I’m seriously running out of material here, folks.
- I have started and stopped college more times than I care count. And, no, graduation isn’t one of the reasons I’ve stopped.
- My family has made fun of the way I talk my entire life. The claim is that I “talk too fancy.”
- I’m the only member of my immediate family that has stayed away from the home-town.
- I’m reading about taking better photographs. I hope to get some of my work published.
- I want to write and take photographs for a living (which means not having to have a “day job”).
- Women consider me “incredibly safe” or “incredibly creepy.” Neither assessment really satisfies me.
- My apartment ceiling is just barely higher than I am (I’m 5’5”).
- The sound of my voice makes me ill. It’s the main reason I stopped producing the podcast.
- I like to cook, mostly because I like to eat.
- I could be an alcoholic, except that I’m too lazy.
- Active churches, and everything related, make me uncomfortable. Abandoned, old, or closed churches don’t bother me.
- I can’t swim. In fact, water scares me more than almost anything else.
- I’m scared of heights (not as much as water, though), but I love to fly (in aircraft).
- I’ve never used recreational drugs or prescription drugs for recreational purposes.
- I didn’t have sex until I was 18. The woman I was with also was 18. Yes, I was that scared of being charged with statutory rape.
- I haven’t had cable television in my apartment for nearly a month. It’s surprisingly refreshing.
- I’m pretty sure this is the first (and probably last) meme ever posted here.
- I’ve taken almost 10,000 photographs with my Nikon D40.
- I haven’t seen my best friend since she left NC.
- There are days that I seriously consider running away and starting a new life in Europe or the Islands.
A lot of people think I’m overly “down” on Jacksonville as a community and the Jacksonville Daily News as a news organization.
I submit, in response, this quotation from today’s Jacksonville Daily News:
Brown jokingly compared it with waiting for tickets to see the Rolling Stones.“It’s the biggest thing to happen in Jacksonville,” Brown said. “We just wanted to be, ‘We were first.’”
Yes, because the opening of an Olive Garden restaurant is on par with seeing the Rolling Stones.
Only in Jacksonville and only in the Jacksonville Daily News is the opening of a chain restaurant such a big deal…
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Jacksonville sounds more and more like a southern Erie every time you write about it. If I’m not mistaken, our local fishwrap gave the award for best Italian restaurant in Erie to Olive Garden. I think they supposedly took some kind of poll. We have some amazingly wonderful locally owned Italian eateries, and they gave the award to a mediocre fucking chain. Go figure.
Oh, and I’ve seen the Rolling Stones live and in person and I’ve also had the misfortune of eating what passes for “Italian cuisine” at an Olive Garden. Suffice it to say, Mr. Brown knows not of what he speaks.