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Come over to the dark side:

Hastings looks hopefully toward the future with a dawning sense of the inevitability of all things NUMBER 5

― John Justen, the tap-dancing spirochete in your zesty chicken fingers. (johnjust, Thursday, 5 October 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

BUT THEY ARE NOT FROM HASTINGS

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 5 October 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

TRU DAT.

We can't let just anyone in. now can we? Imagine how they'd detract from the dignity of our matching windbreakers.

http://chiba.cool.ne.jp/possum/buppin/windbreaker.jpg

― John Justen, the tap-dancing spirochete in your zesty chicken fingers. (johnjust, Thursday, 5 October 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

I was in Hastings once! I even ate there!

― nate p. (natepatrin), Friday, 6 October 2006 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

YOU MAY HAVE A WINDBREAKER.

― John Justen, the tap-dancing spirochete in your zesty chicken fingers. (johnjust, Friday, 6 October 2006 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

Think carefully before you accept, Nate. Hastings is like the Mafia; you can try to get out, but...

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 6 October 2006 02:19 (nineteen years ago)

I want to be in the club! let's see.... have I ever done meth?

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 6 October 2006 02:19 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, Dan. I was just trying to figure out how Skyline got to be the Vatican City of Mankato.

I used to have a membership card to a local Hasting's. Does that count?

http://www.gohastings.com/images_s/storepics/HastingsStore.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 6 October 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT? ARE WE EXPANDING OUR INFLUENCE?

― John Justen, the tap-dancing spirochete in your zesty chicken fingers. (johnjust, Friday, 6 October 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

minnesotans obsessive jealousy of wisconsin is terribly unbecoming.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 6 October 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

Wisconsin’s long affair with cheese began when its wheat crop faltered.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/us/30cheese.html

― a|ex (Pareene), Friday, 6 October 2006 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

minnesotans obsessive jealousy of wisconsin is terribly unbecoming.

I don't think so. As much as I worship the dairy industry, I'm thankful for a pre-Thanksgiving-night lab that will keep me in Minnesota for Thanksgiving (my family, too) instead of in Wisconsin. Minnesota is way friendlier, even if I will be in Hastings for the holiday.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 6 October 2006 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

There's a state called Wisconsin?

― John Justen, the tap-dancing spirochete in your zesty chicken fingers. (johnjust, Friday, 6 October 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Is that pronounced "on-wee"?

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

so sad

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

You'd be sadder if you realized how close Hastings is to Wisconsin. Some of us aren't allowed across the border. I won't name names.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.visi.com/~jweeks/bridges/pics/us10stcroix01.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

roffle at stalker!

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

I don't know what happened to the Hastings thread, which I was going to post this on, BUT my band is playing at the UPTOWN BAR (3018 Hennepin Ave. South) this Friday. All current Minneapolitans are welcome. It's sort of a weird last-minute show, so we're on the bill with a hip-hop act and a laptop DJ (at least I think that's what they are). Anyway, my band is called CANASTA, and I think we're going to be on at like 10:30.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Uptown has the best plate of potatoes-and-onions.

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

oh hey i like the uptown. i always get the baked brie and apple plate

― river wolf, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

ps - hastings thread is called cowtown, because that is a neighborhood in hastings

― river wolf, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

We have a suburb nicknamed Cowbutt, but there's no thread about it.

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

wait how did i miss that picture of the prescott bridge?

― river wolf, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

jaymc, your show info has been transferred to the HSTNGS thread.

I had forgotten about the windbreakers.

― Sara R-C, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Is that the bar that serves big-ass bloody marys and lets you keep the glass? Or is that the Uptowner?

― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

i am currently eating a carbone's pizza

a substantial reason i endorse minnesota more often than not

― the sir weeze, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Gracias, SRC.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

That is the big-ass bloody mary bar.

― John Justen, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

No trouble jaymc; I wish I could make it to the show.

Carbone's pizza... I still love it, despite having been a waitress during the era when my father thought owning & running a Carbone's was a good idea.

I want a bloody mary now you guys. THANKS A LOT.

― Sara R-C, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

Regarding PP's year-and-a-half old Skyline question: I've lived in Mankato my whole life, and have been asking the same question every now and then since about first grade or so, and no one seems to know. Skyline is basically a neighborhood, with no apparent non- residential buildings. I'll, uh, keep you updated.

Anyway, MN= classic, though living in your grubby little hometown for almost twenty four years is among the mightiest of duds.

― BigLurks, Monday, 24 March 2008 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

how's the river hills mall these days?

― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 24 March 2008 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

i have cd's from ernie november that still smell like patchouli

― gff, Monday, 24 March 2008 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha RIP ernie november. i bought bauhaus and urge overkill cds there.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 24 March 2008 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

IT'S GONE?!?!

― gff, Monday, 24 March 2008 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

Mankato Ernie's closed in, gosh, the summer of '03, I think? They moved all the stuff to a new location in Sioux Falls, SD. I bought a Bauhaus cd there, too (the live reunion one!).

haha The RHM is, y'know...

― BigLurks, Monday, 24 March 2008 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

So what are the TC area music stores now? It can't all be Musicland/Sam Goody, can it?

― HI DERE, Monday, 24 March 2008 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

ELECTRIC FETUS

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 24 March 2008 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

I thought someone told me that closed years ago...?

― HI DERE, Monday, 24 March 2008 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

Probably. I was halfway just looking for an opportunity to say ELECTRIC FETUS in big capital letters.

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 24 March 2008 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

I think it's still around, as is the EF in Duluth.

― Eazy, Monday, 24 March 2008 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.electricfetus.com/

^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^

― HI DERE, Monday, 24 March 2008 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

nope, still there! still busy, too, i think they're doing quite well. i think the head shop/spencer's gifts side of the store gets more heavily stocked every time i go, tho. last time i was there this nervous looking 40-ish woman in professional dress was buying a bong while a fat bored cop sat on a stool reading citypages, and i was all "lol mpls"

xps

― gff, Monday, 24 March 2008 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

I think there are three of them left, in Minneapolis, St. Cloud, and Duluth. Treehouse, Roadrunner, Cheapo, Extreme Noise, and some others are still around. I work at a little shop in Mankato called Tun e Town.

― BigLurks, Monday, 24 March 2008 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

Electric Fetus is still open. Let It Be is the one that closed.

xpostss

― John Justen, Monday, 24 March 2008 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

skin boat to tun e town

― gff, Monday, 24 March 2008 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

aw. ;_;

Still YAY EF also maybe I should try to spend all of my savings at Cheapo the next time I come home y/n

― HI DERE, Monday, 24 March 2008 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

fetus does well. cheapo seems to.

as far as tru-school indie stores, Treehouse (oarfolk) and Roadrunner keep on keepin' on. I think the used vinyl boom has helped keep them afloat big time.

Eclipse just reopened in St Paul.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 24 March 2008 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

Dan, the answer is obv. YES

― Sara R-C, Monday, 24 March 2008 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

I love everything about Eclipse Records other than that their laziness in checking out the availibility of the name makes me want to slap them upside their heads with their bongs ._.

― John Justen, Monday, 24 March 2008 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

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