From the musical taste as superiority thread in ilm (hope the people I quoted don't mind):
i have a natural impulse i think not to offend (and also to feel really self conscious)-- M@tt He1geson
I think this is the MN Manifesto.-- VengaDan Perry
It's true. Or maybe it's just me. I don't know.
(ps I'd like to apologize for starting this thread)
― christhamrin (christhamrin), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 05:34 (fifteen years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 05:36 (fifteen years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 05:37 (fifteen years ago) link
― christhamrin (christhamrin), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 05:37 (fifteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 05:38 (fifteen years ago) link
― christhamrin (christhamrin), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 05:40 (fifteen years ago) link
― Huck, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 05:43 (fifteen years ago) link
All the hippies at my school that dream of moving to Canada will be saddened by this information.
― christhamrin (christhamrin), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 05:49 (fifteen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 05:55 (fifteen years ago) link
CLASSIC
― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 06:09 (fifteen years ago) link
― christhamrin (christhamrin), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 06:18 (fifteen years ago) link
IN THE HOUSE!!1
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 06:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I was thinking this when composing the thread.
― christhamrin (christhamrin), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 06:22 (fifteen years ago) link
― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 06:31 (fifteen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 06:43 (fifteen years ago) link
― Sym (shmuel), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 06:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Dud:SnowSt. Olaf CollegeLutherans (aka 'lobotomy for religious reasons')Mosquitoes AND midges (gnats) in summerKnowing how to use jumper cables and snow-shovelsRacism towards Viets, especially Hmongs, and Mexicans and SomalisThe NW suburbs: Blaine, Brooklyn Park, RobbinsdaleMorbidly obese Minnesotans at State Fair in their thousands
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 07:34 (fifteen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 07:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Classic: Low, the Cows, Duluth, Ironworld, the International Wolf Center, the World's Largest Hockey Stick
http://www.wlra.us/wl/th/wlhstick1.jpg
― daria g (daria g), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 07:51 (fifteen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 07:56 (fifteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 07:58 (fifteen years ago) link
As for the Vikings, I just like making fun of my dad's team as they choke in the playoffs year after year.. oh jeez, ya know dey won't win da Sooper Bowl so why not root for de Packers der. It would be cool if they did pull it out, but I tend to be pessimistic.
― daria g (daria g), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 08:05 (fifteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 08:08 (fifteen years ago) link
― daria g (daria g), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 09:02 (fifteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 09:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Except for when he pledged to only serve one term. But Wellstone is classic for that campaign bus.
Classic:Hating all those cake-eaters in EdinaHating the BearsHating the PackersLord Fletchers (hey, my aunt & uncle live on Minnetonka, too...and so did I 30 years ago)Uptown The ReplacementsPrinceSt. Paul10,000 lakesBoundary WatersCP & the Strib (except for CJ)that free zoo in that park that I can't remember the name of
Dud:8 months of wintermosquitosSPAM1am last call
― don atwater weiner, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 10:39 (fifteen years ago) link
This is also the gateway into teaching the French Revolution in St. Louis Park. Believe.
Lake Minnetonka must have a ley-line that acts exclusively as a preppy magnet.
Minnesota is a great place to grow up, but people like me need bigger cities than Minneapolis.
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 12:03 (fifteen years ago) link
The problem with Minneapolis is the same with most large modern cities--there's not much density to it. It's all sprawl. Which is also part of its charm.
― don atwater weiner, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 12:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, SPAM IS CLASSIC.
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 12:56 (fifteen years ago) link
-Lots of friends there-Had some good gigs, at the Times and Cabooze and whatnot-Lots of cool restaurants, and I love going to Maria's or Triple Rock for breakfast-Halal markets that sell camel meat-That Sun Ray sign on the way into St. Paul that's had the 'y' out for years, so it says "SUN RA"-Happy Apple
DUD:
-Asshole drivers, for real-I can't stand finding my way around Mpls, I've gotten lost there more than anywhere else and (partly as a result of being lost and stressed) gotten in my only car accident, which is still causing me financial trouble-Driving from Wisconsin to Minnesota is most mind-numbing drive imaginable, and it's just long enough to feel really long but too short to settle into 'driving all day' mode.
