Recent content from James Lileks
Lileks: Do you relish the thought of a ketchup shortage?
A story from theHill.com revealed the ways people are dealing with the ketchup shortage. They're paying a premium price to buy fast-food ketchup packets…
Lileks: How to let everyone know you're jabbed
After deciding on a vaccine, we have to pick a way to announce it.
Lileks: Do all husbands have a genetic shopping deficiency?
Guests were due in an hour for brunch. My wife was doing kitchen things. You know, sautéing, reducing, clarifying, crisping, probably broasting, whatever that is.…
Lileks: Will we ever get over our pandemic cleaning fetish?
The pandemic has taught us to assume the worst.
Lileks: Remember restaurants? A refresher course
Washington Post headline: "Help, I've gone feral! After a year away from restaurants, I need a refresher course."Oh, come on. It's like riding a bike.…
Northstar Center, once building of the future, is emblem of Minneapolis' past
At the time it was built, the Northstar Center embodied the hope of urban vitality.
Lileks: How to know Netflix is on to you
Password sharing will be softly discouraged.
Lileks: Time for the tree-reapers again
You hate to see it: The green band of paint around a tree trunk. You cycle quickly through the stages of grief: No! Looks fine…
Lileks: No snow, so it's Thin Mint time?
Is it Girl Scout Cookie season?
The dashed dreams of the Sheridan Hotel in 1920s downtown Minneapolis
Marquette Avenue and S. 11th Street. They dreamed big in the '20s, but their visions exceeded the depth of their pocketbooks. The envisioned Sheridan was…