I'll very likely be visiting in summer 2012
(fair warning)
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 03:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Awesome! Drinks!
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE CGI (jjjusten), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 03:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I am here! I was too busy eating in San Antonio and forgot to make plans or read about neighborhoods, restaurants, bars, etc. Oops.
I have a job offer here so am sort of checking out the job and the town as potential places to move to (and maybe even figure out where to live). So I am looking for neighborhoods to hang out in rather than touristy stuff to do or anomalously amazing upscale dining experiences. Apparently it is going to snow tomorrow night so I want to make tomorrow count. I have a bike and I am going to try to check out the U, NE, downtown and uptown. Is this a bad/good/ludicrous idea?
Also is there any way to get the city public wifi without, uh, paying?
― caek, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.bookhouseindinkytown.com/
in dinkytown just off from the east bank campus of the U
― j., Tuesday, 22 March 2011 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link
lol weather
― caek, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 13:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Let me guess, it's snowing. But I have to say, I get more SAD symptoms from London life than I ever got in Minneapolis - in wintertime, when it isn't SNOWING, the sun's out a lot. If I were to settle in Minneapolis I'd try to be by the lakes because of bike trails/parks and nearness to good cheap restaurants/most things but there's a lot of INCREDIBLE housing stock in St Paul proper that is best viewed while doing an impression of someone's dog panting out the window of pickup truck.
― anna sui generis (suzy), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
it is pissing it down UK style, which is the one thing i didn't pack for.
haha i am finding it weird how it is clearly winter, but it is not pitch black from 4pm until 10am.
― caek, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha, my mom phoned up yesterday and said it was going to snow, not rain. Failmom.
The 45th Parallel North cuts across MInneapolis, as shown here: http://www.wurlington-bros.com/Museum/45th/Mpls.html so that's why you get all the light compared w/the UK.
Go shopping. NO VAT on clothing in the state of Minnesota.
― anna sui generis (suzy), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 14:14 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i figure i will scale back my plans for today and just wander around downtown, maybe go to the lol white bread museum and some shops. i am in an area called seward, which is just over the river from the main u of m-mn campus.
― caek, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Seward is a nice little neighborhood, handy to many areas, lots of my friends live there. The Birchwood Cafe is reliably good for breakfast or lunch. Or Raja's mahal for Indian.
http://www.birchwoodcafe.com/http://www.rajasmahal.com/
If you're downtown tomorrow night come and see my band play at Lee's Liquor Lounge!http://leesliquorlounge.com/
― Partyin', partyin', fun fun fun fun (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 14:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Hmmm, seems Raja's Mahal has become an Ethiopian restaurant since I was there last.
― Partyin', partyin', fun fun fun fun (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
i had lunch at the birchwood. it was delightful!
now i am i the skyways of downtown. it is like dubai but opposite world!
― caek, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I think the Twin Cities skyways are one of the coolest things in the world.
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
so i am leaning towards eating/drinking at the triple rock (no show tonight, but 241 drinks) - heres a link http://www.triplerocksocialclub.com/
― broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
i'll be there at 8. if you're reading this you should be there too.
i am in a coffee shop that is done up like the great northern hotel.
― caek, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
haha i'm trying to think of what that might be
the birchwood is great, i go there quite a lot
― goole, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
wanted to drop by and see you guys this week, but it's not in the cards.
― mh, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Hit up the Wienery.
― clotpoll, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Also the Mayday Cafe is pretty much my ideal neighborhood cafe if you're into that sort of thing. Doesn't stay open very late though.
― clotpoll, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
You guys get to engage with RUIN at the Triple Rock *emits jealous vibes* waaaaah....
― anna sui generis (suzy), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
the twin peaks cafe was "caribou" (?) i think. it was v twin peaks except for the fact it was in the skyways of opposite-dubai
― caek, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
oh yeah, that's a chain. they're based here tho!
http://www.cariboucoffee.com/page/1/company-info.jsp
― goole, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
caribou is a chain! kind of ironically, there was a chain email going around a few years back alleging the majority of the stockholders were some arab investment group!
― mh, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
sort of the Target to Starbucks' Wal-Mart
wait that probably makes no sense to you. not yet anyway :)
xp wait really?
― goole, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
oh hey btw caek considering i just went outside and now realize its fucking awful out there K and I would be gald to pick you up on the way to the triple rock if otherwise yer going to freeze to death at a bus stop/on a bike
― broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
haha yeah, shit got real in the last hour or so, right? i may well take you up on that offer. i am trying to get around under my own steam if poss (for the local colour, etc.) but if it stays like this then screw local colour. is it ok if i let you know either (via text) around 7?
p.s. not one person in this town has understood me when i say the word "water".
― caek, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
"wadder?"
now i am excited to hear you say water
― broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
also i have been warned that the triple rock sometimes gets a little inundated w/frat jerks around 10 on 241 nights but hey if it does, we go somewhere else so
― broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
frat jerks need cheap booze too
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
that is why god created sallys and stub and herbs tho
― broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
should come to a decision on summer visit soon
lol Dinkytown btw
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 April 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
whoa! I would be tempted to go up there for the weekend if you made the effort to make such a trip
― mh, Monday, 23 April 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
On the weekend I would be preoccupied w/ baseball research findings & games, unforch.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 April 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
pssh, guess I could take a day off, mr. business
― mh, Monday, 23 April 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
drinks will be had
― Badu and a sax run hand-in-hand (jjjusten), Monday, 23 April 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
Isn't it sort of a "whole Midwest" trip?
― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Monday, 23 April 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
But, yes, count me in if you do swing up. Plenty of dive bars in NE to sample.
― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Monday, 23 April 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
stoked for the morbness!
― Badu and a sax run hand-in-hand (jjjusten), Monday, 23 April 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
there are cost and shall-I-or-can-I-move factors at play, so curb your anticipation.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 April 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
the morb giveth, and the morb taketh away
― Badu and a sax run hand-in-hand (jjjusten), Monday, 23 April 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
maybe we can apply for a morbs subsidy
― mh, Monday, 23 April 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
I'd try to lure him south but I don't think he needs to see the Cubs farm team
well, I'm PO'd cuz the St Paul Saints are on the road (cuz the Twins are home) during the confab, so I was in fact thinking of making a diversion to see Quad Cities. All theoretical at the moment tho.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 April 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
I do have to say, for minor league baseball, dsm has a nice stadium
― mh, Monday, 23 April 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
not booked yet, but p sure I'll be over dere June 27-July 2. Ish.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 May 2012 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
Ha! This is when I'll be moving from Minneapolis to NYC.
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 18 May 2012 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
well, I would replace you but I can't stay...
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 May 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
I may be able to swing by mpls that weekend if a morbs is around
― mh, Friday, 18 May 2012 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
Great! It would be fun do attend a FAP in Mpls. Because I never have. Been invited.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Friday, 18 May 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link