Everbody’s favorite gay Catholic expatriate Tory and Obamacon superfan #1, Andrew Sullivan, has a long-standing series on his blog, “The View From Your Window”. And wouldn’t you know it, there’s finally one from around these parts.
We really do have a pretty good lookin’ town, you know? Even the Hennepin/Lyndale interchange has its charms… (Now, are those storm clouds across DT, or does someone have dirty windows?)
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3:45 pm
We can see DT Mpls from our upstairs windows, but the big Casablanca Foods sign blocks some of it. From our roof, the view is spectatular.
3:49 pm
I see a Concordia Avenue (I’m at ground level), a pedestrian bridge over 94, the tops of vehicles on 94 (I’m sitting) and two Russian Olive trees growing by a vine-covered chain link fence.
3:53 pm
I see nothing. I’ve never been fortunate enough to have an office with a window.
4:02 pm
This is a first for me. I started here in a cubicle. Now it sounds like I will have to move up to the second level soon.
Say, I just noticed that my overhead lights have dimmed since I opened the window. A cool energy-saving feature!
4:10 pm
I see 50 S 6th out one window and if I turn around I see the top of Butler Square and if I lean back I can see Hennepin/Lumber Exchange. It looks pretty…all of it.
4:14 pm
I see district energy and the river from my office.
4:15 pm
I’m lucky enough to have a window in my office. The bad part about it is that it looks out into the classroom next to my office, and is covered by the projection screen. Furthermore, my office is in the dungeon — er — basement… So nothing to see if it did have windows to the outside.
5:09 pm
The skyline never looks better than in the winter. Mist and steam rising from the river and vents around the city. Pillsbury and Gold Medal Flour signs blinking silently in the clear, cold darkness. The Wells Fargo building, Foshay Tower, Lumber and Grain Exchange buildings, City Hall. From soaring Art Deco to tough gritty warehouse. They’re like monuments that have seen the worst nature can throw at a building.
I always tell people: If you want to see the city at its best, come in the winter.
9:44 pm
Sullivan has featured pictures from Minneapolis and the metro many times – but it’s always nice to see our city featured.
Hey Geoff – how have you been? I finished my Master’s in December.
Be well, from your old cubicle friend.
12:21 am
Sullivan has featured pictures from Minneapolis and the metro many times – but it’s always nice to see our city featured.
I was going to say this. It’s not the first time the “View” has been from Minneapolis.
I actually stopped reading Andrew’s blog a while ago. He exhibited a bit too much venomous anti-Hiliaryism for my taste.
BTW, I caucused for Obama, FWIW.
6:55 am
My neighbor’s house to the east. My backyard and alley to the south. A residential street to the north. Another neighbor’s house to the west. Sort of sucks, I suppose, to be in a one-story house. I’d have to climb up on the roof to get a “high-rise” view of anything.