Where I live in Brooklyn, I'm in a ten block radius of the post office (w/ extended hours), bank, library, supermarket, Trader Joe's, several parks, five subway lines, a hospital, a Barnes and Noble, a multiplex and a smaller independent movie house, and a whole bunch of restaurants and bars.
You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Oct 08, 2010 12:45:46 pm PDT #28433 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Jesse - Oct 08, 2010 1:11:41 pm PDT #28434 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have all that! Except the movies are a little farther. Also two malls.
Farther, not father. Further?
Liese S. - Oct 08, 2010 1:13:27 pm PDT #28435 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Kathy A - Oct 08, 2010 1:24:45 pm PDT #28436 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Being in the suburbs would normally mean little diversity and nothing within walking distance (at least, that's what it meant when I was growing up). My town still isn't the easiest to get to on foot, but my apartment complex is about a mile from the library, a Walgreens, and a not-too-horrible supermarket.
If I get in my car and drive ten minutes, I can get to four other supermarkets, restaurants including fancy Italian and French, Thai, Uzbek, Indian, and a great Mediterranean local chain spot with homemade pita bread, hummus, and baklava (gotta love Pita Inn!), a Barnes & Noble, Trader Joes, and tons of strip malls.
As for diversity, I've said it here before--my apartment building alone has representatives from five continents. When I go swimming in my complex pool in the summer, I'll hear everything from Russian to Arabic to Senegalese.
msbelle - Oct 08, 2010 1:28:58 pm PDT #28437 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I have a car.
carry on.
shrift - Oct 08, 2010 1:29:26 pm PDT #28438 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
My neighborhood had (hell, probably still has) a gang that named themselves the Taliband.
Oh, aren't they precious? We've got the Vice Lords, the Latin Kings, the Gangsta Disciples, the Black P Stones.
megan walker - Oct 08, 2010 1:33:19 pm PDT #28439 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Farther, not father. Further?
Physical distance is farther.
Jesse - Oct 08, 2010 1:33:58 pm PDT #28440 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Phew. At least I typoed the right word.
Steph L. - Oct 08, 2010 1:34:09 pm PDT #28441 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Moses Card Front
Awwww! Lookit their tears! So sweet!
My neighborhood had (hell, probably still has) a gang that named themselves the Taliband.
Oh, aren't they precious? We've got the Vice Lords, the Latin Kings, the Gangsta Disciples, the Black P Stones.
Tim's joke (I think I've told it here before) about our gang the Taliband (note the "d" at the end of the name, which is the basis for the joke) was, "What's the next gang going to be? Al-Kinda?"
-t - Oct 08, 2010 1:35:28 pm PDT #28442 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Liese, I must not be in your contacts. tskaredoff if you don't mind adding me.