SO U MOVING TO HSTNGS! PACK A AMPULE OF ANTIVENOM AND A FACK FULL OF EMINEM

Going to Burnsville was a big deal because they had a Shinders!

We never went there, though! It was strictly B. Dalton. (remember B. Dalton?)

B. Dalton vs Waldenbooks

Why hello 1988...

(I always preferred B. Dalton, btw)

I think everyone who made sense preferred B. Dalton

yeah i have no real reason to dislike waldenbooks but to this day i still do. i mean inactively i guess, but

i think there was still one of those left in the roseville mall last i checked actually. where time stops.

also going to burnsville was a big deal because NORTHERN LIGHTS man shit

weren't Northern Lights and Shinder's in the same strip mall?

that was the best strip mall in America IMO

yes they were, and yes it was

google is claiming that Shinder's still exists, is it lying?

sadly yes

according to some insidey info basically dude inherits business, loves whores and drugs, buries the whole empire in like less than a year

wtf

I guess it's a good thing I moved away, I wouldn't want revenue from my Doctor Who purchases paying for someone else's whores and drugs

I mean, if that was drugs and whores money, I would have spent it on drugs and whores

oh man I'm missing you guys right now... <3 <3 <3

And also that Northern Lights!

pff drove to hstngs just to go "oh the ad didn't say no pets". which is a bummer, i kinda liked the place. and if we wanted to roll with the twin peaks in derry, ME vibe all we really needed were some red drapes:
http://images.craigslist.org/3kc3oa3l35V55U45R2b5rb785d395dfbc12c3.jpg

picked up a local paper looks like they caught up with the garage door bandit over there in cottage grove. copper thieves hitting all the light poles tsk tsk tsk

growing up in w1nd0m it was all about driving to the river hills mall in 'kato cuz there was an arcade, or you'd drive to w0rthington cuz they had a movie theater with more than one screen and they showed their movies when they actually were released rather than only getting kids movies or the biggest possible blockbusters 6 months after the fact. i think hstngs was just big enough that weird stuff happened whereas w1nd0m i think there was one incident where some kids on the football team chased some cheerleaders or something with hockey sticks and that was some sorta big deal. beyond that it was like who got who pregnant and just...so sleepy.

omg how did i miss the inception of this thread

i think the last time i actually "set foot" (like literally, vs driving through) in HSTNGS was last autumn, when some buds of mine and i went for a ride down to red wing and back. i kept pointing out boring stuff like denny's and emily's bakery and being half-misty half-scornful and they were just like "sure man whatever" and then i was like "right why on earth would you give a shit"

we went to the dairy store and got milkshakes. they were like $1.25 and i was ~incensed~

wait so you have hstngs connections too? i think i've missed this.

btw there is something very satisfying/weird about how ilx is crawling w/HSTNGS ppl to an extent that involves someone actually moving there. that is some circle of life shit, right there

xp yeah!

4-12th grade

hstngs was just big enough that weird stuff happened

i want this to be true, but i've met loads of ppl from other equally-sized towns in the midwest and i still sorta think that hstngs occupies some liminal borderland of boring weirdness

xposts yeah it's weird to me too. when kg and i were looking for places to live for back-2-school time and she was like "i think hstngs looks like our best option" well i don't need to tell you what went through my mind

more xposts wow i had you pegged as from duluth or something idk how that lodged itself in my brain.

not doing a great job of selling you on it, sorry

anyway, i blame the bridge. http://teslastaging.com/forums/images/smilies/Gestures/userArmsCrossed.gif otherwise we'd be stillwater. beautiful, sane, touristed stillwater. fuck you stillwater why won't you return my phone calls!!!!!!! you're worse than that stuck-up red wing!!!!!!

i've probably been to duluth maybe three times. but i guess i talk a lot of trash about outdoorsy stuff that it makes sense

tbf, i think that when i and the rest of the ilx hstngs posse lived there (which was a...span) it was more of a "small-town" whereas now i think it's graduated to "exurb" status? i went to the new high school when i was in college and was like 'holy shit.' they learn in pods and there's bridges over the cafeteria/"social area" and the auditorium is amazing and i got spurned at lockers in tilefaced hallways (is this true? about the tile, i mean? i remember tile being everywhere) and farm boys fighting all the time

i also remember chris h3rman (of the clan h3rman) saying no, thanks, to the police officer that offered him a sledgehammer when it came time to bust the window of a car at a cop fundraiser in the parking lot and just punching it out with his fist. i remember thinking "i'm glad he's ok with me," because i was a nerd that had an hour and a half bus ride with bunch of fucking nutcases and he was my neighbor

i rep bus 57

this thread is making me laugh and cry at the same time already. So TOTALLY HSTNGS!!!

actually wait was it 57 or 16

I think jjj and I were on bus 1

also this:

i also remember chris h3rman (of the clan h3rman) saying no, thanks, to the police officer that offered him a sledgehammer when it came time to bust the window of a car at a cop fundraiser in the parking lot and just punching it out with his fist. i remember thinking "i'm glad he's ok with me," because i was a nerd that had an hour and a half bus ride with bunch of fucking nutcases and he was my neighbor

platonic ideal of HSTNGS

oh man, lolol

UPDATES

have you been murdered yet etc

have u gotten a milk shake at the dairy store

where, I was dismayed to discover, the price has risen to $1.25!!!!

see how obamacare is crippling american industry

dairy store = the creamery on 61?

