Ways to Fund the Vikings Stadium when the Arts and Environment Legacy Money Runs Out

Make the Minneapolis Institute of Arts host a Thomas Kinkade career retrospective.

Make Joe Dowling dress as a leprechaun and pose for St. Patrick’s Day photos ($20 for a 5x7 print) with drunks outside Kieran’s.

Buffalo Loon Wings.

Send the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra on tour with the Moody Blues.

Sell toxic waste dumping rights in the Boundary Waters; cite the need for mosquito control.

Stock the northwoods with deer and sell $10,000 AK47 hunting permits.

Convert the Soap Factory back into a soap factory.

Quietly spread the word around Chicago that the garbage incinerator in downtown Minneapolis is available to help get rid of incriminating evidence…for the right price.

Replace Powdermilk Biscuit ads on A Prairie Home Companion with actual Bisquik ads.

Invite floral wholesalers to strip-mine the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.

Force First Avenue to host Trampled By Turtles shows every single night.

- Jay Gabler