Minnesota/Minnesotans C or D

weinery is great!

I spent time in Minnesota as a college student, coming from Oregon. I was not happy there. There was a certain amount of culture shock involved. The other students all seemed so bland to me, so resolutely unimaginative and unwilling to venture so much as a toe beyond the line of conventionality, that I felt like an alien.

After the lapse of many, many years, I do not wholly trust these memories. To a certain extent I think whatever validity these observations have is founded in part on the callow age of the midwesterners I was thrust among. But I recall the feelings very well. They haunt me, when I let them.

Bland, sure, but compared to Oregon?!

When I was 20 and looking for a place to live, I got an application for Riverside Plaza. I had no idea they were "projects".

Hard Times can suck it too. Dunhill-smoking baristas making me put away my own dishes.

(^^^^ One of the more white AND privileged posts I've made, sorry.)

I grew up in SE Portland and attended high school from 1968-1972. Bland it was not.

This is wholly dependent on where you went to school; I can easily see large swathes of U of M subculture being bland and unadventerous but not so much Macalester.

I have heard the complaint more often that outsiders think "minnesota nice" is a bunch of bull, and that people here are generally as cold as the weather. As a cold person, I guess I agree.

"Minnesota Nice" = bizarre passive aggressive behavior.

example: No one will take the last bar of a pan of bars. People will literally halve it down to a sliver in order to not be so impolite as to take the last piece.

Also, there ARE a lot of bland people wandering around MN, even on college campuses. (Dan OTM about it depending on which college you are talking about).

example: people eating bars

now that my wife works for a "direct" "in for face" new yorker (a.k.a. an asshole that needlessly freaks out and yells abt everything) i don't diss MN nice so much.

the U of M I wouldn't call bland exactly...it's just huge...like trying to stereotype a whole little city....pretty much every kind of person in the world is there if you fall in with a certain crowd.

i dunno. i know lots of interesting ppl here but maybe it's more boring that other places who knows.

i would say it's probably a state -- much more so than others -- that it's much easier to enjoy if you were raised here. it's kinda insular.

xpost I eat bars, but they have to have a decent chocolate component. A terrifying number of "bars" are dry and dull.

I promise not to make bland bars, ever.

I love places where I think the help might yell at me.

M@tt, all I meant was that the U of M is lolhueg so it wouldn't surprise me if you ran into a bunch of bland ppl there just because of basic probability.

nobody's mentioned 'good company' yet!

THEY WILL NEVER REPLACE GOOD COMPANY

Ha, I used to watch Good Company every afternoon after school. I wonder whatever happened to BARGAIN HUNTER VICKI AUDETTE

Where can I get the full episode of this?:

and the Twins won again tonight!

No way!!!

holy shit awesome. america needs more fancy ray.

minneapolis, safest city in america i guess

http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/news/20091027AmericasSafestCities.asp

Did they make murda-apolis an unincorporated township or something?

http://www.tawnja.com

hahahahaha goole i am so sorry i missed a tawnja zaradka link. she is one our leading lights.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y85/bxrx/usouyofmnwj01.jpg

DUDES and DUDETTES

think about THIS

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/7499/robyne.png

So long as it wasn't the dead guy from Surgery, I guess.

she talked about that when she was on drinking with ian!! she toured with some band at some point!! toured as in groupie toured!! plus her uncles are all black panthers!!

ps how did i miss the Tawnja Zahradka revive!!

Be funny if it was Hazelmyer though.

she was totally lit up!!

i call Shannon Selberg for most awesome and O_O possibility

Especially if she was the one who drew on the mustache each day.

I'll tell ya what I wish I could find -- this bizarre little video skit that was filmed in the AmRep offices (allegedly) for broadcast on MTV for 120 Minutes or something similar around 1993/1994. Featured some guy playing the supposed label head in Mafia boss/crusty old talent agent mode, Hazelmyer was briefly shown working in the mail room and Mary Jo Pehl from MST3K was playing the secretary/receptionist.

i was sincerely hoping it was shannon s. or hazelmeyer

but i now have it on good authority:

Vinnie Signorelli from Unsane

oh hahahahahahahaha...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Signorelli

Not many know that he made a guest appearance on "MTV Downtown Julie Brown" playing drums for Londonbeat on the song "I've Been Thinking About You".

so awesome

totally great. But I was removed to the UK at a young age.

also, it's a bit chilly

MN punk fun facts week!

okay so i guess in this video missy is wearing a t-shirt of mpls hardcore legends Code-13!

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc121/pmowens2000/Decorated%20images/Code13shirt.jpg

i almost thought that was in the clown lounge for a sec

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYLEBW8Dayg/S_qVBj48L3I/AAAAAAAADDU/1-uz9DO4NY4/s400/The+Subversives+-+Tomorrow+belongs+to+no+one+12EP.JPG

oh dammit wrong thread

LADY GAGA WENT TO THE TURF CLUB LADY GAGA WENT TO THE TURF CLU

hahahahahaha AWESOME

her show was FUCKING DOPE btw

omg sh@kedown say more

never mind i just found like 9 blog posts about it

Oh yeah also that's right mpls u can suck it 651 forever y'all.

south st.paul ain't no mendota heights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfVZHpyx1OI

^^^ a guy who knows where its at

i am v v proud that i can use that whenever out of town folks are confused by "west saint paul" and i can be "oh here let me show u the magic."

ha i was probably a couple blocks away just putzing around at home.

did crazy things happen.

oh by the way if it is still MN punk fun facts week i just wanna say for the umpteenth time that i love love love the "No Hold Back: All Attack!" comp rekkerd - nice that i finally got around to it 3 years after i got it i guess