Garage Logic, commonly referred to as simply GL, is the name of a fictional city. It is the creation of Saint Paul Pioneer Press columnist, novelist, and radio talk show host Joe Soucheray

Joe Soucheray

Joe Soucheray is a radio talk-show host syndicated throughout the American Midwest on the Hubbard Radio Network. He broadcasts his show Garage Logic from KSTP 1500 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It currently airs from 4 p.m to 6 p.m. CST Monday through Friday. His other show, Sports Talk , airs from...

, and is the basis for his syndicated broadcast of the same name. Garage Logic is said to be the seat

County seat

A county seat is an administrative center, or seat of government, for a county or civil parish. The term is primarily used in the United States....

 of fictional Gumption County, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

.

Concept

Garage Logic is a place where it's understood that any problem worth discussing can be solved in the garage. Garages are revered. Lawyers are reviled. Cigar

Cigar

A cigar is a tightly-rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco that is ignited so that its smoke may be drawn into the mouth. Cigar tobacco is grown in significant quantities in Brazil, Cameroon, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Indonesia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Philippines, and the Eastern...

 smoking

Smoking

Smoking is a practice in which a substance, most commonly tobacco or cannabis, is burned and the smoke is tasted or inhaled. This is primarily practised as a route of administration for recreational drug use, as combustion releases the active substances in drugs such as nicotine and makes them...

 is encouraged. Residents are big fans of boating, golfing, and the University of Garage Logic Fighting Stogies. Traditional values

Traditional values

Traditional values refer to those beliefs, moral codes, and mores that are passed down from generation to generation within a culture, subculture or community.-Summary:Since the late 1970s in the U.S., the term "traditional values" has become synonymous...

 have currency in Garage Logic, and cultural and religious traditions are preserved. The only elected official in Garage Logic is the mayor, and his only responsibility is the town's Independence Day

Independence Day (United States)

Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain...

 fireworks

Fireworks

Fireworks are a class of explosive pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic and entertainment purposes. The most common use of a firework is as part of a fireworks display. A fireworks event is a display of the effects produced by firework devices...

 display. Some may find the socio-political climate to be generally libertarian

Libertarianism

Libertarianism, in the strictest sense, is the political philosophy that holds individual liberty as the basic moral principle of society. In the broadest sense, it is any political philosophy which approximates this view...

 but is most decidedly anti-pompous as local, state, national and international matters are reviewed. "News Release" statistics are ridiculed frequently, and G.L. proves over and over that a significant percentage "....were just made up in the last five minutes." In contrast to Lake Wobegon

Lake Wobegon

Lake Wobegon is a fictional town in the U.S. state of Minnesota, said to have been the boyhood home of Garrison Keillor, who reports the News from Lake Wobegon on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion....

, another fictional Minnesota city, there is no narrative to Garage Logic--it is merely the daily "guy talk" discussion in the garage (women rarely enter this territory, though the female producer frequently assists in the hunt for logic--and the truth). Perhaps the main attraction of Garage Logic is the fact that anyone can become a citizen merely by declaring himself so--and that anything that defies logic (or is blindly followed by uncritical and emotional partisans) is open for pointed and unrelenting criticism.

Cylinder Index

The Cylinder Index (or C.I.) was established on the basis of Soucheray's enthusiastic fascination with internal combustion engine

Internal combustion engine

The internal combustion engine is an engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer in a combustion chamber. In an internal combustion engine, the expansion of the high-temperature and high -pressure gases produced by combustion apply direct force to some component of the engine...

s. It is a measurement device in which the total number of internal combustion engine cylinders

Cylinder (engine)

A cylinder is the central working part of a reciprocating engine or pump, the space in which a piston travels. Multiple cylinders are commonly arranged side by side in a bank, or engine block, which is typically cast from aluminum or cast iron before receiving precision machine work...

 (working or non-working) owned by an individual (single-cylinder chainsaws, lawnmowers, 2-cycle, 4-cycle, multi-cylinder diesels, trucks and farm tractors) are tallied. The Garage Logician who attains a C.I. in excess of his age is revered.

Characters

• Joe Soucheray
  Joe Soucheray
  Joe Soucheray is a radio talk-show host syndicated throughout the American Midwest on the Hubbard Radio Network. He broadcasts his show Garage Logic from KSTP 1500 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It currently airs from 4 p.m to 6 p.m. CST Monday through Friday. His other show, Sports Talk , airs from...
  
   (the Mayor
  Mayor
  In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....
  
  )
• Pat Reusse
  Patrick Reusse
  Patrick Reusse is a sportswriter and radio personality in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. He writes for the Minneapolis Star Tribune where his columns appear on Sunday and Thursday. Reusse has also been with radio station KSTP since 1983, where he hosts Reusse and Mackey with Phil Mackey weekdays and...
  
  
• Dave Dahl, the official meteorologist
• The Covert Meteorologist, identity unknown
• Stogie, the mascot of the University of Garage Logic
• Mister Unbelievable, the Mayor's neighbor
• The Rookie
• The Lake Detective
• Two Cycle, the town dog
• The Creature
• Morghanne Q.E. Wolfe-Slattery - Euphorian
• Matt Otto (the College Poet Laureate and event specialist at KSTP-AM)
• Greg Holcomb, the official Garage Logic cartoonist/cartographer
• Marjorie Johnson, award winning baker of pastries and everything delicious

Named Places of Garage Logic

• Creaturepath (golf course)
• Moron Chip Bluffs
• Spoon Lake
• The Knack Hardware Store and Lounge
• Lake Looper
• Hello Hello Lake
• Frequent Caller Campground
• Gumption County Fair
• Mower Museum
• Two Cycle Creek
• Right-Wing Rapids
• Liberal Lakes
• Diversityville
• Don Vogel Memorial Parkway
• Common Sense
  Common sense
  Common sense is defined by Merriam-Webster as, "sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts." Thus, "common sense" equates to the knowledge and experience which most people already have, or which the person using the term believes that they do or should have...
  
   River and Canyon
• Norbert Wiener
  Norbert Wiener
  Norbert Wiener was an American mathematician.A famous child prodigy, Wiener later became an early researcher in stochastic and noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems.Wiener is regarded as the originator of cybernetics, a...
  
  Math Institute