― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― briania (briania), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link
montana, for the record, amazing. my wife is from bozeman and i could only be so lucky to have a place there with her someday.
― metfigga (metfigga), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Hundreds of lesbian communes - Advantage California.
― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― the apex of nadirs (Rock Hardy), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link
Utah is a close second.
The pundits seem to agree that Missouri is the most typical state in the U.S. Do you agree?
― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 29 October 2004 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link
But I vote for Louisiana. I mean I love it but it's so outside what most Americans think is normal...everything this country could've been but is not.
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 30 October 2004 00:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― lysander spooner, Saturday, 30 October 2004 00:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 30 October 2004 01:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― motown modown (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 October 2004 01:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― motown modown (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 October 2004 01:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 30 October 2004 01:21 (nineteen years ago) link
this is precisely what makes delaware so friggin' weird. its corporate laws (which are notoriously business-friendly and lax in enforcement which is what entices them to DE in the 1st place) are practically the legal world's personification of baudrillard's simulacron. downtown wilmington is a ghost-town after 6 PM (and the rest of the place is a REAL NASTY ghetto). i'm also sure that the duponts and george thorogood have something to do w/ DE weirdness, too!
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 30 October 2004 01:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Saturday, 30 October 2004 03:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― motown modown (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 October 2004 03:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 30 October 2004 03:26 (nineteen years ago) link
but really--there are people in alaska who live unlike anyone "outside". that book into the wild? it was kind of a pisser in alaska because there are plenty of folks who just go out and live on their own--they're just not stupid enough to eat random plants, etc.
people in texas think they're bitchen. fucken live through an alaskan winter.
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 30 October 2004 05:35 (nineteen years ago) link
+ Buddy Cianci+ Ian Johnson+ Jon Williams+ Laura+ Andrew L.R.+ Me+ Coffee Syrup+ Calling milkshakes 'cabinets' , giros 'grinders' and see-saws 'dandles'+ Newport+ Gaspee Day (google it)+ Providence+ Brown / RISD+ Waterfire.
― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 30 October 2004 06:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― motown modown (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 October 2004 06:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kenan (kenan), Saturday, 30 October 2004 07:03 (nineteen years ago) link
Moderately weird states: Arkansas, California, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan (only for the U.P.), Mississippi, Oregon, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Wyoming.
Totally weird states: Alaksa, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin. Also: Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, etc.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 30 October 2004 08:13 (nineteen years ago) link
More normal-ish provinces: British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, PEI, Saskatchewan.
More weird provinces: Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador, NW Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Yukon Territory.
With "most normal" going to Manitoba and "weirdest" going to Newfoundland.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 30 October 2004 08:17 (nineteen years ago) link
I think WV is crazy, especially that little northern bit that, if you look at a map, gets pretty close to Canada. Plus its name is odd seeing as there's a bit of Virginia that's further west.
― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 30 October 2004 08:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Saturday, 30 October 2004 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link
Everything in Florida is either painted orange, turquoise or pale yellow. That alone has to cause some form of madness.
Florida Death Metal -- where else could something like that come from? Oh yeah...Sweden. Explain that one Batman.
They have advertisements for Florida based topless pancake houses as far north as Chattanooga, Tennessee.
While staying in a Hyatt right on the ocean in Miami Beach, the hotel bar had a nice black marble, gold embossed sign that said anyone over heard trying to purchase or sell narcotics would lead to the sheriff's office being notified by management. That blew my midwestern mind, that it must have been happening enough that they had to post a sign. It wasn't enough for the bartender to say, "hey man quit trying to make a cocaine deal in my bar." Of course the lead story on the local news that day was some poor Jamaican that died in the airport because of a baggy of cocaine that burst in his stomach and the other was about someone spiking drinks in bars in South Beach and killing some woman.
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Saturday, 30 October 2004 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link
Kenan, I think that you were looking for this: http://ilx.p3r.net/postmarkread.php?msgid=5193240
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 30 October 2004 14:06 (nineteen years ago) link
YOU DON'T SAY.
― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 30 October 2004 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 30 October 2004 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Having spent the first 18 years of my life there (1958-76) I'd have to agree. And it's become much more bland/generic since then. In fact being "weird" has always been considered a mortal sin in Cincy.
― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Saturday, 30 October 2004 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link
All the fucking bridgesNewport MansionsThe RI desertWindmillsihttp://images7.fotki.com/v113/photos/4/40102/1417025/IMG_62211-vi.jpgThe providence tunnelfort thunder, etccrosswalk to nowhereThe Masonic TempleDell's lemonadeThe homeless village and art associated with it
http://www.livejournal.com/community/weird_ri/
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Saturday, 30 October 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 30 October 2004 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 30 October 2004 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link
>Having spent the first 18 years of my life there (1958-76) I'd have to agree. And it's become much more bland/generic since then. In fact being "weird" has always been considered a mortal sin in Cincy.
yeah--you'd think, with its *potential*--interesting architecture (some of which is even cutting-edge), and what could be a cool arts scene, and the King Records connection, and what is basically a lovely setting there on the river--it could be a lot better than it is. i lived there for a year and a half and i was always amazed at how dour the city was, how old the young people seemed, how uptight everyone was, how much they hated southerners...no matter how many times i told 'em that my home, Nashville, was about 20 years ahead of Cinci, they couldn't believe anything below the Ohio River could possibly be such. nothing there made any damn sense to me whatsoever, and that chili is an abomination.
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 30 October 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― mouse (mouse), Saturday, 30 October 2004 17:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 30 October 2004 17:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 30 October 2004 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link
I don't know how a state of which the majority of its land is either Native American reservations or national/state forests could be considered normal.Also weird: the border.
― oops (Oops), Saturday, 30 October 2004 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Saturday, 30 October 2004 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― mouse (mouse), Saturday, 30 October 2004 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 30 October 2004 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link
Well, that's true for a lot of places. Virignia's like that and has even banned radar detectors.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 31 October 2004 02:40 (nineteen years ago) link
but chris is right, wisconsin is weirder. see here.
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Sunday, 31 October 2004 02:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 7 April 2005 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link