Photo and blog post by John Hoff
So maybe I visited some relatives a few days ago. And maybe I had some souvenirs of North Minneapolis with me, a couple toy cars I found inside a desk drawer in the dumpster behind 2700 Morgan Ave. N. a few months ago.
I thought it would be cool to bring these little cars to a wholesome country environment, where they could have a new life.
I must say, my relatives are pretty casual about the all stuff I do in North Minneapolis...
They live far out in the sticks, the kind of place where residents wave to passing cars and if you don't wave back, the residents might follow you, a high-powered rifle at the ready in a gun rack in the cab of their jacked-up truck. The fact these toy cars were from a house of ill-repute didn't bother my country mouse relatives. After all, my family is nothing if not incredibly committed to an ultra-green, dumpster-o-centric, scrounge-o-matic freegan lifestyle. Check out the books I've written on the subject of dumpster diving, click here.
So washing the cars with hot, soapy water was good enough. They're clean, now. They no longer have germs of ill-repute.
My little relative, pictured above, who just loves toy cars (click here) promptly named the vehicles "Herbie and Doug." That's when I found out all his toy cars have individual names, and he remembers each of them.
When I last saw them, "Herbie and Doug" had forgotten all about their traumatic past life in North Minneapolis, and were happily chasing each other, talking in an animated fashion.
Being the amazing, true-to-life adventures and (very likely) misadventures of a writer who seeks to take his education, activism and seemingly boundless energy to North Minneapolis, (NoMi) to help with a process of turning a rapidly revitalizing neighborhood into something approaching Urban Utopia. I am here to be near my child. From 02/08 to 06/15 this blog pushed free speech to the envelope, so others could take heart and speak unafraid. Email me at hoffjohnw@gmail.com
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4 comments:
Yeah for freeganism!
T Jaramillo
Hey John,
As in the previous post where you mentioned your book, you have to use a different hyperlink. The one above in your post leads nowhere helpful.
Use this link to see <a href="http://www.paladin-press.com/product/818/Making_Money> John's books </a>.
This is the link as an address: http://www.paladin-press.com/product/818/Making_Money
It looks like the Hawkman is still the king of leaving clickable hyperlinks in the comment section.
Kanoyes, you were so close. You just needed to put this " at the end of the link and the html would have worked. So click here to go to that hyperlink.
Doh!
Hawkman, you have saved the day once again. My hero! (sighing, flickering of eyelids)
Thanks for the catch.
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