Rack St. Louis

[Invictus]

easy money

Rack any and all Chester Himes resets.

[Luther]

How come I can't get my do-rag to fit my head? ElvisMonster has a much bigger forehead than me. Or, are they using those gansta blue diapers that are longer across? I saw a bunch of Mexicans at the Raiders game once wearing those do-rag deals all over the place. I even saw a few fat white guys sporting the diaper.

I only offered up this question because the thread was drifting toward who was down or not.

Rip City

[Uncle Fester]

Nishlord wrote: If that's addressed at me, let me assure you that I can't be doing with Gangsta Rap, apart from the Bomb Squad productions of Ice Cube. Give me some Public Enemy and BDP any time.

I'm picturing you at a Public Enemy concert, drawing stares and sidling up Flounder-style to some ultra-scary dude and saying cheerily, "Oy, guv'ner, so where do you go to school, mate?"

[d-townmike]

The inner city is a violent, neeegro infested shithole.

The inner city is not violent and negro infested. It has office buildings that don't support loitering and "keeping it real". