― pholm, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link
Yet, somehow at the same time: Classic.
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link
tom bernard: racist.
― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 15:18 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― pholm, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 15:47 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― kirsten (kirsten), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 16:46 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 17:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link
God, sometimes I want to move back there so badly.
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:15 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 20:20 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 20:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 20:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link
haha so so right
― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link
Funniest thing: Acieed House Helen and I were at Reading one year and bumped into Kevin Cole shepherding five contest winners around the festival; I was gobsmacked. She was doing Trance Europe Express then and so it was a bit of a meeting of minds, and we all had crazy fun.
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 20:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link
I have long considered starting a microlabel to reissue his old Radio Depth Probes WHICH HE STILL HAS THE REEL-TO-REELS OF, EVERY GODDAMNED ONE OF THEM. cough, cough.
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link
OH MY GOD.
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Yeah, Kevin is just one of those people that can get things going and those people are always evident, even when the person is working in Platters. He's also notable for not succumbing to that evil bloaty big fish, small pond thing that a lot of old scenesters get in Minneapolis.
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link
haha Dan, I think they're all in storage in Mpls! He's mentioned it a lot, it's like he's taunting me or something.
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link
sorry for all-caps gush but Dan and Suzy feel me I'm sure.
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link
There was another set where he went from some evil-sounding gabber track into "People Everyday" by Arrested Development that was FUCKING AMAZING. I actually saw him do that one live at First Avenue and I've never seen a happier crowd EVER.
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:00 (nineteen years 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 week ago) link