The Off Topic Topic

[Ideologue]

Looks like a normal city to me.

[Ed Anger]

There was a semi-serious proposal in the 90's to wall them off.

[jimmy olsen]

Looks like a normal city to me.

I thought you were from S. Carolina, not Detroit.

[Ideologue]

Looks like a normal city to me.

I thought you were from S. Carolina, not Detroit.

Well, our fields aren't dead mud.  I guess we've got that going for us.

[Razgovory]

My sister just called.  From a Gas Station... In East St. Louis.  Her mother in law who is driving her down here is evidently an idiot.

I feel I'm lacking context.

You don't go to East St. Louis.  Lord Humungous won't slow down in that place.  It's not really a city, it's the ruins of a city where post-human tribes wage endless war.  When I was there, the traffic lights didn't work.  They filmed "Escape from New York" there in the 1970's.

Bernardi suggested East St. Louis, Illinois, because it was filled with old buildings "that exist in New York now, and [that] have that seedy run-down quality" that the team was looking for.[12] East St. Louis, sitting across the Mississippi River from the more prosperous St. Louis, Missouri, had entire neighborhoods burned out in 1976 during a massive urban fire. Hill said in an interview, "block after block was burnt-out rubble. In some places there was absolutely nothing, so that you could see three and four blocks away."[11] As well, Alves found an old bridge to double for the "69th St. Bridge". The filmmaker purchased the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge for one dollar from the government and then gave it back to them for a dollar, "so that they wouldn't have any liability," Hill remembers.[11] Locations across the river in St. Louis, Missouri were used, including Union Station and the Fox Theater, both of which have since been renovated.[13]

It's like Somali on the Mississippi.

[Ideologue]

I have to expect there is some exaggeration in your account.  It's still American soil.  Thus, it's by default better than Somalia.  Also, it's only like two miles away in any direction from better vistas, so worst to worst all you have to do is walk for twenty minutes and you're out.

[Razgovory]

There was an attempted communist revolution there, Ide.

[Ideologue]

Neat.

[Razgovory]

Neat.

Maybe it is your type of place.

John Chamberlin is elected mayor. He campaigns on the slogan: "Make East St. Louis a little more like home and a little less like Hell."

This was back in 1913...

[Grinning_Colossus]

Was that the attempted communist revolution?

[Razgovory]

Was that the attempted communist revolution?

No.  That was closer to the massive race riots where they killed like a hundred black people and threw them in the river.

[Tamas]

 -our president negotiated with qadaffi just some months ago
-our PM negotiated with mubarak like 2 or 3 weeks before tahrir square
this week, our PM visited...








saud arabia

[DGuller]

Can he visit Putin next, please?

[Ideologue]

-our president negotiated with qadaffi just some months ago
-our PM negotiated with mubarak like 2 or 3 weeks before tahrir square
this week, our PM visited...








saud arabia

So Hungary likes doomed dictators?  I've known that since 1939; although I'd had my suspicions since 1920.

[Caliga]

Well, our fields aren't dead mud.  I guess we've got that going for us.

Columbia seemed pretty nice when I was there... and I'm not talking about Irmo where we met up, but Columbia proper, which I was in unexpectedly cause I made a wrong turn.