I’ve spent very little time in the Midwest (although, for some reason, I keep getting sent there by the international human rights organization where I work), so when I visit I’m genuinely, unironically interested in this vast part of our diverse nation. What Minnesota lacks in flatness, it makes up for in lakes. And, here I saw the mighty 2340-mile Mississippi River for the first time! We shocked some locals by being from New York City. I saw political ads for Al Franken. And a lot of public access channels. And weird late night advertising the benefits of going to chef school. And advertisements paid for by the corn refiners’ association of America telling us that popsicles and other products with high fructose corn syrup are actually totally fine and cool and not unhealthy in moderation. And perhaps most amazingly, I finally got a chance to eat waffles WITH BACON IN THE WAFFLES.
Check out this dork standing in front of the house lived in by 1970s fictional character Mary Richards on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Rhoda and Phyllis lived there too.
Song: Capturing the melancholy underlying this change in seasons, but at the same time fairly soaring. Autumn song series starting next week.
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