I confess, reading Rebecca’s post back in 2014 was the first thing I ever read on Wonkette. I laughed so hard and thought “I could be friends with this girl”. And I’ve been a subscriber ever since and consider it money well spent.
I had suggested that they should move to Rochester, NY which has the added bonus of Robyn living there and safer than parts of Michigan.I had even pointed out that my next door neighbours LEFT MI because it was getting worse there and they wanted their kids in a safer state.
Well, with the killings in Buffalo a week ago, what can I say?
I'm one of those liberals in SD. My gay atheist babies (young adults but my BABIES) are gtfo. Can't blame them for not trying to stay and make it better like their mama, when it's better already somewhere else. That is the nature of things. So maybe someday I move to NY or WA to be closer to my gay atheist grandbabies who are still but a gleam in my eye, because I love the geographical landscape but can't tolerate the political landscape forever. <3
But, it isn't Michigan, it's Detroit. DETROIT! So many communal gardens and so much happening and people who are excited.I heard about this hundred million dollar prize from the MacArthur Foundation that was new, (years ago this was) and I thought what if some "entity" in Detroit got it? They could train a thousand unemployed young people to become real carpenters who could then tear down the hundreds and hundreds of abandoned houses that stretch out for miles and make the city so large the police couldn't reach you in under an hour. And then make all the gardens and farms in a new smart way and build houses in a smart way, back near the center. I was thinking about how this would avoid the GOP dismissing this kind of thing by saying these 'make-work construction' jobs are temporary-- and I thought how all construction jobs are temporary, and how these jobs could make a total big difference in the lives of these people who'd been unemployed or underemployed. I know Detroit has such things happening anyway-- just sorry I dont' know anybody important to propose it to-- they won't award it to a person!-- bc I used to daydream about that huge sum.Thanks for letting me bombast it here at least.
Oh, not, but I have had relatives in the area for years, in Webster and Mumford. But I was very familiar with the city because of that. I always felt it was a fine city, but I know things have gotten worse over the years. Haven't been there in a long time.
I moved there from real countryside at age 13. Even the human race was different. Just recently I learned that Frederick Douglass lived in that city and there's still a house of his standing. I burst out laughing, it was so incongruous-- but, it was years ago that I was there.
Yep, he's buried in Mt. Hope Cemetary, and I've driven past there but never went in. He knew Harriet Tubman who founded the Underground Railroad, and died while living in Auburn, NY. I have also driven past her last home and the cemetary she was buried in there.
Many people do no know of all the civil rights leaders in Western and Central NY.
I wonder how Harriet Tubman got enough money to have a house. Probably the Abolitionist Societies sent her money. But I doubt if she had time to work. I think there's a house there that was a disguised crossing, or is-- of the Genessee River? I must look it up again.
Thanks for the update - I've been hoping you have been getting settled in and wondering how it was going (and Happy Birthday to Shy.)
This is a lovely post.
Happy birthday, Shy!
I confess, reading Rebecca’s post back in 2014 was the first thing I ever read on Wonkette. I laughed so hard and thought “I could be friends with this girl”. And I’ve been a subscriber ever since and consider it money well spent.
Wow! Klaire is fabulous!
I had suggested that they should move to Rochester, NY which has the added bonus of Robyn living there and safer than parts of Michigan.I had even pointed out that my next door neighbours LEFT MI because it was getting worse there and they wanted their kids in a safer state.
Well, with the killings in Buffalo a week ago, what can I say?
Well I used to live there and IT WAS HELL. (Tho you and I agree on so many things.)
Do you mean Rochester or Michigan OR Buffalo?
I'm one of those liberals in SD. My gay atheist babies (young adults but my BABIES) are gtfo. Can't blame them for not trying to stay and make it better like their mama, when it's better already somewhere else. That is the nature of things. So maybe someday I move to NY or WA to be closer to my gay atheist grandbabies who are still but a gleam in my eye, because I love the geographical landscape but can't tolerate the political landscape forever. <3
But, it isn't Michigan, it's Detroit. DETROIT! So many communal gardens and so much happening and people who are excited.I heard about this hundred million dollar prize from the MacArthur Foundation that was new, (years ago this was) and I thought what if some "entity" in Detroit got it? They could train a thousand unemployed young people to become real carpenters who could then tear down the hundreds and hundreds of abandoned houses that stretch out for miles and make the city so large the police couldn't reach you in under an hour. And then make all the gardens and farms in a new smart way and build houses in a smart way, back near the center. I was thinking about how this would avoid the GOP dismissing this kind of thing by saying these 'make-work construction' jobs are temporary-- and I thought how all construction jobs are temporary, and how these jobs could make a total big difference in the lives of these people who'd been unemployed or underemployed. I know Detroit has such things happening anyway-- just sorry I dont' know anybody important to propose it to-- they won't award it to a person!-- bc I used to daydream about that huge sum.Thanks for letting me bombast it here at least.
Rochester NY. Do you live there now? Except for driving up and down East Ave and looking at the grass-- that was neutral.
Oh, not, but I have had relatives in the area for years, in Webster and Mumford. But I was very familiar with the city because of that. I always felt it was a fine city, but I know things have gotten worse over the years. Haven't been there in a long time.
I moved there from real countryside at age 13. Even the human race was different. Just recently I learned that Frederick Douglass lived in that city and there's still a house of his standing. I burst out laughing, it was so incongruous-- but, it was years ago that I was there.
Yep, he's buried in Mt. Hope Cemetary, and I've driven past there but never went in. He knew Harriet Tubman who founded the Underground Railroad, and died while living in Auburn, NY. I have also driven past her last home and the cemetary she was buried in there.
Many people do no know of all the civil rights leaders in Western and Central NY.
Future Dipshits of America
I wonder how Harriet Tubman got enough money to have a house. Probably the Abolitionist Societies sent her money. But I doubt if she had time to work. I think there's a house there that was a disguised crossing, or is-- of the Genessee River? I must look it up again.
Happy birthday Shy! Congratulations on making it to Detroit, all! I love that last picture of the dancing women and pre-women.
Wayne sounds real cool.
If more people like Wayne moved to flyover country, this country would benefit.
My now-passed MIL, an avowed liberal, came from South Dakota. She grew up in the 20s.