Secrets of the City

umm… Minneapolis Raceway in Minneapolis, Kansas?
I’m not much of a fan of round & round style racing anyway.
Someday I’d like to find my way to Elkhart Lake, WI…

It took only minutes for someone to find the joke link. Yep, Minneapolis, Kansas.

Laughing out loud at Kate Parry and the Star Tribune. They think a class on freedom of information is going to turn their paper around? Ha! Ya, that will bring the youngens back.

Yeah, did you know the government has been hiding very secret information on Strib readers’ favorite body parts? See, if the Strib only knew how to dig stuff out that the government’s been keeping secret all these years, they wouldn’t have to have the reader surveys.

Correct url for MN RollerGirls story in Pulse: http://www.pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=2289

Damn.

It’s easy to forget that underneat all the legend and hype and antics, Prince is one seriously bad-ass guitarist.

Kinda nice to be reminded now and then.

That ‘CCO thing on the Twin Cities was pretty interesting. Funny that Minneapolis bombast was what got the “Twin Cities” moniker going.

Besides being a couple hot sets, Saturday’s SNL featured the best “The Prince Show” sketch yet, though I kept hoping the man himself would walk on…

Hey! I click on the Rollergirls link and get some STrib story on “Freedom of Information”. Yeah, sure! In the STrib? *wink wink* *nudge nudge*

Link fixed.

Voltage’s Anna Lee: shades of Perry Farrell hubris.

I know you people are gonna read Marsh’s wisecrack and say, “That’s a pretty dated reference,” but I asked my dad and he pointed out that they still hold Lollapaloozas, kinda, so it’s actually valid.

Is this Porno For Pyros?

I thought the New Yorker transplant thing was just coincidence after meeting a few, but there really is a community senior scenester of ex-junkies here.

I support Anna’s decision to take a year off of Voltage, and as a member of the Voltage committee (full disclosure: I’m the publicist), I’m relieved Voltage won’t be an iron in the fire this year. Part of the reason to take a break was simply to create space and see what comes along to fill it.

In what would have been Voltage week, Anna has taken on a role as an advisor to a group producing a show for a Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council (WACTAC) fashion show May 25th. Watch the Voltage site’s news page and this one for future developments.

Sarah — If you had actually read Anna’s press release on howwastheshow, you would know that I wasn’t making connections between Voltage and Lollapalooza–rather, drawing attention to her comments in the second paragraph, about how the use of psychedelic drugs has helped Anna perceive the reality that the human race is “one gigantic sexual blow-up doll for the Nifilim.”

And tell your dad to fuck himself.

Dear, sweet Alexis….sigh.

ooh marsh you’re so pretty when you’re angry

Leave me alone, Sarah. I’m not into internet predators.

Re: Staying after Hazelden

In my former career as a cookie and coffee purveyor, I used to hire a lot of people who were in halfway houses after coming out of MN treatment centers, including Hazelden. They were great employees, usually terribly overqualified for entry level clerk positions. It worked out well….as long as they didn’t relapse on the job, which happened more often than I like to remember. Finding an employee in the backroom sweating and ghostly pale after taking a hit of crack is not a pleasant memory. But many of these former addicts became friends, and I learned a lot of valuable lessons from them.

Overall, I think Minnesota is a welcoming place for people in recovery. It’s not called “The Land of 10,000 Treatment Centers” for nothing.

The two most ironic people I know are apparently holding an Ironic Showdown. I could sell tickets to this event.

I was on Andrew Zimmern’s radio show on FM 107 Saturday talking about Jimmy Frey, Hazelden, and AZ’s new tea leaf addiction. He had the guy from The Tea Source in Highland Park in the studio and both of them were ooing and ahhing over these little zip lock dime baggies of tea. I love ex-junkies when they’re not inundating me with the twelvestepper positivity jargon. They obsess and geek out over stuff more easily than the rest of us uptighty Minnesotans.

I love ex-junkies when they’re not inundating me with the twelvestepper positivity jargon. They obsess and geek out over stuff more easily than the rest of us uptighty Minnesotans

terrible

What’s wrong with that? I think they’re a great addition to the community. Addicts are some of the smartest people on earth, and we need as much outsider stock as possible. Hazelden brings in a steady stream of chefs and screenwriters and other kinds of creatives.

Maybe it was your usage of the word “uptighty.”

Typo.

It just feels a little like you view junkies as entertainment, as long as they’re applying those addictive behaviors to safe obsessions and not going on about their recovery process. It struck a nerve, but I’m sure you meant no harm.

That’s exactly what I meant by the humorless twelvestepper jargon, Mike. It’s like they’re (you’re?) above being kidded with. Godforbid any irreverence towards The Recovery Process.

I’m officially vacating thestevemarshish embassy. All employees and their families should leave immediately.

I’m sure you meant no harm. stop yelling at everybody.

I didn’t use one exclaimation mark, man. Are you hung over or something?

no. why are you so angry? Plus, I’m sure you meant no harm.

I think the accepted rates of success for 12 step programs is about 1%. At least thats the AA success rate. I would think anything would give you a 1% success rate. Like glueing stuffed pandas to your body. I bet that would make at least 1% of people get off the stuff.

I’m not angry. I’m not yelling. Everything is going to be okay. No harm. No harm. It’s okay.

MNSpeak is fun when people are arguing with each other and not me!

Mike, derusha thinks MNSpeak junkies are a bunch of clowns put here solely for his amusement. Sic him, boy!

Love the stuffed pandas idea.

I’m gonna try it.

I’m too busy getting worked up about the stuffed pandas. MNSpeak is fun when you find yourself in an argument, too.

JD – would you like us to start a critique of the local media? I’d happily take the lead!

Wait… let’s get back to the pandas. And Marsh called all you people “uptighty!”

Go for it, Kevin. I can’t wait.

Dear, sweet Alexis….sigh.

What? My typo? I’d just woken up, sorry.

That Prince was good, wasn’t he?

You people are uptighty. I’m going to stand by my assesment, even if it did come off all assesmenty.

Not derusha though. That guy is ballscrazy.

I’ve never been more proud than I am at this exact moment. I wonder if I can use that quote on my resume: “That guy is ballscrazy.”

Yes, Jason, but are you hip?

Man, Steve Marsh was on a roll in this one.