Minnesota/Minnesotans C or D

My Minnesota stuff is like crazy magic realism that happens to be true. When I was home, my dad gave me a drawing of my grandmother someone had done in 1930, which I've had framed (I think I told you about this at FAP, Geoff). She was born in New York, but moved to Minnesota when she was very young. She used to tell me great stories about going to the Commodore and the Lexington in the '30s and because she was both startlingly gorgeous and in art college, she had a lot of fun getting chased by the film stars who drank there.

*Johnny Cash voice*

My dad was born in a town called Excelsior...

haha tyrel ventura deserves his own appreciation thread! he was the "k-fed" of governor's sons! kegger at the gov's mansion!

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hymie RIP.

At least you can rest assured that the Cheapo clerk payed absolute top dollar for that album...

aggravating.

Hey M@tt, did you ever see the Goddamn Doo-wop Band? And have I managed to miss several of your shows in a row, once again?

nope i haven't seen them yet....will do soon...they prolly have a myspace thing up or something...

yep, we just got through playing a bunch of shows...including a "benefit" for big vs on sat. w/april epidemic, half fiction, mc/vl, and tight pants - haha - so j0e h0ll@nd and j0hn br0wn can buy a new better PA for the place cuz god knows Vic is too cheap to do it....was a lot of people there...

btw....MC/VL is arzu's boyfriend's rap group, really fun old skool beastie boys - licensed to ill- not really a parody though cuz it's actually better than the last two beasties records...use samples of hell's bells and pour some sugar on me...)

(hope you are well!)

Do you remember the Mpls rapper Top Tone? He had an album called "What Part of the Game is This?"

I saw him at Wendy's a month or so ago. He was wearing a really old and shabby Scarface (movie) leather jacket...he was just kinda milling around the Wendy's on Broadway and 94 in North....he looked kinda sad....

Suzy, what were the Commodore and the Lexington? Where were they? What were films stars doing here in the '30s?!!

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At least one of the film stars was chasing my grandmother, while she was engaged to my grandfather. I don't know for sure how long, but she had to tell him to give up and just go away. She went to MCAD or the U, or MCAD *and* the U, and trained in fashion design. Make no mistake, she was cool.

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Lexington Restaurant, Still Serving Women Who Think They're Babs Paley:

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The glamor spot for us Dakota County kids was the Chart House in Prior Lake - nautical theme, lounge music, booze and frogs' legs.

The Lexington is the bomb.

If on a farm, mean geese will come and chase for reals.

My neighbourhood's 'scary house' had 'guard' geese - mean, low-necked hissing fuckers. Hence the great Minnesota Gray-Duck.

duck duck goose is for losers!

Anyone here from outside the Twin Cities? Is DDGD de rigeur in all corners of the state?

Also, we get so few opportunities for sanctioned yelling there, Grayduck takes A LOT longer to scream.

...what they don't say billfold and phy ed everywhere else?

Peppermint bon bon = Kemps.

Unique among all Minnesotans, I was not once forced to suffer a crunchy onions/cream of mushroom/green bean (meat) casserole EVER. CoM soup in our house = beef stroganoff or shrimp equivalent. My mother has very specific ideas of what should be eaten (full fat milk, butter, good bread) and what should not (meat from a can, convenience foods, sugar cereals).

I don't follow this logic. Regardless of its derivation, it's being used as a noun, not a verb, in the construction "I'm going to prom with Suzy." It's really the same thing as "going to school" or "going to hospital" (although this latter one is UK/AUS-only).