Yats-- New Orleans locals, so-called because they greet each other with "where y'at?"
Starting last Wednesday:
New York to Norfolk, VA... drove to Baltimore Wednesday night... recovered stolen goods from the cops in Baltimore and went to the zoo Thursday... drove all
the way to Goldsboro, North Carolina by Friday morning when exhaustion forced me to stop and rest... drove to Columbia, South Carolina Friday... spent five
hours walking around Columbia, stayed overnight, went to the South Carolina State Museum Saturday... was underwhelmed... drove to Augusta, Georgia Saturday
where my sister conducted me on a personal tour... drove to Athens, Georgia, stayed overnight, walked around the university and downtown Sunday morning...
drove to Etonton, Georgia, birth of Alice Walker and Joel Chandler Harris, the Uncle Remus/Brer Rabbit guy... bought a lucky rabbit's foot at the Uncle
Remus Museum... drove to Milledgeville, Georgia, the antebellum capital, walked around and looked at old buildings and houses, the movie theater where Oliver
Hardy of Laurel and Hardy worked as a kid... drove to Macon, Georgia, where I currently am. The end.
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Posts: 117 05/27/08 01:10:35 |
A fellow of infinite jest... "I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal." -Rudolf Rocker, 1873-1958 |
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Posts: 117 05/27/08 01:13:42 |
was going to go to Boston in the first place, but couldn't be arsed...
probably will go to Atlanta on Friday or Saturday. A fellow of infinite jest... "I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal." -Rudolf Rocker, 1873-1958 |
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Posts: 57 05/28/08 12:11:38 |
sounds pretty interesting.
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Posts: 117 05/28/08 18:09:43 |
not really.
i'm looking forward to going to the local library tomorrow.... A fellow of infinite jest... "I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal." -Rudolf Rocker, 1873-1958 |
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Posts: 140 05/29/08 05:03:43 |
last two posts: LOLOLOL! I don't know if it was on purpose, but that was comedy gold.
Start a new thread for Atlanta if you would please. All I know about Atlanta is Gone with the wind and when they had the olympics, when all the crowds shouted USA! USA! at everything. |
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Posts: 57 05/29/08 12:39:01 |
yoru88 wrote:
doing something I do very often :) ~The
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Posts: 117 05/30/08 16:16:13 |
yeah, i'm sort of underwhelmed by the south in general. here, it's supposed to be better, but really it's just the S.O.S., only with more money and
less backwardness.
I feel as though I even have the right to look down upon South Carolina; they have asked zero questions about the past and where they are going. Their line of BS is thicker than any other state's in the south, including Mississippi's. Okay, I'll report on ATL... I plan to go tomorrow after I watch a couple of movies tonight. I think I'll go to the High Museum of Art and the Martin Luther King Center. A fellow of infinite jest... "I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal." -Rudolf Rocker, 1873-1958 |
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Posts: 117 06/02/08 21:29:51 |
My routine in Atlanta usually leaves me with a bad taste; I'm not ready to pass judgement yet, but my experiences on the street here are ususally
unfavorable. I always stay at the hostel on Ponce de Leon Ave., which is as close to a bohemian strip as it gets here. The hip neighborhood is Five
Points/Druid Hills, but it has what I'd have to call a schizoid personality. There are hordes of roving predators out here... not mere panhandlers, but
dangerous thugs looking for victims to pick off. The police don't seem to take the problem seriously, and so prostitutes and stumbling winos and
chickenheads and gangbangers all congregate on the sidewalk outside open-air cafes and trendy boutiques. Not that there's anything wrong with that, per
se... just when they start harassing and hurting people as though it's Sao Paolo.... It's about a two-mile obstacle course from here to the Plaza
Theater, which is the only place in the area where I can catch a decent film. Tonight I saw Eraserhead-- not one of my favorite films, but there's
something about seeing a scratchy old print on the big screen with a crowd of six antisocial weirdos (myself included) that enhances the David Lynch
experience... not that I'm a David Lynch freak by any means, but I will pay money any time to see the Woman in the Radiator squish fetuses underfoot.
"We're having chicken tonight! It's man-made, and new!"
A fellow of infinite jest... "I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal." -Rudolf Rocker, 1873-1958 |
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Posts: 57 06/03/08 06:36:54 |
now shouldn't Ponce De Leon Drive be somewhere in Florida? :p
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Posts: 117 06/03/08 12:23:48 |
this morning i went to the High Museum of Art.
