thats how i feel about philidelphia... do they pay people to live there?

Seriously. I'd even rather live in Detroit.

don't hate on detroit! it actually has some nice areas. the way the media shows detroit is like if they showed the south side as the only neighborhood in chicago.

out of curiosity, why the philly-hate?



ps... if you say weather, i will be forced to say vagina. just so we are clear.

Just shut the f-ck up and ride.

Christ.

for me its personal..my sister lived there and i wasnt that into it..then she got mugged and i really wasnt into it.. but ive met lots of cool philly people and have some good friends there.. so i bet id like it more now... i just felt like standing up for the south a little bit, i think they get a raw deal on the geographical respect

Ok, you got a point. I was pulling for the Tigers, too.

Number 2: Why did you think a big balloon would stop people?
Scientist: Shut up! That's why!

i guess i have just lived here so long that that stuff is just a reality. it sounds strange, but you kind of get good at avoiding it after a while (knocks on wood). you probably would like it more now, it's changed a lot in the past few years.
i can't personally speak for the south, but i have some friends who love it down there. doesn't seem like my speed, but to each his own.

speakin of great things from philly.. do you remember the magazine Crank? maybe my favorite ever.. i still reread them.. if you know that dude tell him we want more, although i think he eventually moved to NYC

edit: ah scratch that.. after a quick google it appears he got a life eventually.. crank prob.wouldnt be the same..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Koyen


his resignation letter from new york press is pretty great

exit statement

i need to read some of his new stuff.. whats this have to do with rants on cool? um not much.. but actually a lot.. Jeff kinda wrote the book on quality anti-cool rants

heard of crank, but never seen it.

that ext statement rules tho hahaha.

look.... i live in philly and i rule!!! so philly aint that bad.

(let me state i am not from here... so i have no official pride... i just like it here.)

Wow, what a disgusting, utterly brainless comment.

Atlanta is a different kind of love.

Maybe he meant mentally, not geographically

That makes his comment even more stupid.

Dang. After being a born/raised southerner (North Fla, to be specific), former left coaster (san jose), and most recently michigander (detroit me), I'll have to say that the south was the most 'agreeable' for me. I just like the weather and the folks (and the football.) Everyplace has it's nasty spots, and every place has
its bright spots.

As everyone says about every place, I suppose.

some just have more than others for whatever subset of people, in this case, cyclists.

ive only spent a little time in the south.. but it kills me when people call is rascist, like boston is a rainbow gathering and california is woodstock. the whole country has problems.. and the civil war was not about freeing slaves, contrary to percieved history.

Im sure many here have read it, but confederates in the attic by tony horwitz gives some great insight into americas misunderstood corner, and its freakin hilarious, and we can all start calling people farbs instead of newbies

Don't get it twisted...the south is still hella racist. Like, unbelievably so...some people here are almost a caraciture of "Boss Hogg". And conversely, some are the portrait of "Stephen Fetchit".

All quite sad, really.

Gotta go. Hellraiser is on.

i dont think i have it twisted.. i think our whole country is hella rascist

so you're saying you hate freedom?

Timon of Athens, known as the Misanthrope, announced that since he was going to cut down a tree in his garden on which many had hanged themselves, would-be suicides should use it at once. Holla.

I agree with this statement purely for meteorological reasons. New England summers leave me near death. If I were below the Mason Dixon I'd be a puddle of spitum.

Summer here is winter there. Everyone stays indoors, gets cranky, complains a lot. It's 80 and sunny today, so people are finally going outside again.