Minnesota/Minnesotans C or D

buck up there, good buddy!

It's weird...Jerry actually works at a butcher shop near my house...I've been waiting in line and actually seen him do his infamous "thumbs up" move to a co-employee!

god they were cable access gods!

Best thread evah, by the way. Makes me feel good to live here.

CLASSIC:
the international film festival, which just wrapped up
jucy lucys
Pepito's chili con queso to go
finally being able to tic off one of my junior-high "life goals" now that I get to write movie capsules for City Pages
"I'm a bartender and it's fun."

DUD:
the political shift
Block E
Ed Asner on Channel 5 ads
everything about Bell Auditorium except for the movies they play
The I-Beam (Moorhead's gay bar)

The Rainbow is pretty good but my favourite Viet used to be Trieu Chau, where Azia is now. The Lotus (Viet of choice in school) is now unspeakably bad and something about Kinhdo makes me vom, I think it's too many shredded carrots in the spring rolls, so I only eat at the Nicollet Viets anyway. There are a few new Viet/Cambodian/Laotian places I will have to try when I'm back next that looked like they were set up on the ground floor of some of the more housey-shaped retail spaces.

Someone in my immediate family has been a Vikings season-ticket holder since the beginning of the team (my sister holds now, my grandfather had 50 yard-line seats). The first owner, Max Winter, had a daughter in the same year at school as my aunt, so the dance line Max' daughter was in became the Vikings cheerleaders by osmosis. Bleurgh, Parkettes. Feathered hair, lip gloss, dirty looks, struggle to maintain B average for doing nails in class.

I am SO craving Seb Joe's Oreo ice cream it isn't even funny. (haha I used to make cones for them!)

oh my god. I cannot even fucking believe I forgot the classic to end all classics: LITTLE TIJUANA. oh my god. I love love LOVE that place to DEATH.

Rainbow is Taiwanese, actuellement, if that's the place Chris and Matt took me. They have bubble drinks.

MCAD students with deadlines probably grateful for the crayons.

I caused a Scot to shudder with tales of mozzies AND midges together.

also, upthread you mentioned Southdale as birthplace of postmodernism. explain yourself!

Southdale was the very first atrium mall in the whole world, and had a 'sidewalk cafe' where my mom and aunt worked the 'outdoor' tables. Simulacrae ahoy!

all the reasons mentioned above and more

every rock music fan in the world owes themsleves a trip to the 7th Street Entry, the greatest rock club on the planet. Even if the state only consisted of that tiny black room and the Summit Brewery it would still be an all time classic

most passive-aggressive population of human beings to ever grace the face of the earth

Oh, I forgot... the "National American University" jingle.

El Rey De Oro on Nicollet & 35th in south...

Chiapas - not sure of the intersection, but it's up on north central by Fat Boy Billiards...

both nice family run joints...el rey specializes in seafood, chiapas is good all around.....I want to marry the salsa that they put out with their free chips and salsa before you order..

i think it's better than Taco Bell, but that's not saying much...

Classic: rural Minnesota

And what about Information Society? Also classic.

Now that the trees are blooming, I'll go with classick. Winter makes me cynical and prone to the MN disease of self-conscious paralysis. April thru Sept. makes me want to have long-distance love affairs with the Mage. Classic.

Classic: rural Minnesota

no diggity!

My homeland, God's country:

http://www.be.blue-earth.mn.us/

Classic =

Everyday People
Uptown Theater
The Plastic Constellations
The Tuna Melt at Grumpy's
Evergreen
D4
Copper Dome
Day by Day Cafe
Run Westy Run circa 'Dizzy Road'
Margherita Club at Bar Abilene
Guitar Band
Dara's food column in CP
Sonny's Ice Cream
CC Club
*I'm* fond of the record store I worked at for 11 years (even if others are not)
CC Club [I only go there once a year or so, but it fulfills it's mission as a pleasant neighborhood bar. In fact, it was overcrowding at the CC which lead to our looking for other nearby places to hang out, bringing us to the Red Dragon. It was so deserted that even on weekend nights, the front room wouldn't fill up. Now all three rooms are packed even on Mondays, bringing us back full circle to the CC where one can sit down and drink (albeit not such fancy boozy drinks). ]

I tried to stick to things that hadn't already been mentioned, but the utter classicness of Lifter Puller, Cows, Replacements, Husker Du, 7th St, Triple Rock, Kevin Cole and Rod Smith cannot be stated enough.

Dud =

People that I like to hang out with moving away to bigger and 'better' places. It makes sense to me that one would want to move to Sydney, Paris or London (especially if it's somewhere you should have been born in the first place- Hi Suzy!), but to me, moving anywhere else in America would be a lateral move and therefore pointless. That said, other people's obsession with NYC is akin to my own fascination with other countries, so I could be more understanding and less pissy about the whole thing.

Chris K

Heh -- the MST3K crew did an enjoyable enough Tolkien parody called Edward the Less which intentionally played on the 'Midwesterners obsess over/worship NYC' stereotype, as described by Kevin Murphy in an interview at the time.