Friday, July 4, 2008

America

Love:
- the hum of the highway
- the abundance of soda pop
- HBO Original Series'
- Shan Foster
- The Tampa Bay Rays
- The Ramones
- sagebrush
- D-Day
- when steam comes out of manhole covers
- southern style biscuits
- ray bans
- "They say it can't be done? Well by golly we'll figure out a way."
- motel signs
- immigrants with their own businesses
- 24 hour diners
- the way 7-11 smells
- Obama
- McSorley's Old Ale House
- comic books
- Converse All-Stars
- Wrigley Field
- league night
- the fact that you can get like, any kind of food here
- the Great American Novel

Hate:

- My Super Sweet 16
- Calvin Pissing decals
- No respect for the land. No respect at all.
- Outrageous Comedies
- Famous Non-Celebrities
- Local news broadcasts
- the lack of any native apes
- doctors


what about you?

4 comments:

  1. Love:
    - Barbecue Sauce
    - Bacon
    - Credit Cards
    - Big fake breasts
    - Football
    - Flapjacks
    - Gas guzzling muscle cars
    - Jazz

    Hate:
    - President Bush
    - VH1 Reality shows
    - The fact that I don't have one
    - Credit Card Debt
    - Courtney Love
    - Valtrex commercials (1 in 5? Really?)

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  2. I agree whole-heartedly with your list. Especially the love of the 7-11 smell. Nothing says "America" to me like the mixed smell of coffee, doughnuts, and B.O.

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  3. Love:
    Charles Bukowski
    fast food sushi
    Seattle
    the abundance of mountains
    huckleberries
    ChapStick
    grits
    John Cusack
    Quaking Aspen trees

    Hate:
    monster trucks
    Croc shoes
    blockbuster weekends
    "tribal" tattoos
    people who scream "wooo!"
    suvs

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  4. Fuckin’ LOVE McSorley’s!

    Love:

    *Prairies
    *Wu-tang Clan
    *Best Mexican food in the world (including Mexico)
    *Power-flush toilets
    *Honky tonkin'
    *Barbara Stanwyck flicks. Any film noir, actually.
    *Mob flicks
    *The dearth of infectious diseases
    *Teen angst
    *Amy Sedaris
    *The English language
    *Cirrus clouds…oh, wait, do they have those everywhere?


    Hate:

    *Camping
    *Rootlessness
    *People who lived in New York City for two years, moved home and continue to talk about how great everything was in New York
    *Cutthroat competition starting in preschool
    *Ruby Tuesday's
    *SUVs
    *Political disillusionment…oh, wait, do they have that everywhere?

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