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:18 (fifteen years ago) link
― hstencil, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:27 (fifteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:37 (fifteen years ago) link
You forgot MATOS. KCLASSIC.
― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Minneapolis road rage is among the most passive-aggressive in the world.
I miss Dayton's, the Lincoln Del, and Excelsior Amusement Park.
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:41 (fifteen years ago) link
First Avenue/7th Street Entrysome restaurant a couple blocks awaysome hotel (maybe it was by the airport?)the mall in Edinaa gas station somewhere between Minneapolis and Moorheada Target somewhere between Minneapolis and Moorheada dumpy bar in Moorheadsome restaurant that kinda sucked in Moorheada Days Inn in Moorhead (we snuck into the pool later that night)a Chinese buffet place in Moorheadyet another gas station
― hstencil, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, Husker Du.
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Hah
― pholm, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd like to see more of the state.
Well you pretty much covered everything between Minneapolis and Moorhead (as well as Moorhead) so you can check that off the list.
― pholm, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:53 (fifteen years ago) link
― pholm, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:56 (fifteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:35 (fifteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link
― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:53 (fifteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Yet, somehow at the same time: Classic.
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:54 (fifteen years ago) link
tom bernard: racist.
― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
still with the fin, ok
― goole, Thursday, 1 February 2018 22:20 (one year ago) link
ok lol
Selling snowballs to tourists... genius. Brianna Sudrla, center, of Chicago laughed after buying a "real Minnesota snowball" for from a vending machine in the alley behind the Hewing Hotel. Anthony Souffle/Star Tribune #SuperBowl #BoldNorth @StarTribune pic.twitter.com/Fxe9CRAddU— Anthony Soufflé (@AnthonySouffle) February 1, 2018
― goole, Thursday, 1 February 2018 22:28 (one year ago) link
ooh fun, look: a "local ratio"!
As you listen to the MPR request for funds remember how they treated Garrison Keillor.— Phyllis Kahn (@PhyllisKahn) February 7, 2018
― goole, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:29 (one year ago) link
brb sending MPR some money
― mh, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:31 (one year ago) link
eh I do think keillor kind of got fucked
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:35 (one year ago) link
nah he's a fuckin creep
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:36 (one year ago) link
MPR interviewed nearly every person they could possibly interview, and they decided divorcing themselves from him was justified as far as I've read? I mean, this was the result after mediation:
On January 23, 2018, MPR reported further on the investigation after interviewing almost 60 people who had worked with Keillor. The story described other alleged sexual misconduct by Keillor, and a $16,000 payment to a woman who was asked to sign a confidentiality agreement to prevent her from talking about her time at MPR (she refused and never deposited the check).
He still has his Writer's Almanac thing, they just decided not to distribute it for him anymore.
― mh, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:43 (one year ago) link
yes, the initial public disclosure-response cycle of this thing was heavily colored by the station's relative tight-lipped approach about what they had found -- at first stated only 1 person complaining -- and keillor's description of 'putting a hand on a back'
more recently a fuller description of MPR's investigation and what they turned up looks a lot uglier
― goole, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:50 (one year ago) link
i want a venn diagram of keillor truthers, franken truthers and woody allen truthers. old white liberals can get pretty defensive, turns out!
― goole, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:51 (one year ago) link
I was impressed by how thoroughly MPR did it and how robust it seemed, at least from the outside
― mh, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:01 (one year ago) link
i was not aware of the more recent info, goole. that certainly changes things.
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:06 (one year ago) link
yeah i haven't seen much commentary giving them credit for this
xp the rundown is here
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/01/23/keillor-workplace
― goole, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:08 (one year ago) link
thx, adding to pocket
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:10 (one year ago) link
When I've felt the most estranged ever were the 1.5 years I lived in Minnesota, during college.
