Cleveland

[RPM]

Discuss

[Allenberg]

1. Mistake on the lake.

Way to set that river on fire!

[Skink]

3. We love you Cleveland....

:grouphug:

[RPM]

8. ahhhh - just as i expected

start a cleveland thread, and the first reply is a pittsburgher making a joke.

Btw... You know one way Cleveland is better than Pittsburgh? They don't have to worry about 'winning one for the thumb.'

Go Stillers!!!

[ghostsofgiants]

2. A baloon tied to a mailbox is the international symbol...

...for "party over he-ere!"

[RPM]

12. party over here

[Dr.Phool]

4. Desolate town, going down the tubes fast.

[enigmatic]

5. My Hometown

Haven't lived there in years, but I'll love Clevo til I die..

[JVS]

6. A fine rust-belt city

[RPM]

9. A more well-tempered Pittsburgher

Good job JVS - unlike ALlenberg, you managed to stifle the desire to make a denigrating remark towards Cleveland.

Kudos to you!

[JVS]

10. How can I speak ill of another Northern city?

Solidarity forever

[Allenberg]

13. I'd call Cleveland

more of a midwestern city, with Pittsburgh being the boundry between Midwest and Northeast. At least that's how I tend to think in terms of cities. :shrug:

[RPM]

14. JVS is still stuck in the civil war

thats his north/south schema in play...

[JVS]

15. Did I fucking say Northeastern?

I said Northern!

[RPM]

16. settle down bevis

time for another leinie to smooth you out :beer:

[JVS]

17. Can't drink, have work at 5

[RPM]

18. ahhh right

I forgot you shift starts at the time the rest of us are sitting down for dinner - the better for you to harass us.

[sasquatch]

20. Ditto

FUCK THE SOUTH!!

[RPM]

21. wow

tell me how you really feel!

[sasquatch]

22. I feel that every time a southern white dies we come closer to a cure...

for cancer.
;)

[EstimatedProphet]

7. Much nicer place than I would have thought before I visited

and very pro-labor too. Cleveland is on our side folks.

[Arugula Latte]

11. Site of my baby-toddler-preschool years.

Is there a plaque to me somewhere there? Maybe a statue?

I remember playing on the shores of Lake Erie as a child (late sixties, early 70s). Good god, what have I ingested?

[RPM]

19. kick

:kick:

[Beware the Beast Man]

23. An adopted hometown that has slowly grown on me.

[Wapsie B]

24. I liked Cleveland.

I was only there a few days and saw only part of the downtown but I had fun. Blue-collar towns seem to have a negative image attached to them nowadays.

[sasquatch]

25. That's because the working class rule there

You see New York and the politicians want to kill cities like Cleveland because people actually want to live above poverty level there.

[Wapsie B]

27. I know what you're saying.

I grew up near Waterloo, Iowa which is a smaller blue-collar town in it's own right with John Deere Tractor Works the employer of choice for years. They actually paid people enough to actually rise out of poverty and help them achieve the American Dream. Come Reaganomics and by god we can't have that at all. The bankers cry that it's just not fair that those blue-collar workers were making as much or more than those who went to college.

[johnnie]

26. Been here 40 years

And I wouldn't like to be anywhere else. I always tell people not to come here..it sucks. I hate traffic.

[enigmatic]

31. I miss the Variety Theater, Tony's Diner, West Side Market...

Coventry, The Big Egg (man, I REALLY miss The Big Egg...), Record Rondevous,.....I could go on and on...

[asthmaticeog]

67. Fuckdamn, looks like we both miss the exact same stuff.

Hey, if by any chance I ever spare-changed you, apologies for the hassle, bro.

[kittenpants]

28. Home of Dennis Kucinich!!! not so bad, eh?

[tigereye]

29. this Pittsburgher

thinks it is a great and beautiful town.

[PittPoliSci]

30. As a Pittsburgher...

I had always thought that Cleveland was a festering shithole.

But I drove through it back in early May, it isn't exactly a festering shithole, I found it to be rather pretty. But, at the same time, I felt it was laid out poorly. But Pittsburgh isn't exactly easy to navigate either, so take that for what it's worth.

[realisticphish]

32. Bah, Cleveland sucks

Columbus siiiiiiide;)

[enigmatic]

33. Columbus???

Where the premier ethnic food is Wonder Bread???;)

[realisticphish]

34. if you can find a better gyro

than Apollo's on high street, i'll give you 50 bucks ;)

[enigmatic]

35. I've gotten many of them there!

You gotta love little hole-in-the-wall places like that! Actually, High Streey is the best college drag I've ever lived in, so I'm not down on Columbus; is Statche's and Magnolia Thunderpussy still around?

[realisticphish]

37. Magnolia thunderpussy was around last year

havent been around there lately, so don't know if its still there. statche's is called little brother's now.

the newport is of course still there, and still having fucking awesome music

...and Flying pizza is most definately still there, and still kicking ass :9

[enigmatic]

38. No more Staches???????????????

Oh God, that's criminal; I saw so may awesome bands there in the late 80's-early 90's.....

