Disarranging Mine

Most of my family is from Minnesota and I pick up their language/accent whenever I'm around them. Frances McDormand nailed it. The guy who played her husband and the other cop were both a little too over the top, though. Nice pic, Marie.

Ha, I was watching that the same time you were last night. It's a depressing movie (I think) but I still have to stop and watch it everytime I stumble across it on cable.

I like that photo. It would be nice to sit under a big sun umbrella with a nice warm breeze, and a cool drink or two. Oh did I forget to mention at the beach - along the coast - of some lightly populated island.

As to Jerome's beach fantasy: So, you're not thinking of the lightly populated coast of Lake Bloomington?

As to Fargo: My dad's from northwestern Minnesota. The main languages in the town of 300 where his dad was a Lutheran minister: Norwegian and Swedish (in fact, the town had separate, linguistically divided congregations). They moved down to Chicago when he was about 5, and he spoke with an accent -- a Norwegian accent, which his Norwegian-American cousins in Chicago thought was a scream. No trace of the accent anymore, but Dad still identifies himself with Minnesota enough that after he and my mom saw "Fargo," they went on a road trip to Brainerd. ...

(I meant to say that my dad spoke English with a Norwegian accent. And maybe both his English and Norwegian had a Minnesota accent, too.)

Real good then, Marie.