Secrets of the City

First! I had a dream last night that I was working on a farm with Bob Dylan. The guy was a hard worker, too.

I dreamt Christina Aguilera used to work in my office, and she came back to go out to lunch with my boss. First, they went to a workout class in which you wear super sexy workout clothes (my boss is a woman). Christina Aguilera was very serious and gave my boss a lot of really good advice.

I dreamt I was going to go fishing at a spot about 20 miles from my home town. But for some reason me and a couple other guys had to drive to some city way out west and fly in. The car was going in reverse when I woke up.

I dreamt that reporters didn’t act like idiots when they report hurricanes.

I had a dream last night that I was working on a farm with Bob Dylan

um, he actually quit that job.

Your dreams are boring Kevin. I want to know more about Jane’s dream… At what point did the pillow fight break out???

I dreamed I saw St. Augustine alive as you or me.

I had a dream that little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character, but I could have just dreamt that.

I had a dream, I had an awesome dream…

Ooh, should have linked to this version with Fergie and a creepy clown.

So, what is everyone doing today? We decided to bag the bike ride today, as it is a little humid (we’re wimps). Other than an exciting trip to Menards to look at retaining wall block, nothing going on today. Going to fire up grill later (pork, peppers and onions) and savor the last G & T of summer.

We’re going to MG for a little entertainment shopping and firing up the grill when we get back. I hope to find time in the middle to finish the novel I’m reading (John LeCarrre’s The Mission Song) and/or get into revisions of my writing project.

After working all morning getting ready for the garage sale we’re having next weekend, I’m going to head over to Cedar Lake for a (illegal) swim across the lake. I’m trying to do a daily swim before water temps plummet.

Are most restaurants and what not open today?

I have an irrational fear of Olympic-size indoor swimming pools.

grote, you beat me to it.

Watching Gustav/RNC news until 4:00 when I’ll head to the fair to volunteer for the ACLU.

I think pretty much everything is open, at least in the city. People are really hoping for RNC $s.

I dreamed Obama had met with one of the world’s foremost experts on robotics, and the man had told him that we were very close to a robot revolution, and Obama was going on CNN to warn us to stop making robots, even though he knew is was career suicide. I managed a two-minute interview with him before the went to CNN, and was desperately trying to write up a story on it so I could scoop everyone else.

So you heard it here first. Obama says stop building robots!

I have two dreams this weekend that I was in the Water Cube in Beijing and the dehumidifier was broken so they couldn’t turn the lights on and it was absolutely petrifying.

I had a great dream about Obama the other night. I dreamt we had become very good friends, and were frequently hanging out — we would sit around his apartment, wearing velvet jackets, listening to the Moody Blues and discussing what the lyrics to “Tuesday Afternoon” meant to us personally.

Eventually, his aides pull me aside, and tell me I’m forbidden to hang out with Obama any longer and distract him with these velvety Moody Blues rap sessions. “This is exactly the sort of thing we are trying to disassociate with the Senator in the public mind,” they snapped. “What kinds of the things?” I demand. “You know,” they shout back at me. “Velvet jackets and the Moody Blues!”

“What’s wrong with the Moody Blues?” I wail as they walk away.

Nateek:
Way to go on the daily swim in Cedar Lake. I have wanted to do swimming accross lakes for a while now.

What are the exact rules that make this illeagal.

Stupid nanny state, let me drown if i want to!

But unless you end up a floater, vlado, the state has to use taxpayer money to drag the lake. And if you start flailing in the middle of Ceder Lake, calling for help, someone on the public payroll has to make a concerted effort to save your sorry ass.

I would be fine with my body sinking to the bottom and being eaten by fish or decomposing. Way better than being pumped with chemicals and being stuck in a chemically treated wooden box.

As for tax payers money, uhh… is saving people from drowning that big of a hit on the budget??

I pay my taxes so I assume I am entitled to that service!!

Long live across-lake illegal swimming!!

Well let’s see.

It IS illegal to swim across the lake. It SHOULD be illegal to swim across the lake. Unless of course you’re with a swim buddy and are comfortable swimming across a lake.

