Minnesota/Minnesotans C or D

“We want to send a clear message: There will be zero tolerance for disruptive behavior or property damage,” the statement read.

I drove past dinky town last night and there were more SWATted out cops than I've ever seen in my life. It looked like something out of a batman movie, or like someone tried to rob the federal reserve. Probably 200 fully armored cops in a 2 block area. Cop cars completely lining and blocking the streets; there was hardly enough room for all the cops to stand around holding their dicks. I saw twice as many cops as students; in fact, it didn't really look like there were any more kids out than a typical weeknight. There's no way those dozen arrests weren't all completely trumped up to save face. Must have been at least a couple hundred thousand dollars wiorth of overtime/"hazard" pay wasted last night.

On the other hand, I guess, I was in Dinkytown during the 2003 hockey riot, too, which were pretty huge and scary and destructive, and didn't have enough police presence (or any at all, that I remember). But even that riot could have been broken up by like 1/2 the cops that were out last night.

http://photos.twincities.com/2014/04/11/hockey-fans-riot-after-gophers-beat-umd-in-frozen-four-semifinal-game/#1

some of these, you're like, woah hey mr policeman, and then others you're like, there's some dudes gonna get maced

i wonder if the people who go out for this are like, deliberate about it, or if they just feel this urge to jubilate

when i see that many people standing somewhere i walk the other way

Woah, oops, I didn't see jackasses jumping off cop cars or that there were so many ppl there. Still, there were just about an equal number of cops as kids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr9WNzY_d5Y

so hey, minimum wage

http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/255736521.html

haw haw

good thing this doesn't affect Garrison Keillor, I can see that dude dynamiting the tracks

ha i thought they solved that. it was a big sticking point in the planning phases

ohh it's the *cars* going over the tracks, not the trains themselves, that are vibing them out. lol whoops.

Well it can't be the foot traffic.

http://www.minnpost.com/line/2014/04/along-green-line-guide-central-corridor-s-arts-and-culture-hot-spots

yeah i dunno

Well, it's got the Turf Club and Town House anyway.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152108395117483&set=a.10150257487817483.322755.688027482&type=1&theater

24 hr service on the green line, woot

Why the border is so scraggly around Lake of the Woods:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/dont-touch-me-said-canada-i-wont-said-usa-so-they-moved-20-feet-apart/

http://www.startribune.com/local/north/257265901.html

crack fuckin policework there

Wow

Sinn also learned about graffiti culture. He found common touches that suggested the taggers were marking their territory.

I couldn't get past the third paragraph

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i can't see if anyone in the depths of ilm found this but i just did

https://soundcloud.com/spookyblack

what in actual fuck

haha i just saw that today! what a weird deal

sounds good

oh fyi i walked past barkhad abdi this past weekend.

you didn't even say hi??

nah man that guy's famous

http://www.startribune.com/business/259405401.html

'woodsy' nicollet mall

so, they are gonna....plant six trees on nicollet mall basically, at least based on that picture

http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/259673941.html?page=all&prepage=1&c=y#continue

i assume they had like numbers or something to sell the whole project but the more hype i hear the weirder it sounds to me that having a train rather than a bus is gonna make that many more people want to ride down university

especially if slower

i will eventually enjoy not having to be cooped up on a bus for the ride, but still, transport is transport

some ppl that are psyched for the train are also ppl that would never countenance riding a bus w/poors so there's that

haha do they think the poors are just gonna keep chooglin along on the 16

one of the commenters on that article made the number of riders, at least in potential throughput, sound quite a bit larger based on the numbers. but maybe it's just a psychological/design thing. i don't think anything of hopping on the blue line when it's accessible to me, but even after years of riding the bus it's still like, a thing, riding a bus.

http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_25852289

a 48-minute run

Metro Transit officials note that most passengers will not be taking the Green Line as a commuter rail most days, and the vast majority of trips will take place within shorter segments of the corridor.

i guess that's true about shorter segments, if you consider like frogtown to campus or midway to downtown 'segments'. but how are 16 and 50 riders not going to be riding the train as a commuter rail??

http://www.twincities.com/ci_23544474/minnesota-state-fairs-new-foods-announced

lol hamburger topped w/ cheesesteak

"Comet Corn" literally looks like a cup of frozen dog turds

the bacon cannoli is O_o

gotta admit exuding mouth and nose clouds seems like a truly novel food-effect, hopefully it will catch on and earn a mass-produced variant in the rolling food labs thread

deep fried pickles with chocolate dipping sauce what the everloving fuck

the regular old deep fried pickles at the fair are great

well yeah but who the fuck wants chocolate and powdered sugar on them ffs

not i

the bacon cannoli is O_o

this looks delightful IMO

I need to go to one of those eventually

omg @ Comet Corn, I may need to revise my summer travel plans

I have no idea which month my mn visit is gonna be this year, it's totally up in the air. I always try to make it encompass fair time. VG I want to go to mn state fair w u and watch yr reactions!

lol ok let's go!!!

oh gawd almost all of those foodstuffs look horrifying

Things I eat at the fair every year: jerk chicken roti from Harry Singh's (because I don't get to his actual restaurant often enough), deep fried pickles (gtfo with chocolate and powdered sugar though), deep fried turkey sandwich, and an andouille from Sausage by Cynthia. And I really love the stuffed green pepper (from the little hut that's shaped just like one.)

These are all last year's new foods.

i never made it to harry singh's despite living not that far away, on a scale of one to remorse what am i feeling