tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post1774629462483345507..comments2023-08-27T10:10:30.032+02:00Comments on Laws of Silence: Watch your backDauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-34933724605259044042010-03-30T00:09:22.587+02:002010-03-30T00:09:22.587+02:00I had a lot of nostalgiac thoughts of Ithaca today...I had a lot of nostalgiac thoughts of Ithaca today, perhaps because it was a point of departure--the last place I live in the US. My last memories, so to speak. Such a beautiful, stimulating place, but one in which I experienced the nadir of my existence thus far.<br /><br />In many ways, I "escaped" from Ithaca, or fled....but still, Cornell, the Gorges, Chanticleer, my drab flat....Dauradehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-2461812613124701762010-03-29T21:19:24.951+02:002010-03-29T21:19:24.951+02:00i heard the same shit at my house on 3rd street. i...i heard the same shit at my house on 3rd street. i moved there without even considering it might be a 'bad' neighborhood, since i had lived in NYC for so long. but it was a bad neighborhood! a guy got shot across the street from me in a drive-by. heroin goes way back too. they say in the sixties the mafia routed heroin through ithaca. and all through the nineties crack came up on the bus,jonhttp://lastbender.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-3084197686458032092010-03-29T16:56:37.287+02:002010-03-29T16:56:37.287+02:00Haha! But you know, like all wholesome places, th...Haha! But you know, like all wholesome places, the place had a dark underbelly. Rampant with smack for example. Also, all those quasi-homeless kids on the Commons....<br /><br />When I lived on State and Plain I heard bricks tossed through windows, guns fired off right under mine, barely-teenaged kids puffing blunts on my doorstep.<br /><br />Of course, I kinda sought that stuff out....Dauradehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-56864967038947319292010-03-29T15:44:36.206+02:002010-03-29T15:44:36.206+02:00i didn't mean to post this twice! sorry.i didn't mean to post this twice! sorry.jonhttp://lastbender.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-89676385028043483222010-03-29T15:43:50.083+02:002010-03-29T15:43:50.083+02:00now i have to post the link to the conservative we...now i have to post the link to the conservative website. i wish ithaca were sodom like. it's liberal but way too wholesome. actually, we had a very conservative mayor for some years. he opposed the iraq war, was pro-abortion, ate acid etc. he also didn't pay his sales tax. a perotista. his main drive was development. his great evil was swindling funds out of HUD, then headed up by mario jonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-78612433783879751782010-03-29T15:30:46.951+02:002010-03-29T15:30:46.951+02:00now i have to post the link to the conservative we...now i have to post the link to the conservative website. i wish ithaca were sodom like. it's liberal but way too wholesome. actually, we had a very conservative mayor for some years. he opposed the iraq war, was pro-abortion, ate acid etc. he also didn't pay his sales tax. a perotista. his main drive was development. his great evil was swindling funds out of HUD, then headed up by mario jonhttp://lastbender.comnoreply@blogger.com