Wednesday, January 21, 2004
(8:33 PM) | Anonymous:
Kalamazoo. Home of (or one time Home of)
Guitars, Drugs, Checker Cab, Celery, and a couple Malls...
So much has happened to me today (which is still the same stretch of consciousness that the other posts were written in, sadly enough), that I don't think I'll even both recounting it. I want the explanation to have the benefit of evaluation and analysis, which will only happen if I decide to describe today's events sometime in the future. After sleep. So, what then?
I thought I'd introduce you to place I call home. Kalamazoo, Michigan. It's a great town, really, and certainly more entertaining than Flint or Kankakee. Located exactly halfway between Detroit and Chicago on one of the busiest interstates in America [I-94], Kalamazoo is quite the hub of transportation. You can enter or leave the town by bus, train, chartered or major airline, as well as forementioned expressway.
Kalamazoo is definitely a college town, as with commuting community college kids, Western students, and those that go to Kalamazoo College (the most expensive private college in the region), the population fluctuates by nearly 50,000 people at the beginning and ending of each school year. There are probably more bars in town than the native population could support, but the same can be said about the number of music venues and fine arts centers. There is a strong community theater program, and the Kalamazoo Symphony is nearly one hundreds years old. Indeed, one of the first major buildings built in the new city square during the end of the nineteenth century was the multistory granite edifice of the Kalamazoo Academy of Music.
Kalamazoo also used to be home to the Cedar Point of the turn of the century, as well as multiple psychiatric hospitals. The amusement park has since returned to the forest along Asylum Lake, while all of the hospitals have closed except for one. Kalamazoo saw a gradual decline in tourism as the native population began to increase, and Kalamazoo County now supports over 220,000 souls. The winter season also promises an extra foot or two of snow than other cities along the same line in Michigan due to the phenomenon of Lake Effect Snow.
Speaking of which, the blizzard that was supposed to come today never came. Life goes on, but I have to say I'm disappointed. In any event, I hope you enjoyed the Kalamazoo backdrop. Perhaps it will take your mind off Stupid President Bush Jr. and his future plans to Make A Constitutional Amendment Just to Piss Anthony Off. And Dan Savage. And those f***ers on the Queer Eye show. Well, they can rot. But I have a lot of gay friends that I don't hate.
Bush, this one's for you.
Wanker.
This entry was written to the strains of Aimee Mann.
