Boring Lefties

Peter K. peterk.enteract at rcn.com
Wed Feb 19 16:43:25 PST 2003



>> Not too defensive here, eh Justin?
>
>I'm just amused at East Coast, and in particular NY,
>stereotypes about us flatlanders. My
>dyed-in-the-wool-born-and-raised NY M-i-L, when I was
>first showing her this fair city, commented, "This
>isn't like New York, it's boring." ("Yeah," I snarled,
>"and it's flat, too!" She also asked, when we said we
>were taking the kids swimming in the summer, whether
>there was a "pond nearby." (For all you bicoasters,
>Chicago is on Lake Michigan, an inland sea of
>considerable size.)

Chicago has some groovy nightclubs, although sometimes things get out of hand, as they tend to do. A friend of mine is a high school teacher and he said some of his students (Insane Clown Posse devotees) went to the Devon protest. Why have it in the South Asian part of town?

Peter



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