Minneapolis, How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways.
Just feeling nostalgic.
• Nordeast Minneapolis
• Surdyk's
• Surdyk's Cheese Shop
• The unshaven, misanthropic Surdyk's Cheese Shop workers — Can I try a slice of ... that one?
• Nye's
• Psycho Suzy's Motor Lounge
• Room in the back yard for a vegetable garden, an herb garden, and a butterfly garden
• Fish & chips at Brit's Pub
• Aloof disdain for the Mall of America
• Guthrie Theater
• Jungle Theater
• Walker Arts Center
• The Lagoon Theater
• Bryant Lake Bowl
• Dykes Do Drag
• The Mississippi River
• Progressive politics
• City Hall
• The Skyway
• Lake Calhoun
• Watching the joggers, rollerbladers and cyclists at Lake Calhoun
• Lakewood Cemetary
• The luminescent Target Corp. tower
• Loring Park
• Minnehaha Falls
• Stone Arch Bridge
• St. Anthony Main
• Let It Be Records
• Big Brain Comics
• The Capitol
• The House of Cards parking ramp
• '80s night at The Saloon
• Doc, the best bartender I've ever seen
• Professing hatred for The Gay '90s but going there to dance in the retro bar anyway
• Minnesota Public Radio
• People who know where Lake Wobegon is
• St. Paul's Cathedral
• Caribou Coffee
• The straight kickboxer bartender at Trikkx who worked shirtless during happy hour
• Disagreeing with the snobby, joyless movie reviews in CityPages
• The stupid-looking banner of the Star Tribune
• The Minnesota State Fair
• St. Paul
• All my friends
Labels: Minneapolis
posted by Eric @ 7:29 AM
5 Comments:
ohhhhh.....I'm all nostalgic now, too! Although, haha, I only have 2 times to look back on, but they were fantastic times!
ps. No Joe's Garage?
Yes! Of course, Joe's Garage — and their garlic mashed potatoes and the curried yellowfin tuna burger! And the lamburger. Lovely stuff.
My list:
1. Walker Arts Center Sculpture Garden
2. Lawn Bowling at Brit's
3. Habitrail-like Skyway system
4. Leaning Tower of Pizza
5. And, Pizza Lucé
6. The two-story Uptown Gap
7. And, the Uptown Theater
8. Espresso Exposé in Stadium Village
9. Grain Belt Beer sign near the Hennepin Ave Bridge
10. Aveda school haircut's
11. Walking tour of Untamed Heart filming locations
12. St. Anthony Main
13. The Egg and I (Uptown)
14. Risking your life at the Midway Target
15. Ruminator Books (neé Hungry Mind)
D'oh! Right! The sculpture garden — site of the unlikely symbol of the city, Spoonbridge & Cherry, unfortunately or fortunately featured on nearly every Minneapolis postcard. Either that or a loon, it seems. How could I forget the sculpture garden?
Also, Pizza Lucé. (Thanks for that one.) And Leaning Tower.
I nearly said something about Midway, but it's a place I generally prefer not to remember. There was a good liquor store there I frequented on the way home from work. And I did love the used bookstore across the street, Midway Books.
If I didn't live here already, I'd miss it now! I am studying the music and flower show schedules in preparation for the Fair!!
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