Regional Differences
May. 9th, 2004 12:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gerisullivanSo, I'm in N'Awlins this weekend, staying with Guy and Rosy Lillian, who live just on the south edge of City Park, for those who know the city. And working on the Noreascon 4 Souvenir Book, which Guy is editing. I'm doing the design and layout.
The guest bedroom is at the front of their apartment, which is on of three or four apartments in an early 1900s house that's clearly not a South Minneapolis 4-square Victorian, but bears a remarkable similarity to the large houses on Park Avenue and such.
Today just so happened to be when the street was having a block party. The first sign that block parties are Different Here came when Rosy told me the price to attend was $25/person. In Lyndale Neighborhood, everybody just brought some food along for a potluck.
But the best part came later, round about 11pm, long after respectable Minnesota block parties are long over. That's when the live band started here.
I told Guy I was hoping to hear some music while I was in town. Silly me; I thought we'd have to go to a bar or club to find it....
(It's even reasonably good music.)
The guest bedroom is at the front of their apartment, which is on of three or four apartments in an early 1900s house that's clearly not a South Minneapolis 4-square Victorian, but bears a remarkable similarity to the large houses on Park Avenue and such.
Today just so happened to be when the street was having a block party. The first sign that block parties are Different Here came when Rosy told me the price to attend was $25/person. In Lyndale Neighborhood, everybody just brought some food along for a potluck.
But the best part came later, round about 11pm, long after respectable Minnesota block parties are long over. That's when the live band started here.
I told Guy I was hoping to hear some music while I was in town. Silly me; I thought we'd have to go to a bar or club to find it....
(It's even reasonably good music.)
