Collector’s Connection used to be cramped, a place to stall while my wife wandered the mall. No longer! It’s become a destination. Last night, my wife and I played two games with a charming young couple of students and the Host, who did an excellent job of teaching us how to lose gracefully. The evening was free, though I bought a comic on the way out!
One day, Duluth’s Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker of Low are at Geek Prom; four days later they are doing about the coolest thing imaginable, hanging out with Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant. Perhaps the line between geeky and cool has now been blurred beyond all recognition.
The winner of the Air Supply Air Jam tonight at Geek Prom will win an autographed photo of Duluth’s Crystal Pelkey with Australian soft-rock duo Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock — Air freakin’ Supply.
Here’s the list of songs available for competitive lip synch tonight, in case you need to do some last-minute reheasing:
All out of Love
Lost in Love
Every Woman in the World
…Making Love Out of Nothing at All
Here I am
Without You
The One That You Love
If you’re all out of skin-tight superhero outfits and Star Wars paraphernalia, the folks at Geek Prom always say “whatever your mom lays out for you will be fine.”
But if you’re looking for a snappy new dress or a stylish Cardigan sweater, the fine folks at Ragstock are ready to sort you out.
[This post originally contained an embedded image from bigmapblog.com that no longer exists at the source.]
Not only cool that it’s there, but damn if it isn’t interactive (after the jump)!
If someone has shared this before, I apologize … I’m kinda geeked up about it right now.
Geek Prom is Saturday. Put your hands in the air!
You heard that Duluth didn’t exactly lose the Google Fiber project, right? Seriously. Sergey Brin said it.
A public community information meeting has just been scheduled for tomorrow at the DECC (on the city side.)
Google Twin Ports team members will be available to answer questions and explain what the latest announcements mean for Duluth-Superior.
Thursday, March 31
Google Twin Ports Community Q&A Discussion @ 4:30
Android BarCamp: 10am through 4:30
If you can come for any part of the day, register at AndroidBarCamp.com. (Check out our awesome speaker line-up, too!)
Thank you Verizon Wireless, our Presenting Sponsor; the College of St. Scholastica, ProFounder, and 3Five Designs! Without the financial and in-kind support from our event sponsors this event would not be possible.
Battling Obstacles Living with Disabilities provides a unique style of theatre performance that exposes community and student audiences to the talents of individuals with disabilities, opening new channels for dialogue and providing a venue to “talk” across barriers. BOLD-choice Theatre Company is created by Choice, Unlimited.
Get your Geek Prom tickets early and/or RSVP on the Facebook event page.
It’s that time of year where I’m in need of your retired steel-tined leaf rake. It cannot be plastic or bamboo- it must be steel. I chop the tines off for thumb piano keys and I need a whole lot of them for a music program/workshop I’m doing later in the spring. If your rake is missing all but one of it’s tines, I’ll still take it. You can contact me through yelling loudly or the internet thingy.
Perfect Duluth Day hit a milestone today at 4:28 p.m. when the user “emmajoru” created an account and made the post below about the Low concert. PDD now has 1,000 contributors.
You don’t need a GPS to find coolness. You do need it to try GeoCaching, one of the awesome events discussed at NerdNite VIII.
We loved all the talks, and we loved learning about a local creative resource. Kudos to all who planned it, and looking forward to the next one! I’d love to know about NerdNite as a movement — I learned a little at nerdnite.com, but want to learn more!
I don’t think I’ve seen this here yet, but it was on MPR’s Bob Collins’ Newscut blog today, scroll down past the more newsy stuff for the write-up.