Maybe it's not a coincidence that this is where I am? (He wrote, knowing many local people read this board)
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Saturday, February 17, 2018 3:24 PM (five hours ago)
what up
― j., Sunday, 18 February 2018 03:32 (one year ago) link
I'm doing the best I can
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 18 February 2018 03:47 (one year ago) link
city's changing, man
Now accepting credit cards. Don’t hate us. Also, come enjoy this beautiful patio.— Palmer’s Bar (@MplsPalmers) May 17, 2018
― goole, Thursday, 17 May 2018 20:24 (one year ago) link
daaaaang
― gbx, Thursday, 17 May 2018 20:39 (one year ago) link
this is deeply sad
http://www.citypages.com/news/who-is-jimmy-robinson/483985811
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 17:05 (one year ago) link
http://www.startribune.com/hymie-s-records-a-famed-spot-for-vinyl-in-minneapolis-is-for-sale/489026981/
Just found out about this today. I hope the owners get their wish to sell it to someone who'll keep the store going, but I'm not sure how realistic that is.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 26 July 2018 02:45 (one year ago) link
Maybe my favorite record store. Irene is such a friendly, mild-mannered dog. I do hope they find someone to keep up the good work.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Thursday, 26 July 2018 16:25 (one year ago) link
in case anyone's in the market, the house down the road from where i grew up is for sale
iirc no one actually lived in it when i was a kid, and it was known throughout the township as 'the castle'. trespassing there to merely see it was a rite of passage. i went there once with my friend and my dog and we rang a bell that was for some reason built into the west end of the building, and the groundskeeper came out and yelled at us. my dog got into it with his, and ultimately we high-tailed it out of there before he could call our parents. then we walked home along the railroad bed next to the river. this concludes my YA coming of age story.
http://www.citypages.com/arts/wanna-buy-a-whimsical-1920s-mini-castle-on-the-st-croix-river/494815311
― gbx, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 18:06 (one year ago) link
that kitchen looks like it needs to be gutted and totally redone
does anyone remember that weird house in MN for sale that was like a bond villain lair? everything was pink and made of stones and mirrors and overstuffed with chinese characters everywhere. there was a thread on the modern radio board for it i believe
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 18:25 (one year ago) link
Does the booze come with it?
http://stmedia.startribune.com/images/ctyp-st-croix-mansion-11d.jpg
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 18:45 (one year ago) link
My MN hometown has a Frank Lloyd Wright house that’s been on the market for about three years.
― suzy, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 18:50 (one year ago) link
"what was it like, moving to Minnesota?" pic.twitter.com/B3yk1l6wPD— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) December 6, 2018
― mookieproof, Thursday, 6 December 2018 23:19 (one year ago) link
https://www.twincities.com/2018/12/06/mark-dayton-this-isnt-how-i-planned-on-going-out-as-governor/
He said he will move into an apartment in Minneapolis after he vacates the Governor’s Residence in St. Paul. But when asked what he plans to do next, he replied, “I really don’t know.”
― j., Friday, 7 December 2018 01:03 (one year ago) link
i like dayton... the video of him collapsing during his state of the state address was really fucking depressing. hope he rebounds
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 7 December 2018 01:08 (one year ago) link
Terry Evans applies makeup to Reform Party candidate Jesse Ventura's head while Gubernatorial candidates Norm Coleman and Hubert Humphrey III prepare for their last debate at KTCA in St. Paul on Friday, Oct. 30, 1998. (@CarlosGphoto/@StarTribune) pic.twitter.com/8e1BX5Q0Yq— Vintage Minnesota (@VintageMinn) December 20, 2018
― j., Thursday, 20 December 2018 16:25 (eleven months ago) link
Dud.
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/lead01/off01_temp.gif
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Friday, 24 May 2019 14:53 (six months ago) link
This winter was terrible.This spring is terrible.This summer is going to be terrible.This state is terrible.
the weather is really making it hard to keep your head up
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 24 May 2019 14:56 (six months ago) link
summer sucks!! blue blob map is our savior!
