I think what you are looking for are midwestern “villages.” The types of places where people drive small tractors to the local bar to get a quick bump at 7, 8, 9, etc. The types of places where one is often surprised by the lack of horse and buggies as the main modes of transportation. The types of places where a graduating class is considered huge if it is in excess of 20. The type of place that I call home. It’s for those very reasons that I hated Grand Forks and Fargo with a passion even though they were the most common locations to “get away” as one might say. Get away? Hah, I disagree.
Btw, you said “whatchya.” Subtle Beastie Boys reference, or the real midwestern man in you coming out? Given the blog material, I’d like to think it’s the latter.
Oh its is a combination of the two, little Midwest. little street, little funkadelic.
As for those little hamlets, I think they are slowly fading from society, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing-it is after all evolution, but it does tend to make me wistful for a bygone era, that I never knew.
Butcher, Baker, Candlestick maker, Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy, I am a bunch of things to a bunch of different people, to some I am a record label guy, to others a teacher, sometimes i am a writer, more often then not I am a producer(in a whole mess of mediums). Design seems to pay some bills as well. Most of it involves music or media of some kind. Ah for the hazy crazy carefree days of youth... come to think of it I never really had those... Beyond work, I collect a ton of stuff. But not so much as to fill up the house, I consume media, think somewhat abstract thoughts, go to the the movies, fight crime... the usual
I think what you are looking for are midwestern “villages.” The types of places where people drive small tractors to the local bar to get a quick bump at 7, 8, 9, etc. The types of places where one is often surprised by the lack of horse and buggies as the main modes of transportation. The types of places where a graduating class is considered huge if it is in excess of 20. The type of place that I call home. It’s for those very reasons that I hated Grand Forks and Fargo with a passion even though they were the most common locations to “get away” as one might say. Get away? Hah, I disagree.
Btw, you said “whatchya.” Subtle Beastie Boys reference, or the real midwestern man in you coming out? Given the blog material, I’d like to think it’s the latter.
Oh its is a combination of the two, little Midwest. little street, little funkadelic.
As for those little hamlets, I think they are slowly fading from society, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing-it is after all evolution, but it does tend to make me wistful for a bygone era, that I never knew.
…Minneapolis aint so small.
cheers/
I am the village idiot. the Villajet.