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Details plz. (Like, is this entity the most unmarriable person ever or something?)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 March 2006 05:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Perhaps. But he is a sweet fellow...

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 10 March 2006 06:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I knew three Eric J0hnsons growing up in Minnesota.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 10 March 2006 07:03 (eighteen years ago) link

So did everyone else.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 10 March 2006 07:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Rod Smith once made up his own set of Ana Voog lyrics. They went (sung over dinky pseudo-Prince backing track c. '85):

You've got a dick, and you're watching me
I'm on the Internet but it's not free

CLASSIC

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 07:26 (eighteen years ago) link

The guitarist guy who did Ah Via Musicom?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 March 2006 07:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Eric Johnson is the name of my best friend in high school. Still a good friend, actually.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 07:27 (eighteen years ago) link

BEST THREAD EVER, btw.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 07:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I know like two Eric Johnsons. Seems like if your dude's from Minnesota, he'd be named Erik Jonsson.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 March 2006 07:31 (eighteen years ago) link

no, it's Eric Johnson.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 07:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Purely selfish why-MN's-classic thing: The attractive-female-to-attractive-male ratio is off the fucking charts. This is why in Minneapolis any dork guy who can form a sentence is generally dating a woman who's three times better-looking than he is.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link

My mother is a Johnson whose father was a Johnson and both of HIS parents were (unrelated) Johnsons and among all of that, no Eric nor anyone who even likes the name Eric (we have a bunch of family names to contend with). There are lots of boys called Eric Johnson - just maybe a bit less of them in the suburb I grew up in.

Matos - Rod Smith will probably be able to back up my story about the invention of gaydar (when I was 16 and in the store, employee GT was macking on some straight boy and I asked him if his really existed). But that song-parody doesn't even begin to touch THE GENIUS. He used to tell people that his folks were called Evelyn and Trevylan Smith; the sisters that wanted to meet/fuck all the instore guests, but were like punk versions of the Chaska girls in Fargo, were known as Doperone Twins. He may also be able to still impart ridiculous pieces of made-up bullshit to gullible strangers with a straight face, 'purely to generate a meme.'

Hastings massive: it sounds like for all the other weirdness, it was a good place to get an education, considering where people escaped to!

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 10 March 2006 08:10 (eighteen years ago) link

He used to tell people that his folks were called Evelyn and Trevylan Smith . . .He may also be able to still impart ridiculous pieces of made-up bullshit to gullible strangers with a straight face, 'purely to generate a meme.'

He still does all this shit. It's just amazing. I want to grow up to be him so badly.

the sisters that wanted to meet/fuck all the instore guests, but were like punk versions of the Chaska girls in Fargo, were known as Doperone Twins.

tall? lanky hair? brunette? busty? First Ave regulars? I think I know these people.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 10:57 (eighteen years ago) link

No, they had that German/Finnish big bones and boobs thing going, but they were medium height and from someplace icky like Brooklyn Center. I knew these exquisite, taller sisters, M!¢h3113 and @m¥ N@r¢1$$3 (girls from but not of Edina) where M was blonde and A was black-haired, but they were the v. arty girls who had to RUN AWAY from the same people.

The big difference between Rod Smith and all the other bears is that he was 'generating a meme' in 1985, and knew it.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 10 March 2006 11:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I like the sound of this man.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 March 2006 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link

whoa i worked in an office with an older woman named 4pr1l N@r¢1$$3, wonder if there's a connection.

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:12 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm still boggling that P3rry's getting married! When?

― Dan (Tell Him Congrats) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Do any of the Eric Johnsons that you people know play trombone?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Geoff, I can't remember their mom's name but their dad was D413. It's just funny that the most beautiful girls in Minneapolis at the time had that particular surname.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 10 March 2006 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Almost time for me to move again. What'll it be, closer to Uptown, closer to downtown, closer to the U, closer to NYC?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link

closer to NYC

so, woodbury then?

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:02 (eighteen years ago) link

ZING!

I used to deliver pizza in Woodbury. BARF BARF BARF

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link

(x-post)
Yeah, or at least the Wedge.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link

i like the wedge.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link

This thread makes me nostalgic.

― A|ex "doesn't really post to ILE" P@reene (Pareene), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Anyone going to Stereolab tonight? My girlfriend's busy with her Iron Range friends.

― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:15 (eighteen years ago) link

The Eric Johnsons I knew in high school (Breck, but with some scholarship $$) were either hockey players or math guys.

My high school job, just to reminisce, was at Musicland in the mall in downtown St. Paul that was not Galtier Plaza. One night, probably in late '87 or early '88, Axl and Slash stopped by because they were opening for Aerosmith at the Civic Center, and they wanted to see if we had their record, and we didn't.

The one cassette in stock of "Rhyme Pays" and "A Salt With A Deadly Pepa" were shoplifted each time.

The security guard there with a Malcolm X bright-orange close haircut came into the store one day, excited, and we both had read the five-star review of 'It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back' and were excited to hear it.

A woman was browsing the jazz cassettes for a workout tape, and somehow I honestly thought that 'In A Silent Way' would be appropriate.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:23 (eighteen years ago) link

(Five-star review in the Twin Cities Reader.)

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:25 (eighteen years ago) link

MY MOM WAS AN ENGLISH TEACHER AT BRECK, EAZY. PROBABLY WHEN YOU WERE A STUDENT.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Hmm! WHAT IS HER LAST NAME?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link

IS SHE FROM WALES?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link

IRELAND.

(hold this up to the mirror): wokS

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't think I know her. Had a Scotch-Irish teacher named Hynes and a Welsh teacher named Hancock.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, ok then.

― gbx (skowly), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I went to Breck once to meet Isaac Bashevits Singer. He was very old and papery-looking.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 11 March 2006 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm from pennsylvania, so i don't even know why i clicked on this thread, but i have to say that the extremes you go to for google-proofing is so cute! n_n

― killy (baby lenin pin), Saturday, 11 March 2006 07:57 (eighteen years ago) link

I am at the quest club no one here drunk wtf

― mike h. (mike h.), Sunday, 12 March 2006 04:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't believe this thread went so long before anyone mentioned FANCY RAY

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 10:23 (eighteen years ago) link

"I am the BEST looking man in comedy"

NOTHING on YouTube, this must be rectified. Anyone?

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 10:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I wish I would've recorded some late nite WB four years ago, or I'd have him on tape multiple times, spinning the Lickety Split wheel of fortune and whatnot.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Plus, I could be wrong, but I thought Fancy Ray relocated to L.A.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.myspace.com/fancyray

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link

omg fancy ray!

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link

EEEEEEK. Totally body-dysmorphic, flamboyant but hetero black guys = welcome to Minnesota.

Matos, get Rod to post here or totally forward my mail to him, OK?

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link

oh, the reader. even i get a little nostalgic abt that, and i didn't live here when it was running.

DT St. Paul is still a mystery to me. I've only ever been there after dark for one reason or another. But I did take a bus in and then out one morning this summer to pull my car out of impound. wow was that a good day. mm hm.

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link

GBX! Was Mr. C4sperson still the band director when you were in high school? Had his son started teaching art yet? Because he was in John's and my class and he was a big comic book geek masquerading as a popular kid bass player. Also we lived down the street from each other.

― Dan (Curious) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Minnesota is completely classic even though we were able to show a friend the best and worst things about Minneapolis in one weekend -- great people, food, music, and surroundings, but we woke up Monday morning with a ton of snow on the ground.

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah we just got dumped on too! i never fail to fuck up a snow emergency. i must have paid a thousand dollars in fines in my time here.

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link

C4seperson was 100% my band teacher, yes. Wonderful guy.

Don't think his son had started teaching yet, though.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link

He made me feel really, really bad for quitting band. Not on purpose, but in that disappointed "Oh really? You can't put it in your schedule? Are you sure?" way. :(

I still have my tenor sax at my parents' house. I can't really play it anymore.

― Dan (;_;) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link

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