Is the Garden still there? When I was there last they were using it as a strip club. What a beautiful old movie theater..

[realisticphish]

39. i'm not sure

not familier with it... a few years ago, they ripped a BUNCH of bars and clubs out, for a beautification project (they promised to put them back in, but what a suprise, they have not done so :eyes:)

[enigmatic]

40. Ugh...

That figures...

[sasquatch]

36. Word, In Hamilton Ohio, a Jordanian has a kick ass Gyro though

Just as good too.

[Huckebein the Raven]

41. I miss that place

Sigh.

[realisticphish]

43. then come BACK

Cbus isnt too bad politics wise, but we can use all the help we can get ;)

[sasquatch]

44. Get your ass back there man, don't you know we need you here?

:shrug:
PLEASE!!!!!

[RPM]

45. oh good christ - they disd script ohio on ice?!?!?!?!

Mad props from a Michigan fan - that is some shit; i have never seen a marchingband on ice....

[realisticphish]

46. I did, actually

:D I'm on the ice, there, playing bass drum (It's technically not the marching band, it's the athletic band, but there are a lot of the same people).

I've done it 3 times now, and it's freakin awesome every time

[RPM]

47. Hardcore - Mad props

Did you have special shoes? I am fascinated by this band on ice concept...

[realisticphish]

49. yeah

well, actually, they went OVER the shoes, but whatever. They're these rubber things that have little metal nubs for gripping the ice. Plus, we do it before the zamboni does its thing, so the ice is still pretty chopped up. It's still terrifying when you march out in front of a sold out Schott, and you keep imagining falling on your ass...

[sasquatch]

50. Did I tell you about the skull session I saw once

It was August and it was at least 98 degrees outside and the Buckeyes were playing Texas Tech(2002) and I took my friend to see the skull session in saint Johns arena. I walked in there and I was half drunk and I was hit by a gust of hot air. It had to be 120 degrees inside that damn building and the band was playing in their full dress wool uniforms. That was hard fucking core.

[realisticphish]

51. that's nothing

the drum line reports at 7 FUCKING AM. The rest of the band reports at 9. They go through a full uniform practice, THEN do skull session, THEN march straight over to the stadium and march ramp (which, while it doesnt LOOK that hard, is the most exhausting thing i've ever done)

[sasquatch]

52. Man, I idolize you for being in TBDBITL

[realisticphish]

55. don't hand out medals yet

i'm not in TBDBITL :(

but i tried out for it, which is where I marched ramp. I'm in athletic band, which is like marching band for slackers :)

[RPM]

57. uh - what's skull session?

sounds kinky....

[realisticphish]

66. lol

skull session started out as a last minute practice before the game, in St. John Arena (the old basketball facility) across the street from the stadium. Now, it's kind of a pep-rally deal, with the band doing the whole show, and about 13,000 people coming just to see them

[Merope215]

42. I like it

I was pleasantly surprised the first time I visited...my SO is from the West Side, and he has a great neighborhood. Downtown, though, is so dead. It really feels like a dying city - lots of tall abandoned or crumbling buildings and no one out aftr 5:00. Too bad, really, because it seems like it should have so much more potential, and I really like the slightly gritty, post-industrial-steel-town feel of it.

[Allenberg]

48. In seriousness,

the best part about Cleveland left and went to Baltimore in 1996, and considering the area, I'd say it was a lateral move.

[sleipnir]

53. Steamer!

:evilgrin:

[Richardo]

54. East 55th and Euclid Avenue was real......precious

Hotel Sterling comin' into view...so precious.

I like Cleveland - AND Chrissie Hynde.

[Duncan Grant]

56. The final Kerry Campaign rally: November 1, 2004 - Cleveland

I was there. :hi:

[asthmaticeog]

58. A town I've lived in my whole life and that I love dearly,

but I love it *so much* that I'm sick to fucking death of watching it die. I hate to abandon the fight, but I'm getting my ass kicked. It may be time to move on soon, which frankly sucks.

[Magrittes Pipe]

59. We're gonna bring self-respect back to Cleveland town.

Just watch us.

[asthmaticeog]

60. I hope so.

But the whole perverse and paradoxical mix of over-the-top civic pride and deeply embedded self-loathing may prove too potent a brew for even the mighty eog/Hedges/Beast axis to overcome.

[Magrittes Pipe]

61. What Cleveland needs is another "My Town."

[asthmaticeog]

62. LOL - I think that hurt more than it helped!

And anyway, you know my music kink - I'd much rather see another Pere Ubu emerge.

[Magrittes Pipe]

63. I know somebody who's a DEAD RINGER for Dave Thomas!

:o

[asthmaticeog]

64. Yeah, but no way Koolzip's moving here.

:evilgrin:

[DelawareValleyDem]

65. You mean this guy?

[cassandra uprising]

68. Would have made a great stopping point

when driving from Connecticut to Chicago.

:banghead: