Jim Richardson (aka Lake Superior Aquaman) Posts

The Alworth Incident

Feb 19, 2022 No Comments

Introduction: UMD’s Alworth Hall was built in 1974. It was rebuilt in 2011 in the wake of the Alworth Incident which claimed the life of Desiree Zontal, Dean of the Research Instrumentation Laboratory. Her graduate student Ward Hind, and her husband Horace Zontal, Associate Dean of the Physics Department, both survived. Mr. Hind, the jealous saboteur, is incarcerated in Oak Park Heights in a cell made of the anomalously-irradiated bricks of the lab. In these essays, we put a human face on the Incident, although in the case of Mr. Hind, this is, ironically, impossible.

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Duluth sailboat crash in ship fail video compilation

Feb 18, 2022 No Comments

The sailboat that crashed into the Aerial Lift Bridge on May 16, 2018 has made it into this recent “Ship Crash Compilation” on the YouTube channel “Crashing Zone” (@ the 1-minute mark).


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Latest photos from Jupiter’s moon Io, or maybe Duluth’s beaches

Feb 13, 2022 No Comments

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Nat Harvie – “Dog”

Jan 26, 2022 No Comments

Duluth native Nat Harvie has a new EP, Married in Song, set for release Jan. 28.


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Photos of Lake Superior Aquaman

Jan 24, 2022 3 Comments

 

Photo gallery by our fellow Duluthians. Key below:

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My message to FedEx about their Duluth branch

Jan 21, 2022 1 Comment

Messaged this to FedEx’s Facebook page even though I was off the clock (I am not speaking for my unnamed place of business in any capacity but only as a private concerned citizen): “Hello – I work for a Duluth MN business that is having consistent problems with your drivers being unmasked in violation of our store policy, FedEx policy, and a citywide masking ordinance.

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The SuperiorLab-Marquette Disaster

Jan 15, 2022 2 Comments

Deep-sea explorer Ecclesia Hummingbird, August 23, 2001 on PBS: “I live and work here in SuperiorLab, a hyperbaric underwater habitat 950 feet deep, by a drowned petrified forest. Welcome to science’s first permanent presence at the bottom of Lake Superior, with our partners: the University of Minnesota, NASA, and our corporate sponsors. We are offshore between Two Harbors and Silver Bay, in a quarter-mile-wide underwater canyon whose sides slope hundreds of feet down. This scar cuts for thirty miles getting deeper and deeper. The lake’s canyons divide the bedrock like cracking skin, and this crack is one of its deepest, Bible black like space.

“SuperiorLab is manned by a rotating crew of divers and astronauts-in-training who live here for months at a time. Because of budget cuts, that is currently a crew of two. There’s myself, and there’s my half-sister Persephone Marrow, a geologist developing protocols for future Mars missions. We are the so-called ‘genius daughters’ of the university’s Professor Joseph Marrow.

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Two new Nat Harvie songs: “Longbody” and “Every Woman”

Jan 14, 2022 No Comments

Lyric video for “Every Woman” below.

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“The Peace Pipeline” film wins best documentary short

Dec 27, 2021 No Comments

Shot in Duluth, the film won Best Documentary Short at the 2021 North Dakota Human Rights Film Festival.


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Great Lakes Now: Resilient Duluth

Dec 27, 2021 No Comments

“Great Lakes Now checks in with Duluth mayor Emily Larson in an update on the improvements being made to the Lake Superior city’s waterfront, which resiliency efforts were featured in a ‘Resilient Duluth’ segment in June. “


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Project SULTAN: A 13-Year-Old’s Plan to Take Over the World

Dec 04, 2021 No Comments

At age thirteen in 1981, I made plans to take over the world. I would form a military organization with a network of secret bases, to destabilize the nations of the globe so I could seize power. The Reagan administration had me scared of nuclear annihilation — a civilization gone mad. The only moral response was to end war by taking over the world. So I wrote a manifesto, detailed my plans, and designed superweapons. I kept these in folders in a three-ring binder in my top dresser drawer. Today, four decades later, one of those folders survives. It is titled “SULTAN: Bases, Robots, Missiles.” It contains my megalomaniacal manifesto, my plan’s diabolical steps, and some blueprints. The other folders are missing. I have a good idea what happened to them, or should I say, who happened to them.

The opening page reads: “This is a highly-classified, top secret notebook, full of my plans for world conquest, and absolute domination of the planet. Anyone (without whom I have first given specific directions) reading this book shall be dealt with accordingly. – Jim Richardson, Future Earth Emperor.”

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Lake Superior Aquaman Fashion Week

Dec 03, 2021 No Comments

 

(On the ‘gram @lakesuperioraquaman)


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Richardson Bros. Podcast: A Robot Legal Analyst on Rittenhouse Verdict

Nov 19, 2021 No Comments

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Planetary distress call recorded by UMD Observatory (UPDATE: with reply)

Nov 14, 2021 5 Comments

AP: University of Minnesota, Duluth – The UMD observatory at the Swenson College of Science and Engineering has recorded a planetary distress call. The audio has been obtained by the Richardson brothers of Duluth, shared here. God help us all. (UPDATE below!)

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Lake Superior video from Duluth included in Ukraine exhibit

Nov 11, 2021 No Comments


 

Three of my Lake Superior videos are included in this exhibit of “video dress sculptures” with “looped video playing in three places on each dress”: The Invisible Woman: Videodresses. All dresses and skirts by Genevieve Davis of Wisconsin. Videos of Lake Michigan by Genevieve Davis, except the above: #1 The Politician, #2 the Mother, and #6 the Composer, which incorporate three of my Lake Superior videos from here. This digital exhibit will be at the Gender Museum in Karkhiv the Ukraine from January – March 2022.

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