[lbo-talk] Re: Wojtek and America

Kelley the-squeeze at pulpculture.org
Tue May 6 11:17:21 PDT 2003


At 10:32 AM 5/6/03 -0700, joanna bujes wrote: I lived in Plattsburgh, New York for a couple of years and (pace, Kelly) found that to be very different.

the brief period of alcoholism must have had ill effect: i never said plattsburgh wasn't different. i objected to your elitism:

>I used to scoff at these tender-footed scholars/professionals etc. who

>didn't want to rub elbows with the provincial multitude....until I was

>repatriated (for a couple of years) to Plattsburgh, New York. Oh Boy!

>Farrah-Fawcett hairdos on all those of the female persuasion; a church/bar

>on every corner; the nearest cappuccino, sixty miles away; NO book

>store...in a college town!!! And, at that time (1987), no internet. http://squawk.ca/lbo-talk/0112/0429.html



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