okay, so nighttime-only tickets to the park are $20, that's doable.
Also, I'm at a Best Western in Shakopee, and they have frickin' pachinko machines in here, operational, only without any balls to play pachinko with.
https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/166070_10150882206661596_1171560864_n.jpg
I did not expect to find pachinko machines here, to put it mildly.
― Fiendish Doctor Wu! (kingfish), Monday, 25 June 2012 03:01 (eleven years ago) link
btw I think you mean Camp Snoopy
― mh, Monday, 25 June 2012 04:07 (eleven years ago) link
nope, they got upgraded when they split from the mall of america, apparently:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/08/Logo_planet_snoopy.png
http://www.valleyfair.com/images/rides/VF_moonBounce_header21.jpg
― Fiendish Doctor Wu! (kingfish), Monday, 25 June 2012 04:21 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't know about the split! I stand corrected
― mh, Monday, 25 June 2012 04:27 (eleven years ago) link
No problem. I know this is the kiddie ride-only area of the park, but I love Peanuts to death and wandering around there would probably be fair more fulfulling than Disneyland, barring their two differing levels of park- and production design.
Camp Snoopy has been replaced by Nickelodeon Universe, where you're greeted by a creepy bronze Spongebob at the entrance.
― Fiendish Doctor Wu! (kingfish), Monday, 25 June 2012 04:32 (eleven years ago) link
Did you guys decide on a day yet? I'm probably going to be out of town for my mom's birthday or my sister's, trying to figure out which
― mh, Monday, 25 June 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
next few days are going to be terrible for me, it turns out. have fun everybody, enjoy the weather.
― goole, Monday, 25 June 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
People seem to favor Sunday for my stay, mh, and the convention really doesn't wind down til Saturday evening.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 June 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
okey dokey, I will maybe take Monday off of work
― mh, Monday, 25 June 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
:o
I am not drinking way into the night, I'm flying to Quad Cities Monday morning.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 June 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
Well, it's a 3.5 hour drive for me, I'd rather have a couple drinks and chill and drive back in the morning!
― mh, Monday, 25 June 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
I have to work really late on Satuday, so Sunday really is the best option unless maybe we're talking Friday night.
― old people are made of poop (Eric H.), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 03:07 (eleven years ago) link
Also, lol @ Shakopee hotel accoutrement.
― old people are made of poop (Eric H.), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
Tomorrow's my last evening in town(or suburb). Lemme know if anybody's up for meeting up
― Fiendish Doctor Wu! (kingfish), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
Grrr, I'm totally stacked tomorrow in screenings, or I'd want make a venture back south of the river.
― old people are made of poop (Eric H.), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 04:25 (eleven years ago) link
Friday night ees ballgame for me
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 11:19 (eleven years ago) link
I'm here. I just spent close to 90 mins getting the hotel Wifi to work, so the sooner we get a Sunday plan (around 3-3:30 pm?) the better. An outdoor beer gardenish place, if it's not 95 on Sunday?
If I don't fall asleep, my first event is a baseball authors panel at the Nicollet Mall B&N at 6:30 tonight, but I wouldn't recommend it for non-fans. Also is there a good non-ripoff burger somewhere downtown?
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
McCormick and Schmick's, 9th and Nicollet Mall. It's a chain and all, and crowded after work, but their happy hour burger/fries will set you back 3 bucks.
― Mafia-owned bar for transvestites (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
Hey Dan, I got an empty ilx mail from you a few days ago, so if that wasn't a glitch, you should resend whatever it was.
My wife and I are totally in for Sunday btw.
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
Me too, gonna do some location scouting for future travels too. So, 3pm somewhere?
― mh, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
assuming that morbs is going to be on the mpls side, so we are looking for patio potential on that side of the river, right?
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
all my favorite patios are STPL because i am just like that
I have a bus schedule for St Paul.
also I expected u ppl to tell me abt stuff like this:
http://metromag.com/events/punkers-revenge-celebration-speedboat-gallery
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 June 2012 04:51 (eleven years ago) link
i need to go back to MPLS. maybe in august or something. i like your city.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 28 June 2012 08:44 (eleven years ago) link
postponing Walker til Sun. If anyone's downtown, may do McC & Schmicks bar burger 5-6:30 on Fri.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 June 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
any patio votes, other tc peeps? on the minneapolis side theres the black forest, brits and the cc, off the top of my head, also several on the west bank (nomad, whatever is where sgt prestons used to be, maybe town hall).
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 28 June 2012 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
I was just at Psycho Suzi's for the first time a few weeks ago. Awesome patio, but probably crazy packed.
― Mafia-owned bar for transvestites (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 28 June 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
parking at psycho suzi's is always a nightmare for me
― arby's, Thursday, 28 June 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
i am sorta eh abt psycho suzis, but not strongly opposed or anything
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 29 June 2012 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
jeezus, it's sposed to be 94 on Sunday. Inside may be the way to go.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 June 2012 05:34 (eleven years ago) link
was just talking last night to a friend born in thunder bay who used to drive down to minneapolis for shows. he'd save up his money and blow like $200 on disco records there. we were talking about maybe going next year.
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Friday, 29 June 2012 06:35 (eleven years ago) link
like a detroit-chicago-minneapolis trip. american dance music heartland
you'd have to stop in madison, dude.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 29 June 2012 06:46 (eleven years ago) link
(it's on the way from minneapolis to chicago)
sine I'll be coming from the Walker in midafternoon, just pick a place I can make it to w/out bursting into flame.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 June 2012 12:40 (eleven years ago) link
From the Walker on Sunday? We should probably stick with something close to downtown south side. There is Lurcat near Loring, or else if you wanted to head in the opposite direction, there's Liquor Lyles (dive) on Hennepin.
― old people are made of poop (Eric H.), Friday, 29 June 2012 12:43 (eleven years ago) link
I defer to the locals... one sounds more FAPpy than the other, admitedly.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 June 2012 13:52 (eleven years ago) link
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, June 29, 2012 2:46 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
mad men
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Friday, 29 June 2012 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
I keep lobbying for people to take the long way around and stop in Des Moines instead, but nobody wants my free drinks
― mh, Friday, 29 June 2012 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
Only ever go to Des Moines on holidays.
― old people are made of poop (Eric H.), Friday, 29 June 2012 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
And there are other options, Morbs, if you're willing to hop on a bus.
I am willing, but let's not make it a long bus ride.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 June 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
I nominate mpls ilxors to give poor Morbs a ride to whatever dive we're meeting at
― mh, Friday, 29 June 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
btw sitting in front of my laptop writing film reviews w/ bad posture has destroyed my spine, so I'm walking like a 70-yo on this trip.
(your joke here)
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 June 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
glad to hear you're feeling youthful morbs!
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Friday, 29 June 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
Well, yeah, there's that too. If we wanted to go Nordeast or deeper Uptown or, horror of horrors, St. Paul.
― old people are made of poop (Eric H.), Friday, 29 June 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
from Hell's heart I spit at thee, slocki
I am not eating a Jucy Lucy no matter what
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 June 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
:D
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Friday, 29 June 2012 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
Have a good time in our city morbs, pity fatherhood has turned me into an asocial weirdo! Got grams seeing her great granddaughter sunday
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 30 June 2012 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
I can have a great time when it's 75 degrees
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 30 June 2012 05:25 (eleven years ago) link