It’s just been a fun day — we’re having a dreadful nasty snowstorm (it’s April! It’s Minnesota!), so we had to drive in last night, lest we get snowed in and to remove any temptation to rush, and after a harrowing 5 hour drive I’ve been stashed in a motel. Next up is a quick hop to the airport, and then…Salt Lake City!
Maybe I’ll convert. <snort>
Raging snowstorm or Mormons. What a choice!
A million white things, technically individual and unique but basically indistinguishable, and you don’t want them on your lawn.
@2…On the campus of the Mormon church in SLC (enormous place), they give tours. You can go into the tabernacle but not the cathedral if you’re a non-Mormon. The tour guides are all young people, there on their 2-year “mission” (aka, unpaid internship).
It is a studied practice of racial diversity. There’s a white kid, a black kid, a Latino kid, an Asian kid, and on and on. Buzzing about looking cheerful, because that’s their job.
Saw one of them having a beer and a cig in a local bar — bartender had to remind the kid to take her name badge off. Church frowns on the beer-and-cig-after-work thing. She rolled her eyes, but stashed the name badge.
As if you could handle more than one Trophy Wife™ :)
I lived in SLC for a loooong time. You don’t need to tell me about the quaint local customs.
Coverage in the Salt Lake Tribune:
We visited SLC for a genealogy trip about 20 years ago and stayed in a hotel across the street from Temple Square and next door to the “Family History” library. I was quite astounded by the evening wait-staff in the hotel restaurant. Until then, it had never occurred to me that there could be that many gay men in the whole state of Utah.
From the readers comments associated with the Salt Lake Tribune article (link in #6) — these are mormon commenters, I assume:
The majority of the readers comments are pro-atheism and reasonable in pointing out the flaws of mormonism, which is nice to see. Here’s an example:
That was written in response to mormons claiming that their church and most of their members do not shun anyone.
They do exactly that when they can.
Utah is only 60% Mormon but they own the state and most of the legislators are Mormon.
This is because the Mormons quite openly and deliberately gerrymandered the state by religion. The xians and other nonMormons are herded into a few small areas.
This only matters if you want to vote in a democracy and have it matter.
Oddly enough, Salt Lake City is one of the ghettos. It’s majority nonMormon and the mayor is usually one of the few elected nonMormons. The LDS church is total misogynist but one of the mayors was a female feminist.
@cottonnero #2
I’m sorry, are we talking about mormons or snowflakes here?
Heading to Winnipeg next week. If Minnesota weather is anything to go by, I might bring my parka – just in case.
Not that it’s much different here in northern BC. It’s been alternating between a blizzards and “walk around in a light jacket” weather.
Martin Hutton #10:
Yes.
Martin Hutton@11,
I’m thinking… Yes.
cottonnero@12, Sorry, didn’t mean to step on your toes by stealing/duplicating your answer!
Just noticed my comment 13 should have been to Martin Hutton@10, not 11. Oh, well.
“One does not simply walk into Morridor. Its black gates are guarded by more than just Orcs. There is evil there that does not sleep. “
Faux News – it is snowing in Minnesota in April at the university of that dreadful PZ Meyers who believes in book burning and destroying peoples faith in the lord Jesus; it is a sign from god and a demonstration once again that Global Warming is a hoax, when are we gonna build the Keystone XL pipeline with its 20 temporary jobs.
I remember while growing up in Edina when Easter would roll around, what all of this nonsense talk about “Spring” was.