Secrets of the City

I will join

I am interested, but how would the draft work? Sep. 4 is Labor Day; I may be out of town or otherwise incapacitated.

If I were playing in the all Vikings sleaze league, Dwight Smith would be my first pick. Picked up in the stairwell at 601 1st Av. N… Isn’t there a nice hotel there. Get a room Dwight. Or is your favorite pick up line, “Hey baby, wanna make it in a nice comfortable stairwell?”

The hotel was pretty well sold out & asking ~$400 for walk up rooms on Sat nite…in spite of his $1.2 mil salary for this year, Smith probably felt like renting a room and only using for 10 minutes was a waste of time. While we’re on the topic of sleazy pro atheletes & celebrities, I saw Dennis Rodman @ Manny’s on Saturday night, and Chelsea Clinton (daughter of a rather sleazy fellow) in Starbucks Block E Saturday morning…no idea what Rodman was doing in Minneapolis, but rumor has it Chelsea was in town to attend a friend’s wedding. CJ ain’t got nothing on me, dawg.

Grote: what a night. We met Saturday night.. then you saw Dennis Rodman. Wow.

And congratulations to the 24-year-old woman from Hudson who got busted with Dwight Smith. Awesome. A story you’ll be able to tell for life. Well done.

Sorry…I failed to mention that I also met a local celebrity…our very own Jason Derusha. It was one of those awkward moments when you’re not sure whether to introduce yourself as yourself or as your web alias. I went with the, “first name”, “last name”, you know me as “web handle”. Had a momentary thought about rearraning the web handle ala James Bond (Rote, G-Rote). I’m glad my wife realized who Jason was, otherwise we would have spent a good part of dinner discussing why I have online relationships with men who wear makeup while walking around downtown…just kidding JD.

Now that I think about it, Jason had on more makeup than Chelsea OR Rodman. Nice work.

I imagine Jason would look rather fetching with bee-stung lips.

Whoops. Nope.

Oh, I see the prole. He needs the rest of the makeup.

Much better!

lovely…

I was walking down the street, and this dude lowers his car window. I figured he was going to ask for directions, so I walked over. What’s funny is grote’s wife gets out of the car… and G sits inside with the engine running talking to me. Finally we told him to get out of the car.

And really, I had more makeup on than Rodman? Wow. Just trying not to look too pasty on the teevee.

I wanted to be sure I wasn’t in a handicapped spot, and I was so completely starstruck that I forgot how to operate the vehicle.

lol

Rodman was in town as host for the “Pimps and Hoes” Ball at Spin on Sat. Not sure if he went as a pimp or ho though…

As a life-long Piston’s fan, I wanted to introduce myself to Rodman, but the best icebreaker I could think of was “I don’t know if you remember, but I played basketball with you during the summer of 1989 at the Detroit Jewish Community Center”…certainly not one of my stronger pick-up lines. For Chelsea all I could think of was, “geez…you’re not as ugly in person as I thought you would be”

I observed the Pimps and Hoes at the State Fair Saturday night. Goodness. People– cover up.

Apparently, they followed up with an appearance in a Block E stairwell later that evening….

Ooops, that was a Minnesota Viking, not a ‘pimp’!

I’m up for the league if you need another.