But they still fascinate me because they capture in physical space (and sometimes in time) those very political and cultural tensions.
Undoubtedly. I think what fascinates me the most about Havana is that so much of what's been preserved stands as representation of the excess and corruption the Revolution was allegedly working to destroy. Yet, there it stands and the government goes out of their way to preserve it and uses it as testimony to the culture.
The dichotomy is absolutely mind-boggling.
Detroit has a bit of that stasis too, and it is very sad. Beautiful, but sad.
Yeah, the core has collapsed and is returning to a feral state.
Detroit has a bit of that stasis too, and it is very sad. Beautiful, but sad.
The city started tearing down a lot of the burned out buildings around the time they started building the new baseball stadium. I haven't been back since then, but I suspect the neighborhood across Woodward from the Fox theatre is less war zone and more parking lot now.
One of my first impressions of NY was from It's Like This, Cat.
In random news, you know what was an exciting part of my trip? The Zappos OUTLET STORE.
The Republicans are clever; they often will do something naughty, and then accuse Democrats of doing it. So Democrats point out what Republicans are doing, then it just sounds partisan.
Through the Looking Glass: Ohio GOP claims Democrats will "Rig The Election"
Blogger Interrupted has captured the audio of a robocall, paid for by the Ohio Republican Party, in which Ohio state representative Kevine DeWine claims that Democrats will steal the election:
Your vote is critical to the combat the Democrats' plan to swell up voter rolls with bogus voters and rig the election.
This is the same Ohio Republican Party that used every effort--legal and illegal--to purge Democrats from voter rolls in 2004. This is the same Ohio Republican Party that cheered when Kenneth Blackwell said he was going to "deliver" Ohio's electoral votes for Bush in 2004. This is the same Ohio Republican Party that is seeking to prevent newly registered voters from voting in this landmark election.
Las Vegas. I got these for fifty bucks. I don't know if it's returns or what, but it was a pretty random selection of mostly summer shoes at this point.
I bet if I lived in the real America, I could have biked to work in 40 minutes this morning...
A REAL American would drive a Hummer or
possibly
a snowmobile.
Banjo playing during brain surgery
I wonder how you sterilize a banjo
Movies and television shows have never really given me a sense of a place. This may be from growing up with New York being perpetually wrong in everything I saw.
Though when I first went to Scotland I kept singing songs from
Brigadoon
and in Vienna I kept humming waltzes to myself.
Then there's the R.O.U.S. faction.
Retireees of unusual size? I don't think they exist.
I wonder how you sterilize a banjo
They come pre-sterilized, in little sterile plastic wrappers. Then they have these giant red bins where you put your contaminated banjo in after surgery.
diet coke. all over my keyboard.
thanks tommyrot. I needed that.
