Minnesota/Minnesotans C or D

All the hippies at my school that dream of moving to Canada will be saddened by this information.

CLASSIC

IN THE HOUSE!!1

I was thinking this when composing the thread.

Dud:
Snow
St. Olaf College
Lutherans (aka 'lobotomy for religious reasons')
Mosquitoes AND midges (gnats) in summer
Knowing how to use jumper cables and snow-shovels
Racism towards Viets, especially Hmongs, and Mexicans and Somalis
The NW suburbs: Blaine, Brooklyn Park, Robbinsdale
Morbidly obese Minnesotans at State Fair in their thousands

Classic: Low, the Cows, Duluth, Ironworld, the International Wolf Center, the World's Largest Hockey Stick

http://www.wlra.us/wl/th/wlhstick1.jpg

As for the Vikings, I just like making fun of my dad's team as they choke in the playoffs year after year.. oh jeez, ya know dey won't win da Sooper Bowl so why not root for de Packers der. It would be cool if they did pull it out, but I tend to be pessimistic.

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 Edina
Hating the Bears
Hating the Packers
Lord Fletchers (hey, my aunt & uncle live on Minnetonka, too...and so did I 30 years ago)
Uptown
The Replacements
Prince
St. Paul
10,000 lakes
Boundary Waters
CP & the Strib (except for CJ)
that free zoo in that park that I can't remember the name of

Dud:
8 months of winter
mosquitos
SPAM
1am last call

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.

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.

Also, SPAM IS CLASSIC.

-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.

You forgot MATOS. KCLASSIC.

Minneapolis road rage is among the most passive-aggressive in the world.

I miss Dayton's, the Lincoln Del, and Excelsior Amusement Park.

First Avenue/7th Street Entry
some restaurant a couple blocks away
some hotel (maybe it was by the airport?)
the mall in Edina
a gas station somewhere between Minneapolis and Moorhead
a Target somewhere between Minneapolis and Moorhead
a dumpy bar in Moorhead
some restaurant that kinda sucked in Moorhead
a Days Inn in Moorhead (we snuck into the pool later that night)
a Chinese buffet place in Moorhead
yet another gas station

Also, Husker Du.

Hah

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.

Yet, somehow at the same time: Classic.

tom bernard: racist.

Trumpism will eventually lose because they think, and therefore they act, like their aberrant psychology is the norm.

Why isn't St. Paul showing up in the news at all?

Who? Oh St Paul yeah it's like other side of the river or something? I think "Minneapolis" is just being used as a catch-all for the greater Twin Cities area, ICE is definitely in St.Paul as well

they certainly are and the community resilience and cooperation there has been just as astounding

Where I am is kind of right in-between Mpls and St Paul, and I see the STP neighborhood request up in the chat all the time, honestly I've seen requests for connections/mutual aid from basically the entire metro area, even Edina! Edina!

thanks for that quote, gyac

<3 u all

Ok word

“This is not over,” said Granlund, who said only this morning that she called the police because of unmarked cars outside of her home, which she said police confirmed were immigration officials.

Mafia style intimidation of our school board chair and my neighbor

Considering what happened here with the Hortmans and the Hoffmans over the summer this is absolutely fucking evil

I feel bad for the school board chair but it’s darkly funny that ICE won’t make their quotas while trying to intimidate people.

I don't think they are really interested in quotas, the White House makes up numbers all the time about how many arrests they've made, they are interested in terrorizing a population into submission

I think *Miller* cares about the numbers. I think someone else is cooking the numbers that get to Miller.

I mean, how many times has that fuckin snake McLaughlin repeated the same nonsense statistic about violence against ICE officers in the last 3 months? they're clearly good at it.

I don't think they are really interested in quotas, the White House makes up numbers all the time about how many arrests they've made, they are interested in terrorizing a population into submission

― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, January 27, 2026 1:46 PM (thirty-three minutes ago)

ah, yes, one of the other many ways GWB paved the way for this administration - the idea that you can "terrorize people into submission". not sure the evidence really bears out that theory.

ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone

they're going to try to deport people in Milan, aren't they

this one's gonna blow up

ok the dude at the Ecuadorian consulate is a badass. just immediately runs to the trouble and starts saying "no".

ICE saying "if you touch me I'll grab you", like....

...I've tried to avoid calling ICE stupid because I don't want to minimize how much of this shit is by design but I truly don't think some of these people actually know how the law works (in addition to proudly breaking the laws they do know)

Get on our level

Anderson said he had weapons in his bag, and inside the bag was a barbecue fork and a pizza cutter, according to the criminal complaint.

Would have ruled if he got him out and then posted a picture of the two of them winter grillin'.

Meanwhile, shit's getting real.
https://scontent-ord5-3.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/623266668_1437959901026884_7631725757424746678_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=U1J6y4akV9cQ7kNvwFy-6dr&_nc_oc=AdmYwT8v9hjKUjSOj4xYK5BNOcHLUsIit00gyuX4z357KljIpRMYSETmaa-4TszhkTM&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-3.xx&_nc_gid=0p5iIgmy_fzDh6p2xAiRiA&oh=00_Afo165vIUjVKP1xQh-lu5ixIQqAgQfzi_Lw5A5S3TXSh-w&oe=6981A7FB

they're going to try to deport people in Milan, aren't they

You mean Milan, MI?

(they pronounce it "my-lin" btw)

Meanwhile, shit's getting real.

if we can just get the Gear Daddies to weigh in, then we'll be cooking with gas

Trip Shakespeare should reunite in protest.

Ok, let's not crazy

"If ICE does not leave Minneapolis, we will reunite! You've been warned!!!"

Where's the Big Wu on this

lol holy shit the Big Wu that takes me back

my favorite Big Wu reference: https://web.archive.org/web/20051214221024/http://lifterpuller.com:80/citypages.html

Loose talk of boarding the Turf stage and pirating the Selby Tigers' instruments blossoms grandly into a plan to assault random bands at random clubs on random nights. Monick unsheathes his sword and growls, "Avast ye Big Wu" at an imagined Cabooze show.

The funniest Minneapolis band I ever saw was the Sandwiches, who iirc dressed in costumes and passed out sandwiches to the crowd. I think they may still be a band, they should be on the streets!

Josh I must object, Trip Shakespeare fucking ruled

we need the massive surveillance state paranoia of the all-time MN band Vaz (ex Hammerhead) now more than ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G0T6PcLVv0

Need Savage Aural Hotbed to play a show outside the ICE hotels.

I was just teasing Trip Shakespeare, they were an iconic band of their era.

Lori from Babes in Toyland gave me coca tea one time, it was exhilarating

Dan Wilson went to my high school. He and his sister were VERY preppy.

lol not surprised

Oh man I randomly saw Vaz at a fest once, they ruled

Matt > Dan

Savage Aural Hotbed used to do outdoor shows with these enormous drums made up of giant cylinders probably used for underground tunnels or something that they couldn't fit in any venue, just crazy

yeah, flip the narrative on these fuckers

'Minnetoba'? Some Minnesotans want to join Canada as tensions flare with Trump administration
Former governor Jesse Ventura says state should secede

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/minnesota-join-canada-jesse-ventura-9.7067000

Matt > Dan

lol, this took me a minute, given the preceding posts

You’re not the only one

lol
Let me clarify
Matt Wilson is a far superior songwriter to his brother Dan

Meanwhile, Matt H and Dan P are tied for awesomest ilxor

the only way to fix this is me and Dan form a new version of Trip Shakespeare with none of the original members in it

“It’s worse since Bovino got kicked out,” Granlund told me. Kuhlman said, “The number of abductions, the number of agents in our community, has not decreased. If anything, it feels retaliatory now”

https://archive.ph/OnuoU

Speaking of which, a fundraiser for Kraig Johnson of Run Westy Run/Golden Smog/Jayhawks/Tired Eyes

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kraig-and-vic-kick-cancers-butt

Judge orders release of Liam Conejo and his dad:

https://www.startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426

He's home and someone promptly called in bomb threat to his school