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I’m a documentary filmmaker who lives in the woods of northern Minnesota.

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It’s a real puzzle. Could it be the arrangement of the clothing that was funnier? Or the length of the shot? I have no idea. But I’m smiling now just thinking about it.

03.03.2026 03:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I saw this in a theater with 50 other people celebrating Nic Cage’s birthday in January and it was a delight. Every time the camera cut to a pile of clothes, the audience roared with laughter. Every time.

03.03.2026 03:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Several armadillos crawling around a medieval castle. Which is weird.

Several armadillos crawling around a medieval castle. Which is weird.

Dracula keeps armadilloes like Pablo Escobar kept hippos.
#Svengoolie

15.02.2026 01:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Putting a random score on top of Tod Browning’s Dracula is fascinating. Like playing Dark Side of the Moon over The Wizard of Oz.

#Svengoolie should absolutely put Dark Side of the Moon on this.

15.02.2026 01:13 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Svengoolie is airing Tod Browning’s Dracula with a soundtrack used for a French DVD release? That feels weird. Not as weird as colorizing The Maltese Falcon. But still weird.
#Svengoolie

15.02.2026 01:07 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Screngrab of my TV screen, featuring a closeup of Rick Ruohonen, a curler at tge Winter Olympics

Screngrab of my TV screen, featuring a closeup of Rick Ruohonen, a curler at tge Winter Olympics

The oldest American Olympian is on the ice!

12.02.2026 15:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What’s the story behind the abandoned Cold War station in Finland, Minn.? Now a ghost town, the remote spot on Lookout Mountain was once part of a secret defense network.

Hobbies include reading old newspapers. www.startribune.com/whats-the-st...

06.02.2026 19:39 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

I am just now joining her fan club!

08.02.2026 21:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is an epic 90-second documentary. (I mostly watch the Olympics for the documentaries.)

08.02.2026 21:54 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I owe you an apology, Amber Glenn. I wasn't really familiar with your Magic: The Gathering Game.

08.02.2026 19:45 👍 2140 🔁 432 💬 7 📌 115

Finally got it! It only took 56 minutes.

08.02.2026 01:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This episode of #Svengoolie is great. But why is it taking him so long to make a Gorgonzola joke?

08.02.2026 01:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Since when do Bohemian artists know how to turn people to stone? Conservatives really will believe anything they hear.
#svengoolie

08.02.2026 01:24 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you think Peter Cushing’s moustache game is strong, just wait until Christopher Lee shows up.
#svengoolie

08.02.2026 01:11 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don’t know about the rest of America, but I could really use a good old-fashioned Hammer horror film tonight. Thanks for The Gorgon, #Svengoolie.

08.02.2026 01:05 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Can I buy one of the bright blue puffy jackets the Chinese athletes are wearing for the Olympics opening ceremony and how high are those tariffs going to be?

07.02.2026 02:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An image I shot on my TV of Snoop Dogg in the stands, cheering for curling. He’s wearing a custom jacket with the faces of Duluth, Minnesota curlers Cory Thiesse & Korey Dropkin on it.

An image I shot on my TV of Snoop Dogg in the stands, cheering for curling. He’s wearing a custom jacket with the faces of Duluth, Minnesota curlers Cory Thiesse & Korey Dropkin on it.

Snoop cheers for curling at the Olympics with Duluth, Minnesota curlers Cory Thiesse & Korey Dropkin making an appearance on his custom jacket.

06.02.2026 17:36 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What's the history of the abandoned Cold War station in Finland, MN? Podcast Episode · Curious Minnesota · 02/03/2026 · 16m

I'm not on this podcast. But it's very good. And it mentions my documentary Cold War Secrets of Northern Minnesota. (Which reporter Christa Lawler also calls "very good.") So give it a listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

05.02.2026 21:56 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I won't be chanting "USA! USA!" at these Olympics. But I will be rooting specifically for Minnesota, which is sending 24 athletes to the games, including Jessie Diggins (who is an absolute gem) and Corey Thiesse and Korey Dropkin, from my hometown Duluth Curling Club.

05.02.2026 21:13 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”

05.02.2026 17:27 👍 8148 🔁 1798 💬 66 📌 114

So… the people who keep tear gassing babies? Those are the bad guys. There’s no gray area here. History will remember.

01.02.2026 04:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pete is no longer welcome at the church basement hotdish potluck. He is a traitor to Minnesota.

24.01.2026 23:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Rebel Alliance logo has been altered to include the Minnesota state bird, a loon, as well as elements from the Minnesota state flag.

The Rebel Alliance logo has been altered to include the Minnesota state bird, a loon, as well as elements from the Minnesota state flag.

I can’t call myself an American anymore. I’m a Minnesotan.

24.01.2026 23:43 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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An overhead view of protesters gathering at the scene of the shooting.

Live coverage: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

📽️ Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune

24.01.2026 21:46 👍 4969 🔁 1861 💬 55 📌 88

They lied about Renee Good. They are lying about Alex Pretti. I really hate our fascist federal government.

24.01.2026 22:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Minnesota is the best of us.

23.01.2026 22:52 👍 42542 🔁 9691 💬 656 📌 718

friends, it's time to make the horrors doomscroll us

23.01.2026 21:37 👍 374 🔁 72 💬 3 📌 2

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

22.01.2026 03:58 👍 16849 🔁 3418 💬 68 📌 211
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AOC: An agency that is attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping five-year-olds and using them as bait, and privately circulating the idea that they can violate the rights of Americans by busting down their doors—they deserve to be defunded, and I’ll take any step in that direction.

22.01.2026 23:29 👍 44857 🔁 11227 💬 948 📌 571

There's a white supremacist "March Against Minnesota" tomorrow in Minneapolis. Temps will be single digits. I keep thinking of that X-Files episode where a time-traveling Fox Mulder yelled at Nazis before they marched into Russia: "You're all big men now but ... Hope you fellas like the cold!"

16.01.2026 19:48 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0