March 02, 2004

• Florida. There's lotsa bugs out here.
• Tokyo. Only corporate tolerance. Worse than in the ol' U.S.A.
• Chicago. Like my hometown of Atlanta, it's an oasis of civilization in a great desert of . . . other stuff. Pretty buildings. Seasonal Affective Disorder. It's 50 degrees now and people are celebrating like we've just signed the treaty to end WWIII.
• Fay-spanking, chewing-gumless (except for medical purposes), Hello-Kitty-crazed Singapore. But it's nice enough. Lotsa people come here to rear their offspring. Which is good cos the government here is going crazy trying to get our middle class to HAVE offspring.
• bangalore, india
• I can see the Thames from my office window. Sorry, I mean the Thames in London, of course... er ... that's London, England.
• Ireland. Currently Cork (south), previously Dublin (east) and Galway (west). Some days, I feel a strange compulsion to move north, but I resist it. I can see the side of another building from my office window. :)
• Chicago here, by way of Salinas, California (Birthplace of Steinbeck)
• I live in the murder capital of Britain. Oddly, that happens to be a fairly deserted part of rural Essex. (A statistical anomaly, obviously, thanks mainly to a low population, this wonderful man, and this nice lttle episode).
• Moscow Idaho. Which has the state University. Other than that it's the second boringest (it's a word if I use it as one!) place on Earth. First being any airport at two in the morning.
• Use your imagination to locate me. Have another go. I live somewhere else.
• New York. Specifically, TuCan.
• ...and Canal street is pretty much the embodiment of the American consumerist spirit. Really, though, I'm close enough to Tribeca to make it okay.
• Blue Springs, MO, near Kansas City. A suburb of hell.
• Chicago. We're here for you. Now where's the envelope?
• Bolton, Ontario, Canada. A small, horrible town that I can't wait to leave. We just got a Walmart! Which is pretty exciting for a town around these parts with 15,000 or so people. So yeah, We love corporate everything...
• Columbia, Missouri, USA Location of the state university.
• Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. A small, horrible city that I can't wait to leave. The awful thing is, I moved here from San Francisco. It's a long story centered on temporary insanity. I don't regret a move to Canada, but this place is a dive.
• Beautiful Ann Arbor, Michigan, the world's leading exporter of salty brown slush.
• Stockholm, Sweden. Where polar bears and penguins are roaming the streets.
• Beautiful Ann Arbor, Michigan, the world's leading exporter... etc.
• Monterrey, Mexico. The capital of car accidents.
• dawson! cork! that's where my father's people are from. mom's side is slovenian. me, i was born north of chicago and now live inside the beltway, D.C. but don't hold it against me! also spent 10 years in kansas city, missouri, which is a little-known but very cool place.
• St. Louis! *waves at Cincinatus*
• damnitkage, you don't like KC??? the barbecue, the blues, the plaza lights?? come on!!!
• India(na).
• Ah sidedish, since I'm mainly vegetarian, the bbq only goes so far. And I can make better barbecue than I can get, or at least cheaper. The blues? Maybe back when it was really jumpin', which it most assuredly isn't now. Besides, the blues gets old really quickly for me anymore. The plaza lights are nice enough, at leeast my kids dig them.
• Charlottesville, VA.
• Halifax, Nova Scotia, but moving to Ottawa in two months. All I can see out my window right now is snow. Still snow. And hi, bah! My parents live in Brampton (so did I, but I try to repress that), and I've been through Bolton many a time. And now you're in KW - I went to UW. Small world.
• NEW HAMPSHIRE!!! WOOT WOOT!
• I heard Woot Woot, NH is lovely this time of year.
• (Oh, and I reside in really toothless Fairfax, Virginia, by the way.)
• SideDish, if I meet any of your ancestors around I'll be sure to say hi for you :) I was in DC this time last year. Went to see GWB's house around 11pm when I got into the city, and was mildly freaked out by the SUV that appeared from nowhere and parked about fifteen yards from myself and my friend until we left. I reckon I could have got over the fence no problem, by the way. Not that I imagine that would have been a good idea.
• Seattle, Washington.
• The CN Tower dominates the view in the TORONTO skyline....Go! Jack Layton Go!
• greenpoint, brooklyn. new york city.
• Work in NYC (Midtown) Live in NJ (around Newark)
• east lansing, michigan. nice little town, home of michigan state university. big enough to have decent coffee shops, small enough to still be friendly. i used to live in manhattan. (no, not new york - the one in montana.)
