through October 28.

Carvers will receive a free ticket to the Thursday, October 25 event.

Interested? Please email info@glensheen.org for more information.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pGoqiSBK9k

(Regular readers may recognize the first couple of minutes of part 2 as I already released those, teaser-style, not too long ago. Now the gruesome conclusion may be shown.)

I was hiking Tischer Creek when I ran into a spider web and found this guy crawling around. Does anyone know what kind of spider it is?

More pictures and the story from my hike.

I’ve been watching that god-awful fortress of a retaining wall around the London Road McDonald’s slowly bulge outward over the past months with a mixture of bemused amazement and horror. Now comes word via the News Tribune that the wall is being knocked down and rebuilt … as part of a cosmetic enhancement?

Well, I guess the structure is nearly two whole years old — long overdue for a facelift. And god knows, the thing defined grotesque from day one. Indeed, according to Brian Gist, Mickey-Dee’s regional marketing manager, this has nothing to do with any structural issues; it’s all about cosmetics:

“I am not familiar with a lean,” Gist said. “Our construction company was looking at it and said safety was never an issue. If there was a safety concern, it would have been addressed immediately.”

Now, I’m no engineer, but I have built a few retaining walls in my time, and to me, this one displayed ominous signs (such as an increasingly vertical slope) that it was readying to dump a good sized chunk of parking lot onto one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares. You really couldn’t help noticing it from the drive-through at Burger King.

So what do you people think? Is there a new sense of corporate aesthetic on the menu at the golden arches — or are we being served?

Really? This group was labeled an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Law Poverty Center. I wonder if Super One realizes what this group represents. I will be calling and asking them that question. YCRBYCH representatives are very dishonest about themselves when they ask to speak at schools, and I would bet they don’t reveal their true agenda when asking to solicit.

MODERATOR’S NOTE:

In the interest of fairness to Super One Foods, PDD’s moderators are inserting Super One’s response here with the submitted post rather than burying it in the comments. (It should be clarified that the early comments to this post occurred before this information was presented.)

According to Boyd Hanson, director of human resources at Miner’s Inc., which owns the Super One Foods chain, there was never proper approval for the You Can Run But Cannot Hide group to solicit in front of the Lakeside Super One … or any other Super One for that matter.

Hanson says the group presented itself to a Lakeside Super One employee as a Christian ministry with a mission to stop teen suicide. The employee said that would be fine, but when the store manager, John Radcliff, arrived he asked the group to leave because Super One has a no-solicitation policy.

“We allow the Salvation Army to ring the bell in our entrances … some of those kind of things,” Hanson said. “But generally speaking anything that would have any kind of a political or religious-type view we don’t allow to do that. … Why this group came to our store we don’t even know. … We just don’t get involved in those kind of things.”

Yes, friends, (perhaps I’m the last to know, but) they’re here. Are other people seeing these nasties? I saw this one downtown last week. Are there other sightings? This could be fun! Who wants to plot the push-pin map? Tent caterpillar hotdish recipes??