Minnesota/Minnesotans C or D

Ok, updated sched: I fly in on Sunday the 19th, and stay in Cottage Grove that night.

On I'm in Shakopee on Monday/Tuesday and fly out Wednesday afternoon, the 22nd.

oh hey n/a if you are reading this while in the cedar/riverside, i will vouch for the triple rock for drinks

so anbody got any plans for when the state government shuts down? i think i might go over to the police station and drive their cars around for a while

you should pull ppl over and ticket them:

$50 if they aren't listening to The Current
$200 if they are listening to The Current

mr. perry is just all good ideas all the time

gov dayton was on npr this morning and said that one unspecified group was going to be a bringing a constitutional argument to the mn courts next week saying that the mn constitution specifies that no funds can be apportioned in this case, which means that if they win, they have to shut down the prisons.

so yknow its booze up and riot time really

at least you get to vote on amending the state constitution to ban gay marriage!

yay my state is so awful

Bachmann : MN :: McCarthy : WI

We'll be apologizing over this bitch until we're all dead.

yeah no lie

p much

Right then, I'm flying in on Sunday afternoon, and out on wednesday afternoon. I'll be out in the southern exurbs. If y'all would like to meet up for a drink or just to see if I'm actually real, contact me thru FB or the link thru my login here. I need to meet for local folks when I go on these trips.

I am wearing a tshirt that says MINNESOTA in really big red letters today.
Here's to you.

hey kf, this is turning out to be an especially busy early week for me, but i'll keep everybody posted on way or another

i have kid now so i don't go out anymore! but hope you have a nice stay KF

I'm out here in Shakopee, where I finished up the gig today and found a nearby used video game shop. Aside from the creepy shrines to Mega Man and Final Fantasy(they had two actual swords), they sold Virtual Boys. Trippy.

Wish I had more time here, since I'd hit up the Valleyfair Amusement Park just to see Planet Snoopy. Roller Coasters and Peanuts characters are ideal. Also kinda wish Hulk Hogan's pasta restaurant was still open in the mall. Will try to hit up the Science Museum tomorrow.

Still, mexican food tonight in Eagan for all interested.

Sorry man, but it's my friends birthday tonight and we're headed out in mpls. Thanks though! Hope you've stayed dry today!

huh:

http://heavytable.com/the-pizza-farm-in-stockholm-wi/

must be amazing, insufferable

yeah, but still

Do they not allow cameras there either?

no that's just what wisconsin looks like

must be amazing, insufferable

ha that was my reaction

like, I totally want to go there on my next visit but I could totally see the experience becoming really grating right at about the 10 minute mark (3 min if it was raining)

you'd have to go with people you liked.

that's pretty key to a lot of stuff, protip

*smacks head*

yeah i mean i sorta think that's the point of that place? it's a destination for you and yr pals

how drunk can we get in the car on the way there is really the question i think

i dunno man we could swing out to my dad's and take the boat down, sky's the limit

OH SHIT

YES YES YES

dan you could get your dads boat and then we could have a pirate war and then PIZZA

not gonna front, I was thinking that

summertime jam was going for pizza in prescott. it always felt exciting to actually take a boat TO someplace

Its anarchy, baby. Cancel your plans to go to the Zoo/State Parks/Truck stops :(

the state parks thing must be messing with ppl's holiday plans, for real

anyhow, fuck these guys. they even stonewalled a plan to raise taxes on ONLY the top 1%, iirc. it's infuriating.

also: when the fed shuts down AND we're still lacking a state gov't, it's gonna be str8 thunderdomin

Man, I had some hot truck stop plans for the weekend. :(

so i am thinking about moving in the fall. i like my apartment, and being close to the lakes, but no one i know really lives in uptown and it's weird living on the same street i grew up on. being in my childhood nabe has made it easy to ignore other parts of the city (what happens in NE???), and i need to change things up.

what do you suggest

i dig the saint paul, esp midway/cathedral hill.

NE just isnt really my thing but stuff happens there i guess?

I'm not unhappy at all with the Nokomis area. That said, I'd probably have chosen to buy in NE if I could do it all over again.

(I'm sort of underselling Nokomis, actually. I think it's in a lot of ways a fantastic section of town.)

yeah i've been thinking about midway, but no one would ever visit me :(

proximity to pals is a huge motivation here---most ppl i hang with on the reg live in Seward/NE

i guess i don't know the nokomis area, like, at all? i mean i've been to the lake, obv, but i sort of have no 'feel' for basically everywhere in the city that isn't uptown or the seward

cooper/longfellow don't seem bad, either. i want walkability, proximity to groceries, relatively cheap, and close enough to my friends that casual "what're you up to?" hangouts easier.

people who wouldnt visit you in the mighty midway arent people imo

yeah i've been thinking about midway, but no one would ever visit me :(

i live near the midway and you are correct

btw i would like to assert once more that the might midway is gonna blow up once the light rail goes in. my mom is trying to sort her living situation and since she's limited transportation-wise i think she should invest in a duplex and make bank when the hipsters eventually flock there

u guys could visit each other PROBLEM SOLVED

if i stay in mpls/stpl for residency then i'm definitely going to give the nabe a good look---it'll be insanely convenient v. it's current nowheresville vibe

ok let me just run down where i've lived in order

uptown: you have been there
loring: never live here. do. not.
longfellow: pretty nice, much nicer now that there are more bars and stuff, the bit by the river is a little more gentrified now, and the greenway's there. it's like seward only a little dumpier. i don't think you can really rent in seward? idk. far away from everything except the U, if that matters.
merriam park (stp): stay the fuck out, all this izzy's is mine