Snakefinger, love that bizzare stuff.

Anxiety said:

There you go! Sorta defeats the benefits of the library, though doesn't it?

2freaky4church1 said:

i don't care if you're homeless or a member of the Kennedy family. if you're using a public space, you respect the people around you. period.

Then you should let them take a shower at your crib..

NDRU said:

Anxiety said:

my realtor told me she does the same thing, I was like

horatio said:

has the world really become this ???

Anxiety said:

I think that pretty much says it all!

Anxiety said:

oh, I thought it was a good idea, I wonder why I had never thought of it and some lady 30 yrs older than me offered the idea.

horatio said:

oh, shew. for a moment i thought the pod people had taken over and everyone was turning into shirley feenee or something.

Anxiety said:

Boo Boo Kitty whipped?

NDRU said:

there are things we don't know about going on out there...

This is the place being discussed in downtown Minneapolis (fill free to pencil in your own random homeless guy).

Brendan said:

that indeed would be the place.

Brendan said:

sweet!!

Brendan said:

guy standing right in front of second shelf from the left, waiting in line to check out is a cutie.


any others?
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R3V said:

you're cruising a photograph.

Anxiety said:

next best thing to being there

think he can sense the stare-down i'm giving him?
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R3V said:

are you talking about the skinny latino looking guy in the olive t-shirt?

i think personally, i would opt more for the guy with the beard and the blue shirt at the end of the line, who's talking to the blonde chick. though points off for him being straight. i don't like to bogart the het'ra ladies' man-stash. bad form.

Anxiety said:

that's him



oh yeah, yours is good too!


but what's with the library staff? they're dressed like they work at Best Buy.





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Anxiety said:

believe me, it's probably thanks to one guy that hennepin was lucky enough to hire for the benefit of all y'all
the same goes for our system too
we got recognized in a local paper for having the hippest music collection
but i know it's only because of one guy who convinced his boss to give him a piece of the budget

enjoy the tunes
i'll have to look 'em up myself

Snap said:

i think you're right. when i was a teenager, i was lucky in that the indianapolis public library's main branch downtown had the COOLEST record collection ever. i got the best music education from that place - it was the first place i heard stuff like kraftwerk, kate bush, and lots of the bowie albums i notoriously worship even to this day.

and they had a pretty cool video collection as well, but quite as amazing as the music. i heard tell that it was all because of one hipster dude who knew what he was doing in terms of using the budget to bring great music into the library.

all i can say is god bless 'em.

Anxiety said:

Uncle Lou's just started hosting a program on SIRIUS with Hal Wilner. I tuned in to some of the first show and it was a pretty eclectic mix. You can probably check it out with SIRIUS' three-day preview thingy.

As for Red Sovine, I used to have a running joke with a friend of mine that he was launching a comeback, using the Internet as his new angle (in place of the CB).

Ace said:

RSGMC.com

I've been gone so long I had no idea they had this new-fangled building for the library. But my question is, what is this trend of libraries imitating shopping malls? They put in a similar boat in San Francisco...overhauled the historical library for some modern ship with a foyer five floors high, very few walls. It's like a symphony hall, now, you can hear every whisper. What ever happened to libraries being quiet?

heartbeatocean said:

yeah, the MPLS downtown library is really amazing in its design and i was (and am) very impressed, but it does lack in the stateliness that i associate with a good, old skool library. not that i'm complaining. but i was taken aback a little bit when i realized this library had a giftshop and a cafe. it took me a minute to figure out where the actual LIBRARY was.