Here's a couple of bios Keillor's written: On a jazz radio station (Jesus, that picture...) site, and on the city of Brooklyn Park site. He says he lived on 77th and W.River Rd., or, as he puts it:

"Our family came to Brooklyn Park from south Minneapolis in 1947, drove out the West River Road to 77th Avenue North and moved into a brand-new concrete-black basement that my dad and my uncle Lawrence had built in the middle of a cornfield."

He makes it sound wonderfully remote, but I remind you that 77th and W.River Rd. is right across the river from Fridley. (Here's his neighbourhood, again... That river is the Mississippi, and he would have grown up on the west side of it, in that little bulge of land between the two groups of islands.)

"The pastoral qualities of Lake Wobegon - the innocence and freshness - really stem from Brooklyn Park, my boyhood home. I'd be happy to be there still."

Oh, yeah. I bet he's got a "for sale" sign on his Wisconsin mansion, and is scouring one of Brooklyn Parks heavily black, low-income neighborhoods for a new efficiency apartment... The man is so full of shit.

On a related subject, when was the last time a non-white musician appeared on his show?

---Lepus Rex