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Rucio
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I'm glad to see some love for Ohio.
Crap, I mean, we're too far west to be New England, too far from the appalachians to be a mountain state, too far north to be the south, too hilly to be the great plains, and too far east to be part of the midwest.
Ohio is stuck in the middle and normal as hell.
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Rucio
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| Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:26 pm |
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Don't forget self love.
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Rucio
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:37 pm |
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| boojiboy7 wrote: |
| Pijaibros wrote: |
| I must know more, I am out of the loop and too cold to go looking myself. |
This guy is a good place to start. If you go visit his store, you can get free bread. Like a whole loaf. No shit.
The world's largest and probably only gathering of Devo fans takes place here every year. Fuck, I mean, we birthed Devo on an unsuspecting earth.
The head of the Church of the Subgenius now calls Cleveland home.
Harvey Pekar is kinda normal here. Tobey from American Splendor actually used to work in a coffee place I frequented. He announced your change way too loudly.
Dick Goddard. That motherfucker is an alien, I tell you.
These are all really perfunctory examples of the whole thing that is Cleveland. I mean, I know every town has its weirdnesses, it is just that Cleveland has that special weirdness. I think it comes out of being a dead end town in denial that has had a lot of close brushes with maybe being something but always blew it. |
Dave Chapelle is from 20 minutes outside of Dayton. I've met him twice and he's awesome.
And northeast ohio has a charm to it. Unless of course it's Youngstown. That place has some history, but I've never seen so much poverty and so many crackhouses anywhere else.
Cincinatti has German food and beer and race riots.
Cleveland has Great Lakes Beer and sports teams that make you hate sports. Don't forget Drew Carey.
Akron has that blimp.
Ok guys Ohio meetup?
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Rucio
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:29 pm |
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| And northeast ohio has a charm to it. Unless of course it's Youngstown. That place has some history, but I've never seen so much poverty and so many crackhouses anywhere else. |
I guess I'm used to it here, but yeah... accurate description. |
The only reason my extended family survives there is because they own a bar downtown. What better way to make money in a dead town than to sell alchohol and host incredibly loud, (yet admittedly cool) musics?
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Rucio
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:54 am |
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| crithit5000 wrote: |
| Rucio wrote: |
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| And northeast ohio has a charm to it. Unless of course it's Youngstown. That place has some history, but I've never seen so much poverty and so many crackhouses anywhere else. |
I guess I'm used to it here, but yeah... accurate description. |
The only reason my extended family survives there is because they own a bar downtown. What better way to make money in a dead town than to sell alchohol and host incredibly loud, (yet admittedly cool) musics? |
Which bar? Cedars? |
Yes. Frequent it as often as you possibly can. Buy beer and eat food. It goes to a good cause.
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Rucio
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:57 am |
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Youngstown is so depressing that it has a really bummer Springsteen song about it.
Dayton does have some interesting stuff. GBV and the Deal sisters being from there is pretyt indicative of the odd music stuff that comes out of that area. |
Yeah. Dayton's pretty boring, which leads to a large music scene as people need stuff to do.
So howabout that coldsnap/blizzard?
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Rucio
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:18 pm |
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| boojiboy7 wrote: |
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| Global warming is a damn lie. |
Actually this is somewhat fuel to the fire of global warming, as most scientists theorize that gloabl warming will result in not just more warmth, but also in more extremes in weather, so having massive cold snaps actually does more to asupport the concept of gloabl warming than destroy it. The "warming" refers to the average temperature on the globe raising significantly, but in certain areas, that translates to things like what we are having right now.
Sorry, I used to know a bunch of conservatives who picked on al gore for giving a speech on global warming in NY on the coldest day that city had had in 100 years, not realizing how dumb it sounded.
Aside from that, we had that freakishly warm december, so, ummm, yeah.
As for the music thing, I lived a couple of floors up in my dorm at UD from Robert Pollard's son. I didn't even know he had a kid till I went there. |
WTF? I don't know who Pollard is/was, and I'm typing this from my student job at UD.
So we have a collection of people from all over the world, but a decent chunk of us are from ohio?
Neat
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Rucio
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| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:20 pm |
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OOOOHHHHHH....
Guided by Voices. That Robert Pollard.
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