MPLS/STPL general state fair/RNC city on fire with riots general funtimes party woot woot planning thread 2008 (2012 edition - now with slightly less riots)

whois fax me

John nee FAX ME/BLACK BEYONCE Justen

hello dere

i'm bizzy wed and fri

wed night i will be at the uptown watching old roommates band play show, i think (tentative) Friday plans involve HI DERE in town booze-em-up. no idea on thurs and sat, although i think that perhaps a muddy pig/happy gnome/patio at WA frosts stumbling fancyman beer and booze option would be a great Sat late afternoon plan.

DEAR FBIS: NOT ACTUALLY A THREAD FOR PLANNING RNC RIOTS THX

I can probably come out on Saturday late afternoon/evening/night to hang with you all.

wed night i will be at the uptown watching old roommates band play show, i think (tentative) Friday plans involve HI DERE in town booze-em-up. no idea on thurs and sat, although i think that perhaps a muddy pig/happy gnome/patio at WA frosts stumbling fancyman beer and booze option would be a great Sat late afternoon plan.

-- FAX ME, Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:47 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

omg stumbling fancymen at Frost's would be great.

what is the show on wednesday? and are you guys talking tomorrow or the following wednesday? if it's tomorrow, i'll probably be L-I-T w/medical students after my first test failure, but maybe it'd be better to not plan for that sort of thing.

thurs/fri/sat i'm freeeee, sunday i am going to a bigtime hippy family jamboree in river falls that promises to be off the hook. ed, you'd probably love it.

cuz you got dreadlocks, like

show is tomorrow, if you are still alive around 10 PM you should call since we will be in yer area. i think the move is afoot to have the friday thing involve my house and booze and iniquity, but i still need to verify that with people. I am deeply committed to the saturday patio tour if it works for ed.

I will try to come out Friday night and/or Saturday.

Wait, if you have a thing at your house, John, I want to see the path to the roof.

better stay on my good side or i'll show you the path off the roof

So complex.I should know by about 5 if I have to work late or not. Can I bring my colleagues who are basically like long lost ilxors anyways?

xp I don't know what it says about me that I'm not the least bit scared.

Or what it says about you.

oh i think the more the merrier, Ed. attempts were made to reach further plans last night, but then we all ended up just drinking $2 Hamms on the King and I patio and failing to reach any real resolution. Tonight is a divide and conquer between Turf Club Obama fundraiser (skoal kodiak, the stnnng, POS, low, kill the vultures, some others i am forgetting) and the Uptown show i mentioned above.

i am going to be at the block obama fundraiser. "making a difference" as usual : )

where are these things at I will see if I can roust up a posse. Could do with some cleansing.

obama thing is at the turf club

http://www.turfclub.net/

Other things to do this week:

http://blogs.citypages.com/pscholtes/2008/08/rnc_protestmusi.php

Gonna head down to the turf club, Say Hi.

DEAR FBIS: NOT ACTUALLY A THREAD FOR PLANNING RNC RIOTS THX

5th google hit for RNC riots :)

^not helping.

sick now / busy (though in the TC!) over the weekend / afraid of internet ppls

Also, anyone got a good spot to watch the Obama acceptance speech tomorrow, possibly with wings?

WHAT IS THIS OBAMA FUNDRAISER SHIT????

bo-ring amirite

http://www.turfclub.net/

will text too

team hi dere should call me re:SUPER FUNTIME FRIDAYSTRAVAGANZA

ow

I read the title of this thread too quickly as MPLS Ren Faire.

John, if you haven't tried it, maybe try calling HI DERE. I suspect he always has that iPhone on.

Any bars with obama on tonight?

Looking forward to drinking with you sweet bastards.

i finally ate at BRASA last weekend, loved it.

1st on google now ;)

hahahaha

8 pm tonight we turn my house into a shrine of out of towner fellowship

oh yeah, my email is j0hnjust3n(@)gma1l.com, if people need to get a hold of me

HI DERE I is excited

I'll be there! :)

The republicans gave me a phone so I will send you the number.

ED YOU LIE

OK NEVERRMIND

You get it?

Thanks for a lovely evening everyone. John, sorry for trying to demolish your house.

hi dere i am tired

work. is awful today.

I am staggering around the house because I'm ridiculously tired.

SORRY I COULDN'T MAKE THIS FOLKS GARRISSON KIELLOR WAS PRETTY FUNNY ALSO CORNY

TONIGHT - FINNTROLL AT THE TRIPLE ROCK

exert your political might by supporting the right of finnish people to sing metal in swedish

http://www.mndaily.com/2008/10/12/u-student-plead-not-guilty-terrorism-charges

A University student arrested preemptively before the Republican National Convention will be one of the first people prosecuted under a terrorism clause in the Minnesota Patriot Act since it was passed in 2002.

Cultural studies junior Max Specktor is charged with conspiracy to riot in furtherance of terrorism.

Monday, Specktor’s hearing was postponed until at least November.

Specktor and seven other defendants facing the same charge will be heard together, and face a maximum of seven and a half years of jail time.

The eight suspects, calling themselves the RNC 8, plan to plead not guilty to the charges, defendant Nathanael Secor said.

blood is squirting out of my eyeballs

apparently now you are a terrorist if you dislike the gov't and also happen to own a crowbar

deciding between those two options is what freedom of choice is all about

fuck

One of those dudes is really good friends with several of my best friends. We never really got on all that well, but fuck...

hahaha ed if you are still around, I still haven't fixed the broken screen door on my patio

also re: MN state fair ITS ON MFS

Ah, memories. Best week of my professional life.

we're going to the Fair Saturday afternoon sometime, got lunch at 1 and then Fairbound

are you working?

also was this the gathering at your house where your neighbor pulled a knife on my wife?

working saturday, but done at 4. should i start a poll to rank the order of weird infused vodka shots you will be doing at moscow on the hill while in town?

xpost hahaha no i think that was a different one?

