Comments on: Bradrocket discovers Real America

By: ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:00:45 +0000

Stop worrying about my Diet, dammit. No Future for You!

By: Qetesh the Abyssinian

Qetesh the Abyssinian — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:13:01 +0000

Sorry to hear you’ve been icky, Brad. Hope it gets better.

Of the linked whatsits, this one is my favourite:

Otto Man Says:
“Do you think any of the Democrats can pretend to be as macho as you all pretend to be?”

July 30th, 2007 at 8:29 am

And Brad, if you don’t like Big Things, then don’t come to Australia: Big Things are a major rural industry. The Post Office recently issued this marvellous commemorative collection of just 5 of the best Big Things.

My sister and her partner once did a Big Things Tour – they saddled up the car and drove for thousands upon thousands of kilometres, checking out the rural Big Things along the way (there’s at least a dozen of ‘em: Big Lobster, Big Pineapple, Big Potato). The Big Cheese was apparently something of a disappointment: a large rural shed painted light yellow. Still, they took a photo for posterity and headed on to the next Big Thing on their ramble.

And a friend recently discovered The Big Things Runner-up: something that claimed to be “second-largest golf course in country New South Wales”. Wow. Be still, my beating heart.

I passed a large billboard

I’m thinking this is more a reflection on your diet than anything else…

Lunch. Keyboard. Ick. Oh, Mikey.

By: ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:26:48 +0000

I had to drive to Toledo after I hit Cincinnati…because it’s ‘on the way’. Got back to Columbus, very late.

And no mikey, I did not eat the billboard. Holy ‘eyes larger than your stomach’!

By: EdsAppliance

EdsAppliance — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:15:58 +0000

Cincinnati:Red::Cleveland:Blue

By: mikey

mikey — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:26:41 +0000

I passed a large billboard

I’m thinking this is more a reflection on your diet than anything else…

mikey

By: mikey

mikey — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:48:43 +0000

Huh. I guess it’s not just for children any more…

mikey

By: ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:49:28 +0000

I passed a large billboard on my way to Cincinnati recently (drove down for work). “Hell Is Real”.

It did not have the additional, “And You’re Entering It”.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:08:49 +0000

Chrissie Hynde is from Akron.

Yellow Springs is near Dayton and and offsets much of the negative karma generated in southwest Ohio.

Not enough to handle Cincinnati’s, alas.

By: ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:00:47 +0000

By the way Brad, you’ll find the locals in Newark, OH do not pronounce its name anything like Newark, N.J.

It’s Nerk. Or Nurk. Or Nirk. (All the same, btw.)

By: sarah

sarah — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:49:14 +0000

hey, feel better soon, buddy. may the curative properties of passing 4,738 waffle houses per mile fix you right up.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:45:19 +0000

you are blowing my mind, Mikey.

By: painless

painless — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:33:55 +0000

Newark (OH) trumps Zanesville, where I used to live. I usd to know Dave (Longaberger), who used to pay his employees really well, $15-20 an hour. His kids have run it into the ground since he died, so he’s probably rolling over in his grave (which I believe is in Dresden).

My daughter’s an MD/PhD student at Ohio State, so if you’re still feeling badly, lemme tell you there’s no finer institution of higher health care in the country*.

*if you can afford it, it goes without saying.

By: HemlockEcho

HemlockEcho — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:04:50 +0000

I’ve always firmly believed that anyone exposing themselves to as much wingnutia as you guys do is putting their health in serious risk.

Just how big is the worlds largest fucking basket, and how many people can fuck in it at the same time? If that’s the kind of stuff that they have in Real America, maybe I should get out of the city more often.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:44:39 +0000

7-story building shaped like a basket is Longaberger’s Home Office, Newark, Ohio.

I lack the vocabulary to express the awesomeness of this.

By: The Collector!

The Collector! — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:33:14 +0000

Christ, and no one’s mentioned Bob Pollard yet.

There are a lot of problems related to my point of origin (SW Ohio), but a dearth of indie rock icons is not one of them.

By: stryx

stryx — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:32:10 +0000

Just so y'all don't decide to move to Ohio with false hopes- it's not a Fucking basket, it's a fucking Basket. And go to a real Columbus place, not some franchise crap. Goody Boy and the High-Beck both put the Real in Real America.

By: mdhatter

mdhatter — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:23:15 +0000

I swear, her bass has an ’11′.

By: mdhatter

mdhatter — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:21:08 +0000

Kim Deal rocks!

By: Lawnguylander

Lawnguylander — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:09:34 +0000

Chrissie Hynde can definitely erase a lot of suck from a town by being from it, Mikey. In case there was any left over in Dayton Kim Deal of the Pixies finished the job a while ago.

By: mikey

mikey — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:00:42 +0000

Would it go back to being terrifying if I told you about my leather pajamas?

mikey