i fucking love it here
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Saturday, 21 January 2012 03:18 (twelve years ago) link
are you there? it seems like it'd be icy and dismal right now!
I want to go back there some day. I have only been once.
― mh, Saturday, 21 January 2012 04:58 (twelve years ago) link
it's icy and dismal in such a great way tho
― long duk dan (dan m), Saturday, 21 January 2012 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
^^^for real. i ~thought~ it might be terrible to be here in the winter, but it's much better than the icy and dismal you get down in the cities. at least here there's the lake and the hill and the trees and the giant industrial structures to add some flavor.
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Saturday, 21 January 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
icy and dismal giant industrial structures sound great, actually
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Saturday, 21 January 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
dude I am totally planning a Day of Shooting here. Found a spot thats perfect---giant structures (and ships!) that's slightly overgrown, totally empty. Was gonna go today but it's overcast and would like to catch it in strong directional light.
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Saturday, 21 January 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
sounds great! don't underestimate overcast days - if the light is still bright, it's like a giant softbox and makes everything kind of 'glow'
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Saturday, 21 January 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
Duluth is haunted
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 21 January 2012 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
hmmm
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Saturday, 21 January 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
Two things I remember about Duluth:
1. A terrible Chinese restaurant that was run by non-Chinese people who had, like, backpacked in China in the 60s or something.
2. They told me if I fell into Lake Superior I'd be dead in five minutes.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 21 January 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
they were right
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Saturday, 21 January 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
I just remember there being some cool old industrial buildings, a day when I arrived there being a little over 80 degrees and the locals complaining about it being "so hot", and some murder mansion I toured!
― mh, Saturday, 21 January 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
guys i am bored
i really like it here but i don't like not having friends and living out of a bag in a hotel. it is 730 and i just want to shoot the shit with bros somewhere but it's looking like another night of pizza + skyrim
can't go to fitgers because i have been grabbing a beer there after work like every other day and its making me feel self-conscious and everywhere else looks hell of local
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Thursday, 2 February 2012 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
Pizza Luce?
― Burritos are one of the things I'm nostalgic about!!! (Eazy), Thursday, 2 February 2012 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
oh yeah
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Thursday, 2 February 2012 01:29 (twelve years ago) link
How long has that pizza luce been there? btw they are tasty
― mh, Thursday, 2 February 2012 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
apparently there is a bluegrass jam somewhere downtown (stfu i like bluegrass) that could be dece
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Thursday, 2 February 2012 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
what this town needs is a burgeoning black metal scene
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Thursday, 2 February 2012 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
I kind of want to go to Duluth sometime
― mh, Thursday, 2 February 2012 02:27 (twelve years ago) link
I like it
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Thursday, 2 February 2012 02:28 (twelve years ago) link
Burgeoning taconite scene
― Burritos are one of the things I'm nostalgic about!!! (Eazy), Thursday, 2 February 2012 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
burgeoning red metal amirite
thirsty pagan in superior has shows and ok beermy gf liked the roundup on 4th street E
― long duk dan (dan m), Thursday, 2 February 2012 04:36 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/enews/breaking/Duluth-Vikings-Stadium-Proposed-139025839.html
I loled
― long duk dan (dan m), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
not a terrible idea tbh.
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
how much longer are you up there mang, trying to figure out a weekend to cruise up there with k. also are you blindingly busy so it wouldnt really matter anyway?
― Thu'um gang (jjjusten), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
I'm back now!
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
oh ha
― Thu'um gang (jjjusten), Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
lets get drinks soon then
I'm down
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLZBS3HCs-Y
― Wild Flag Post (dan m), Monday, 27 February 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
PHC did a show up there last weekend
kinda don't know what to think of this story
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2012/02/27/grand-marais-older-men-pursuing-teen-girls/
the courthouse shooting that prodded (conservative) lawmakers into changing gun laws in courthouses stemmed from a sex crime case with its own p bizarre story
― goole, Monday, 27 February 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
"Back in them days, it was acceptable," said Perry Wilson, who is quick to defend his friend Schlienz. "That's the way it was — 16-, 17-year-old girls; that was their boyfriends back then was a 25-year-old guy."
