A catalog in america

[shakahislop]

theres that good story about mike davis telling his students its fine to walk around any ghetto in LA they will only meet lovely welcoming people so one of his students (a tongan prince if i recall correctly) immediately plunges into the night and gets stabbed ends up in critical condition.

i've done quite a lot of what you could call ghetto walking, though probably that's a pretty bad name for it, and in the US my experience has been that it's totally fine. i've always done it in the morning which probably helps a lot.

 

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theres that good story about mike davis telling his students its fine to walk around any ghetto in LA they will only meet lovely welcoming people so one of his students (a tongan prince if i recall correctly) immediately plunges into the night and gets stabbed ends up in critical condition.

I was surprised by that side of him, given his reputation and what he tends to write about. Same with that anecdote about him driving people around and boasting that they were outside a "Drug king’s headquarters," and "They’ve got four or five guns trained on us.’ Seemed a bit tone deaf and the kind of thing he'd roast someone else for.

 

[linebaugh]

I heard its a city not really made for walking. But I want to go to the public library where bukowski discovered fante and wander around there a bit.

And I want to go to chick fillet.

And get a really big icey drink.

all of the cities on your list are intensely unwalkable. LA has a pretty good bus system that can get you around whatever neighborhood you are in reliably, but if you want to change neighborhoods expect to be on the bus for an hour.

 

[linebaugh]

NYC, Philly and Chicago are the only walkable american cities in my experience

 

[luka]

i've done quite a lot of what you could call ghetto walking, though probably that's a pretty bad name for it, and in the US my experience has been that it's totally fine. i've always done it in the morning which probably helps a lot.

also youve done it totally in your imagination which helps with the safety aspect

 

[william_kent]

also youve done it totally in your imagination which helps with the safety aspect

I do hood tours from my armchair via CharlieBo313 and Toon215

I think it's called "poverty porn" or "slum tourism" by the academics nowadays, but fuck them, i live in a rough area and i've been held at knifepoint yards from my front door on more than one occasion, always escaped unscathed because Bast is my animal spirit and she has nine lives...

 

[martin]

I don't know why you picked Houston? If it's possible to change that part of your trip, I'd advise it. Houston's like Milton Keynes but unpleasantly humid, and pretty much deserted on weekends. About 80% of it's just motorway. The Astrodome isn't all that. Also, they have weird local licencing laws, so some pubs serve you 5 small beers then ask you to leave, for your own safety.
Go to New Orleans instead is my recommendation, 100 times better. They also have a ghetto WITH a voodoo queen's grave, if that's your (gris-gris) bag.

 

[catalog]

This one cousin of mine who used to work in the merchant navy somehow wound up in Houston where he does something to do with ships - my guess there but would seem to be the case.

So has to be Houston I'm afraid. And it's conveniently nearby to Austin. And he's often moaning at me about how no one ever goes to see him.

We were quite close when we were young but as we got older he became this really aggressive giant.

I might have told this story on here before but the difference between us became clear to me once when I was maybe 12 or 15 and I stayed at his house in chandigarh and we got a chicken takeaway dinner.

I was eating as I normally would and he was disgusted at how much meat I was leaving on the bones. He was all like "this is his you need to eat" and sticking an entire drumstick in his gob till and crunching everything off it til the bare bone was left.

So I'm going to see him.

 

[Mr. Tea]

This one cousin of mine who used to work in the merchant navy somehow wound up in Houston where he does something to do with ships - my guess there but would seem to be the case.

So has to be Houston I'm afraid. And it's conveniently nearby to Austin. And he's often moaning at me about how no one ever goes to see him.

We were quite close when we were young but as we got older he became this really aggressive giant.

I might have told this story on here before but the difference between us became clear to me once when I was maybe 12 or 15 and I stayed at his house in chandigarh and we got a chicken takeaway dinner.

I was eating as I normally would and he was disgusted at how much meat I was leaving on the bones. He was all like "this is his you need to eat" and sticking an entire drumstick in his gob till and crunching everything off it til the bare bone was left.

