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Brown Christmas

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Fridley on YouTube: Mippey5 Dreams of a Brown Christmas at Commons Park

New video shows kids sledding on grass, skating on melting ice.

When last we checked on Luke "Mippey5" Thompson, he had featured Fridley in a YouTube video that parodied the hiphop song Welcome to My Hood while also paying tongue-in-cheek tribute to his hometown. Fridley again figures prominently in a video he posted Wednesday titled Brown Christmas (see above). Partway into the second episode of a new series he's calling Cookie and Friend is about a minute's worth of video showing kids making the best of the sledding hill and skating rinks at Fridley's snowless Commons Park in above-freezing weather. (In the clip, the raucous Deck the Halls background music is courtesy of another prominent YouTube parodist, Pennsylvania-based Dave "DaveDays" Colditz.) If Mippey5's irreverent, fun-loving spirit seems …

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