Middle of Minneapolis

Ok, I don’t want to make a list of events so I’m just going to talk about one of my favorite thing I’ve encountered in Minneapolis (besides free lunch). This kid I call Pear. He lives in a cave and swims across the Mississippi River every day. He also volunteers at collectives all over town and knows a lot of useful information. Tomorrow we are getting up early to go do free yoga and then I will be painting unicorns on a shed in the back of International House of Mancakes, an awesome collective house. Then more yoga. Then we’re racing an alley cat (street bike race), hopefully on a tandem.

We’re currently staying at a house called Dead Squirrel Beach. It’s to be evicted in a couple of weeks because I think nobody has paid rent in a year…? Whatever, the place is owned by Chase Bank or something. Since the house is going away they let me paint a mural in the living room. I painted Bono’s face, the best I could remember it, because his name was the first word in our morning game of scrabble. Besides, what’s better to paint on a wall that is soon to be painted over? Anything, probably… But all I had was make-up brushes and finger paints.

Well, anyway, from an educated standpoint, Minneapolis is ridiculously easy to get by in with no money. The city is filled with people who are into work trades, free food, creative alternatives, etc. I don’t want to leave.

Here's a few pictures. There's a whole lot more at ultimateplunge.stlcamp.org

The Iowa Farm:



Nahant Marsh, Nahant Iowa



MINNEAPOLIS!
Zuchinni gift from Bobby, lunch at Seward Cafe

Ahmed fixing my flat at the Grease Pit

Regulations show, we got in by offering to help clean up after the show. Dropdead also played.

Dead Squirrel Beach