Secrets of the City

Neighborhood patrol tonight. We wear our bright yellow hats and our badges and go from NNO party to party trying to recruit volunteers. Fun for me.

I’m working late which is too bad because my neighbors are actually pretty cool. Last year we got free dilly bars from Dairy Queen, one of my favorite neighbors.

Staying in tonight, I don’t even know if there’s going to be a block party or not…

Yous all can go to mine on 11th Avenue between Lake St. and the Greenway. I won’t be there, which is even more reason to stop by! As far as I know, this is the first NNO party on our block b/c our houses didn’t exist last year.

We’re giving away Twins tickets!!!!

(Okay, I totally wang that one with the blink tag and it worked. Ich bin an HTML god!)

I’ll probably say hi to my neighbors briefly. Then there’s Stook at the 331 tonight. Free show.

Staying in tonight and winding down from the the last week.

We have good NNO on our block. Lots of food. Gotta be vigilent, though. Roving kids ride through and try to steal beer out of coolers.

Seems like every year we have it, it’s hotter than hell outside.

I’ll probably be out meeting people and taking their wallets.

We thought about it, but never pulled it together.

Does anyone have experience creating a block club with neighbors who don’t speak English? We have several families where the parents don’t but the kids do. I don’t want to do it unless we can really include everyone in a meaninful way.

Ah, teucer, you just had to say it, didn’t ya! Haha!

I thought about trying to organize something for my building, but laziness overcame my ambitions.

Ditto, Elizabeth.

I also thought about going to the neighborhood I work in to pass out fliers and do free chair massages, but I got too lazy for that too.

yepnope,

A lot of our neighborhood is Spanish and Somali speaking. The individual blocks used the neighborhood association and bilingual neighbors as a resources for translation of flyers and going door to door to explain what the night is for.

Thanks, KC!

I have one sort-of bilingual neighbor. There is also an older lady who is, well, painfully racist. Not sure how to work around that. The police department has a lot of flyers, etc., available in other languages, but I didn’t know if my neighbors would be receptive. Maybe we’ll get our shit together next year.

My neighborhoord is throwing a party. We do it every year. Feel free to drop by if you wish (we’re in Robbinsdale…you can’t miss it…we shut down five streets).

I’ll be enjoying my first NNO downtown. I’ll probably listen to some live music, eat too much, talk to no one and go home.

Alright…WHO has the moxie to go to as many NNO parties
as possible, with an unobtrusive grocery bag to gather treats
and other assorted goodies… you’d have to have a place
to stash the goodies when the bag is filled to go back for more!

If anyone questions your identity, point vaguely at some house
and say either you bunk there (first find out where your interrogator
lives and make sure their not the CCP Safe Officer)

or you were once a resident there and missed ye old block so
much you just had to return…

Blog about the whole experience and add pix and reviews of
the best or worst assorted goodies you acquired…

Who’s gonna do it?

Our neighborhood Lutheran church always holds a nice NNO event, so I might wander down. They have free hamburgers, as I recall. It is also our polling place. Nice to be in God’s House while making choices on who should be in office. Neither of us are Lutherans, but they seem a frendly bunch at this church. Nice craft sale every fall.

Just across the street, a Buddist temple. Might stop in and say “hey” to the monks tonight, too. Can’t hurt.

“Might stop in and say “hey” to the monks tonight, too. Can’t hurt.”

Oddly enough, those were exactly the words of the barbarian invader Ogodai Khan, shortly before stepping into the Shaolin Monastery.

St. Paul Park isn’t Saint Paul.

It might as well be to the maroons from minninapolis.

Oddly enough, those were exactly the words of the barbarian invader Ogodai Khan, shortly before stepping into the Shaolin Monastery.

Heh. One of those monks did look a bit like David Carradine.