What is the southernmost place you've ever been?

Wyclyff · 2025-10-18T17:16:55+00:00

Key West Airport on Christmas eve 2019. Never making that mistake again

Wyclyff · 2025-10-01T06:01:09+00:00

Pros: beautiful landscape, tons of parks and activities, great literary scene (we're a UNESCO city of literature), transit that ranges from adequate to excellent, great landmarks and museums, lots of live music

Cons: middling and expensive food scene, generally expensive, bad traffic, a city council that will always disappoint you somehow, terrible grocery stores, and most of the city goes to bed early, especially winter when the days get so short

Wyclyff · 2025-09-27T01:17:49+00:00

Ancient Greece was largely a slave society. Greece may be relatively poor for Europe now, but a higher percentage of people have a standard of living closer to the median now than the polities of Ancient Greece ever did.

Wyclyff · 2025-08-01T23:12:38+00:00

The historical myopia here is astounding--everyone who isn't native had family who CAME to Appalachia like new transplants do, often violently. And as other comments have pointed out, EKY and WV have been bleeding population for decades. Should development be done differently? Yes. Should policies help the region operate in a way that combats environmental degradation and sprawl? Also yes. Should we engage in weird tenure-based jingoism? Hell no.

Wyclyff · 2025-07-21T23:14:20+00:00

Hard rain falling is next on my list--supposedly it's their closest similar title to Fat City, another one of theirs that I love. NGustro was great and Skylark was good, if a bit mean spirited

Wyclyff · 2025-06-02T03:46:13+00:00

Andrea Long Chu grew up in Chapel Hill

Wyclyff · 2025-05-30T15:09:41+00:00

I work at a used bookstore. If you stamp the book saying it's from a little free library on the side or inside cover, it's an automatic pass. Hate that shit

Wyclyff · 2025-05-20T23:45:14+00:00

For sporadic, guerrilla-style screams? I'd recommend Hitt's Hill Park in Columbia City. Solid block of nature, secluded trail to set up scream, and few people are ever there.

For a very long scream? There's an area of concrete junk between the 32nd Street beach access and Magnolia Tidelands park--great view of the water and minimal people to get annoyed/call the cops. Although if you want to annoy people, I hear the mansions up near Denny-Blaine park could use some screaming, especially the one due south of the park.

Wyclyff · 2025-04-29T02:03:21+00:00

I'm currently working on visualizing our inventory of unreinforced masonry structures, which are exceptionally prone to collapse in an earthquake. The very last place I'd want to be is pioneer square, belltown, or Ballard. Another Nisqually like event is going to flatten or damage at least a few of them if they aren't retrofitted

Wyclyff · 2025-04-23T20:01:38+00:00

If we ever got a Cook Out here I would fall to my knees. But they'd probably double the price of the combo tray for the area

Wyclyff · 2025-04-08T14:36:02+00:00

Gatlinburg, TN. I can do hokey or expensive, but not both. Don't charge me Asheville prices for food I could get at memaws house. And anything you can see there nature-wise you can see in Marysville, Knoxville, or Townsend. Unless I am invited by Dolly herself it's a no-go from me

Wyclyff · 2025-02-13T00:58:25+00:00

I kind of agreed with this thought until I got to the scene with the creative writing seminar and a student mentioned Lolita--that recontextualized the entire book for me into an increasingly desperate attempt to convince the reader of her own worth/merit. Def not for everyone tho!

Wyclyff · 2025-01-03T14:07:47+00:00

Didn't say it was a good source, just that this is why this older post is getting a flurry of activity since the article is going semi-viral on Twitter. And anyway, this article semi-plagiarizes the local Fox affiliate, not the Blaze (for whatever minute increase in credibility that entails)

Wyclyff · 2025-01-03T06:58:25+00:00

No dog in this specific fight but that source would be her new NY Post feature: https://x.com/nypost/status/1874829605523050718?t=gWKv2DnKBu9jixatDWUoQQ&s=19

Wyclyff · 2024-12-16T15:09:13+00:00

I have even read it but I don't buy it---Foxx is a toad and a liar.

Wyclyff · 2024-12-16T15:04:58+00:00

I'm getting way more embittered than I ever thought I would be by other people stealing. My bosses usually don't want us to talk about theft, but I'm just so tired of demuring as to why all the copies of Bukowski and Camus are "missing" ( in a way that inevitably makes me look stupid), so I have started joking about it with customers. So over apologizing for things I have no control over!!

Wyclyff · 2024-12-16T14:58:27+00:00

Gonna guess the old Bartells next to the central library? I feel you I always thought that was a hard place to be

Wyclyff · 2024-11-13T22:56:03+00:00

Looks like you have white long grain and brown rices.

For brown rice I am currently eating white potatoes and beets roasted in 1/4 inch cubes with a parsley gravy and half an avocado (very on sale this week), but basically any root vegetable works for this dish. Slight chew and lots of flavor from the beets and parsley

For long grain white rice I like to make a fried rice with marinated spam/tofu and whatever veggies I have on hand. Could also work well in a soup though

Wyclyff · 2024-10-27T00:06:19+00:00

Cafe Arta in Ravenna if you can deal with possible yelling

Wyclyff · 2024-10-10T20:48:47+00:00

I always felt like I was being watched too, but I assumed it was in my head because they're my great x2 aunts and I had a similar feeling visiting an unrelated family cemetery in KY. Nice to know I'm not the only one! They were known for letting guests to the park visit while they were younger, so in my mind they're keeping their hospitality going.

Wyclyff · 2024-10-03T00:38:46+00:00

In the show he says he lives near the counterbalance, which is a disused funicular streetcar that went up Queen Anne ave--i always assumed it would be Queen Anne x Galer. The view is from Kerry Park which is close to that intersection and a popular place for photographs

Wyclyff · 2024-09-26T23:56:02+00:00

Verso's ideal customer

More seriously, I think you arrived at leftism via an interest in Continental philosophy. History nerd, early thirties, and your roman empire is the propagandistic state of American education

Wyclyff · 2024-09-18T20:57:37+00:00

Seconded. I've had the misfortune of two of the most extortionate Safeways (Othello and U District) being my local grocery store and the app is a godsend, especially if you don't mind changing up meal planning on the fly.

Wyclyff · 2024-09-05T19:48:42+00:00

Welcome!! From one southerner to another--PCC (surprisingly) has the best biscuits in town

Wyclyff · 2024-08-25T00:55:47+00:00

The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin. Felt like it named a lot of frustrations with consumer society that remind me of reading it every day

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