Ok, so our governor is a venal hypocritical ass, and Michelle Bachmann mysteriously holds office even tho Sarah Palin is a moral and intellectual giant next to her, and Norm Coleman was actually elected as a mayor and a senator and downtown St. Paul is dead dead every damn night, and we almost didn't make 130% of the pledges desired in the last NPR pledge drive and Bob Dylan won't come back and live in Hibbing and they had an Elvis Impersonator and a Bob hope impersonator in the Love the Vietnam veteran rally they had recently at the State Capitol and the army tank in Preston one day just disappeared and the new one ain't so hot, and it's hard to meet someone who speaks Icelandic any more, and Robert Bly is pretty cranky and the U of M waitlisted my daughter at the same time she was accepted at this or that Ivy and Ole and Lena jokes get old, and the St Paul Pioneer Press featured the fact the Brent Favre won't be playing for the Vikes in a FRONT PAGE headline and the Mall of America isn't attracting as many Japanese as before and we have a statue of MARY TYLER MOORE in downtown Minneapolis but
that doesn't mean that all of us say "Pop" instead of soda and "You want to come with" and that the Unitarians are dissing the Lutherans or that every bicyclist on the River Road almost knocks me down (the jerks) when I walk along it or that Al Franken ain't from here or that Jesse didn't kick some ass anent torture or that the Highland Park fair is actually hostile to banjo players or that Somalis can't easily dominate the Starbucks on Riverside drive without too many people minding or that the fact that the you can still see where home plate was in the old stadium if you go to the mall ain't nice, or that the fact that we have (as someone mentioned) gay themed seed art at the State Fair isn't pretty sweet.
No, we can still write long sentences too.
So, lay off. We have no damn idea really why some Minnesotans actually vote republican -- maybe a holdover from when we had a republican dentist as governor and we want to be kind to dentists who have to put up with a lot of shit.
We are just trying to be kind and Minnesota nice.
So, lay off and if you don't we will be sad and look at the sky in a melancholy way as we nibble on the warmed over hot dish we were eating until we were distracted by a "Prairie Home Companion" thinking "how long can this schtick last?"
Tho we don't say "schtick."
And we lost DAYTONS!
Of course things will be tough.
Thank you for caring and don't forget we love you.