you grow old in a bar

I took some time out from my 60 hour workweek to catch up with my old buds Jeff C. and bc mi last night. Two very good men. I hadn't seen Jeff C. in about twelve years. Since we was kids. Time's been kinder to him and bc than it has been to me.
Jeff C. has settled in the Twin Cities, where he works as a teacher. He owns a house with a backyard and he has summers off and his mortgage is half my rent. He seems to have figured things out.

Most intelligent people, it seems, eventually wind up in the Twin Cities.I've only been there about four times, but it seems like a pretty civilized place to live. Teachers own houses. And the houses are actually in the city. That's my impression of Minneapolis and St. Paul: houses in the city. Imagine that. Grilling out. Sitting on the roof.
Quittin' school and goin' to work and never going fishing.

bc mi is moving out here in a couple of weeks and he's debating exactly where to live. I say if you are a single man and you have an opportunity to live in the East Village, you need to go ahead and do that. It's just full of life and energy and every day you hear something like we heard in the deli last night, when one dude said to another, "I need you to last longer. You only came three times."

For ten easy non-googling GP's, name a Tom Waits song that is based in Minneapolis.

No correct answers on shoedat or drunkenwarbledat yet. Keep guessing.