Comments on: From Across the Pond …

By: Dodgerblue

Dodgerblue — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:46:21 +0000

@al2o3cr: Excellent, thanks. I'm going to copy this and fwd it to my trial buddies, who will be coming in from Chicago. For myself, coming in from Santa Monica, I guess I should upgrade from flip-flops.

By: al2o3cr

al2o3cr — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:00:39 +0000

@SanFranLefty:

Even better, a Republican colleague of mine says that there was a push (10-15 years ago) to remodel the building to CHANGE the facing. Two problems:

- the other street they could face was High Street…

- the fiscal conservative wing absolutely shit bricks when they saw the projected cost. The project was quietly dropped.

By: SanFranLefty

SanFranLefty — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:18:02 +0000

@al2o3cr: The Ohio Republican Party headquarters is on Gay Street? That is too perfect. @Tommmcatt is hunkered down in the trenches: Detroit is on my list of least favorite airports.

By: Just Nabisco

Just Nabisco — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:45:30 +0000

@Benedick: @Tommmcatt is hunkered down in the trenches: It looks very likely that I will be wintering, and possibly spring- and summering - in the subcontinental nethers of south asia. Curry, tea and the Queen's colonial English. I am looking forward to the hassle of TSA agents, the clean sameness of duty free shops, cramped space on cattle class and wrestling with jetlag as I fly eastward. Gonna miss Ma Nabisco and the little biscuits, however.

By: Benedick

Benedick — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:02:23 +0000

@Promnight: If you want to be in a foreign country and understand the language – sorta – you could just go to Georgia.

By: Tommmcatt is hunkered down in the trenches

Tommmcatt is hunkered down in the trenches — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:26:11 +0000

Oh ha ha. All these great places and I am on a four- hour layover on the airport in fuckig DETROIT.

Must…find…bloody… mary….

By: baked

baked — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:38:32 +0000

oh yes, my darling benedick. one does indeed recover…especially if the place you were born was philadelphia.
i’ve been posting pics on FB from a HS class trip to england. i remember nothing but a party, we could have been anywhere. i do remember stratford-on-avon, and was delighted to see a production of romeo and juliet there, but i was weird that way. we were 16 and they were serving us at every bar. it got messy. my memories of 10 days in england: shakespear, drugs, vomit.

happy bday BLOGGIE! have fun! (who is watching lilly?)

By: al2o3cr

al2o3cr — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:21:44 +0000

@Dodgerblue: There's no shortage of stuff downtown, especially around lunchtime. Some personal favorites: - Cafe Brioso; coffee so good even people who don't like coffee enjoy it. Roast their own beans onsite, great baked goods too. Directly under the local Rethug HQ (on Gay St), but don't hold that against them. - not too familiar with the courthouse area, as I work farther north, but a perennial local award winner down that way is Katzinger's Deli - a little farther afield, the North Market is always a good bet. If you can't find *something* good here, you must not like food. :) Don't miss Jeni's Ice Cream. - two *more* blocks north of the Market gets you into the Short North. Tons of stuff here; Betty's is a favorite of mine. Also lots of bars, galleries and boutiques. - finally, a shameless plug for my buddy Andreas's place: Victorian's Midnight Cafe. It's a little outside of downtown (5th and Neil, about 2 miles) but well worth it. Watch out around dinnertime, though, as the live music on most nights gets started around 8PM or so. You'll likely want to track down a copy of the local alternative weekly The Other Paper when you get into town, as it has a pretty solid listing of places every week. I would recommend the dining guide on their site, but the website appears to has a stupid at the moment. Feel free to hit me up via email (al2o3cr@gmail.com) if you have any other questions.

By: nojo

nojo — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:41:54 +0000

@Benedick: Does one ever recover from leaving the place where one was born? Yes. Especially when the temperature never slips below 40. But in a college town, people are shifting in and out all the time — I actually lived through five or so mini-eras, so the town I grew up in had long since disappeared anyway. It's more odd living amid all those ghosts than leaving.

By: redmanlaw

redmanlaw — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:24:10 +0000

Coolest thing I ever climbed in another country: The Mayan pyramid at Chitzen Itsa, the Temple of Kukulkan (aka Quetzalcoatl).

Been paintingkitchen and LR about 10-11 hrs. Icing the leg now. I found out I tore a calf muscle jumping off my truck