― daria g (daria g), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 09:02 (twenty years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 09:22 (twenty 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 (twenty 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 (twenty 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 (twenty years ago) link
Also, SPAM IS CLASSIC.
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 12:56 (twenty 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 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:37 (twenty years ago) link
You forgot MATOS. KCLASSIC.
― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:40 (twenty 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 (twenty 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 (twenty years ago) link
Also, Husker Du.
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:50 (twenty years ago) link
Hah
― pholm, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:50 (twenty 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 (twenty years ago) link
― pholm, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:41 (twenty years ago) link
― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago) link
― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:53 (twenty years ago) link
Yet, somehow at the same time: Classic.
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:54 (twenty years ago) link
tom bernard: racist.
― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 15:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 15:18 (twenty years ago) link
minneapolis was my traumatic home for about a month while i decided i did NOT want to be a flight attendant. it was hell. really and truly.
on a roadtrip a couple years later i decided to give it a second chance. it didn't help.
i don't know about the rest of the state, but i hate minneapolis.
― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 15:22 (twenty years ago) link
― pholm, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago) link
― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago) link
When I was twenty and living alone in an apartment off of Franklin, a woman from the liquor store invited me to her family's house for Thanksgiving. I think that I may have been the only person there under 200 pounds, and the only man under 6'3". They fed me like a brother, got me drunk on Schnapp's, and it was TEH BEST THANKSGIVNG EVAH.
It was just one family in NE Minneapolis, but I'll stick up for Minnesotans any day of the week. Even the screedy James Lileks.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 16:38 (twenty years ago) link
― kirsten (kirsten), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 16:46 (twenty years ago) link
It's been awhile for me, but I always really enjoyed Radio K. College radio sounds so beautiful on the AM band.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 17:50 (twenty years ago) link
― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 18:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago) link
God, sometimes I want to move back there so badly.
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 18:57 (twenty years ago) link
― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:15 (twenty years ago) link
I can get it in from the cities all the way to Sauk Centre which is pretty damn good. I like it better than Radio K as well. But please don't forget KUMM the praries only alternative. We have to be classic if only for our call letters. Also worth noting is Rev 105 which all us kids thought was the coolest thing ever at the time.
― christhamrin (christhamrin), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago) link
Yeah, that's usually around where it cuts out for me, too. But I used to have an '82 Olds a few years back that would get it just about to the rest area right before Alex. Only good thing about that car.
I used to hate MN with a passion growing up (could be because it was way out in the sticks) but now that I've gotten a little bit older and done a bit of traveling I've realized that all in all it's a pretty nice to be.
Also, it's the only place in the U.S. (well most of the upper midwest according to A Short History of Nearly Everything) that doesn't have to worry about earthquakes!
― pholm, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 20:23 (twenty years ago) link
C/D:
Don Shelby/Diana PierceSebastian Joe's seconded - I know of no better way to completely negate the good work done on arse by 10 mile bike ride around Lake Harriet/Steve and Sharon aaaaahghghhRed Dragon/food at the Red Dragon
HUGE shout-out to Chris K.
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 20:30 (twenty years ago) link
Minnesotans being fearfully aroused by incoming big blizzard, quel surprise! Seriously, though - stay safe.
(I got snowed-in helping take inventory at the much-missed Northern Lights in ‘91, until the owner turned up in 4WD to drive everyone home)
― steely flan (suzy), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 18:48 (one year ago) link
and to think The Beths have to travel into this
― fleeting art that floats! (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 22:24 (one year ago) link
I’m only annoyed that this blizzard is going to make everyone talk about The Halloween Blizzard without eclipsing and replacing the Halloween Blizzard.— Fentanyl Dusted Donut (@David_5mith) February 21, 2023
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Thursday, 23 February 2023 02:26 (one year ago) link
Ugh, here we are at the very much now annual April that is 90% winter, just not quite as extreme. I've had it with this place that only gets literally 14 weeks of acceptable weather per year.
