Steph, I watched your mayor and he was great. I always cry at the sappy stories, but man...he really seems to care.
I sometimes forget I have people friended on Facebook who I know from high school but haven't really seen in 20 years, who don't share my worldview, nor do their friends. So I'm a bit appalled to see some of the comments on my FB feed about the Undercover Boss episode. Shit like, "He should spend more time fixing the city and less time trying to be famous on TV!" and "So the whole point is to lie about who he is? Typical politician, just like Obama!"
The part that made me roll my eyes forever was that half the comments are from one woman who lives in a rural county that's not even the county that Cincinnati is in. She's entitled to her opinion, but if she doesn't even live here, I'm not sure her opinion about what a "hellhole" Cincinnati's neighborhoods are is exactly based in fact, or even personal experience. And that annoys the shit out of me, since I *do* live in one of those neighborhoods (the ready-to-work job program that the woman from the recreation center was talking about? that's my neighborhood, and that program is really popular and really successful).
She's entitled to her opinion, but if she doesn't even live here, I'm not sure her opinion about what a "hellhole" Cincinnati's neighborhoods are is exactly based in fact, or even personal experience.
We get a lot of that in the comments on the SFGate website from outlying suburbanites. Yeah, San Francisco's a total hellhole. A miserable piss-stained, stabinatin', freak factory.
A miserable piss-stained, stabinatin', freak factory.
I live in the neighborhood with Teh Gayz and the hippies (and the hipsters) AND an honest-to-god scary-ass gang, all of which makes for an awesome confluence of people. Oh, wait, not awesome confluence. I meant hellhole. I always confuse those.
So, IOW, any modern American city?
So, IOW, any modern American city?
I'm sure they'd consider Paris a cesspool as well.
My neighborhood so took care of me this weekend. I love Baltimore.
I still can't believe I live in a HOUSE in the burbs. And on the dge of the richy neighborhood, too. SO WEIRD. Of course, we have the ghetto house of the neighborhood, but my neighbors will have to EAT IT this summer, because I have a job, the number of a teenage boy who mows lawns and a rake.
And the hivemind, some seed packets AND A ROOT.
And the hivemind, some seed packets AND A ROOT.
Not to mention that whole husband thing.
We get a lot of that in the comments on the SFGate website from outlying suburbanites. Yeah, San Francisco's a total hellhole. A miserable piss-stained, stabinatin', freak factory.
I see this and raise you Oakland. Every single damned article about my city draws in 1,000+ trolls who just shit on my city. It's a real pisser. It's why I don't read the comments anymore, and I think SFGATE and other "news" sites should just get rid of commenting. It's so rare that comments add anything.
A husband and a root! Erin is ROLLING IN IT.
I'm so excited by my sodastream I want to drink all the fizzy RIGHT NOW! Except that doesn't work so well.
I'm contemplating early bedtime, in order to be all awake and ready tomorrow...lots to do...except that would involve Monday coming sooner, it feels like. Do not want!
