For some reason

[pywacket]

I'm just really wondering what Fayetteville, AR (my hometown) is like right now. I'm missing Restaurant on the Corner, the Grill, The Dream Merchant, Flying Possom Leather--ok so all of Dickson Street and Hugos (where I used to work).

Is it all still there? Would I recognize any of it? What is the music scene like? What about the friends still there I've lost touch with--we're all getting up there now.

I haven't been back in about 9 years. I did visit in Xmess 1999, but that was the year I didn't get to see anything, to show James anything and instead fought with my family in hotel rooms and ended up back with friends in Tulsa, not having that macho nacho at Hugo's and their fake cappuccino or the submarine sandwich at ROTC.

It's because I realized last night--Gypsy (Amy) is still with me--the way I make friends now--sort of running at new people like a friendly puppy --is just how she made friends...how she made friends with me. I miss her...has it really been so long? And I can't remember when she died, but it has to be more than 10 years now, around 1990...But I can remember how she lived and who she was.

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[oblomova.livejournal.com]

Oaky, now it's making sense -- you're an Arkansas girl. One of my dearest friends (a totally great, feisty, funny, bright, compassionate person) is also from Arkansas. Well, by way of New Jersey. But still...

One other thing I always hated about the Bay Area was how people there were so surprised to find that culture exists outside of their twee little world. Like if I were in total Bay Area mode, I'd say, "You're from Arkansas? Of all places!" (Like, no one from there should know how to read or write or think or take challenging positions or whatever.)

I promise I can do more than bitch about the Bay Area and stupid people. Honest I can...

[eac.livejournal.com]

> Like if I were in total Bay Area mode, I'd say, "You're from Arkansas? Of all places!"
> (Like, no one from there should know how to read or write or think or take challenging
> positions or whatever.)

Heh. This is so true, though as someone in the Bay Area who's from Washington DC, I have to say that Northern California hasn't got a lock on the problem.

[oblomova.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I hear Boston can be pretty bad that way, too. Hell, probably every place on earth has its share. It just bugged me way more in NoCal than anywhere else -- I guess because they're so convinced that they are more "open-minded" than anywhere else on earth. Not!

[pywacket.livejournal.com]

". Like if I were in total Bay Area mode, I'd say, "You're from Arkansas? Of all places!" (Like, no one from there should know how to read or write or think or take challenging positions or whatever.) "

That happened to me so often in the 14 years I lived there. It was funny to listen to people actually ask me about outhouses and going barefoot, then quietly inform them that the high school I went to was better rated than 98% of california schools, san francisco included. And then offer an insult in one of 4 different languages I learned while in High School.

At first it was irritating, then it was funny. Then it was hilarious.