Is there anyone there?

I'm currently fighting with someone on discord over the correct name for a common Midwestern dish.

id still give him world-shattering head

It's always on my gloomiest days that the morning commute sunrise decides to hit me with something like this

Ah yes. The Midwestern perma-cloud has settled. That's how you truly know it's January. We won't see the sun for many months.

“To think of the Midwest as a whole as anything other than beautiful is to ignore the extraordinary power of the land. The lushness of the grass and trees in August, the roll of the hills (far less of the Midwest is flat than outsiders seem to imagine), the rich smell of soil, the evening sunlight over a field of wheat, or the crickets chirping at dusk on a residential street: All of it, it has always made me feel at peace. There is room to breathe, there is a realness of place. The seasons are extreme, but they pass and return, pass and return, and the world seems far steadier than it does from the vantage point of a coastal city. Certainly picturesque towns can be found in New England or California or the Pacific Northwest, but I can't shake the sense that they're too picturesque. On the East Coast, especially, these places seem to me aggressively quaint, unbecomingly smug, and even xenophobic, downright paranoid in their wariness of those who might somehow infringe upon the local charm. I suspect this wariness is tied to the high cost of real estate, the fear that there might not be enough space or money and what there is of both must be clung to and defended. The West Coast, I think, has a similar self-regard...and a beauty that I can't help seeing as show-offy. But the Midwest: It is quietly lovely, not preening with the need to have its attributes remarked on. It is the place I am calmest and most myself.”

Curtis Sittenfeld, American Wife

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Finally, someone gets it.

hey midwesterners tell me if this is normal. My house is being pelted with millions of tiny ice shards. not snow, not hail, but a noisy third thing

In the Midwest "goodbye" means "leaving in about an hour"

stacy kranitz - “from the study on post pubescent manhood”

He can still do a Wisconsin accent...

Photo Diary: The last 100 days

Days 83- 86

Visited Chicago for the first time ever. My boyfriend was flown out for a conference so I decided to tag along and explore the city on a budget! It was definitely freezing but I still had fun. Some of the highlights included: Eating a steak dinner at Bavette's, seeing Lake Michigan, the gothic architecture, and finally seeing Cloud Gate!

Unemployed in summertime / don’t need money ‘cause we’re young / we’ll be okay

Extreme Midwest Sports:

IMAGE ID: a tweet from account Midwest vs Everybody (@ midwestern_ope) reading:

"Name an extreme Midwest sport"

When the corn gets so tall that you can't see oncoming traffic at the intersection