Minnesota/Minnesotans C or D

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.

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?

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/

wow

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

The last sentence reveal of the song title is just wow
Also... 59 going on 99 my god

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

2/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqKa8uO2CM0

this is the most hennepin county repressed rage shit i’ve ever seen on a national stage https://t.co/AEH3UH8w4P

— avunclar baller 🍻🚗 (@ByYourLogic) March 2, 2020

Just talked to my brother.

He’s a Bernie guy, but he’s voting Klobuchar in the Minnesota primary because he doesn’t want her to get blown out in her home state.

This is Minnesota politics in a nutshell.

— David Walsh (@DavidAstinWalsh) February 29, 2020

xp doesn't seem like repressed rage to me

hell yeah: https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/03/01/protesters-for-myon-burrell-delay-klobuchars-rally-in-minnesota/

I know this is mostly to talk shit about our fair state, but each election I'm blown away by how well run our polling places are in Minneapolis, such enthusiastic and helpful volunteers. (Was also happy to see some millennials at the tables in addition to the core of cool nice old Longfellow hippies). Everyone was great, in and out in five minutes.

Love that Klobuchar got bodied by BLM at my high school. Go Park!

I'm not going to miss the State Fair this year. There, I said it.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAf1ptSn-jI/

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OTM

Just wanted to bump, so maybe MN Ilxors could check in

Hope everyone is safe

I am safe but hopeless rn.

Minnesota has a Democratic governor.

Minneapolis has a Democratic mayor.

The Minneapolis City Council is 12-1 Democratic. The 1 is a Green.

Voting alone does not fix this if elected officials remain deferential to the cops. https://t.co/K3a3WU2QSb

— Jonathan "Boo and Vote" Cohn (@JonathanCohn) May 29, 2020

bizarre to see everything boarded up, burned down, or broken and covered in graffiti
neighborhood littered with ACAB and FUCK 12 tags
saw my post office smoldering, it's completely gone
the scene at east lake cub / target and environs is harrowing
folks at SKOL caught some white kids who drove in from eau claire, WI trying to break in. fucking clowns
checked in with mike at barely bros. they're fine. agartha looked fine and so did hymie's
ivy building caught fire. friends w/ studio space there lucked out but several artists evidently lost everything
everybody i know is just dazed / speechless / overwhelmed / heartbroken
not to mention angry

36th and 10th Ave S
Shots fired from pick up truck at community members.
Metro Transit PD has one detained at 34th and Columbus, and still looking for another party that was firing shots.https://t.co/HQleSFZdFc #mpls #Mplsriot2020

— CrimeWatchMpls (@CrimeWatchMpls) June 1, 2020

A friend of mine was one of the people fired at.

No one injured afaik

Sorry to hear that, O. I better check in with some people. I haven't really been posting but am safe.

Here's the bookstore my husband works at:

We're ok. We're still here. We're so proud of the amazing people of Minneapolis. Abolish the police. pic.twitter.com/XoRjvRqmwm

— Moon Palace Books (@MoonPalaceBooks) June 1, 2020

I had heard that Moon Palace got burned--what a relief!

Uncle Hugo’s SFF Bookstore completely burned, moon palace intact, dreamhaven attempted but failed.

Friend of mine works at MP as well - glad they made it (so far)

fairly hopeless and terrified atm, expecting the power to go out to be honest. heard lines were down a few blocks away

a little MN historical "liberalism"

Mayor Art Naftalin (a Humphrey protege) responded by expanding civil rights committees created by Humphrey, even as the state of Minn. received new Pentagon funds for more riot training for the National Guard. These headlines were published on the same day in the Star Tribune.10/ pic.twitter.com/9Xbxm1RlQ9

— Michael Brenes (@mbrenes1) May 30, 2020

Was up until 4 am last few nights, we have a neighborhood watch group that we formed to track all these vehicles creeping or speeding (always one or the other) though our neighborhood.

My friend's neighbor had his fence soaked in gasoline, they found boards soaked in kerosene in the alley. People have been defending the Longfellow Market, the last unburned grocery store in the neighborhood,if that goes we have no place go buy food for people without cars.

I sound like a crazy person but these vehicles are driving around all night. I've seen them. Going to St Paul yesterday a black BMW SUV shot past us on 94, no plates

THE POLICE ARE NOT DOING SHIT TO PROTECT OUR NEIGHBORHOODS

I haven't seen any cruisers patrolling or responding to call

Maybe if they weren't engaged in military fashion shooting at peaceful protesters THEY COULD ACTUALLY DO THEIR FUCKING JOBS

damn bro scary

Sorry Matt, I heard the same thing from my friend (who made the decision to temporarily split town with his family), stay safe :/

I sound like a crazy person but these vehicles are driving around all night. I've seen them. Going to St Paul yesterday a black BMW SUV shot past us on 94, no plates

these are beyond dispute at this point, you are one of numerous mpls friends who have seen this in their neighborhoods. I have seen mentioned the added detail of large bags in the backs of these cars, which in light of the police's statement that they have found caches of accelerants in residential neighborhoods...

I’ve been thinking about all the people I know in the area, including ilx people, a lot lately. Hope everyone continues to be safe, and if there’s anything we can do from outside the state, let us know.

I have some friends who considered joining some students driving up from Iowa to peacefully protest and help aid, but I think it was wise they joined local efforts instead. I think having out of state people showing up is more of a risk than anything right now?

i don't think coming here is a good idea

Friend on twitter @msfeatherweight was tweeting out all the mega sus vehicles in their neighborhood last night for example:

‘28th street just had 2 vans, an SUV, and 3 sedans with their lights off, going around 50mph, with Identity Evropa regalia’

these are beyond dispute at this point

i think this is true but we've been hampered repeatedly by reports that come up disconfirmed, and then of course there's:

Walz said he got "out over my skis" on reports of people coming from outside area. He said they are still trying to get a better understanding of this.

— Jessie Van Berkel (@jessvanb) June 1, 2020

j. I think the outside agitators thing is being overdone in one way - MN is so fucking high on our own supply that we need to believe violent white supremacists are nefariously imported from out of state when they are probably just from Coon Rapids or Lakeville or St. Cloud

otm

forest lake

exactly

but I personally in Minneapolis consider someone from Forest Lake being in the city after curfew just as much of an outsider as someone from Michigan, all due respect to the two Twins games they attend each year

yeah, i think we're saying the same thing

Minn AG Keith Ellison is quoted acknowledging the mysterious no license plate vehicles in this article (which I otherwise have no particular opinion of):
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/george-floyd-protests-white-supremacists-antifa.html

Scary stuff.

friend relayed from ANOTHER friend who got it from HIS neighbors (the actual signal chain): someone found two full propane tanks between their houses in s mpls

Jesus fuck

that is terrifying

that sounds v much like white supremacist militia shit

I live in nempls and am kind of shocked at how quiet it has been here, keep waiting for the other shoe to drop

neighbors have found kerosene soaked wood in the alleys and I have seen pics online of bottles of gas and such, but that's really about it other than the shops on Central being boarded up and the police station looking like a Mad Max fort