You can hire someone in a boat to go across with you at your own expense.

But hot damn! It’s just about the best feeling in the world. Three months ago I couldn’t swim more than 100 yards and I’m up to a mile and I’ll be Zuesdamned if i’m going to let The Man shut me down.

If you’re really interested, email me privately and I’ll let you know when a group of us meet to safely and communally swim Cedar.

Aren’t a couple of those lakes (Lake of the Isles comes to mind) glorified drainage ditches? Take some penicillin and shower with some Pine Sol afterward, Nate!

If you’re really interested, email me privately and I’ll let you know when a group of us meet to safely and communally swim Cedar.

Dude the lake is full of shit. All of the geese and ducks they shit in that lake. It is always on some alert. This time of year is especially bad. You should take that water in and test it you would not swim in it again.

Look. There are a ton of very reasonable arguments against swimming in the lakes. Goose shit being just one.

But until you’ve swum across a lake and felt how very alive and energized you feel at the end of the experience, you can’t understand. I don’t have the cash to blow on a health club membership. So for me, the roads are my treadmill and the lakes are my pool and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Any health concerns you want to proffer will be rejected on the grounds that I haven’t felt this healthy or happy in a long time. Long live duck shit and swimmer’s itch! (Which, by the way, I’ve never gotten.)

Hey, swim away, I was just sayin’!

/I’m a professed germaphobe…

Isles is essentially and old swamp made into a lake. All three of the connected lakes are disgusting. I saw a couple doing it in Calhoun yesterday. Absolutely disgusting.

You know what looks fun? Windsurfing. Watched people do that at Calhoun this afternoon.

After that: a round of frisbee golf, or Folf.

For what’s it worth, you’re more likely to encounter a couple “doing it” on the beach than in the middle of the lake.

Frisbee golf, windsurfing, “doing it” on the beach.

The Twin Cities are in a 9/10 world.

lol

In five summers here, I’ve seen zero couples doing it on the beach and one couple doing it in the water. Given how many gorgeous people frequent Calhoun, I’m surprised it’s not more of an orgy.

Interesting discussion!!

I still think that swimming across a lake should be legal. Anyway.

Nateek, I am sorta interested, where do I find your email?? Feel free to email me, mine is vlad attt umn dottt edu

Geese shit is the last thing I would concerned about, more worried about toxic 3M chemicals and runoff from lawns.

On that note, what would be the best city lake to swim across?

Maybe Nokomis???

Cedar is nice because it is not very huge so there is no super danger of getting stuck in the middle and dying.

i pissed in nate’s pool on my bike ride yesterday.

I go for a dip in Medicine Lake whenever I feel a cold coming on.

Damn grote! I knew my ‘gin and pool water’ tasted a little off today. Assholio.

As far as city swimming, I’d go with Cedar. It’s quiet, no boats, and has swimmable distances abounding.

So help me grote. If you I catch you pissing my pool, I’ll take your electric bike and shove it up your ass.

Yup. You I catch you.

That’s how serious I am about that threat.

I’m eating cotton candy and feeling like a happy 6 year old.

Nate, btw, that’s not a Baby Ruth in your pool, either.

/sorry, when ya gotta go…you drive to the GV.

Its true. I think she even took her mom with…

She left her own gift in the shrubbery.

It it possible for an open thread to wander too far off topic?

Kurtis, this is mnspeak…

She left her own gift in the shrubbery.

In South Dakota, they call this “Christmas.”

In Iowa they call this “I love you, marry me.”

I enjoy swimming in the lake/ponds at Webber or Loring Park. Mainly because I like surprises.

“I love you, marry me.”

I’ll take “Things you hear at the supper table in South Dakota” for $400 please.

I was in Cedar today for about 5 minutes. It was cold.

That is no more a Baby Ruth in my pool than it is a charred bratwurst in my pocket.

And yes. I’m excited to see you.

I love bratwurst.

Palin satement:
We’re proud of Bristol’s decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents.

Bull shit. No 44 year old is going to be proud to become a grandparent.