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June 13, 2007
Adventures in the Flatlands

A journalist can only take so many late hours, leftover chicken salad wraps and unreturned phone calls before he needs a break.

Sorry class, but I'll be away for a few days enjoying the sights, sounds and smells of the Middle Coast.

Yes, I speak of Minnesota, specifically Minneapolis.

I'm off to my best friend's wedding, making sure he shows up at the altar coherent and without warrants or facial lacerations.

Here is what I hope to accomplish with this trip:


1.) See my beloved Twins play, even if it is at the baggy dome.

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Photos courtesy of The Bacon Street Archives


2.) Enjoy a Midwestern beer, perhaps a Leinenkugel's, a Goose Island, or an Old Style or a Grain Belt Premium.


3.) Have some cheese curds, otherwise known as poutine's hardy, fun-lovin' Midwestern cousin


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If there's one thing people should know about Minnesota, it's that it's not all this:

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There's also some of this:

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See you Monday.

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Justin is a former newspaper intern and has the scar tissue to prove it. Justin has been a staff writer for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram since 2003, and in 2004 began writing a weekly column in the Monday Magazine.

If he had to pick a label, the column would fall under "youth culture," covering everything from high school dance etiquette, dealing with college debt, the resurgence of Roller Derby and Portland's one-of-a-kind music scene. This of course has not stopped him from answering letters to Santa Claus or writing about his experience riding shotgun in a drift car.

Justin is an export from the Midwest. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri and is originally from Minnesota. He enjoys bacon, cheap beer, redheads, Burt Reynolds jokes and wondering what the soundtrack to his life would sound like.

When he grows up he wants to be an international art thief. Or Captain America.

Until then he'll be bringing you dispatches about "the young people" and what they do.





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