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bomberqueen17:
Am on wee local road trip to test new car. Disappointed to report that Grand Island has not updated any signage. Should say, “Welcome to Grand Island, Home of the President of Somalia”. Have some hometown pride you guys.
I’m not even being goofy, I think Grand Island should be enormously proud of itself for having been a safe haven where Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed could spend thirty years being educated, raising a family, being a good neighbor, doing good work for the government of the State of New York, and also doing an enormous amount of work for his native country. It’s a genuine American success story, the more poignant for how it flies in the teeth of the policies of the current administration.
Also yesterday I just sort of casually drove past one of the wonders of the world and kind of waved at it and then went back to texting because I mean, it’s just Niagara Falls, it’s right over there. WTF, me!
(We drove the new car in a large circle, along the southern shore of Lake Ontario and back along the Erie Canal, and I amused myself by trying to guess the ages of the houses lining the road in the small towns. Lots of Federal-period Greek revivals with their heavy pediments, some horribly vinyl-sided. One tiny town offered a phenomenal micro-vignette into a local argument with wide implications: a placard in front of one house bore an image of a wind turbine with a red X through it and said “Too big, too close!” On the way out of the village, the last house had a sign next to the mailbox, clearly handwritten, that said, “NOT BIG ENOUGH, NOT CLOSE ENOUGH.”)
bomberqueen17:
Am on wee local road trip to test new car. Disappointed to report that Grand Island has not updated any signage. Should say, “Welcome to Grand Island, Home of the President of Somalia”. Have some hometown pride you guys.
I’m not even being goofy, I think Grand Island should be enormously proud of itself for having been a safe haven where Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed could spend thirty years being educated, raising a family, being a good neighbor, doing good work for the government of the State of New York, and also doing an enormous amount of work for his native country. It’s a genuine American success story, the more poignant for how it flies in the teeth of the policies of the current administration.
Also yesterday I just sort of casually drove past one of the wonders of the world and kind of waved at it and then went back to texting because I mean, it’s just Niagara Falls, it’s right over there. WTF, me!
(We drove the new car in a large circle, along the southern shore of Lake Ontario and back along the Erie Canal, and I amused myself by trying to guess the ages of the houses lining the road in the small towns. Lots of Federal-period Greek revivals with their heavy pediments, some horribly vinyl-sided. One tiny town offered a phenomenal micro-vignette into a local argument with wide implications: a placard in front of one house bore an image of a wind turbine with a red X through it and said “Too big, too close!” On the way out of the village, the last house had a sign next to the mailbox, clearly handwritten, that said, “NOT BIG ENOUGH, NOT CLOSE ENOUGH.”)
