> - The Buggles "Video Killed the Radio Star" The Age of
>Plastic

I heard it for the first time on my road trip to the Minnesota State fair, earlier this year. I immediately thought of the Symphony and felt better, like I'd just downed a liter of ice cold dew.

If you think Canada's cool, just try Minnesota. They believe in _rock and roll_ there. Not just that alternative stuff. People can hold a beat. Bon Jovi (pre 1992) is played. I heard Metallica. They wear jeans that are _dark blue_. They eat fried cheese curds without guilt. Their air is clean. Everyone drives pickups. They are all unfailingly polite.

Hell, they have the only Kurdish restaurant in the country, an amazing set of vietnamese restarants, fashionables like garison kellior, and yet every year thousands turn out to watch young girls' faces be carved in butter. Lifesized, classical depictions, in butter.

I watched a group clog to "The Devil came down to Georgia" in bright red-seqiuned jumpsuites. They let you shoot cross bows with real arrows at the state fair. There is no democratic party in Minnesota, only the Farmer Democrats who are closely allied with the Farmer Independents who are often allied with the Farmer Republicans who won't have anything to do with the National Republican party.

You can go 70 on all east-west freeways. Really.

Wow.

t.

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