Monthly Grovel: December 2021

Paul Lundgren Dec 02, 2021 No Comments
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Oh, holy night and joy to the flippin’ world! The halls of the PDD Calendar are so decked with holiday events that you can’t even find the Clem Snide show you’re looking for. That just means PDD’s merry elves are doing their jobs, publishing enough events to keep your bells completely jingled.

Each month we reach out with one beggarly blog post to remind everyone that human beings and not machines are at work editing and publishing calendar events. So if you appreciate it, drop a few bucks in the PayPal account.

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Bits of Bly: Transfusions from Other Cultures

PDDTV Dec 01, 2021 No Comments

In part three of the 1997 Robert Bly interview from KUMD, the poet talks about Spanish poetry and other influences, including the Indian poet Ghalib.


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Dusty Slay jabs Great Lakes Aquarium on Tonight Show

PDDTV Dec 01, 2021 No Comments

Last night comedian Dusty Slay appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallen and at the end of his monologue launched into a story about a visit to the Great Lakes Aquarium. The story, which begins at the 3:15 mark in the clip above, concludes with Slay asking a “fish expert” at the aquarium whether fish sleep. To not spoil the punchline, let’s just say he gets a Yogi Berra-style response.

Slay does not mention the Great Lakes Aquarium by name, but as a story on Mix 108’s website notes, “he’s certainly not referencing World of Fish.”


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KUMD is now WDSE 103.3 FM “The North”

PDD News Sieve Dec 01, 2021 1 Comment

After 64 years of affiliation with the University of Minnesota Duluth, 103.3 FM is now a product of the Duluth Superior Area Educational Television Corporation, the public media organization that also owns WDSE/WRPT-TV, the Duluth area’s PBS affiliate.

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Indigenous Stories of Strength: Jessica Gidagaakoons Smith

David Beard Dec 01, 2021 No Comments

The Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health’s Great Lakes Hub in Duluth, located at 1915 South St. near the Duluth Labor Temple, just sent out an announcement of Indigenous Stories of Strength, a website collecting stories of life under COVID-19.

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Videos

Bits of Bly: The Suburbs of Jerusalem

PDDTV Nov 30, 2021 No Comments

In part two of the 1997 Robert Bly interview from KUMD, the poet talks about nature as an influence and following a thread with words.


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Beyondbliss – “Divide and Conquer”

PDDTV Nov 30, 2021 No Comments

Duluth rapper Beyondbliss divides the screen and divides himself in this video, rapping about the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, critical race theory and all the divisive divisiveness.


Music, Videos

A Record Collection Autopsy

David Beard Nov 30, 2021 No Comments

Once more through the trove of treasure from Gabriel’s Books in Lakeside. In addition to finding awesome old records and books, you should know, if you have kids: “All children, from birth to high school graduation, may pick out a book for free, each time they visit our store.” They are well-worth a visit.

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Bits of Bly: The Sibling Society

PDDTV Nov 29, 2021 1 Comment

Poet and social critic Robert Bly, who penned many of his works from a cabin on Moosehead Lake about 30 miles southwest of Duluth, died on Nov. 21 at the age of 94. He was interviewed in the fall of 1997 on KUMD radio in Duluth, and a cassette of the interview survives in the Perfect Duluth Day archive. Consider the clip above to be part one of a short series.

The interview took place the year after Bly’s book The Sibling Society: An Impassioned Call for the Rediscovery of Adulthood was published.


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Video: Elusive Northern Minnesota Lynx

PDDTV Nov 29, 2021 No Comments

Lynx sightings are fairly rare in Minnesota, but having one strut by a camera in daylight hours is a real catch. This brief slow-motion clip shows a Canada lynx in Voyageurs National Park, about 100 miles north of Duluth. The video was captured by a Voyageurs Wolf Project trail camera. The project is focused on understanding the summer ecology of wolves in the park, but its cameras record all kinds of wildlife.


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The Slice: Jim Hall

PDDTV Nov 29, 2021 No Comments

Duluth singer/songwriter Jim Hall performs his song “Beast in the Yard.”

In its series The Slice, WDSE-TV presents short “slices of life” that capture the events and experiences that bring people together and speak to what it means to live up north.


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PDD Quiz: November 2021 in Review

Alison Moffat Nov 28, 2021 No Comments

Shake off the post-Thanksgiving slump and exercise your brain with some current affairs trivia!

The next PDD quiz will look at Twin Ports Christmases of yore; it will be published on Dec. 12. Submit question suggestions to Alison Moffat at [email protected] by Dec. 9.

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News and Current Affairs

German restaurant in Miller Hill area circa the 1960s

Les Locklear Nov 27, 2021 2 Comments

What was the name of the German restaurant located on Miller Trunk Highway in the 1960s?


History, Restaurants

Gems and Treasures from the College of St. Scholastica Book & Media Sale, 1

David Beard Nov 27, 2021 No Comments

The Library at the College of St. Scholastica, once a year, both weeds its collection and accepts donations (I presume from faculty and staff) for a sale. Popular reading starts at a dollar, I think — recent bestsellers. The rest starts at a quarter and slides, over a week, down to a dime, then to “free, just please take them.”

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Postcard from the Famous Aerial Bridge

Paul Lundgren Nov 26, 2021 1 Comment

This undated postcard of Duluth’s Aerial Lift Bridge appears to be circa the 1960s, but perhaps there is a clue in there somewhere to narrow the date down.

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