np: Accident Prone, Beezus, Lives of the Saints
Which song you can hear at Parasol/Mud Records, or purchase at EMusic if you're so inclined.
Got back to The Greater Chicagoland Area yesterday evening. I'm still slowly settling in. Meaning I've not (re)added Ginger to the links over yonder, or caught up with reading her or anyone else's blogs. Or followed the news. But I do think I finally got all the latex off, and that's a definite plus.
Suppose I could write about the trip to Minneapolis to see Heather. Well, write more, at any rate. Or do a review of Rabbit-Proof Fence, with links to relevant historical background. Or explain why fast-growing dreads (recently done at Hair Is. . .) and old driver's license photos are not a good combination when going through airport security.
Why, I could even explain the current site title.
Or not.
Let's go with not for the moment. It's unseasonable warm out.
And my initial idea of doing the whole thing in faux-Prairie Home Companion style has been done already.
It's been a quiet week in Lake Minnesota. Pastor Engquist's wife, Lorna, sat in the hot dish again. This ruined Sunday supper at the church somewhat. But Bjorn Bjornsen went out on his boat, cast his rod, and soon pulled in 1,000 walleye, so everyone was feeling better within a matter of hours.The regular customers at Ingemarr Johannsen's barbershop, Roy Royquist, Lars Larquist, and Casey Caseyquist, all showed up at the exact same time for their weekly haircuts. Lake Minnesota people, as you know, are patient, and the men alternated snips, one- third of their hair at a time, until they had spent a pleasant afternoon talking about outboard motors, Lutheranism, and Daunte Culpepper's rushing statistics.
Done pretty well, too (and I don't even like Neal Pollack that much), over at McSweeney's, something else I'll have to try catching up on one of these days. . .
Comments
Blogs have feelings too, you know.
Posted by: sean | January 8, 2003 11:43 PM
to quote soundgarden, sounds like you're "lookin' california/but feelin' minnesota" lately...
Posted by: r@d@r | January 9, 2003 4:25 PM
You know, Aaron, if it weren't true, I'd resent it. You can pretend, while in Minneapolis and St. Paul, that you exist in some sort of cosmopolitain city of enlightened thought and social progressiveness.
But it, like the moderate body hair warning of liquid latex, is a lie.
Still. I like it here. For... some reason.
Posted by: Naked Tiny | January 10, 2003 4:33 AM
This place misses me, don't it...? I mean, where's the verve, Uppity ;)
Posted by: Jeff G | January 10, 2003 6:53 PM
Hell, my family's lived here for 10 thousand years and no one recalls having ever seen anyone like Mr. K's caricatures. Between him and Fargo, i can't leave the state without people asking me to do the accent and act like a lovable moron. (moron, maybe, lovable, definitely not)
That said, other than a few small communities, the state cracker population is almost entirely German. (thus the lutherans)
Posted by: uppity-shinob | January 11, 2003 9:13 AM
sean, there comes a time in every blog's life when it must deal with rejection. I think. Is "anthropomorphized" the Word of the Week or something?
r@d@r, um, what's a Soundgarden?
Naked Tiny, I found that only listening to KFAI and shopping at the Wedge helped me maintain the illusion. Just a thought.
Jeff, I'm resisting the urge to post something along the lines of, "I got your verve right here, pal."
Not resisting it very well, obviously.
uppity-shinob, never saw Fargo, but can you do the accent Kirsten Dunst had in Drop Dead Gorgeous?
Ok, I'll stop.
Posted by: Aaron | January 11, 2003 4:45 PM
Blog :: "Oh...The humanity!!!"
Human :: "Pick up the pieces and move on, Toots."
Posted by: sean | January 12, 2003 7:32 AM