The Current (MN public radio), is currently playing music from John Hughes’ movies.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/the_current/streams.shtml
Nothing more perfect at this moment.
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I am two weeks and one day away from the Christmas holiday/my friends and family/time off. I am counting the days. I have been in a bit of a ‘what the hell am I doing with my life?’ crisis, so a week and a half without email and conference calls at all hours of the day is a beautiful thing.
As you can see from the first photo, I am leaving an island where the average temperature is about 30 C and willingly taking a trip to what looks like an Arctic tundra. The degrees are negative! This makes my email-less vacation a little less beautiful, but I’ll make do.
So, there is a new gimmick in one of the malls here. The mall built a structure that looks like a life-sized snowglobe for willing participants to hang out in -3 C room. What kind of masochists willingly line up to throw themselves into a life-sized snowglobe in the middle of a mall? (Don’t worry, I’m heading back there this weekend to find out!)
At the same time, I have to wonder if I am the crazy person returning to the tundra…or if my family and friends are the actual crazy people for living there permanently. (My bet is on them.)
Always have to reblog cool Minnesota things. And this is a pretty cool Minnesota thing.
Holy crap. A girl named Nicole Meyer is rebranding every single lake in Minnesota… one each day for the next 27 years. What an awesome project.
http://www.branding10000lakes.com
(Via W+K Studio blog)
I should have planned a trip home to Minneapolis instead of Incheon/Seoul. I haven’t been to a good concert in ages.
Oh well.
The food in Korea is (hands down) awesome compared to whatever I would stuff myself with at the Minnesota State Fair.*
Except for cheese curds. Nothing can take the place of fried cheese.
At the Minnesota state fair last year, nestled among the rides and the livestock displays, one snack vendor had an unusual offering: camel on a stick.
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The state has been a national leader in refugee resettlement programmes since the 1980s, and its main metropolis, the twinned cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, has adopted a series of initiatives aimed at supporting refugees of all kinds as well as regular migrants.
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Minneapolis is enjoying the benefits of immigration while avoiding the backlash seen elsewhere in America. Other ageing cities should take note. (via theeconomist)
*I love Minnesota for this reason: growing up with Hmong markets and Vietnamese Pho in the Midwest is something I took for granted. But as the article eludes, it’s not easy. My best friend at home is an elementary school teacher and I have visited her classes in the past. Teaching a group of kindergartner’s who many not have English in their full grasp is a challenge. So, she does what she can. If there are bi-lingual kids in class, she pairs them up with other students to explain what the directions are for assignments. She spends fleeting extra minutes with students to draw/act the information for them. And, uses her bi-lingual skills if it fits. All in all, she’s more of a UN representative than a kindergarten teacher. (Even then, the UN has translators…) How much to UN reps get paid?
Search volume for the word ‘hipster’ mapped. Who’s #1? Minnesota. Chris Menning says, “Understanding why is easy.”
EVERYONE I know from Minnesota has put this up as their status; so to keep my Minnesotan license, I’m posting this as well.
The girl in front of me in the milk tea line was wearing these pants.* This leads me to believe that Zubaz could take Asia by storm.
Just trying to promote Minnesota small business…
*I have no stealth picture-taking skills, especially when I’m pretending to SMS and take a picture at the same time.
Dear friend. We received your kind letter in which you condemned the American barbarian aggression against our country and our people. We appreciate your deeply feelings towards us.
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Muammar Gaddafi in a letter to a group of second-graders in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Students wrote the dictator in 1986 to ask him to stop bombing the U.S., and he replied.
(via minnpost)
Minnesota seems to be all over my tumblr dashboard and I can’t resist a good MN reblog. I’m not sure if it’s a ‘MN letter writing thing’ or if letter writing is a topic enforced in elementary school, but I remember writing a letter to George Bush (Sr.) to help save the rain forest when I was in 5th grade. Still waiting for a response on that one…
No more than one-third of Americans have valid passports. I’ve created a choropleth map to illustrate the disparate distribution of traveling Americans. Further background and data here.
Yay Minnesota! Hold your own out there!
Al Franken Chokes Up Today on Senate Floor Over Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (via TPM)
Al Franken is one of the millions of reasons I’m proud of being from Minnesota.
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Few comments: they shouldn’t be looking at each other so directly… Obtuse angle between them and heads more bowed towards the ground while they’re directing comments to each other.
Other than that, pretty dead on.
People Keep Underestimating Al Franken
(via generic1)
Thanks for not making Minnesota look ridiculous. Appreciate it, Franken!
My bag before hopping on the plane from Minneapolis to Tokyo. Necessities on this particular ride? The inflatable travel pillow, ipod (headphones in particular) and book (Stones into Schools. Love it, you must read it.)
The old Northwest planes are just not up to par with their competition: i.e. Singapore Airlines! I ended up sitting next to a guy who is now retired after having spent his career racking up over a million miles of business travel. Now he is based in the Cities and travels around seeing his friends. Good guy; we were able to chat about what airline crews do when someone dies on a plane (we were a riot, I know) among other travel adventures. I made the mistake of chatting too much with him at the beginning of the flight. I had to keep my headphones in my ears the remainder of the flight even if I wasn’t listening to anything…you know, just to make sure I was too preoccupied to chat.
My friends tell me I didn’t miss much at the Great Minnesota Get-together this year. The food was the same (cheese curds, Sweet Martha’s cookies, etc), lots of people…
No one mentioned that I missed THIS!!!
About Asinine Alliteration
Minnesota gal (via NYC) transplanted in Singapore.
Unintentionally nomadic.
Sympathetic beyond my means.
Quirky at the worst of times.
