<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32097757.post115645431038464018..comments</id><updated>2007-04-16T01:53:37.100-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on northern nomad: the night before the fair</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://northernnomad2.blogspot.com/feeds/115645431038464018/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/115645431038464018/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://northernnomad2.blogspot.com/2006/08/night-before-fair.html'/><author><name>Northern Nomad</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15387051643699446437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>11</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32097757.post-115863522893353787</id><published>2006-09-18T22:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-09-18T22:07:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kate,thanks for stopping by.  I'll check out your ...</title><content type='html'>Kate,&lt;BR/&gt;thanks for stopping by.  I'll check out your photos of the fair.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/115645431038464018/comments/default/115863522893353787'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/115645431038464018/comments/default/115863522893353787'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://northernnomad2.blogspot.com/2006/08/night-before-fair.html?showComment=1158635220000#c115863522893353787' title=''/><author><name>northern_nomad</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00576114634340909244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://northernnomad2.blogspot.com/2006/08/night-before-fair.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32097757.post-115645431038464018' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/posts/default/115645431038464018' type='text/html'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32097757.post-115745182513160507</id><published>2006-09-05T05:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-09-05T05:23:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Mn bloggers have been having a field day with the ...</title><content type='html'>Mn bloggers have been having a field day with the Fair, myself included.  I think your "ticket booth" foto is great.  For more pre-Fair photos, check my visual st paul blog for August 4-6 or thereabouts.  Have a good week, Nomad!</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/115645431038464018/comments/default/115745182513160507'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/115645431038464018/comments/default/115745182513160507'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://northernnomad2.blogspot.com/2006/08/night-before-fair.html?showComment=1157451780000#c115745182513160507' title=''/><author><name>Kate</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09223040482420514208</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://northernnomad2.blogspot.com/2006/08/night-before-fair.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32097757.post-115645431038464018' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/posts/default/115645431038464018' type='text/html'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32097757.post-115731772717380203</id><published>2006-09-03T16:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-09-03T16:08:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ben,howdy... yep, no cheap motorcycles, I'm afraid...</title><content type='html'>Ben,&lt;BR/&gt;howdy... yep, no cheap motorcycles, I'm afraid.  Just... CHEESE!</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/115645431038464018/comments/default/115731772717380203'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/115645431038464018/comments/default/115731772717380203'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://northernnomad2.blogspot.com/2006/08/night-before-fair.html?showComment=1157317680000#c115731772717380203' title=''/><author><name>northern_nomad</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00576114634340909244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://northernnomad2.blogspot.com/2006/08/night-before-fair.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32097757.post-115645431038464018' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/posts/default/115645431038464018' type='text/html'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32097757.post-115693332110450427</id><published>2006-08-30T05:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-08-30T05:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A motorcycles only $4!  Wait a minutes, it's for p...</title><content type='html'>A motorcycles only $4!  Wait a minutes, it's for parking. LOL&lt;BR/&gt;Meg have just told me that it is not a motorcycle fair.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/115645431038464018/comments/default/115693332110450427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/115645431038464018/comments/default/115693332110450427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://northernnomad2.blogspot.com/2006/08/night-before-fair.html?showComment=1156933320000#c115693332110450427' title=''/><author><name>Ben</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01362171644695652901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://northernnomad2.blogspot.com/2006/08/night-before-fair.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32097757.post-115645431038464018' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/posts/default/115645431038464018' type='text/html'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32097757.post-115691692410288374</id><published>2006-08-30T00:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-08-30T00:48:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Or perhaps he's battling a goat-strangling case of...</title><content type='html'>Or perhaps he's battling a goat-strangling case of indigestion, yet.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/115645431038464018/comments/default/115691692410288374'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/115645431038464018/comments/default/115691692410288374'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://northernnomad2.blogspot.com/2006/08/night-before-fair.html?showComment=1156916880000#c115691692410288374' title=''/><author><name>phlegmfatale</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08636803080525003892</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://northernnomad2.blogspot.com/2006/08/night-before-fair.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32097757.post-115645431038464018' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/posts/default/115645431038464018' type='text/html'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32097757.post-115684492237299315</id><published>2006-08-29T04:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-08-29T04:48:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Phlegmfatale, methinks he's done a runner again.</title><content type='html'>Phlegmfatale, methinks he's done a runner again.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/115645431038464018/comments/default/115684492237299315'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/115645431038464018/comments/default/115684492237299315'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://northernnomad2.blogspot.com/2006/08/night-before-fair.html?showComment=1156844880000#c115684492237299315' title=''/><author><name>Meg Nakagawa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01350447919000146804</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://northernnomad2.blogspot.com/2006/08/night-before-fair.