Valentine Angell

Just a guy in Northern Minnesota.

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Cake day: August 23rd, 2025

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  • Sadly, this isn’t something new. I moved to Minnesota in '79, my father took a paper route that drove us through three reservations daily (which will tell you where I am if you are familiar with Minnesota), poor housing, cramped living, and hopping from place-to-place was common then.

    As I grew up, I made many friends on all three reservations, which at times created some minor tension, but the housing issues never changed.

    I don’t know of a solution to this, but it cannot be a surprise that it’s still happening after so many decades. Something MUST change for the native reservations. They deserve better; these are good, very good people.


  • I tell parents-to-be not to give their kids fucked-up names; they’ll have to explain their name to strangers. And don’t give your kid a name with fucked up spelling, they’ll only spend their whole life spelling their name to strangers.

    And yeah, that’s my real name. My middle name isn’t any better. But I’ve come to embrace its uniqueness; it only took 50 years. 😁