http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/?refid=0 Dale Connelly's comments and characters Copyright 2009, Minnesota Public Radio Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0600 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.21-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss mail@mpr.org (Dale Connelly) Tonight on Radio Heartland on Minnesota Public Radio News stations, we'll have music for the season of thanks - songs of satisfaction and prayers of gratitude from Pete Morton, Alison Krauss, Solomon Burke, Blind Willie Johnson and more. In... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/farmers_and_feeders.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/farmers_and_feeders.shtml Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:00:00 CST mail@mpr.org (Dale Connelly) I spent a significant portion of my youth helping my father work on cars in our backyard garage. My role was to hold the flashlight and fetch tools and parts when asked. In our shop, searching for stuff represented about... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/names_in_space.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/names_in_space.shtml Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:55:00 CST mail@mpr.org (Dale Connelly) Radio Heatland has tickets to give away to the Americana Showcase in Rochester at the Civic Theater, this Saturday night, November 21st. The show features local singer/songwriters Adam Levy, Molly Maher, Darren Jackson and Jeremy Messersmith and is hosted by... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/backwards_gratitude.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/backwards_gratitude.shtml Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:00:00 CST mail@mpr.org (Dale Connelly) Radio Heatland has tickets to give away to the Americana Showcase in Rochester at the Civic Theater, this Saturday night, November 21st. The show features local singer/songwriters Adam Levy, Molly Maher, Darren Jackson and Jeremy Messersmith and is hosted by... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/dont_believe_anything.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/dont_believe_anything.shtml Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:03:00 CST mail@mpr.org (Dale Connelly) Radio Heartland has tickets for you to attend a performance by the Hot Club of Cowtown at the Dakota in Minneapolis tomorrow, November 18th. Enter the drawing. We'll notify winners after 1pm today. Good luck! Yesterday, our discussion of passenger... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/what_about_carlos.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/what_about_carlos.shtml Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:56:00 CST mail@mpr.org (Dale Connelly) This just in! Radio Heartland has tickets for you to attend a performance by the Hot Club of Cowtown at the Dakota in Minneapolis on Wednesday, November 18th. Enter the drawing. We'll notify winners after 1pm on Tuesday. Good luck!... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/casey_jones_slept_here.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/casey_jones_slept_here.shtml Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:11:00 CST mail@mpr.org (Dale Connelly) It's a busy, genre-bending night from 9 to 11 on Radio Heartland on Minnesota Public Radio News stations. In the first hour, another amazing You Tube sensation - the classical crossover ensemble Project Trio. Greg Patillo plays the flute like... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/project_trio_lisa_hannigan_yas.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/project_trio_lisa_hannigan_yas.shtml Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:00:00 CST mail@mpr.org (Radio Heartlander) From the desks of the Heartlanders Guest Blogger: tim Kurt Vonnegut made a comment in one of his books that was something along the lines of "People all have things they love to do on this earth. If we could... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/rituals_of_heartlanders.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/rituals_of_heartlanders.shtml Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:30:10 CST mail@mpr.org (Radio Heartlander) From the desks of the Heartlanders Guest Blogger: Anna Several years ago I won a trip to Norway - round trip airline tickets and a week's stay at a hotel in downtown Oslo! Needless to say, I was ecstatic. A... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/fjord_focus.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/fjord_focus.shtml Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:30:13 CST mail@mpr.org (Radio Heartlander) From the desks of the Heartlanders Guest Blogger - Don in West St. Paul They say music can change the world. The same omnipresent and anonymous "they" will also speak of a "song that changed my life." But changing the... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/whose_garden_was_this.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/whose_garden_was_this.shtml Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:30:58 CST mail@mpr.org (Radio Heartlander) From the desks of the Heartlanders Guest Blogger - Joanne in Big Lake On an early evening in late autumn, just a couple weeks ago in fact, I was browning hamburger, onions and garlic in preparation for supper. Suddenly --... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/saved_by_intuition.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/saved_by_intuition.shtml Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:30:46 CST mail@mpr.org (Radio Heartlander) From the desks of the Heartlanders Guest Blog by Kay in Utah This summer, in an exuberance of midlife liberation, I gave myself permission to do what I really wanted to do: quit my job, move to the sunny Southwest,... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/antidote_to_melancholy.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/antidote_to_melancholy.shtml Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:30:51 CST mail@mpr.org (Dale Connelly) Tonight on Radio Heartland at 9pm on Minnesota Public Radio News stations, I'll welcome Twin Cities music legend Willie Murphy. Through the years Willie has produced recordings for Bonnie Raitt and John Koerner and has led his bands The Bees... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/willie_murphy_john_gorka.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/willie_murphy_john_gorka.shtml Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:00:00 CST mail@mpr.org (Dale Connelly) I found the following soggy note pasted to my desk this morning. A hunk of something like seaweed was smeared across the middle, but I was able to make out these words: Avast, ye spoiled whiners! I caught wind of... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/change_agent.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/change_agent.shtml Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:00:00 CST mail@mpr.org (Dale Connelly) Every day when I get home from work I have to check the basement for bodies. Autumn is move-in time for the mice. They are persistent and creative, and they love peanut butter a little too much for their own... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/rabbits_and_rodents.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/trial_balloon/archive/2009/11/rabbits_and_rodents.shtml Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:00:00 CST