The Yes for MN campaign announces their strategy to engage the YouTube era: A film contest. We want Minnesotan’s [sic] from all corners of the state to tell us why they love their state, in three minutes or less. We are rewarding the best story with a prize of $1,000, and viewing opportunities around the state, including the Walker Art Museum. [sic]
Your Epic, Our Heritage
Jun 30 2008 — 2:00am
23 Reader Comments
10:07 am
I don’t wear a state flag pin – does this mean I don’t love Minnesota?
10:57 am
A lapel pin isn’t enough! I wear a Minnesota flag draped around me as much as possible.
11:05 am
I just keep a live loon strapped to my head.
11:07 am
I just keep a live loon strapped to my head.
I call him Crackers.
11:10 am
I adopted a lynx. His name is Chester. His poop comes out in the shape of MN.
11:14 am
I just keep a live loon strapped to my head.
I call him Crackers.
That’s potentially racist!
(depending on the race of the loon)
11:14 am
I, personally, would love to see any and all of these things on film.
11:17 am
That’s potentially racist!
(depending on the race of the loon)
Mr. Crackers is from Sri Lanka and studied under the late Arthur C. Clarke.
11:19 am
Mr. Crackers is from Sri Lanka and studied under the late Arthur C. Clarke
That is just plain ridiculous. Everybody knows the loon has to be from MN to count.
11:20 am
To count as what, mb? A loon? You’re so xenophobic toward loons!
11:29 am
Anyway, I once had a pet loon named North Star and I was very state-triotic about it. I fed it ladyslippers and wild rice. It turns out that loons don’t take well to that diet And I think that I may have committed a federal offense in the process.
11:43 am
I’m so Minnesotan, if you cut me, I bleed Bemidji. I tried dope in college, but all I got was Kandiyohi. I wake up sweaty from restless dreams, screaming “Mon Dieu, L ‘Etoile du Nord!!!L ‘Estoile du Nord!!!
11:45 am
In the wintertime, I wear atop my head a sparkling crown made with the frozen tears of Kent Hrbek.
11:51 am
In the summertimes, I drink the sweat of Don Shelby on the rocks. Not only is is stateriotic, but it makes you smarter.
11:54 am
At last, a thread worthy of MNspeak’s greatness.
Speaking of Shelby, what ever happened to Carlos?
12:07 pm
He wouldn’t submit to the initiation. We left him naked and shivering by Lake Minnetonka while we rode off on purple Ninjas. Ha ha!
Either that, or we saw him walking down First Avenue and had Jerome throw him a dumpster.
Oh, making crappy Purple Rain jokes. An inalienable right of every Minnesotan.
12:12 pm
I’m designing my MINNESO-TAH tattoo.
12:15 pm
I’m so state-triotic that when Paul Douglas weeps, I can feel it.
Another time I made Prince freak out when I was a toddler.
True story.
And Kirby Puckett’s bodyguards shoved be at a school for children with special needs.
Another true story.
I feel this state’s pain, where’s my prize?
12:27 pm
I fed it ladyslippers and wild rice.
Destruction of the ladyslipper is against the law.
2:48 pm
It must be nice to be so Minnesotan (and passive-aggressive)!
3:08 pm
It must be nice to be so Minnesotan (and passive-aggressive)!
Synonymous!
3:35 pm
I fed it ladyslippers and wild rice.
Destruction of the ladyslipper is against the law.
And they’re poisonous.
And harming loons is against the law.
So, as you can see, I’m in some trouble.
3:51 pm
speaking of loons,
I was in WI this past weekend, and witnessed some awesome loon behavior while they were training their young. it was facscinating,.
6 am, and there were two adults and two babies (which to me is rare since I usually only see one baby) The adults would fly away for up to ten minutes at a time, circling around hundreds of feet in the air. their babies would remain in the EXACT spot, even compensating for the lake current, sitting low profile and perfectly still until the adults returned.
They did this many times–my thoughts are that the babies were actaully adolescents, and their parents were starting to teach them to not be scared to be by themselves. While training them to be independent, they were also still quite protective. The came within 12 feet or our boat, forming a wall that their young hid behind. The male stood higher in the water, trying to act bigger, and kept coming closer to our boat. It was if he was trying to scare us off.
I also saw a Loon catch a large moth out of midair, and fling it over his shoulder for the baby to eat. The loons also uprooted aquatic plants and fed them to their young…I was always under the impresssion that they ate fish, crayfish, frogs, etc. But I clearly saw them eating aquatic vegetation that the adults had dislodged from the lake floor.
The most up close and personal I have been with loons in a long time!