what is something interesting or notable about the place you live?
 

or even where you are from?

i.e....say i came for a visit... and you were going to take me somewhere (other than the place with the vodka)... where would you take me?

my town of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho has one of the finest lakes in all of the Northwest. there is a large and luxurious resort right on the water and next to the charming downtown. Silverwood Theme Park is a few miles north of town and is one of the only sizable amusement parks in the Northwest.

http://www.coeurdalene.org/

i hate this town.

Pee Wee Herman went to my school.

Liverpool is the birthplace of many shit bands, from The Beatles to Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

Echo and The Bunnymen were okay though.

my birthplace, Wichita, is the largest city in the state of Kansas.

that's really all there is to say about it. it's pretty fucking boring.

high school debate is holding its national championship there this year. i have some friends who are going. they asked me what it was like or what they could do for fun. i laughed.

I don't like the place where i live right now and it depresses me to the extent that i want to move out of it, as far as i can get .My birthplace ( Oristano) is just as shit for other reasons.

We have the Walker Art Center for "high culture," and we have the Book Trader for your "pickled-mutant-pig-embryo-with-eight-legs-in-a-jar-of-formaldehyde-or-perhaps-an-inlaid-human-or-monkey-skull" needs.

london is a huge city and there's lots to do, but there isn't much that is particularly amazing, it just has generic big city things and a ridiculously overpriced public transport system.

where i currently live is shit so i wont say. of course new mexico has all those beautiful landscapes blah blah blah but i can't eat sand.

my adoptive hometown of washington dc however kicks ass. i'd recommend going for the duck soup at full kee, book shopping at chapters & the second story warehouse, movies at e-street cinema, concerts at the black cat & the rocknroll hotel, some nice shots of rye at the temperance hall, live jazz at hr 57, a month of seclusion at the library of congress, and free movies at the national art gallery, then all the smithsonians, falafel at the amsterdam falafelshop, coffee & smokes @ tryst (can one still smoke there??), burgers at 5 guys, beer at the brickskeller, bbq at this place on 8th st. NE and i forget teh cross street, plays at the shakespeare theatre, opera @ the kennedy center, movies @ the afi, pastries at stella's in rockville, & on & on. i <3 dc and i'll be back.

Hehe. I tend to be so magnanimous with what's going on with this or that, that it's just doing more damage than it's doing good. It's not as bad as it sounds. I need to get the hell outta here. Soon.

[quote=Toilet & Bowels]london is a huge city and there's lots to do, but there isn't much that is particularly amazing, it just has generic big city things and a ridiculously overpriced public transport system.[/quote


I hate thinking like that, but i am now.

out of london, or out of stepney green?

We make corn cob pipes. In fact, we are the Corn Cob Pipe Capital of the World. No joke.

You should move to Box Elder, MO, porky.

You forgot to mention that DC also features
The most fucked-up and counterintuitive street layout ever.

you mean... A GRID?

oh oh oh i know EXACTLY where you live!



those pipes are actually really good.

I thought of it more as an exploded wagon-wheel, but whatever.

Oh do you now, Mr. Smartypants?

oh it's a grid, a total grid w/ 4 quadrants:

NW NE
SW SE

with the capitol (congress, mind you, not the white house) smack in the middle

number streets run N-S, and the number increases as you go farther from the center.

so there are actually TWO 1st, 2nd, 3rd street-- etc (1 set on the east the other in the west).

same with the letters but the letters run E-W

AVENUES have STATE NAMES & cut DIAGONALLY. they cross on this circles where there are statues, parks, people-- like dupont circle



eat your heart out, minnehaha! :D

(actually, i'll eat MY heart out cos i don't live there anymore).


hhmmmm... CRAP!!!! :(

hagerstown, maryland has brought you






baseball legend willie mays also referred to it as "the most racist city" he'd
ever visited, in his autobiography.

We have this. It makes perfect sense, as does Chicago's. What fucks DC nine ways from Sunday is those goddamned diagonals. Newbies to that city are advised to travel with a native navigator at first!

"Kuopio" is one of the few words that is typed entirely with the right hand on the QWERTY keyboard, but entirely with the left hand on the Dvorak keyboard layout."

Jeez! oh man!

Besides that, nothing notable occurs here. Boring little shithole of a town. I've lived here for a mere 7 months, so I'd never call it my hometown though... Especially as I lived in my previous town for 20 years.

Also, trivial curiosity, my town is a "friendship city" with Minneapolis. (heyo ´Clone!)

Hey there, Friendscope!

If i really think about it, England sucks a whole lot . It's not the place it thinks it is. I mean, i have Marx and Engels on my side. Rubbish place with loiads of pretencions. Sorry. I'm looking forward fir the mis-s spelling bitchinesss. Go on, amuse me.

born in DC but honestly know very little much as i probably should, and exploded wagon wheel is sorta true, there are a few windy side streets then you have avenues that split right thru the city

the only thing really notable about Olney, Maryland where i have lived for the majority of my life is that Skip Groff lives here, he owns Yesterdy and Today Records (used to be the hang out in the early 80s DC/MD punk scene situated in Rockville, but is now a mail order only) and ran Limp Records that released both the first Slickee Boys LP, and the first ever released track by Bad Brains, not to mention recording and mixing a good portion of Minor Threat's catalog and compiling the groundbreaking :30 over DC compilation in '78 featuring among others: Slickee Boys, The Raisinets, and Half Japanese

Ecstatic Peace is about 2000 feet away from my house.

But more exciting than that is the fact that Wesley Willis performed about 500 feet away from my house in 2001. The next day my house burned down. That was a weird weekend.

I live on Kent Island, an island in the Chesapeake Bay of Maryland.
It is the third oldest permanent English settlement in the United States, after Jamestown, Virginia and Plymouth, Massachusetts.

My town's famous residents:

Thomas Burberry.
Jane Austen.
Liz Hurley.
Tanita Tikarem (ahem).
Andrew Liles (Nurse With Wound).
Carl Barat (Libertines).
Thomas Warton (Poet Laureate 1785).
Trojan (Gladiators).
Falcon (Gladiators).
Ruth Ellis.

you serious porky? but sometimes you're more english than the english. so much so that at times i forget you're italian.

This really shit Doctor Who spin-off series is set and largely filmed where I live. Cardiff, South Wales. Check this shit out:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/torchwood/

As a result, I occasionally spot z-list celebs Eve Myles and John Barrowman in a bar or outside theatres where they have been in a panto or something.

I'm a little beyond that, even if it doesn't make sense.

The Fastest Fucking Wind Speed On Record.

no matter what city we were in i would take you out drinking.

where i live now (and thankfully no more in a few days), i would take you out drinking here:
http://www.citymuseum.org/home.asp

Goddamn do I love it there.

alcohol, small tunnels, catwalks, and a ferris wheel: a winning combination

you know, i can't really think of anywhere i would take anyone in any city. i go out shopping a lot. a sizeable chunk of my time here on earth has been spent acquiring things.

that looks fucking bad ass!

Harmony PA was settled by a celibate Christian sect from Germany in 1808.

OKC?

there is nothing remotely interesting about where i live its trully a purgatory on earth but growing up around boston and living in nyc on the other hand was amazing phoenix is a wanna be ghost town