how boring must indiana be to think of this as fun

Indiana: We Don't Hate Fun, We Just Don't Understand It

That means we can character-assassinate them with impunity!

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HAS A POSSEE.

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Is anyone close to Indy or Muncie who can give me a weather report? I'm shooting there this week and want to know what it looks like out there. if it snows, will it settle?

Considering Muncie is in such poor financial shape that they recently considered closing the animal shelters (and just letting the animals run free) and shutting off the street lights, I hope for your sake that there's no accumulation. Because that shit will probably just sit there, untouched.

P.S. Why in the name of god are you going to/near Muncie?

I'm making an experimental film there.

Also I like that bar, on the main street. You can smoke in there. The Ha-Bar or something?

I am living in Indiana for the next few weeks...in Petersburg. I have been here a week and have formed some pretty strong opinions. I am open to being educated on this state. Tell me what to eat here, what to try, see, drink etc.... as I would like to enjoy myself while I am here. Checking out Bloomington on Sunday.

I am quite sure the casserole was born in Indiana. There is no good food here. Old men walk into restaurants just to order a cup of water and look at a wall. They have the right idea because what I have eaten here is the worst stuff I have ever had in my life. I had deep fried portobello mushrooms that were nothing more than tiny sponges loaded with grease. I nearly cried when the little, red, plastic basket with red and white checkered paper arrived at my table and saw the contents of a horribly massacred mushroom. What I haven't tried is cornbread salad. It looked like a real bad cornbread stuffing and it is served cold. The bean salad I had is something with one type of bean(could't make it out) drowning in a mayonnaise soup. It had tiny bits of relish and onion and a cheese square.

The Mexican food has been great but you won't find mole,aguas frescas or horchata at the restaurants because they said the clientele doesn't go for such exotic things. Lots of cheese enchiladas: filled with cheese and covered with a melted cheese. The waitress said it is what the gringos like.

I get stared at everywhere go. It is hard not to think it is because I am Hispanic and the only people of color I see are in the one Mexican restaurant in town. The waitress told me, counting me, there are five of us in the town. She said the bigger, small town down the road had a larger Hispanic population. It does and they even have tiendas that sell curios, Bimbo bread and all the spices you need for a good mole. I don't feel the hard stare so much there.

People say the South has a slower pace of living but in Indiana, the snails seem to be at everyone's heels. People walk very slow here, take their time to answer you, take their time forming the sentences and just getting along. I am from a small, west Texas town where we have speed limits of 25mph, the pace of life is pretty slow there, I thought. But in Petersburg it is so slow I get creeped out. The corn and soybean fields are also creeping me out. While I have never in my life been creeped out by senior citizens (enjoyed working closely with them when I worked at a gym for seniors) the ones in Indiana have managed to really creep me out.

The Amish are also creeping me out. They shop for bread at Wal-Mart. I didn't think that was allowed. I thought they had to make their own bread in a hearth or something. Wikipedia says one thing but I am clearly seeing something else in Indiana. So if you know about the Amish, I open to learning about why they don't do the buggy thing and why they now own mansions, restaurants and can't bake bread.

The place has beautiful sunsets and the CVS and Wal-Mart sell liquor, that's cool.

I really thought I would be loving it way more here. Just a really off vibe.

Are you saying that my nawnee is a bad cook? Or that she's creepy? I could go for some corn fields right now, and nawnee's cheese potatoes and sweet corn and a barn and a basement game room and an above-ground pool. I wanna be like Dennis Christopher in Breaking Away and ride my bike 70 mph drafting a semi.

Bloomington has noise and folk-punk. They probably have some good food. I was born in Lafayette. They have mini-golf and a cool three-storey fountain and probably a couple decent record stores.

My nawnee used to work in this factory, and when they would recycle the florescent bulbs, she said, they would drop them into a grinder that turned them into powder.

I was on the west end of town the other day, by the ports, and it smelled like pig shit and seawater and reminded me of papaw, no shit.

Summer in Indiana must be glorious. I'm so envious of you right now.

