Ira Brooker

@irabrooker

My writing was recently described as the height of Minnesotan pretension.

Saint Paul
atalentforidleness.blogspot.com
Joined September 2008
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    2 Dec 2014

    That last tweet is why I’ll always be more of a critics’ darling than a popular favorite.

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  2. 5 hours ago

    Whoever stole my locket with a picture of Bull from Night Court in it has 'til 5pm to return that shit.

    205 retweets 639 likes
  3. 15 hours ago

    In Defense of No One Writing Anything Anymore

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  4. May 27

    Just dropping a couple copies of 's new book in the local poetry box. The Twin Cities are pretty good.

    10:14 AM - 27 May 2016 · Details
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  5. May 26

    (Watch this space for more target-marketed gallows humor exclusively for downtown Saint Paul live music aficionados.)

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  6. May 26

    Will this conflict with the (hed)pe gig that's been advertised on the Station 4 marquee for the past two years?

    6/8! Do not miss with , and My Zero get tix! …
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  7. May 26

    "Every writing job I dreamed of is obsolete, but at least folks always need copywriters." - Me up until seeing this

    It's very telling that a search for "copywriter" on Google images turns up pictures of manual typewriters and guys smoking pipes.
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  8. May 26

    I can’t understand anyone whose apocalypse survival plan is anything but “don’t."

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  9. May 26

    Deep under his castle, a final seal falls from a dusty crypt & William Randolph Hearst spreads his wings to return.

    And now we have people suggesting that a billionaire suing a media outlet into bankruptcy is free speech. What a time to be alive
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  11. May 25

    Close second: Gordon Parks.

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  12. May 25

    I win.

    11:42 AM - 25 May 2016 · Details
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  13. May 24

    I'm a sucker for a kids' choir in a rock song regardless, but that one is hope and helplessness and despair and joy and love and loss.

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  14. May 24

    Man, when the little kids start singing along with Patti Smith right at the end of her "After the Gold Rush" cover. Man.

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  15. May 24

    Minnesota Things Flying Through The Air Seasons Ranked 1. Mayfly Day 2. Cottonwood Week 3. Winter

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  16. May 24

    The best thing about the internet is how it didn't exist when Bob Dylan got Christian.

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  17. May 24

    At an elementary school talking to kids about careers. One of the students said he wants to be a professional kite-flyer and I almost cried.

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  18. May 23

    What used to be a driveway moment is quickly becoming falling in love with the idea of just sitting in my car in my driveway forever.

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  19. May 23

    I didn't catch the details but apparently Trump's economic plan is to gladly pay us Tuesday for a hamburger today???

    2:16 PM - 23 May 2016 · Details
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  20. May 23

    Hey writers, what's your favorite platform for providing for-profit aggregators with non-copyrighted content free of charge?

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  21. May 23

    Good advice, if you ask me.

    ICYMI, see these picks from :
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  22. May 23

    Huge, sincere props to MTV for quietly becoming one of the last bastions of longer-form narrative journalism.

    Here's the big one: I went to Utah to see the death throes of a radical right-wing third party. This is how it went.
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  23. May 23

    Fun watching acts of financial desperation get rebranded as hip opportunities. Looking forward to “It’s like Airbnb for taking in laundry."

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  25. May 20

    from :

    7:56 PM - 20 May 2016 · Details
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  26. May 20

    Check out today's list from Mr. :

    10:33 AM - 20 May 2016 · Details
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  27. May 20

    My Underrated '86 list for , featuring galaxy-hopping Soviets, a gassy Ratso and bad-ass Art Garfunkel

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  28. May 19

    Tonight in downtown Minneapolis I saw a couple get pepper-sprayed out of spite and Paul F. Tompkins perform the heimlich on Scott Aukerman.

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  29. May 19

    Good gosh, a venue for independent cinema in Saint Paul? I talked to the folks at Film Space for .

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  30. May 19

    Launch of Film Space cinema venue brings a much-needed local art house theater to

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  31. May 14

    writers are good liars because whenever writers are asked what they'd want their super power to be they don't say "to make everyone like me"

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  32. May 18

    More breathtaking Rostandian wordplay: X's "Cyrano de Berger's Back" or Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers villain Sewernose de Bergerac?

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  33. May 18

    I propose we cut out the nostalgia middleman and skip ahead to the inevitable emergence of artisan, large-capacity MP3 players.

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  37. May 17

    What if every song in the vault is about a cheesy Uptown business, just Prince singing about, like, Chino Latino and the Tibetan gift shop?

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  38. May 17

    The boy is mashing up a kindergarten song about amphibians with the "1000 Dollars" song from Kids in the Hall. America doesn't deserve him.

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  39. May 16

    The percentage of people who claim to have taken the road less traveled would seem to invalidate its status as such.

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  40. May 16

    Hey Twin Cities, anybody wanna buy a theater publication?

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  42. May 13

    Come to think of it, I can't recall an instance where tweaking a Kris Kristofferson lyric didn't weaken the song.

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  43. May 13

    Cheers to Johnny Cash for keeping “stoned” in “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” jeers for changing “cussin’ at” to “playing with."

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  44. May 13

    Screenwriting residency spotlights a quietly thriving arts community in Minnesota

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  45. May 11

    I reviewed that new The Shining opera for .

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  46. May 10

    Turns out I'd rather not know what anybody thinks about anything.

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  47. May 10

    Is this a threat?

    10:24 AM - 10 May 2016 · Details
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  48. May 10

    This would have definitely been a show to remember.

    8:45 AM - 10 May 2016 · Details
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  49. May 9

    The boy just strolled into the kitchen, sighed, "A man's life is a man's universe" and kept walking. He's not as deep as he thinks he is.

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  51. May 9

    Summer is a good time for grown-up people to express strong and valuable opinions about what other grown-up people shouldn’t wear in summer.

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