MINNESOTA

The seasons are quite drastic there
it's very enjoyable to see and to feel
the changes

i lived in a basement for a while
i don't even recall for how long
but it was definitely through a winter
i had one small window over my head
it was usually covered by snow
letting just a soft
white light
in

the colors are fantastic
around fall
really, they are
phenomenal
good beer drinking weather

It's a good place to drink beer
everybody does it
drinking beer outside
in minnesota
feels quite good

or even from a bar
like the gopher
or skinners
where you have a window outside
to the color
but you're probably not gonna leave
til the night
but
even then
there's color

the summers are hot though
good for fourth of july parties on the banks
of the saint croix

music and such
things

In chinese, Chun Tian means spring
Tian means sky
which is very Chun,
apparently

the snow is melting down the streets
channeling down Ohio
flooding the mississippi
birds and things
rain
also a change in attitude
the snow is gone
go to Paul's painting studio perhaps
color
color
color

people outside
mexicans
the bars are all naked
on the outside
in new world light
and
reek of winter on the inside
and I walk
i walked so much
down the high bridge
up the wabasha one
all the way to midway
they were tearing up university
to put in trains
usually I had no money
but i could smell the food
everywhere
and maybe Paul would pick me up
at some random intersection

get yer BYE BYE LAO WAI get yer RED ARROW SKY

Long

Night

in


Riyadh

LITERATURE

BYE BYE LAO WAI   IS HERE!
Twenty-first Century Migrant Teachers in Zhong Hua 

The Graphic Novel

MUNICIPAL

The Minneapolis skyline scoffs indignantly at its new neighbors

Bureaucratic Error Builds Nuclear Power Station Instead of Football Stadium Governor Dayton still doesn't know where he is
(KB)  MINNEAPOLIS - A major gaffe which occurred somewhere in the conduit between the state chambers and Hennepin County has left the city of Minneapolis with a 7,400 percent energy surplus.  
"But where will the Vikings play?" asks Ron Schlop, showing up in a team jersey and with a package of wieners.  "As a taxpayer, this really ticks me off.  I mean, we paid for a stadium, not this smoldering pile of crap."
Governor Dayton was also at the site today, apparently waiting for the game to begin.   He had a cup of beer and a foam finger to cheer on his hometown team.  "Isn't it wonderful?" he said, "Just a beautiful facility here.  Bang-up job.  Just beautiful.  GO VIKES!"
State Comptroller, Nancy Titt, places blame on Hennepin County officials.   "The money was allocated and passed the legislature and signed as a bill.  That money was then transferred to the proper county officials and subsequently released from our control yet still mandated for public use.  Whatever facility the city has constructed remains completely outside of our responsibility.  Besides, Russ Brandt is a lying, dirty, lecherous slimeball!"  
The Minnesota Vikings are a National Football League franchise that hasn't won a game since November 27, 1994 when they outed Tampa Bay 2 - 0.  
   

MUSIC

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THE ARTS

For art, visit the following pages:
http://paulrolfes.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/this-time-its-different-13/

http://www.paulrolfesart.com/

Thread the needle, dude.