10.11.2007

Exhibit 3.23

Des Moines

Things you have to experience when you are in Des Moines:

  • The above-above-ground walkway system. (Anyone who tells you the only one is the one that connects the third floor of downtown buildings is lying. You should yell at people who tell you this and demand to be taken to the executive walkway system. It's higher).
  • Bill Richardson.
  • The corn maze which occupies three square-miles near the city hall. Don't go around drive time. I have long advocated re-spelling the name "The Corn Maize." Because, well, you probably get it.
  • The video store where they organize the movies by actor's name. I forget the name of it. I could spend all day in the Tek from Real World: Hawaii section.
  • Urbandale.
  • Heaven. Most people don't know this is in Iowa. If you ask Kevin Costner and he tells you differently, you should punch him right in his smug jaw.
  • When you go to the track horses, dogs, and stock cars can all be seen at various times and sometimes all at once.
  • Silas Hanrahan's house is a tour you have to see, but you should call to make sure he's home.
  • The Museum of Handshakes is the perfect way to end a night (or a formal business meeting).

1 comment:

Dusty said...

Wait so, are you lying in the way fiction writers can and should? Are you, like, pulling our legs? Because there's simply no way to organize a video store by actor's name. Where's Sleepless in Seattle? Under R to H? Or are there two copies, one for Meg's section and one for Tom's? Or are they misogynists, and believe only in sorting under male actors' names? Where's Sleepers, then or Glengarry Glen Ross?

Where's Steel Magnolias for that matter? Under S for Skerrit???