That cat looks like he/she understands way more about life than I ever will!
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Hmmm...anyone like this on TB?
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That cat looks like he/she understands way more about life than I ever will!
You need to get a black cat to go with the jeans and t-shirt.
And the Maine Coon Cat is the SVT of cats?
They're great cats, but I don't want to have to carry one around. I'll take my little class D cat any day.
Nah. There is a time and a place for everything. And in my case the time was the 70s, and the place was Boston.
Got to visit Boston in September. Got to tour Fenway, where I was mistaken for Brad Pitt. Fenway was a bucket list moment. Boston itself was meh.
Boston isn’t what it used to be but what city is? Everything is all sparkly clean and new now. That said. I personally think Fenway Park is an overrated turd. $50 to sit in a narrow wooden seat that faces the wrong direction and may even have a structural pole in front of it. Ugh. They’ll never get rid of it now but it should be razed.
It’s lost a lot of its charm since the days I lived there AFAIC. Today it’s the same national retail chains you’d find anywhere else. And there’s been a lot of urban modernization that destroyed a lot of what IMO made that city interesting and different. Even the old Fenway. The whole funky block where I once lived is now gone, replaced by a modern building. But the same story goes for most US cities I guess. More and more places becoming more and more generic with the passage of time.
Last time I visited Boston several years ago for a godson’s graduation I felt slightly lost walking around. Most of my old familiar landmarks, hangouts, and shops were gone. I kinda felt like someone who returned home after a long war only to discover the village they grew up in no longer existed. I guess there’s a lot of truth to that adage that says: “The past is a foreign country.”
My gripe with Boston is not so much that it is heavily-populated and congested, but that it is so scrunched together, like trying to fit a 34" scale onto a 30" bass. And like Atlanta and Dallas, it has spread out and eaten everything near it: Salem, Marblehead, you name it. You never get out of Boston.
Fenway I have loved since I was a child, and I was born and raised in the south. To me it is like the St. Basil's Cathedral of baseball parks. And I did get to sit in one of those dark blue 1912 seats. But I don't think I could have endured that for an entire game.
I much preferred Halifax.
But the same story goes for most US cities I guess. More and more places becoming more and more generic with the passage of time.. . . . I guess there’s a lot of truth to that adage that says: “The past is a foreign country.”
Or, as Thomas Wolf put it, you can't go home anymore. My home town is the same way. It has spread out enormously, and in the process all of the genteel neighborhoods I remember from being a child have deteriorated. Some are now so crime-infested you dare not drive through them even in broad daylight.
That's one nice thing about living in a small town like I do now. The location has no commercial value and developers therefore leave it alone. We still have most of our old buildings. Unfortunately, far too many of them remain vacant.
Ha ha. Thats funny. I moved here from CA and one of the first things I noticed was how quickly one got out of the city. That has changed a little. The leafy woodsy feeling found in large parts of the metro west area has started to give way to suburban sprawl as every empty lot gets filled in.