I am quite sure the casserole was born in Indiana

this is so great, i would read the rest of the novel that started this way. "We make ourselves casseroles in order to live".

I really liked Lafayette when I was there, but it is a long drive from downstate. I haven't been to southern Indiana in ages, it was really pretty though.

tera, the "Amish" people you see might be Mennonites? They're a little more accepting of the English world/modernity so you might see them accepting rides or eating in restaurants and stuff (although I never saw any driving, themselves).

Like this post a lot, otherwise. OTM re Mexican food, I'm frankly amazed it's not cheddar cheese and ground beef on a crispy Old El Paso shell. Enchiladas are actually kind of elevated fare for the rural Midwest.

ah yes, these Anne Frank like situations all play out the same way

tbf Anne Frank got some really mean Yelp reviews

Now the gays are going to go to some other pizza place to cater their wedding.

i am opposed to pizza marriage.

next thing you know pizzas will be marrying calzones, think of the children

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Wilco uncanceled their show today.

I love how so many of the people in their comments say things along the lines of "politics and music shouldn't mix" and I'm like WHERE HAVE YOU LIVED FOR THE LAST MILLION YEARS?

I love how so many of the people in their comments say things along the lines of "politics and music shouldn't mix" and I'm like WHERE HAVE YOU LIVED FOR THE LAST MILLION YEARSARE THE NEW PROTEST SINGERS?

Haha everyone already cancelled their babysitters and now the Wilco show is back on? Some teens are gonna be so pissed.

Did Wilco explain why they are un-cancelling? Is money just too important to let go?

My guess was that they are only punishing their fans, who likely don't support these laws anyways.

But won't the money their fans spend that night go into the local economy and end up in the coffers of oppressive state power?

Perhaps they uncanceled because the law got sligtly rewritten?

The official statement:

We consider the changes to Indiana’s RFRA a good first step toward creating the sort of welcoming environment we encourage everywhere, so we’re reinstating our May 7 show at The Murat, which we canceled earlier this week. To quote an Indiana University statement from yesterday, "religious liberty and equal protection under the law are both cornerstones of our democracy and they should not be in conflict with each other.” Well said, IU.

Now for the practical stuff: Tickets purchased through Ticketmaster or The Murat are still valid. If you purchased your ticket during the Wilcoworld pre-sale, you will be contacted directly regarding repurchase. If your plans have changed for whatever reason or if you no longer want to attend the show, refunds are available at your point of purchase.

We’ve been putting on shows with our neighbors in Indiana for more than 20 years and are happy to continue that at the Murat in May. We'll also donate a portion of the proceeds from this show to organizations fighting to build on the progress we hope this change makes in Indiana and beyond. More details soon.
Love, Wilco

I left Indiana in 1982 and haven't lived there since. Is the coast clear? https://t.co/NNXlKiPXdk

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) March 22, 2019

my spouse had to visit indiana this week for work and saw a confederate flag within five minutes of leaving the airport

stay the fuck away from indiana, is my advice

sometimes you have to run for President just to get out of the place

If pretty much all of my family didn't live there, I would drive out of my way to avoid ever crossing the state line.

I hadn’t been there in decades but moved back to Michigan recently and had to pass through the NW corner to get to Chicago last year. The gas station I stopped at had a shit ton of Trump / Jesus / US /Confederate flag bumper stickers and only sold beer warm in what appeared to be a state-mandated attempt to shame you. Then you get to go through the reeking dystopian industrial carnage around Gary.

And still everyone seems to complain way more about Ohio

only because most people gave up on indiana long ago

giving up on ohio is probably also a good idea, indiana is the ohio of the future. the place to put in the effort is the near south imo, let the midwest rot

My hometown, once a bustling mini-metropolis of which my grandparents had nearly unrecognizable photographic evidence, is well on its way to full Mad Max-ification. I'm stunned every time I return by the increasing number of homes with collapsing roofs or just, like, big hunks of exterior wall missing altogether. Hoosier pride!

there are still plenty of good people in states like indiana, ohio, missouri

those people should get out of those states as soon as they can. even if you have to go to illinois, illinois has most of the same problems plus a notoriously corrupt chicago machine, but man indiana, ohio, missouri, they're in death spirals, their leadership are making decisions that are going to, in the long term, accelerate their decline, and there is little to no prospect of that changing until the states have completely collapsed.

lol you make me look like an optimist

there's a good mayoral candidate running in Bloomington IN (Amanda Barge)

Someone should really airlift Bloomington to a more promising state already.