― j., Friday, 24 May 2019 15:20 (six months ago) link
I'm fine with below average temperatures in July, but also this:
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/lead01/off01_prcp.gif
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Friday, 24 May 2019 16:46 (six months ago) link
Mankato be like 😈🤪🍻Duluth be like 🐶🏒🏕🌅Bemidji be like 🐻🎣🌲Winona be like 🏞🏥💁🏻♀️UMN be like 🐹🌃〽️St. Cloud be like 🐺🚨💩🔫St. Thomas be like 😼✝️💵St. John’s be like 🙏🏼🌾💤NDSU be like 🐮🌽🏈UND be like ❄️✈️🍺— yeah (@SamSchuneman) June 30, 2019
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 1 July 2019 04:51 (five months ago) link
pour one out
https://twincities.eater.com/2019/8/8/20791433/old-spaghetti-factory-downtown-minneapolis-closing
― goole, Thursday, 8 August 2019 15:50 (four months ago) link
"gently flavored food"
― goole, Thursday, 8 August 2019 16:02 (four months ago) link
you know...it was objectively bad but I kind of wanted it to be there forever
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 8 August 2019 16:37 (four months ago) link
I’m still mourning Cafe Di Napoli tbh.
― suzy, Thursday, 8 August 2019 16:54 (four months ago) link
POUR OUT ANOTHER
End of an era: Minneapolis’ last Perkins has closed https://t.co/1QHIdCD5eC pic.twitter.com/75GOuphZIS— City Pages (@citypages) July 27, 2019
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 9 August 2019 06:00 (four months ago) link
Dang. Are there still any Embers open?
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 9 August 2019 11:50 (four months ago) link
The Edina Hwy 100/Vernon Perkins of my adolescent memories is spitting distance from Minneapolis and is still open.
― suzy, Friday, 9 August 2019 11:53 (four months ago) link
wait what
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 9 August 2019 13:01 (four months ago) link
Thinking of how different Perkins locations bring me back to different times.
Burnsville Parkway and 35W: getting toys from the wishing well, swarms of post-church churchgoers if we tried to go on a Sunday.
494 and France: hanging out with the first people I knew online (local-dial-up bulletin boards). Lots of goths. One large group ditched without paying and somehow left me there (maybe I’d gone to the bathroom?).
Riverside and 94: mid-20s, I had written/directed a two-actor play, and we would bring our friends there after the show, in good spirits. And Rocky Horror pre-gaming a decade before that.
And then people-watching at the Embers on Hennepin after First Avenue and whatever.
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 9 August 2019 15:15 (four months ago) link
I got hired to hostess the Excelsior Boulevard Perkins and quit after the training day because they wanted me to walk in the door, already in uniform. Pay was minimum wage with no share of tips. Even my mom was like, ‘will they be punching you in before you get on the bus in that?
― suzy, Friday, 9 August 2019 17:06 (four months ago) link
I'm just gonna leave this here...
http://www.startribune.com/murder-count-dropped-minn-man-gets-3-years-for-wife-s-meth-and-heavy-metal-death-party/537907892/
― confusementalism (Dan Peterson), Monday, 12 August 2019 21:06 (four months ago) link
wow
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 12 August 2019 21:09 (four months ago) link
A sheriff’s deputy dispatched to the home late that morning saw “Death Parde God Hell” spray-painted in red on the front screen door
hell yea
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Monday, 12 August 2019 21:18 (four months ago) link
The last sentence reveal of the song title is just wowAlso... 59 going on 99 my god
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 12 August 2019 22:51 (four months ago) link
New jazz album from Twin Cities natives with 394 love:
https://intaktrec.bandcamp.com/album/golden-valley-is-now
https://i.ibb.co/Y06vFMP/a4215778093-10.jpg
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 19 September 2019 17:15 (two months ago) link
2/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqKa8uO2CM0
― goole, Friday, 6 December 2019 02:37 (one week ago) link