kerble wrote:

connor wrote:Everybody thinks his or her city has the worst drivers in the country. Get over it.

no. I think people from Indiana are the worst drivers in the country.

In my experience, this observation applies to the entire midwest.

I think it's safe to say that the majority of the midwest is infected with some form of assholism when it comes to driving.

Hooray! Middle America. And a hearty FUCK YOU! to all of your asshole drivers.

The driving observations are correct. One third are over-polite "no, you go first" people who can't merge, handle a four-way stop or drive over 30 mph in any sort of inclement weather. One third are four-wheel-drive lifers who merge without looking, rarely stop for any reason, and drive 85 mph regardless of conditions. One third are average. Not a great mix.

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:Minneapolis is a fake-o big city that pretends to be big city. Relax, Minis, and enjoy your little lives.

This is sadly true. As a city, we have an enormous inferiority complex and low self-esteem. Overcompensation yields horrible results, such as the local news straining, painfully, to find the "Minnesota connection" in national news stories. ("Kofi Annan went to Macalester!")

However, Minneapolis is very easily not crap. It's a tremendous city. Music, the arts, food, architecture, people, quality of life, everything. Lived here since '94 and can't imagine leaving.

not.crap.

The Local Newscaster As Celebrity Effect is raging here! So much so that the ladies who used to host a local music show on the college radio station had an over the top facination with Robyne Robinson (local newscaster/gal about town) that they worked in to every broadcast for two years. Trust me, it was hilarious when they did it on the show. Salut Keri & Allison!

I generally find Minneapolis to be charming, though it's inferiority complex (The Minnesota Connection in any news-story) can be a bit much. Oddly enough, Prince lives on his compound in a suburb and rarely visits the city anymore. Yet he is synonymous with Mpls. Don't get me started on the local music organizations that feel the need to give eachother awards every year and still like to claim Bob Dylan as a "local artist". He's nominated for something every. single. year.

And it is funny that we are at page 4 of the thread and we've barely thought of St. Paul (where Husker Du were really from), which is also a fine city. Old timers around here are very provincial about whether they are from St. Paul or Minneapolis, even though the cities border one another. That's hilarious.

lars wrote:

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:Minneapolis is a fake-o big city that pretends to be big city. Relax, Minis, and enjoy your little lives.

This is sadly true. As a city, we have an enormous inferiority complex and low self-esteem. Overcompensation yields horrible results, such as the local news straining, painfully, to find the "Minnesota connection" in national news stories. ("Kofi Annan went to Macalester!")

This sounds exactly like Columbus. Though I would suspect this is true of most flyover cities that aren't Chicago.

Schaal wrote:Prince lives on his compound in a suburb and rarely visits the city anymore. Yet he is synonymous with Mpls. Don't get me started on the local music organizations that feel the need to give eachother awards every year and still like to claim Bob Dylan as a "local artist". He's nominated for something every. single. year.

When I was up there, my friend's wife was telling me about all the Peanuts paraphernalia all over the city, and how they claim Charles Schulz as a "local" even though he lived there only a year or something.

Schaal wrote:And it is funny that we are at page 4 of the thread and we've barely thought of St. Paul (where Husker Du were really from), which is also a fine city.

When I visited the Twin Cities, I found St. Paul more appealing than Minneapolis.

Angus Jung wrote:When I visited the Twin Cities, I found St. Paul more appealing than Minneapolis.

Spend a Saturday night in downtown St. Paul and get back to us.

zom-zom wrote:

Angus Jung wrote:When I visited the Twin Cities, I found St. Paul more appealing than Minneapolis.

Spend a Saturday night in downtown St. Paul and get back to us.

zzzinng!

zom-zom wrote:

Angus Jung wrote:When I visited the Twin Cities, I found St. Paul more appealing than Minneapolis.

Spend a Saturday night in downtown St. Paul and get back to us.

Looks like you got me there- I don't remember seeing a Buca di Beppo in downtown St. Paul. Doesn't that place stay open until 1AM?

Between that and The Fudge Packer, downtown Minny is bringing the fucking party.