I’m in Indiana for a few days now. It’s as lame as ever.

If you're looking for some kicks, go get your senior picture taken with your arm draped across the bed of our pickup. It's the in thing to do.

Indiana has good corn and those amish restaurants that serve bright yellow noodles

and crafts for sale with unlicensed professional sports teams logos

lots of franchised restaurants = lots of american dreams dreamt

each city has 3 breweries instead of the standard 30

Someone should really airlift Bloomington to a more promising state already.

― The First Time Ever I Fly @ U Face (Old Lunch)

fuck no it's a great racket

you live in indiana for four years and get a cheap and good education, and then as soon as you get your degree and are employable you get the fuck out of there and get hired without having a billion dollars in student loans to pay off

source: i am an iu grad

there's a good mayoral candidate running in Bloomington IN (Amanda Barge)

― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve)

that's good. Indiana needs to just get rid of its whole Democratic party on a state level, they're so awful and incompetent

"each city has 3 breweries instead of the standard 30

― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton)"

excuse me, saying that indiana doesn't have breweries is just factually wrong, fuckin' three floyds is out of there

no, it doesn't have as many breweries as, say, oregon, but quantity isn't the same thing as quality

like i said, there are good people in indiana.

Breaking Away is a damn good movie

pigeon shits in ref's eyes

indianapolis is a nice town.

boring and kindof sad though

man too much coastal elitism shitting up this thread, come on people we're pretty much all old, do you really want to go to three different parties in a night? if not, indianapolis isn't actually "boring" or lacking in culture or any of that shit. oh no indianapolis only has 500 independent locally owned restaurants instead of five million, how could anybody live in such a cultural backwater? god as much as i try to shit on indiana it does have cool and innovative art collectives like big car and good shit going on and people trying to survive and enjoy life despite being constantly strangled by megachurches and racists and people who call their wives "mother".

i'm glad i don't have to live there anymore, but shit, chain restaurants? like there's any city in america that isn't choked to the gills with chain restaurants? it's not a question of whether or not i'd live there if you paid me me to, because you get paid a lot more to live on the coasts, it's a question of it doesn't cost hardly anything to live there, just like it doesn't cost hardly anything to live in alabama or mississippi. people don't want to leave because it's the only home they've ever known, people don't want to leave because they can't afford it. and having to live with all of the horrible people, in a land owned and controlled by horrible people, twists you, it's hard work not to be like them, at least if you have the same color skin as they do.

yeah, i'm glad i could get out. i was lucky.

Largely otm but this inner conflict you're manifesting is very Hoosier imo. I know of what I speak.

At any rate, I don't by any means dis the people as a whole (many/most of my favorite people in the world still reside there) but the dis-worthy people are most of the reason I'm glad to not be there anymore.

Indiana wants me/Lord I can't go back there

OL: Right, I have lots of feelings on the topic, and most of them I'm not comfortable discussing on the public Internet.

I saw a truck on fire this morning on the way to the South Bend airport. So it’s not all boring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcPgddNVqpc

xp i once saw an elephant ear food trailer burning down in a 7eleven parking lot in indiana

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Really great movie - probably my fave of last year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xddh70XyDTw

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/14/779339897/3-indiana-judges-suspended-after-white-castle-brawl-that-left-2-of-them-wounded

Watching judges brawl at a White Castle kind of is the apex of Hoosier fun, it's true.

Mike Pence and Pete Buttigieg remind me why I left Indiana in 1982 and never moved back.

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) February 27, 2020

had a wife and kids in Terre Haute, Jack
I went out for a ride and I never went back