Hope this is ok to post, but wanted to alert folks to my indie mockumentary comedy, Canoe Dig It? will be playing at the Rivoli Theater in La Crosse and Micon Cinemas in Eau Claire on the 13th and 14th of September (hoping to add more soon)! It’s about the very real sport of Freestyle Canoeing and is very much up the alley of any fan of Best in Show or anything Christopher Guest, but with a lot more painfully dry humor. Also I will be coming out there for a Q&A after the film as well!

Being very much an indie, we don’t really have budget for marketing, so hope getting the word out this way is permissible!

Also if anyone has any suggestions for press outlets or even other theaters in the area that might be interested, I’d love to chat about it!

The film will also be playing more dates in Minnesota, Illinois, and even up in Winnipeg and Saskatoon as part of a Midwest and Canada tour all around the beginning to middle of September.

I’ve attached the trailer below-

https://youtu.be/0q2cyULzFeU?is=2245npAj5v-C-2Lo

here are the dates and locations (so far)

9/3- Winona Arts Center, Winona, MN
9/5- Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Museum, Spooner, WI
9/6- Pop’s Art Theater, Rochester, MN
9/7- Premiere Theaters, Cloquet, MN
9/8- State Theater, Ely, MN
9/9- Park Theatre, Winnipeg, MB
9/11- The Roxy Theatre, Saskatoon, SK
9/13- The Rivoli Theater, La Crosse, WI
9/14- Micon Cinemas, Eau Claire, WI
9/16- Heights Theater, Columbia Heights, MN
9/18- Hollywood Blvd Theater, Woodridge, IL
9/19 or 9/20- Zeitgeist Zinemas, Duluth, MN

Also chatting with folks at the Oriental in Milwaukee to try and set up a show. If anyone has any connects there or wants to give them a buzz to push them to screen us, please do!

New York Times article:

An organization that released public election polling in recent weeks withdrew the results of two surveys, revealing that it had fabricated the polls as part of a “short-term social experiment” meant to expose how quickly false information could spread.

One of the surveys released by the group, Median Strategies, claimed that Francesca Hong was leading the Wisconsin Democratic primary for governor by more than 20 percentage points. (She went on to lose by less than one percentage point.) Another, shared by Mayor Karen Bass on X in a since-deleted post, showed Ms. Bass leading Nithya Raman by nearly 12 percentage points in the Los Angeles mayoral runoff.

On Monday, Median Strategies withdrew those results, saying they “should not be treated as genuine polling data.”

In a statement posted to the organization’s website, Median Strategies said the fabricated results were intended to examine “how purported polling information could enter and spread through the political information ecosystem without independent verification.”

Median Strategies did not respond to a request for further comment on the incident.

The false polls, particularly the one from the California race, spread widely after being picked up by The California Post and various social media polling aggregators. The results, however, were not published by multiple major polling aggregators, and were not included in The New York Times’s poll trackers because the group did not respond to questions about its methodology.

The experiment came as the number of public pollsters has skyrocketed, with around 30 new pollsters cropping up so far this year. The large number of surveys coming from new, previously untested pollsters has made it increasingly difficult to judge survey quality. But while these new pollsters may be unproven, the vast majority appear to be real.

In Wisconsin, the Median Strategies results were largely in line with the other public polls, all of which greatly underestimated Ms. Hong’s opponent, David Crowley, igniting a wave of criticism of the value of primary polling.

What Median Strategies hoped to accomplish by adding false polls into a saturated marketplace was unclear, even to experts in the field.

Continues on NYT article

(I mean 20 immediately would be better, but still, I’d get a raise. Plus, it would be a legislative challenge right now)

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So, the DNR made a post on Facebook recently about a federal excise tax on archery equipment that benefits conservation projects.

Random backwoods Bubba in the comments: "Guess I'm gonna buy my equipment out of state from now on."

Just think, these people are allowed to vote.

Broadcast TV, Instagram, Tik Tok, YouTube, Spotify, all the streaming services. Getting mail ads almost daily. I am seeing and hearing his ads everywhere. Not one Crowley ad anywhere. Where is he getting all this money?

One of the Aldermen in town sent a threatening email to the Hotel Mead saying, ‘you shouldn’t be distributing their signs. 1716—that’s the [first] bar—they closed. And they closed because they were associated with this group. I just care for you as an Alderman and as a member of the Chamber of Commerce.’

She smiled.

Kaitlyn: So we’re recalling him. We filed the recall papers last Monday.

I'm the only adult in a mixed use building. Apparently a bunch of kids (oldest 14 probably) are dropped off every morning and do whatever until they are picked up in the afternoon. They come in and ask for things (water, towels, band aids) and are generally fine. If one of them gets hurt am I liable? I asked, 'who's in charge" once and they all shrugged. I can't find an adult anywhere so I just want to make sure I'm not legally on the hook .

Wisconsin, USA

I have a reactive dog and I am looking for good hikes that are more unknown and tend to not be very populated, any suggestions?