But yes, is arby's still alive or has our well-meaning advice not helped a poor soul in peril?

;_; did someone whip shitties on arby's face and that's why he hasn't responded

Going to HSTNGS tonight (well, at least outside of it, to my sister's house). Do I need to keep my eyes open for dead ILXors in the road?

well it is HSTNGS, there will be a dead SOMETHING in the road

Don't worry, I will take the usual precautions.

sorry guys i was wayyy busy preparing for the move all weekend--we move on sunday! we lined up an apartment downtown by the river, real high ceilings, big kitchen, cleanest one we looked at. really afraid our bed won't fit up the stairs of that old building tho. what else. found out my work has a hstngs location and transferred so my worrying of unemployment perils were satisfyingly short lived. i'm getting really pumped about all this tbh.

i met a guy who had a really gorgeous mandolin built by one of my future instructors. i have all my tools. it's weird, this stuff feels real now. like a tangible ~thing~

Yay, glad you are still alive and found an apartment! Now, have you set in a supply of damn fine hot coffee, doughnuts, cherry pie, and an assortment of weapons?

I made it back, obv, had fun at my sister's. Kids are very entertained by her swimming pool, that is for sure. I was entertained by the pumpkin pie martini my cousin made for me.

awesome, a singing, dancing martini

Ah, ok, Baywatch. I never managed to watch that. I'm blaming the kids. They are a great scapegoat... I missed xxxx because KIDS.

(But you guys might be able to recognize now that there is a lot of truth in it. They are adorable time sucks!)

its totally fine to miss baywatch because BAYWATCH tbf

I was feeding J last night and started watching Moral Orel, which had him completely enraptured, which led to my first ever "maybe my child shouldn't be watching this" moment

also John OTM re: Baywatch but OTOH it's kind of awesome seeing that one of the bigger patrons of young artists in town posed for Playboy back in the day

Still gunning for that number one spot

http://www.hastingsstargazette.com/content/skeletal-remains-found-site-new-cvs-pharmacy-hastings

Could it be... MURDER?!

My reaction to that whole thing was not even a flutter of surprise. I have no idea if that is extreme cynicism or what.

Had an exasperating shift at the hospital tonight... sigh.

My all time favorite John statement "stupid people shouldn't breathe" is getting me through the week you guys.

Vegas rules, you guys

Wait, are you gambling the babiez away???

testing username

I approve

I miss you guys. LOVED John's video online today on FB.

Hope you are well and enjoying those babies. :)

winona, mn c/d?

lol r u moving to winona

nope. but i have a friend . . . (srsly)

I like the Winona State nursing students who come to help us take care of patients when they do their clinicals... Otherwise I know next to nothing about Winona.

Probably safer than HSTNGS, though, and I believe it is also on the Mississippi...

is this the most recent HSTNGS thread? oh well, it's worthy of a revive anyway (via MS/subgenius):

http://thisiscriminal.com/episode-37-hastings-2-19-2016/

http://www.citypages.com/news/hastings-high-school-singing-the-heat-is-on-is-a-perfect-1980s-time-capsule-video-8096380

you guys

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13501853_10154224045591768_161580284641422959_n.jpg?oh=318041cf9c5cdd68c42df83f1dabbb25&oe=57EB9D7E

posted by a high school acquaintance, not as a funny meme they found, but as a thing they actually did

Apparently having a wisdom tooth pulled after the age of 40 is the worst fucking idea in the world

http://bandwidth.wamu.org/thaylobleu-live-at-wamu/

check out my brother's band

I passed this along to my kids' former kung fu teacher, who is pretty active in the DC/Baltimore music world. It turns out that he knew your brother's singer through the kung fu scene out here! Sadly, he doesn't dig rock music much.

oh wow I just saw this, small world

https://twitter.com/MateoErickson/status/760950631842451456

y'all

http://erickson4us.com/about/

also this douche is from Cottage Grove, basically he can gtfo of the HSTNGS thread (unless he has weed)

i cannot get over his accent -- like it's obv very minnesotan but it's also so specifically reminiscent of the local accent

jergins and i had a layover in MSP on sunday and waved in the direction of hastings.

had i seen the above posts before now, i would have given the finger in the direction of cottage grove. what an a-hole.

i assumed he was a joke candidate at first

happy 950th anniversary of the battle of u

I have no place else to put this but the Facebook group for the symphony chorus I used to sing with is currently having a tizzy over negative comments about them on an article announcing their new director; I went to it to see what was being said and, thanks to the time frame being complained about, it reads like "ever since DJP and his wife left, the chorus has gotten progressively worse"

I know that's not at all what was being said but still: lol

a couple years ago i met a woman who was from wisconsin but went to school and lived in mpls for a while. she claimed that minnesota (or maybe just the cities? not sure) receives a special version of heinz ketchup that is sweeter than the kind sold elsewhere

i found this extremely difficult to believe. please reassure me

I'm gonna say she is correct just because

hmm

There’s a fire sale at the Trump shop in Hastings, Minnesota. pic.twitter.com/JxznIuOmY8

— bengarvin (@bengarvin) November 14, 2020

https://www.minnpost.com/mnopedia/2021/04/hastings-1907-the-burning-of-browns-chapel-ame/?fbclid=IwAR3fiKN4sk94274XL9MErbhG-cb1c-0QWq0VgBa19lzoyDssXP58HNWhHus