Minnesota/Minnesotans C or D

"psychobilly"

oops i shamed myself by confusing west and south st. paul!

btw is there a north st paul that's a separate city too?

there is! and unlike the rest of them, its actually in the correct cardinal direction

Yes!

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/mn/MNNSPsnowman_burrichter.jpg

North St. Paul.

so i guess my coworker kicked it w/ lady gaga at the turf

according to mn monthly magazine:

#1: Voter Turnout, Water, Tornadoes, Gayness, Autism, Big Business, ACT scores!

suck it other states (well maybe not wrt to tornadoes and autism)

Minnesota should join Canada. We can tack it onto Manitoba and call the new province MANITOBESOTA.

If we can gerrymander so that the voting districts supporting Michelle Bachmann are appended to Iowa, and everything ELSE becomes Manitobesota, I am all for this.

i will be in this state later today!

You will have a blast! Make sure some of the people ITT take you out and get you drunked.

i have a daet with jjj!

is this the preferred mpls thread by the way, or is there another i should take a look at?

jjj comes with an assortment of very fun sidekicks who I missed last time because of brevity of visit and depth of cold/snow, so I had to entertain myself by dressing up my sister's Cavalier KIng Charles spaniels as ET, using bath towels, in between missions to the fridge to bribe off my mom's poodle.

nice day huh

yeah srsly

this is a lot worse than the forecast i heard yesterday evening drivetime. by like 6 inches

oh man

hahaha sorry dude

WELCOME TO MN!

feel like withnail in this when i ask people for guidance today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD2P9Px3enI

going to test the limits of "bottomless coffee" in an effort to stay warm today i think

ha well im pretty sure im not going to have much to do at work today, so if yer failing to find something hit me up here and ill help you out

you betcha

^^^ learning to talk MN

successfully asked for a glass of water first time this morning too

high fives!

just looked out my window wtf

What's going on? Hellsnow?

Hope you guys had fun last night. Apart from the weather, caek, what do you make of it?

not that bad really, it's just that it was real nice a few days ago.
can't believe I fell for this again

ah, it's not that bad. maybe six inches, at least where i am? it's still coming though.

i am having a great time! i walked a long way yesterday. i took the bus to downtown mpls, then walked through the magical skyways to the big bread museum in the exploded flour place by the river. i sat there and wrote postcards, then crossed into dinkytown and had a pint of coffee, which was overdoing it in retrospect. ha. then i recced the campus and had a wander round the physics department. then walked back home to seward. then my dates picked me up and got me drunk in a nice bar. if this is what it's always like then sign me up. i'm going to try to make it up to NE or maybe Uptown today, but staying in this cafe is pretty alluring right now.

oh cool i didn't know you went to the mill city museum! that place is great, did you go in and see the exhibits?

yeah my friend michelle who is a museum curator was completely floored by the execution of the mill city museum, like i think she goes every time she visits mn

i went there one day when they were cooking a bunch of 40s era 'ration' recipes. like fake chocolate cake with no chocolate in it, muffins w/o any sugar or salt. pretty good tbh!

Go to the Walker Art Center, it's pretty cool.

My areas of expertise are downtown, Uptown (which goes all the way to the Eat Street part of Nicollet IMO), Loring, Kenwood, and around the lakes in the southwest of the city - not so much Northeast and the U.

Northeast basically means one thing to me: http://www.kramarczuk.com/

i didn't actually go in to the exhibits because i was kind of against the clock. just bought some "lol white bread" postcards and defrosted my face for a few minutes. but it is an amazing structure! i will definitely check it out if i come back.

i think i am going to have to go outside. i am getting coffee sweats. not built for this stuff.

Dang, I need to try this MN coffee.

Every time I've been in that area I've been rushed for time but the Mill City Museum building even looks awesome from the road.

I know it's probably all cliche with the same groups of people who frequent modern art museums, but since I'm from out of town, I can also highly recommend the Walker. Love the hell out of that place.

guys what's goin on with the weather because I'm chilling in the sun on a mountain overlooking the ocean and am thinking maybe I shouldnt come home

well if you are going to be that way then i dont think you should come home either

>:(

srsly tho wha happen

day of rain followed by a day of snow, just more hot times in the old town tbh

highs staying under freezing until monday too as a bonus.

harumph

fuck. that.

Yah, the snow I'm cool with. It's the fact that temps won't allow it to go anywhere for another week that really gets under my skin at this time of year. That and having to read another dose of Facebook status updates that are nothing but bitching about the weather.

i think that michelle bachmann announcing her presidential exploratory committee today has tipped us dangerously towards the dud side

Glass half full territory: Maybe this ends her reign in the 6th.

oh hey! i like that

(i mean also i cant help but think that that crazy eyed rabid freak is unelectable on a national level, but i also thought she was unelectable on a local level so i dont really trust my judgement all the time)

actually wait, maybe she and pawlenty will both draw from the same pool of midwestern folksy chaaarm and drag each other down into the depths never to be seen again.

Pawlenty has already recalibrated to flex his tea party cred. He's been scapegoating gays hardcore for months now.

i hope to fuck she does run just for the selfish reason that MN media is gonna be awesome. pawlenty and bachmann will inevitably have to start teeing off on each other if they get anywhere.

it's super rare to have two potential candidates running from the same place in a primary, right?