WDT 10/11/13

Like I've said many times before... If you like College Football it has a pretty sweet culture built around that. Cost of living is also at rock bottom. Other than that nothing is really terrible about it. But nothing is really great either.

 

Good friend from college was from Harrisburg. She seemed to really like the area and would have moved back there if not for marriage.

 

So basically it's like the South, but with shittier weather and uglier women? And of course, worse football.

 

I happen to like Winter, but to each their own. I also think that the Bengals and Browns could kick the fuck out of South Carolina's pro teams. Oh wait, you mean you don't have any? And our Baseball teams could do the same.... And as for your piddly Gamecocks, looks like they are a little lower in the rankings than the Buckeye's too.

I will let you have the women category. You win that hands down.

 

Evidently, there was a foodstampede this past weekend. People in 14 states cleaned Walmarts out when a glitch in the system occured.

Fucking animals.

 

You probably want to avoid any SEC-OSU talk (or USC-OSU talk as we are 2-0 all time against you, and that was when we sucked). I'm sure they'll stay ranked high enough until one of our teams beats them yet again.

 

My sister just moved to Cleveland- her husband's hometown. Every time it's brought up, I think of this:

 

Ohio is an absolutely awful state. There is nothing extraordinary or exciting happening, and theres no scenery. I wish I could personally burn the state to the ground. I'm not a fan of the South, but I'd rather live in Mississippi than Ohio. The state use to have money back when people discovered it had massive amounts of oil. Its been said it was the Middle East of its day, thats why presidents came from there, thats where the money was. Hell, Cleveland was founded as an oil town. The oil disappeared and the whole state has been declining ever since.

The only thing worth saving in that state is Cedar Point.

I was in Cleveland not too long ago and its all very ordinary and plane. The only decent thing about that city is Great Lakes Brewing, great brewery, world class beer.

 

I also like the sequel.

 

I think I'm in trouble for watching episodes of a TV show without waiting for her to come up first. She hasn't eaten all day and says she's been nauseous. Birth control, don't you fail me now.

 

Bewildered, why is your sister in Portsmouth ( pronounced porchmuff to locals)? I grew up 30 miles from there. I only ask because I'm worried she may be running Oxys, or worse teaching at Shawnee State. I had friends that used to live there. It is a scary place. Not Detroit scary, but still not fun.

 

I'm not remotely a fan of Cincinnati, as I think it is boring beyond words (although the zoo was cool), but I feel the opposite about Cleveland.

It's easy to get to everything. Good football town with a new stadium. Jacob's field (or whatever the hell its called now) is a great place to see a game, and the Indians don't suck. The R&R HoF, and a science center. Located right on the lake.

And I had a great time in the flats - decent restaurants, great bars, lots of attractive women-type folk, soem of whom hit on me.

I don't understand the Cleveland animosity. Maybe I have to stay there for more than a few days.

edit: I just wiki'd the flats, and apparently time has not treated them well. Well, it was fun while it lasted.

 

What you need to do is get some cough syrup with hydrocodone in it. I had some for this stupid cough, then a beer, and I am fucking flying. "Why do I feel stoned?" Read the label. "Oh. Sweet."

All this time I've been bitching about no pain killers available, I've had half a bottle of sweet, sweet sizzurp on the counter.

I love everyone right now. Let's get naked.

 

Ohio as a whole is unexceptional. Its all nice enough but there's nothing that stands out, its just kind of a drab, rust belt, meh state. I'm comparing Cleveland to cities like San Diego, Denver, Chicago, etc. At best Ohio is meh, and at worst its downright depressing. This could be said about most of the Midwest though and Cleveland epitomizes that sentiment.

The scenery is boring and at best OK, the cities are very meh and forgettable, the women aren't that hot, there's not much really to do. I saw the bar scene in downtown Cleveland because my buddy works in that tall ass building and its all very average. The only thing exceptional about Ohio is how crappy Ohio State University is, and how awesome Cedar Point is.

More specifically to Cleveland, parts of it are very nice stereotypically suburban. You have your normal chains and nice neighborhoods with yards, but there's nothing distinctive culturally about it. The downtown is nice enough but its kind of small and nothing stands out in my mind. The browns stadium was nice but the Browns suck something awful, totally forgettable team, I guess they represent the city well.

The only caveat I have is that I did grow up in Ann Arbor, so hating everything from Ohio is in my blood.

 

One day I'll get a southerner to admit the civil war was the best thing to happen to the south. One day.

 

I am personally responsible for drugs with a street value of over $3,000,000 a kilo and you're suggesting I start drinking cough syrup?

I like it.

 

I'm from Texas. It was the best thing to happen to the south -- it made us end slavery.

That being said, I know what you're getting at, and I think you just misstated your goal. What it should have read is One day I'll get a southerner to admit they wished the south won the civil war and slavery was still around.