^WAHT (xpost)

i wanted to time out my fair visit for when wanda jackson was on stage but not in the cards it looks like :[

altho hahaha wait the timing is right now that i think about it!

xpost wait what hold on wanda jackson when where

YES TO POLL

I'm guessing we're gonna be ready to leave the Fair by 8 at the latest but, since we'll be with other wedding ppl, we may be playing it by ear; I assume you wouldn't object to me inviting a couple of wedding-related friends along if it comes up? (one of them was in my wedding party with you)

xp: I think it was, because it was the night Ed broke your screen door

http://www.mnstatefair.org/entertainment/stages/details.html?id=51

internet explorer cannot display the webpage my ass I NEED INFO

nah, the more the merrier!

compiling poll brb

Fri., Aug. 31 - Sat., Sept. 1
1:00 p.m., 2:30 p.m.

really wanted to see her but i guess this is the summer of a thousand weddings so \O_O/

I'm gonna be in town aug 28th to sept 9th, would dig meeting some of you fuckers. So far our fair days are weds 29th and sat 1st. Karen is obsessed with the high-school-rodeo so I am pretty bound to the coliseum at the times when that's going on...

oh arby's the knife story is very sad and tragic and in retrospect hilarious

we've had a long-running inside joke since high school about the "standard issue black person knife" ever since two kids were hassling me after school one day and one challenged me to a fight and the other one said, in all seriousness, "no man, don't fight him, he probably has a KNIFE!" which made me go yes "yes, in fact all black people are issued knives at birth and are required to carry them at all times as part of their blackness"

so, at jjj'a new house, we are hanging out and drinking with a large group of ppl, including the unhinged noticeably-older-than-everyone-else-by-a-good-20-years neighbor whom we'd already been warned was off and weird but managed to somehow end up at the party anyway; we were talking about something involving an altercation my wife had and someone (maybe FB?) made reference to the knife joke and I said "well yes, obviously we would use our standard issue knives" and the neighbor pulls out a 6 inch blade and waves it in my wife's face and shouts something along the lines of "you think that's a knife? THIS is a knife, and don't think I won't cut you bitch!"

now, keep in mind that it was pretty clear this was intended to be a joke, but that this old ass man just pulled a knife on a woman at his neighbor's house, waved it in her face, and called her a bitch

the entire party basically went "o_O" and my wife said something along the lines of "you're not black enough to speak to me" and turned her back on him

at this point the entire party basically treated him like a noxious, unacknowledged fart and he soon left the party

tbh I am still hazy on details because I pretty much blocked the entire experience from my memory and am going off of second-hand retellings of the incident so I may have parts of this wrong; I do vividly remember Ed walking into the screen door though (twice!)

iirc we were looking for something to cut open a bag of firewood with, and j said "cmon dan you must have your black person knife" (funny!) and you replied "let me check my boot"(also funny!) and i believe that to make things worse, the final part of that quote was "imma cut you bitch" delivered in his best "black person" accent. (not funny!)

oh right, and the comeback was "put that away and you're not black enough to talk like that"

yep. j has told me many times that her favorite part of the whole thing was the frozen saucer-eyed O_O faces that k and i made as that happened.

hahaha hooooooly god. that's a warning sign i think, being 20+ years older and showing up uninvited. old drunks from the bar next to my old place would show up and cause the same kinda shit at our parties smdh

Back to State Fair isht, I just found out my dad entered his wine in the wine contest at the agricultural building

thought i wasn't going this year but guess i'll be there on labor day. wahoo

Did a good 7 hours of fair yesterday.

Bad news first. The Magnum P.I. ride has been DESECRATED.

It's now just the 'Magnum' ride, and the facade has been totally repainted. Gone the looming visage of Selleck, replaced by a bunch of lame Grand Theft Auto style gangsta blingee stuff. RIP best ride on the midway.

My favorite chicken in the poultry barn this year was the Antwerp Dutch Quail.

High School Rodeo tournament was awesome as always, but we had to miss the Llama Costume Contest cause it was on at the same time ;_;

Bad news first. The Magnum P.I. ride has been DESECRATED.

noooooooooooooooooo

as long as no one has fixed any of the dioramas in the old mill, i will still be able to sleep tonight. maybe

Well... we went on that too last night, and the dioramas are the same designs but they have def been spruced up. Probably retouched the paint jobs? And none of the cutouts were actually fallen over. So yeah... sad times.

Bad news first. The Magnum P.I. ride has been DESECRATED.

this happened a couple years ago at least! but yeah, pour one out.

i'm just hoping my favorite carny is back

almost wanna stay awake for like 50+ hours to see how much more disorienting and awful i can make this
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/sites/tcdailyplanet.net/files/2012/July/Luminarium.jpg

http://www.captureminnesota.com/photos/fotomoto_pickup/783795_display.jpg

General mn call out, tomorrow is murder your face w/hotness at Bangkok Thai deli w/ilx luminary dip/hi dere. 7 pm, ilx mail me for deets.

bankok thai deli is my favorite! they opened a new spot in mpls with the same menu, and it's nice, but it doesn't have the charm of that weird little place.

anywho i will be in kato...

msg'd u on FB.

going to fair, might be out of commish after that