In Grand Marais, most people know Wilson by his nickname, "Proof," short for "Hundred Proof.""In this town all you need to pick up a 16-year-old high school girl is a nice-looking truck or a nice car."- Perry Wilson
Wilson, now 53, arrives at a local cafe unshaven, in sweatpants and a jacket. Over coffee, he said that in his 20s he could have been jailed for his own exploits with teenage girls, during what he calls his "heyday." But he stops short of admitting to criminal sexual conduct.
Wilson also is adamant that he and other adult men did not pursue the girls. He said the girls pursued them.
"That's the way it's always been since man was born. The younger girls chase the older guys. Everybody thinks it's the older guys chasing younger girls, [but] that's wrong," he said. "It ain't that way. In this town, all you need to pick up a 16-year-old high school girl is a nice-looking truck or a nice car."
― goole, Monday, 27 February 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
Hah, I was about to paste the exact same section.
That guy is a treat
― valleys of your mind (mh), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
I was in Duluth on Thursday. Found the Graffiti Graveyard.
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
Wait, that is newsworthy? I thought that was somewhat common in every small Midwestern town ever. Meaning the 25 year old dude that can't get over his glory days and still dates the high school girls mostly because thats his peer group. I mean, definitely creepy and awful, but not particularly earth-shattering is it?
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
Okay wait, I see now that this particular case was a dude even older than that and not quite the scenario referenced at the start of the article.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
No one said it was earth shattering
― valleys of your mind (mh), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
it's newsworthy because the courthouse shooting by the man convicted was a huge deal
― goole, Monday, 27 February 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I should have withheld comment until I read the whole article. My first post was just after reading the headline and intro paragraph, which I think kinda sells the whole story a little short.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, this:
In Grand Marais, pattern emerges of older men pursuing teen girls
GRAND MARAIS, Minn. — Beth Kennedy first heard the stories 34 years ago.
Not long after she moved to Grand Marais with her husband and 11-year-old daughter, people in the community told her that older men were pursuing and having sex with high school girls.
"We started hearing about these 20-, 25-, 30-year-old men who were constantly at football games, around the teenage girls, and who somehow believed that it was a great thing to be sleeping with virgins," she said. "And I was aghast."
... doesn't really clue you in to the real story here.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 27 February 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
dazed-and-confused.jpg
― catbus otm (gbx), Monday, 27 February 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
i think this is pretty hard to judge tbh
the article goes up to the line in saying that 25+ dudes going after strings of -18 girls was a uniquely bad problem in grand marais. sure it happens all over but it turned into some kind of uh 'lifestyle' up there. that's sort of what the whole case implies, but who knows? as characterized by this journalist, there is an "entrenched minority" in the town that feels that schleinz was railroaded for something nbd. the city's legal/social organs thought it was something close a public health menace.
crazy stuff either way tho
― goole, Monday, 27 February 2012 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
The population of Grand Marais is 1,351 according to ye olde wikipedia. I'd guess the school district is a bit bigger, but still... that is not a lot of teenage girls in total
― valleys of your mind (mh), Monday, 27 February 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
great bad weather pics
minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2012/02/29/photos-duluth-blizzard/
― Wild Flag Post (dan m), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
http://images.publicradio.org/content/2012/02/29/20120229_blizzard5_53.jpg
― Wild Flag Post (dan m), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
spending one year anniversary in THE AIR CONDITIONED CITY yall
― Rachel Profiling (jjjusten), Thursday, 26 April 2012 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
boss
― catbus otm (gbx), Thursday, 26 April 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
any decent websites about shows etc that might be going on that you can recommend?
― Rachel Profiling (jjjusten), Thursday, 26 April 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
honestly have no clue, even when I was up there I found it difficult to get a feel for what was happening where. when I went out, I typically went to fitgers.
― catbus otm (gbx), Thursday, 26 April 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link