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rockinrehab

suffer my wrath part deux

Apr 14, 2005 17:00

Big Lake is a small but quickly growing city located northwest of Minneapolis on the edge of the metropolitan area. From its origin as a railroad stop in the late nineteenth century, Big Lake has grown to a exurban community of 6,000 people. The city works closely with the township of the same name that surrounds it. The small historic core, ( Read more... )

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KCUF BIg LACK hydrallus April 15 2005, 00:43:44 UTC

Dude, my roomate in the dorms at UMD was from Big Lake.

His name was Karl and he came after me with a baseball bat. I called him Karl the snarl and kicked him out.. then I got kicked out and he took the room back. He had this fat girlfriend that was always ontop of him when I came in the room.. despite the fact he was preaching his religious beliefs.

I went to a Halloween show of my friend's former band Captian I in Big Lake once at this bar. I hate that fucking town. Its like big city rednecks. NOw my best friend's parents live there, but I won't have anything to do with it.

midgette April 15 2005, 05:03:34 UTC

My family had a cabin on Big Eagle Lake..just north of Big Lake. To me, it was sad watching the old quaint cabins get bulldozed to make room for these ridiculously huge 4-season homes disgustingly rich people were building. "Progress"...developments....ugly soulless cul-de-sacs. I haven't been to the lake in a few years. Last time was depressing because of the aforementioned reasons. Developments started going in on "our" lake in the late 80s, I think. That's when the big building boom started? But even as a kid back then the area where our cabin was (was my great-grandparents cabin) still held some of the simplicity and rural charm and "country feeling" similar to how it probably was in the 40s & 50s, etc. Now the area is fastly becoming unrecognizable and ugly. The dirt roads are paved. The pond and creek got bulldozed to make room for boring housing developments. It's sad.

So that's my Big Lake story.

My cousin also lives there now in a shitty apartment and works at a crappy bank job.

rockinrehab April 16 2005, 21:14:11 UTC

see i should have talked to you before i wrote this instead of just looking at a map of the city and census.gov and guessing about everything else

midgette April 16 2005, 22:10:04 UTC

Why the interest in Big Lake? I don't know that much of what's going on with Big Lake now...I just have some "old school" BL ties. Interesting, I have another cousin who recently moved to Monticello with her fiance...for a lot of the exburb reasons. It's growing very fast out there.

rockinrehab April 17 2005, 17:42:11 UTC

that was a paper I wrote for my 'metro fringe challenges' class. i posted the paper here because i don't have a word processor with a spell check. i guess i chose big lake because its the terminus of the northstar line. it is growing very fast. people move there because it has a rural feel, but that is soon gone when they realize other people moved there too.

point40bac April 15 2005, 05:08:21 UTC

Were you drunk when you wrote this?

2 MINNY WURDS lesion April 15 2005, 13:58:38 UTC

gud thing i kant reed

Re: 2 MINNY WURDS rockinrehab April 16 2005, 21:18:08 UTC

I also think Kant was a fascinating philosopher, even if I ultimately must reject the majority of his theories. I particularly find his essay "on Enlightenment" to be interesting for its self-contradictions which I find so obvious (and thought-provoking) but did not seem so to this German living three centuries ago.

Re: 2 MINNY WURDS rockinrehab April 16 2005, 21:47:07 UTC

ps check this out

Re: 2 MINNY WURDS lesion April 17 2005, 01:39:38 UTC

check what out?

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lickerish April 21 2005, 18:38:54 UTC

You're a monk!

rockinrehab April 21 2005, 20:45:03 UTC

Life in a monestary ain't so bad... the food sucks, but the sex is great!

and a journal for your sexploits lickerish April 21 2005, 20:50:03 UTC

www.wankingmonk.blogspot.com?