Probably. I know that Hernando DeSoto came this way, at least. Look, this is horrible: Kidnapping outside a diner on Ponce de Leon Customer kidnapped outside Ponce de Leon diner Victim nabbed from Majestic, driven around in car with bag over his head By TIM EBERLY The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 05/21/08 Alex Naylor stepped out of the Majestic Diner near Virginia-Highland to have a cigarette and talk to a girl on the phone. The next thing he knew, somebody stuffed a bag over his head and pushed him into a vehicle outside the well-known restaurant on Ponce de Leon Avenue, according to a police report. The incident happened May 14 at 3:30 a.m. One man was driving and another was patting down Naylor's back pockets for a wallet, according to an Atlanta police report. Naylor, 22, of Atlanta struggled with the man who was trying to rob him while the other kidnapper drove them around. Soon after, Naylor was able to open the door and jump out of the rolling vehicle, the report said. As he leapt from the car, one of the kidnappers grabbed the bag and snatched it off Naylor's head. He was able to call two other men to pick him up from a nightclub on North Avenue, not far from the Majestic. The kidnappers didn't get anything from Naylor, who declined comment when reached by phone Wednesday A fellow of infinite jest... "I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal." -Rudolf Rocker, 1873-1958
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Posts: 140 06/07/08 05:36:14 |
Atlanta sounds quite charming, I must say. Although you that side of life everywhere I suppose. There's no knives and guns in Swansea that I know about
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Posts: 117 07/03/08 19:50:22 |
What do the police do when they find a gun on a repeat offender in Britain? Compared to the U.S., I thought there isn't as high a prison population.
I'm in Baltimore, what I suppose is my second home.... something about Philadelphia just doesn't seem right, although it's a fine enough city.... next week i take a maritime course and afterwards i will spend a few days in Washington, D.C. |
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Posts: 140 07/08/08 12:29:41 |
There is terrible overcrowding in the prisons here. Guns are a pretty big problem, I'm nor sure about the sentences though. Knife crime is the problem de
jour.
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Posts: 117 07/25/08 15:37:50 |
i was reading a j.g. ballard interview this morning from twenty years ago... 250 murders in England that year according to him, two-thirds of them from family
infighting. surely it's worse than that nowadays? if new orleans had only 250 murders in a year, it would be cause for celebration.
at this moment, we are off the coast of north carolina with a barge of 46 retired subway cars from new york.... tomorrow they will be dumped into the ocean to make fish habitat, woo-hoo! I got ridiculously seasick around cape hatteras, "the graveyard of the atlantic." |
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Posts: 140 08/03/08 06:15:15 |
It's much much worse than that now I'm sure. that subway dumping thing sounds like something my brother would like to film.
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Posts: 117 08/13/08 17:55:19 |
Yes, it was quite a sight to remember. It peaks my interest that he would be interested in filming that sort of thing as an artist.
Let's see... I am working in New York for another six days, then will go to Boston for a week (woo-hoo!). They have a trip or two planned for us to Nova Scotia, so that should be interesting. I'll definitely get a camcorder when I'm off and post some videos to youtube.  'Death To the Fascist
Insect That Preys Upon the Life of the People!'
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Posts: 140 08/20/08 07:17:59 |
great I look 4ward 2 that. Simon enjoys depicting loneliness emptiness and despair. he did a video of me once burning some of my possessions. I was the epitomy
of grimness.
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Posts: 117 08/22/08 17:14:58 |
Today I bought a pretty decent one.... It had better be; it was over $400... and it's a Canon.
I will try to find examples of grimness and despair.... there are plenty in baltimore, often mingled with black humor. for example, some of the crumbling streetside benches are painted with the (now retired) slogan: Baltimore, The Greatest City in America. What I would have done to have a camera for some of the junkies lying on those benches out of their minds in mid-afternoon. Today I walked around Cambridge, looked around MIT, went to the MIT Museum, and then walked in Boston's Back Bay, Boston Common, and downtown. I never have seen such a large immigrant community of Brazilians. They are generally quite well-behaved and have a certain joi de vivre, thankfully. 'Death To the Fascist
Insect That Preys Upon the Life of the People!'
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Posts: 39 07/30/09 06:07:15 |
[quote="Dilys"]Simon enjoys depicting loneliness emptiness and despair. [quote]
He should come round to my place. I could be his muse. lol Picture it. Me walking around the unkept streets of Nottingham. Late into the night. With no hope and no real direction. It would make perfect tv. Ask Simon to give me a call. lol |
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Posts: 140 10/01/09 06:10:30 |
It's mad, someone from the SAuk site wants to photgraph me for their exhibition. It's only for SA sufferers, she'll even come from Newport to
Swansea to do it.
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Posts: 39 10/02/09 03:05:31 |
You know after looking at the website you mentioned.
That is exactly what I suffer with. A lot of people may not realise it just to look at me. If I'm in a situation on my own, then it becomes more noticeable. I tend to look a little nervous and shifty etc.. If I'm out with another person, then I do tend to feel a lot more comfortable and I am able to cover it up a lot more. I think you should definitely think about doing this Dilys. It does sound exciting.
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