• Remind me never to move to Essex! babywannasofa- I will ship milk to you anytime you want it!
• London. Live in the east (Stoke Newington, a lovely place full of quaint little pubs and organic food shops), work in the west (Shepherd's Bush, a significantly less lovely place boasting an unusual combination of trendy bars and crackheads). From my office window I can see a big, grey, lumpen shopping centre/car park. I've recently taken to working from home as much as possible. The car park is a causative factor in this decision.
• I'm presently in Cuernavaca Mexico. Returning soon to my home in Austin Texas and possibly moving to San Jose California. In other words I'm a vagabond and really don't have a home. Yet I pay rent in two places(!)
• I'm apparently the lone monkey in Tennessee, which is well known for country music, Al Gore, and then some more country music.
• Portland, Oregon pronounced or-uh-gun, not ORE-gone for those of you east of the mississippi
• *shouts out to the other PNW USA monkeys*
• I'm currently going to school in Farmville, Virginia, which sounds about as exciting as the town is.
• London ... Brixton to be precise. I used to live in Stoke Newington until recently and I'm not sure I'd describe many of its pubs as quaint though it does have a lot of organic food shops. And children. Brixton has one quaint pub and a very small organic food shop that's hard to find. But it does have the tube and an excellent cinema. I suspect I work for the same organisation as Flashboy - as I also work in Shepherd's Bush. But I get to look at a tube line instead. Hurrah!
• Some of the pubs are quaint. Well, the Fox Reformed is, anyway. But it's all relative - even the Wetherspoons is quainter than most Wetherspoonses. Brixton's cinema is very nice. Not BBC, sorry to say. Endemol.
• livii - hey, it is a real small world. Nice to know that all of Brampton doesn't forget about Bolton. Many a person that I've met over the years from there have no idea that the town even exists :-) and I love KW.. especially being at the small 'high school' down the street from UW
• Wellington, New Zealand. All your Oscar are belong to us.
• >>Stoke Newington you guys have the coolest city names in the UK.
• Don't tell me that I am the first New Zealander to reply. Formerly of Auckland, now living in the heart of Hamilton, next to the mighty Waikato river. That bbq might be quite a trip, but maybe.
• North Hollywood, Californium, where I am secretly plotting to put up the ultimate show-business outsider's website (NorthHollywoodReporter.com, nothing there yet). But my appearance at the L.A. MeetUp appears to have scared the other SoCal-based Monkeys out of town...
• Hey Caution Live Frogs ~ Manhattan? That's where my dad and all of his family are from. Don't run across that many Manhattanites.
• Was educated/have lived for extensive periods in Canada, US, and Great Britain -- (which has been ruinous for my spelling) -- but I don't identify myself with any of them or with any one place I've lived more than another, nor would monkeydom tolerate being led by the nose by 'leaders' of any stripe. In an ideal world, I daresay we would not need governments nor give a hang for nationalities, nor pay any attention to those individuals who chose to assume positions where they impose their views on others. *sigh* [Today I seem to tend toward anarchism, wot a fate, wot a fool I be..]
• *waves back at Fes* It's good to know that Missouri has it's fair share of monkeys here.
• Missouri Monkeys: Bringing Solid Midwestern Values And Common Sense To Internet Pinko Dens of Iniquity Since, Well, At Least This Morning Around Eightish.
• I'm in Tampa, Florida. The cultural center of the universe, I might add.
• Another Tennessee monkey here - this one's in Memphis, home of Al Green and the fat kid from "Head of the Class."
• Adelaide, South Australia. Yes, I do get koalas in my garden.
• Another Cork monkey here, but currently living in London, England
• Tennassee monkeys? Don't be expecting to evolve any time soon.
• Boston, Ma.
• Hastings Minnesota (Craig Kilborn went to the highschool that I went to; I heard he was a jerk). Any other Minnesotan monkeys? If not, I've also lived in Arizona, Texas, California (northern and southern), Washington, and Lousy-ana.
• I, too, live in Minnesota...St. Paul, that is.
• bah, we were right at the edge of Caledon, so lots of my friends lived "up north", as it were. And sorry about the UW kids looking down on you guys - we just can't help it. ;) Chiming in on Cork as well, I lived there for three weeks one summer, if that counts for anything. Dublin for five weeks. And I was in Montreal until I was 12...I miss it.