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Thursday, 20 April 2023 21:28 (one year ago) link
Yeah, this winter/spring blows.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 20 April 2023 21:48 (one year ago) link
not a fan
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 20 April 2023 21:49 (one year ago) link
i relocated from mpls to pdx last fall and it's been unseasonably wet and cold here, and people are complaining, it's hilarious because i've been keeping track of y'alls winter... weather like that was certainly one of the underlying motivations for the move
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 20 April 2023 22:56 (one year ago) link
Lol I’ve made friends with someone who at the turn of the year moved from Portland to here, and just this week he meekly asked “so this winter’s been one of the worst, right?” While on paper, yes, it has been, I couldn’t tell him that every March and April here inevitably brings you to the same mental crisis
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Friday, 21 April 2023 00:25 (one year ago) link
xp global I am in Eugene and this has been the coldest wettest spring in my 32 years here, it's been brutal
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Friday, 21 April 2023 00:27 (one year ago) link
it has also been a surprisingly wet and cold winter and spring in SF too, we got record rainfall this year, and from what I've heard from my friends and family, it has been the same in LA and San Diego too
it's spring, but most days so far haven't gotten up from highs in the 50s, and there have been no warm days. thankfully the rain has stopped now and it's starting to warm up
― Dan S, Friday, 21 April 2023 00:40 (one year ago) link
I’ve been keeping an eye on Palm Springs and thinking how much this winter must’ve sucked for those used to Palm Springs weather
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Friday, 21 April 2023 00:53 (one year ago) link
It’s me, hi, I’m the biggest planning blunder in Minneapolis history, it’s me❗️ pic.twitter.com/qFAFHsWRwN— Abigail Blonigen (@abigailblonigen) October 31, 2023
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 12:52 (six months ago) link
I haven't been around Minneapolis that much for a number of years but the moment I heard "k-mart fire" I knew exactly what building was burning!
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 14:32 (six months ago) link
I'm actually K Mart defender, it was a store where the local population without cars could get basic household goods and clothing.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 16:51 (six months ago) link
I don't think the existence of a k mart on that block was what people disliked about it, but again, was never a local
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 16:52 (six months ago) link
Correct; no objections to the Kmart itself (though, obv, I don't speak for everyone ... I'm sure there were plenty of residents who hated it because it attracted lower class shoppers). It was merely the building's function as a bulwark, dividing the neighborhood in half.
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 17:09 (six months ago) link
I also believe that the largely immigrant restaurants that turned Nicollet North of Lake into "Eat Street" never could have thrived without that K Mart making it less attractive to developers. the only harm it caused was drivers having to drive around it, big deal.I'm sure they are licking their chops to gentrify it now and drive the local low income population out.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 17:10 (six months ago) link
look forward to a couple new ugly apartment buildings with a shitty brewery on the first floor
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 17:12 (six months ago) link
LOL, plenty of speculation lately that they'll do exactly the same thing to the brutalist Nicollet Mall YMCA building if/when they knock that down
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 17:13 (six months ago) link
Related-ish: https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/new-study-says-downtown-minneapolis-has-one-of-the-worst-post-pandemic-recoveries-but-there-are-questions-about-methodology/
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 17:14 (six months ago) link
Apparently Minnesota is redesigning the state flag, and there have been over 2000 submissions to date. Needless to say, there are some really good ones, if you are willing to dig:
https://serc.mnhs.org/flags
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 November 2023 20:03 (five months ago) link
good riddance and FUUUUUCK YOU
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/15/business/uber-lyft-minneapolis-minimum-wage/index.html
― budo jeru, Friday, 15 March 2024 20:19 (one month ago) link
I don't want to clog up another thread with a niche observation, but the new Taylor Swift album so far is very Cities 97 circa 1990.
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Friday, 19 April 2024 04:49 (two weeks ago) link
lmao
― budo jeru, Friday, 19 April 2024 14:36 (two weeks ago) link
haha let's line up to get it at a Best Buy in Bloomington like an old Cities 97 sampler
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 April 2024 15:40 (two weeks ago) link
Apologies for deflecting the thread away from Swift talk but why is this state so fucking windy?
― the scouse that roared (Matt #2), Friday, 19 April 2024 17:37 (two weeks ago) link
Good question. The wind tunnel on 7th Street downtown between Nicollet Mall and Hennepin (where a lot of buses stop) is fairly legendary.
― steely flan (suzy), Friday, 19 April 2024 17:59 (two weeks ago) link