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@chrissteller.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 9:54 AM

“She then pursued a master’s degree in psychology at the University of Minnesota but dropped out after two semesters because, she said, she felt that her ideas and research were not very likely to be funded as well as men’s.” #localangle

@chrissteller.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 3:58 AM

Of these 3 #localangle tracks, I believe only Golden Smog’s cover of Bad Company’s “Shooting Star” was out before the Clerks soundtrack. Soul Asylum put “Can’t Even Tell” on their own movie tie-in single or EP CD, while Bash & Pop’s “Making Me Sick” is on a 2017 expanded reissue of their 1993 debut.

Golden Smog 1992 EP front and back coverSoul Asylum Can’t Event Tell front and back EP CD coverBash and Pop Friday Night is Killing Me reissue front and back cover
@chrissteller.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 1:12 PM

#localangle

@sugarbuzz.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 2:07 AM

#localangle

@mplsmusichistory.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 7:23 PM

Speaking of Johnny Rey, when he left Flamingo (pre-Flamin’ Oh’s), he went to L.A. and formed a band with Jack Lee. Mr. Lee had been in a power pop band called the Nerves and wrote and performed the song “Hanging on the Telephone,” which was later popularized by Blondie. #localangle

Excerpt from the book Complicated Fun: 
ROBERT WILKINSON: We changed to the Flamin' Oh's in about 1980, after Johnny Rey left. Johnny wanted to pursue some other music. He had been in contact with Jack Lee, who wrote "Hanging on the Telephone," out in LA. He wanted to go do his thing. That was cool. We stayed a four piece, Flamingo. We made our first album, then changed our name to the Flamin Oh's because there was an R&B band called the Flamingos. They heard about us and said, "That's a little too close for comfort, boys." So we changed to the Flamin' Oh's. That was actually Curtiss A's doing. One night on the marquee outside the Longhorn, he was being a smartass, and he separated the " from Flamingo. It was "Flaming o." We took that and ran with it. We dropped the "g" put the apostrophe up there, added the "h" and apostrophe
""because we liked the idea that it was weird and didn't mean anything. It just sounded cool. We became Flamin' Oh's and put out the record Flamin' Oh's, the green album.
@chrissteller.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 2:12 AM

#localangle

@chrissteller.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 8:51 PM

Includes Minnesota #localangle #rockfacts:
- Prince's first three albums (with "When You Were Mine" on the "Dirty Mind" album, that Lauper covered on her own first album)
- Janet Jackson "Control"
- Bob Dylan: Blood/Tracks and Knocked/Loaded
- Eddie Cochran - Some of the Best
- Leo Kottke - The Best

@blindeke.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 4:00 PM

This is great. #localAngle labs.ficuscreative.com/job_trail/

@chudgar.comOct 6, 2026, 11:09 PM

WOOHOO! #LocalAngle, @nathankhensley.bsky.social used to teach at Macalester!

@chrissteller.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 5:39 AM

#localangle

@wentrogue.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 2:15 PM

What a school library in Roseville, MN could do with $10,000: #LocalAngle

Also: “Nothing shows more privilege than when people say, Can’t people just buy books?”

"I could completely overhaul my nonfiction section. When I started 10 years ago, a paperback was $4.99 or $5.99, and they are $9.99 or $10.99 now.
Picture book hardcovers used to be $14 or $15, and now they're at least $19 or $20.
My budget has stayed stagnant or gone down, and book prices have only gone up.
We still have Pluto books - Pluto doesn't even exist as a planet anymore! With $10,000, I could buy every brand-new book that year. $10,000 feels like the moon."

Shawna Dees, Roseville, Minn.
Roseville Area Schools
@justplainbob.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 11:55 AM

"Clyde Bruckman's Final Reponse," starring the late, great Peter Boyle, was arguably one of the best episodes of The X-Files. Bonus: It was set in Saint Paul, MN. #LocalAngle

@raisingonebrow.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 2:44 AM

They’re fun gimmicks but also there shouldn’t be a speakeasy in Lakeville #LocalAngle

@gerikatz.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 4:32 PM

#LocalAngle: Amy Klobuchar embarrassing the GOP with her midwest Big 10 expertise.

@mnorthstar82.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 12:35 PM

Unexpected #LocalAngle

Ok, I’m enjoying the book and I like this author’s work very much.

But I was unaware I grew up in the suburbs…

Hibbing mentioned! (Incorrectly)

This passage from Patrick Radden Keefe’s otherwise excellent book London Falling describes Bob Dylan’s Iron Range hometown as “conventional suburban”…
@burnunit.momSep 24, 2026, 3:16 AM

oh we can double tap that ol #localangle since that Michael Cudlitz fella was in Mighty Ducks 3 too, just a few years before

@sugarbuzz.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 1:39 AM

#SkiUMah #RowTheBoat #LocalAngle