So I'm going to see him.

I can see where he's coming from. People who leave half the meat on a drumstick infuriate me too. Caligulaean levels of decadence.

 

[version]

If you're in Houston, you could go to DJ Screw's record shop.

 

[catalog]

Does it exist as a physical place? Rabit is also from Houston.

 

[version]

Yeah, it does.

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[catalog]

I am here!

I had a difficult immigration experience, got pulled into a sort of cordoned off area, they went through all my luggage, asked a lot of questions.

But got through in the end.

I ate a local Baltimore speciality in "Frasiers" which was a pretzel with crab meat and then covered in cheese.

 

[sufi]

 

[sufi]

Beat-up little seagull
On a marble stair
Tryin' to find the ocean
Lookin' everywhere

Hard times in the city
In a hard town by the sea
Ain't nowhere to run to
There ain't nothin' here for free

Hooker on the corner
Waitin' for a train
Drunk lyin' on the sidewalk
Sleepin' in the rain

And they hide their faces
And they hide their eyes
'Cause the city's dyin'
And they don't know why

Oh, Baltimore
Man, it's hard just to live
Oh, Baltimore
Man, it's hard just to live, just to live

Get my sister Sandy
And my little brother Ray
Buy a big old wagon
Gonna haul us all away

Livin' in the country
Where the mountain's high
Never comin' back here
'Til the day I die

Oh, Baltimore
Man, it's hard just to live
Oh, Baltimore
Man, it's hard just to live, just to live

Beat-up little seagull
Tryin' to find the ocean

Baltimore, Oh
Baltimore, Oh
Live

Baltimore, Oh
Baltimore

Just to live

 

[sus]

theres that good story about mike davis telling his students its fine to walk around any ghetto in LA they will only meet lovely welcoming people so one of his students (a tongan prince if i recall correctly) immediately plunges into the night and gets stabbed ends up in critical condition.

I thought you were kidding. It's like copypasta

Even when his extracurricular politics are not the issue, Davis's pedagogical practices might well cause a university to think twice about tenuring him. Once, while teaching at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, he devised an experiment to prove that one could feel reasonably safe in any neighborhood in L.A. in the middle of the night. One of his students, a crown prince of Fiji, decided to test this idea in Hollywood. There he met a handful of drug dealers, and they ended up having a marvelous time--until they were jumped by another group of dealers, who stabbed and nearly killed the prince. Davis recalls: "When I visited him in the hospital, I told him how sorry I was, but he said, 'No, Mike, I'll never be able to thank you for this. I would never have experienced anything like it in Fiji.'" Even so, Davis was almost fired over the incident. "I had to lie low for a while after that," he says with a smile.

 

[sus]

I am here!

I had a difficult immigration experience, got pulled into a sort of cordoned off area, they went through all my luggage, asked a lot of questions.

But got through in the end.

I ate a local Baltimore speciality in "Frasiers" which was a pretzel with crab meat and then covered in cheese.

Again, for the love of the Lord, what are you doing in Baltimore

Catch a bus to New York and come hangout

 

[Mr. Tea]

I am here!

I had a difficult immigration experience, got pulled into a sort of cordoned off area, they went through all my luggage, asked a lot of questions.

But got through in the end.

I ate a local Baltimore speciality in "Frasiers" which was a pretzel with crab meat and then covered in cheese.

Can we have a 'salivating' emoji reaction please, @sufi?

 

[IdleRich]

I think "Catalogin' America" would have been better.

 

[catalog]

Again, for the love of the Lord, what are you doing in Baltimore

Catch a bus to New York and come hangout

Hanging with my cousins and their partners. Having a good time so far. I been in hampden.

I do have other relatives in NYC, but I wanted to see these guys cos I get on well with em. Will come to NYC next time.

It was raining so much last night, basically felt like Manchester. My cuz bought this at the farmers market this morning, for 40 bux.

We're gonna do a teaspoon each tonight before going to this DIY place called the compound

He told me off cos I didn't tip enough for sandwiches just now.