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32097757.post-115645431038464018' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/posts/default/115645431038464018' type='text/html'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32097757.post-115677638149373449</id><published>2006-08-28T09:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-08-28T09:46:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>howdy... alas, I didn't run away with the fair, al...</title><content type='html'>howdy... alas, I didn't run away with the fair, although that would have been fun. I've just been a little distracted in the last few days.  Bad blogger.  I'm glad to evoke some state fair memories, though.  The cheese curds were wonderful as was the foamy beer. I guess that the state fair has similarities with the English seaside culture that I grew up with except that it's cheese instead of fish n chips. I think that booking Sonic Youth and the Flaming Lips was a pretty great move on the past of the organizers.  It's usually middle of the road stuff.  Okay, let's see if I can get out and take some photographs today...</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/115645431038464018/comments/default/115677638149373449'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/115645431038464018/comments/default/115677638149373449'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://northernnomad2.blogspot.com/2006/08/night-before-fair.html?showComment=1156776360000#c115677638149373449' title=''/><author><name>northern_nomad</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00576114634340909244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://northernnomad2.blogspot.com/2006/08/night-before-fair.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32097757.post-115645431038464018' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/posts/default/115645431038464018' type='text/html'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32097757.post-115676711101275052</id><published>2006-08-28T07:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-08-28T07:11:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>meg nakagawa - Cheese, everywhere. It's a world of...</title><content type='html'>meg nakagawa - Cheese, everywhere. It's a world of cheese.  That can be a good thing, in small doses.  &lt;BR/&gt;Perhaps you were the only normal human ever to enter that haunted house?  Then again, weavers function on an entirely different order than the typical thrill-seeker, yeah?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Where oh where is nomad?  I think he was pulled into a state fair vortex.  Maybe he signed on with a sideshow?</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/115645431038464018/comments/default/115676711101275052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/115645431038464018/comments/default/115676711101275052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://northernnomad2.blogspot.com/2006/08/night-before-fair.html?showComment=1156767060000#c115676711101275052' title=''/><author><name>phlegmfatale</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08636803080525003892</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://northernnomad2.blogspot.com/2006/08/night-before-fair.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32097757.post-115645431038464018' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/posts/default/115645431038464018' type='text/html'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32097757.post-115675381747864002</id><published>2006-08-28T03:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-08-28T03:30:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Is there really that much cheese?  I remember way,...</title><content type='html'>Is there really that much cheese?  I remember way, way back, I went into the haunted house and was assisted out; I was so scared my knees buckled completely.  I was told by security guards that I was probably the first to have been scared out of my wits at a Minnesota State Fair haunted house, if you discount the elderly with heart attacks!!  They found me very 'unusual' because I was about 19, too old to be seriously scared and too young for heart failure.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/115645431038464018/comments/default/115675381747864002'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/115645431038464018/comments/default/115675381747864002'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://northernnomad2.blogspot.com/2006/08/night-before-fair.html?showComment=1156753800000#c115675381747864002' title=''/><author><name>Meg Nakagawa</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01350447919000146804</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://northernnomad2.blogspot.com/2006/08/night-before-fair.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32097757.post-115645431038464018' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/posts/default/115645431038464018' type='text/html'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32097757.post-115647163452790149</id><published>2006-08-24T21:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-08-24T21:07:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ours starts in a month in Dallas - I always look f...</title><content type='html'>Ours starts in a month in Dallas - I always look forward to the State Fair because it's a harbinger of my birthday (and it's all about ME, isn't it?).  There aren't enough foods on sticks in the world, frankly.  I hope you have a gut-busting good time.  &lt;BR/&gt;Oh, Sonic Youth is always a superb show.  Enjoy.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/115645431038464018/comments/default/115647163452790149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/115645431038464018/comments/default/115647163452790149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://northernnomad2.blogspot.com/2006/08/night-before-fair.html?showComment=1156471620000#c115647163452790149' title=''/><author><name>phlegmfatale</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08636803080525003892</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://northernnomad2.blogspot.com/2006/08/night-before-fair.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32097757.post-115645431038464018' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/posts/default/115645431038464018' type='text/html'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32097757.post-115646180425185872</id><published>2006-08-24T18:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-08-24T18:23:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>lol!  this must be the time of fairs - we have our...</title><content type='html'>lol!  this must be the time of fairs - we have ours on now, too!  My photo is of a fair as well.... coincidence?</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/115645431038464018/comments/default/115646180425185872'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/115645431038464018/comments/default/115646180425185872'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://northernnomad2.blogspot.com/2006/08/night-before-fair.html?showComment=1156461780000#c115646180425185872' title=''/><author><name>piika</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03626793331444188559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://northernnomad2.blogspot.com/2006/08/night-before-fair.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32097757.post-115645431038464018' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32097757/posts/default/115645431038464018' type='text/html'/></entry></feed>