• Was born in Brooklyn, NY, live in Manhattan now. But i'll be back in Brooklyn as soon as this lease is over. Can't stand the honking!
• Sydney monkey *gets long stick with cut out cardboard hand on the end and uses it to wave to Wolof*
• From Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, which was violently amalgamated into Toronto (not that we're bitter :) and now living in luxurious but still homesick exile in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. bah: Not only did I once go to summer camp in Bolton, but my best friend went to Wilfred Laurier (several years ago), and my finace's brother is at Waterloo right now. Waterloo has some funky buildings (especially the engineering one? big colourful tubes everywhere), but WLU is much cozier. It was also when visiting WLU that I first went to Williams for a steamed milk, yum. All this talk of geography has inspired me to try to map this, but I'll wait until more have answered (I know there are many more antipodian and otherwise upsidedown (or rightside up) monkeys).
• Heh. Another Lost Angeles monkey & wendell, you couldn't scare me if you TRIED!
• Sydney monkey It's all fine, I did my five years in Sydney. I love the burg, and I'm looking for an excuse to get up there for a week or two. Got any excuse much?
• genial: would that be Ferrum? Me, I'm in Blacksburg, Virginia.
• Longwood actually, you a hokie?
• Copenhagen, Denmark (that rotten place)
• I'm from here. I used to live here then here. After that I moved here. Now I live here.
• (You are the monkey. You can go anywhere.)
• Gee, am I late for the party? Hey, Pez, betcha got more snow up there than we do. I be from Mountain Home, Idaho. (formerly known as Rattlesnake Station) No snake shit! They moved the town eight miles shortly after it was first settled because the snakes were so bad. Now they don't have rattlers, just the "Shifty Fifty" city council members. Not my problem though, I still live quite a ways outta town. Me and the snakes are just fine, thank you. How come where everybody else lives sounds more interesting?
• wow, mexican, aerial photographs! What is this source? /aerial photograph junkie
• It's a ginchy front end to TerraServer, jb. I am here.
• i am here in kingston if you enlarge the map, you can see we are just a quick boat ride aross from new york state.
• Another Minnesota monkey here. Minneapolis.
• comes in late...Small town Missouri, south of Hannibal, north of St. Louis. Waves to damnitkage, Fes, and Cincinatus. I lived in Walla Walla, Wa and the Tri-cities (Richland, Kennewick, Pasco) Wa for a combined total of 10 years.
• *waves back* Get down to the city much? Come round downtown, I'll buy you lunch.
• Born in the home of the Missouri State Fair (waves to bratcat et. al.), moved to the Ozarks when still very young, now located in Little Rock.
• Born Osaka, raised in New York with a one-year stint in Melbourne (Florida).
• Thanks Fes. Will give a shout if I head that way (would make a nice day ride on the ole bike). Waves to middleclasstool.
• Oh lordy...where to start: Born in Ghana, raised in UK (Croydon) mother Portuguese/Nigerian so spent some time in both places, college back in Ghana, then to the usa where i started out in the Bronx (NY) moved to Cambridge MA, then to Worcester MA, didnt like MA so i moved cross country to OR (thats Or-uh-gun) to Portland where i've finally settled (i think - although of late British Columbia seems to be beckoning...)
• Ann Arbor, Michigan via Columbus, Ohio via Riverdale, New Jersey via Augsburg, Germany.
• Ramix got them ramblin' shoes!
• Rockwood, Ontario, Canada. Population 2500 Saaaaaaaah-lute!
• Minneapolis, MN, Untitled Snakes of A Merry Cow
• Currently: Traverse City, MI (land of cherries and sand dunes along the shore of Lake Michigan) Formerly: Manhattan (of the New York variety) Before that: various midwest locations
• BlueHorse, That's me...although i find as i'm growing older i'm getting the urge to lay me down some roots. Thing is i still havent found "home" yet...so i guess i gotta keep looking!
• Former TN monkey here... born in Memphis, raised in upper east TN, then lived Nash Vegas area for a number of years. Finally decided to get out of the state, and did 2 years in Delaware (I like to call it the Beige state). Now living and working in Manhattan, Washington Heights and Midtown respectively.
• Born in San Diego, CA. Currently existing in Fort Lauderdale, FL, but thinking about moving down to South Beach.
• Currently in Queens NY. Work out on the east end of Long Island. I've lived for various lengths of time in Albany and Utica NY, and in Wash DC as well.