Secrets of the City

That’s easy, except i only have only one:

James Hong, immortal ghost sorcerer Lo Pan in Big Trouble in Little China.

Thank you wikipedia, you never ending fountain of pointlessness.

My wife, my mom, my dad, myself, and Paul Westerberg

John Madden, as much as he annoys me he’s still entertaining. From Austin.

Kevin Sorbo. He played Hercules.

Eugene McCarthy. no explanation needed.

E. G. Marshall. His initials and last name are the same as mine.

The Hamm’s Bear.

Bob Dylan.

Tony Oliva (I know he’s Cuban but I’m counting him anyway).

Peter Graves.

The Native American guy who stuffed grass in the mouth of the jackass white guy in the Dakota conflict of 1862.

My fav five from Minnesota (in photo links)

Bob Dylan, Tim O’Brien, Floyd B. Olsen, Paul Wellstone, and James J. Hill

Crotchety pacifist liberal Gene McCarthy; Preston Sturges regular William Demarest; architect Cass Gilbert; Minneapolis mayor, governor and radical Floyd B. Olson; and Speedboat Gallery founder and Frances Gumm frontman Paul D. Dickinson.

Simon Estes, George Gallup, John Wayne, Norman Borlaug, Shawn Johnson.

I like Kevin’s list! Although, I would work Donna Reed in there somewhere.

John Wayne was from Iowa.

They’re all from Iowa.

HA!

(Donna Reed would have been #6. There’s a great truck stop in Dennison.)

Those people are all from Iowa! We’ve been had! And Henry Wallace isn’t even on the list!

Damn Iowans and their Iowa trickery.

We’re a crafty bunch of people.

This is like the time we torn down the goal posts in the Metrodome after beating the Gophers!

Judy Garland, Chi Chi LaRue, Andrew Cunanan, Miss Richfield 1981, Terry Gilliam.

Andrew Cunanan! He was a Californian who was only in town long enough to kill two of his friends! If you’re looking for gay local killers, you might as well go for William Williams, who at least stuck around after killing his boyfriend and his mother long enough to get executed in a horribly botched hanging.

Max, you have to know by now we latch onto anyone we even gives a fleeting of interest in our little burg of a state.

I’m coming for you, kwatt.

Cunanan did start a hell of a murder spree here. He’s on my crime map.

Here he is, in fact. Took me a hell of a long time to find the actual starting place.

I’m ready for you, bob.

Come get some — pilgrim!

kwatt, we can do it again in a week and a half!

Dave Frishberg, Bill Berry (actually born in Duluth; R.E.M. hasn’t been the same since he left), Thomas Friedman, Barret Eugene Hansen (a.k.a. Dr. Demento), Charles Schulz, and Peter Schjeldahl (although he actually was born in Fargo).

Alive or dead? Neither?

1. Hubert Humphrey. I’m very proud of our Happy Warrior regardless of what happened (or didn’t happen) in 1968.

2. Bob Dylan. He has done more to advance American popular music than any white artist since George Gershwin or Irving Berlin.

3. Charles Lindbergh. He had his faults but his pluses outweighed his minuses in my opinion.

4. Betty Crocker. She turned the world on with a smile decades before Mary Richards was even a gleam in her parents’ eyes.

5. Amos Heilicher. One-time owner of SOMA Records, rack-jobber and music retailer. He recently passed away.

That Colt Marion Robert Morrison is brandishing would only drill harmess holes in The Thing From Another World’s plant body, DouglasG. You got to cook him with electricity.

BTW, The Duke and Marshal Dillon were good friends, and a good word from Wayne landed Arness in his most famious teevee role, on Gunsmoke.

P.S. I could also easily substitute Richard Schulze, founder of Best Buy, for Amos, too. Say what you want about the present company but it took talent to grow a business from one Sound of Music storefront (in West St. Paul!) into a multi-billion dollar international electronics retailer.

I would like to see the movie in which Peter Graves plays one of his many scientist characters who save the world from monsters (Beginning of the End, Invaders from Space, etc.) have to deal with James Arness’s Thing from Another World. They would fight and then … realize they are brothers.

Arness hated the Thing, by the way. Refused to go to the screenings. Said he looked like a big carrot. Perhaps that’s why he battled giant ants in Them!, rather than play a ginat ant.

I asked for both TFAW and Them as Christmas DVDs. I hope Santa has copies of these classics at his workshop!

Well, he’s not going to fight him. No he’s not going to fight him. The hell he’s not! (paraphrase on a John Wayne line from McLintock)

Tom Friedman
Terry Gillam
Dahm Triplets
Moonlight Graham
Tammy Fay Messner

Robert Vaughn – the man from U.N.C.L.E!

He graduated in the same class as my dad from North High.
Born in New York but moved to MN as a youngster also attended the U of M school of Journalism.

Can I name my least favorite instead? Also, is that including or excluding MNSpeakers?

Arthur Fry, Lorenzo music, Jessica Lange, Laura Ingalls Wilder….And the Congdons.