- Paul drove back to Minnesota for fall break, and took me and two other Minnesotans as passengers. In the first panel, they are George Carroll (left) and Dan Itzkowitz (right). We were joking around, and by the end of the trip, I promised these guys that I'd put them in an upcoming strip.
- There's really no plot to this one, it's really just eight panels of me trying to fit in as many Minnesota references and special guest stars as I could. And vegan jokes.
- Vegan Crack is Bob's Underground's term for an expensive pre-packaged soy drink (I forgot the brand name, but they've been around for awhile. They look like Capri-Sun's, sort of). I remember as a freshman walking into Bob's for the first time and asking for vegan crack, since it had been so heavily advertised around campus. So they gave me a frozen one. Those assholes. I didn't go back for a long time.
- For the parents, I stole the likenesses of Frances McDormand and William H. Macy from Fargo. Incidentally, my aunt Mary had an English class with the Coen brother who is married to McDormand. Small world.
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- The best humorist in the Scarlet & Black at that time was Amanda DeSimone, a junior. I think she's off running the California chapter of The Make A Wish Foundation or something. Anyway, every week she'd write pretty scathing and always hilarious articles -- many times making fun of vegans. One in particular described a recipe for vegan brownies which included something about scabs.
- The young girl is my sister, Molly.
- Every week my dad pestered me to put our new governor, Jesse Ventura, into a cartoon. That's Ventura in panel six, and my dad's initials are on his belt.
- The flower is the Lady Slipper, Minnesota's state flower.
- Idiots Out Walking Around is apparently what IOWA stands for.
- The car in the last panel is my Saturn. I'm getting into the passenger seat, and Paul is in the driver's seat. Johnny is winking for some reason.
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