I'm living in Ithaca, now...after many years in Virginia, near DC. Used to live in upstate NY when I was young--and it's nice to be back home. The Beltway mentality can kill a person, and the whole "I'm an important person on my cell in my Hummer" thing gets old real fast. Actually saw a freakin Hummer with a bumper sticker that said "THIRSTY." Some sick som bitches. Glad to be back. If this is "Unreality" then reality really bites. I'll take this ten square miles surrounded by reality. Still, this little city needs work, and has to get a grip on some things. Just lost Juna's this week, which is a travesty. Freakin Starbucks drove it out of business, and nobody seems too upset about it. The Commons is a lovely idea, but I'm afraid I missed seeing its heydey. It's suffering from ennui or the classic "Nobody Who Matters Gives a Shit" Syndrome. Somehow a parking garage and a movie theatre (and the rapacious Starbucks Corp) doesn't do it for me. Still, there's more hope here than there. Haven't met one Megachurchian freak trying to run poor Latinos out on a rail. Even the hicks here are kinder and gentler. Must be Buddhist energy...or maybe the Christians are a little more Christian in the north...
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