Today I met for lunch with another friend from the blogosphere, who calls himself RZ, which is short for "Reactionariez". Like Holger, with whom I had breakfast yesterday, he was a host on the erstwhile internet platform BlogTalkRadio. He now has a show on Mixlr called "Ideas Are Bulletproof Radio". Both of them live in the Minneapolis area and sometimes hang out together in real life. We had lunch at Frenchman's Pub in the city of Richfield, which unlike Fat Nat's Eggs, has no website of its own, just a page on Facebook.
After eating, RZ took me on a little tour of Minneapolis. He drove us up Chicago Avenue, including a section thereof named George Perry Floyd Square. It was in this area that a criminal named George Floyd died while being restrained by a police officer's knee on his neck. Near the north end of the square is this monument, apparently created by or in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. On its base is the symbol which the Minneapolis-born musician known as Prince sometimes used as his name.
Further up Chicago Avenue is U.S. Bank Stadium, home of the NFL's Minnesota Vikings. I was able to take this shot of one corner of the stadium, with its Viking ship.
RZ proceeded to take me through various parts of Minneapolis, passing at least one place where he used to work, a neighborhood inhabited by lots of Polish people, and the Gasthof zur Gemutlichkeit, where TV host Adam Richman of Man vs Food took on the "Meterwurst Challenge". Unfortunately, I didn't see much of anything else that I wanted to take a picture of. Finally, RZ took me back to our lunch place, where my temporary hybrid Bigfootmobile was still parked, and thus ready for the ride back to my undisclosed location.
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