BEST BEACH

Take your air-conditioned SUVs up to your cool cabins and your crystal clear lakes. Relax on your swaying docks with your cooperative kids. Grill your lake fish and frolic by your campfires. We'll take the gravelly shore and the half-nude punk rockers. The teens smoking ditchweed beneath that bony tree with gnarled roots. The bad mustaches and the hacky-sack game that knows no end. Keep your gargling loons at sunset. We've got the Burlington Northern belching and thundering in the distance, and the keening of day campers across the water as they pull one another's swimsuits wedgie-ward with wicked intent. Wanna know the truth? We prefer dogs with personality disorders. We like muddy lake bottoms that suck on one's feet like a wet dental mold. To us, the faint scent of organic decay is an aphrodisiac. We think it looks sexy to shake cigarette butts from our thighs as we brush off the sand. Keep your outstate idylls. We've got summer in the city, and it smells like Cedar Lake.

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  • BEST COLUMNIST (1)
    2008-12-18 19:29:18
    I was Patrick's sports editor at the St. Paul papers in the early 1980s and it was one of my...
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    2008-12-16 10:53:25
    What the hell are you recommending here? This place sounds more like a club for gentlemen. Is...
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    2008-11-03 15:38:20
    Barbette's used to be good; i would say they peaked in 2004. Since then, they have been going...
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    2008-11-01 20:07:22
    wow i am stumped this gut is just plain not funny and a real dipsh-t if you were to ask...
  • BEST BAND NAME (2)
    2008-10-22 19:52:07
    Shouls have have been Best Band award!

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