Just feeling nostalgic.
• Nordeast Minneapolis
• Surdyk’s
• Surdyk’s Cheese Shop
• The unshaven, misanthropic Surdyk’s Cheese Shop workers — Can I try a slice of … that one?
• Nye’s
• Psycho Suzy’s Motor Lounge
• Room in the back yard for a vegetable garden, an herb garden, and a butterfly garden
• Fish & chips at Brit’s Pub
• Aloof disdain for the Mall of America
• Guthrie Theater
• Jungle Theater
• Walker Arts Center
• The Lagoon Theater
• Bryant Lake Bowl
• Dykes Do Drag
• The Mississippi River
• Progressive politics
• City Hall
• The Skyway
• Lake Calhoun
• Watching the joggers, rollerbladers and cyclists at Lake Calhoun
• Lakewood Cemetary
• The luminescent Target Corp. tower
• Loring Park
• Minnehaha Falls
• Stone Arch Bridge
• St. Anthony Main
• Let It Be Records
• Big Brain Comics
• The Capitol
• The House of Cards parking ramp
• ’80s night at The Saloon
• Doc, the best bartender I’ve ever seen
• Professing hatred for The Gay ’90s but going there to dance in the retro bar anyway
• Minnesota Public Radio
• People who know where Lake Wobegon is
• St. Paul’s Cathedral
• Caribou Coffee
• The straight kickboxer bartender at Trikkx who worked shirtless during happy hour
• Disagreeing with the snobby, joyless movie reviews in CityPages
• The stupid-looking banner of the Star Tribune
• The Minnesota State Fair
• St. Paul
• All my friends
... but enough about me 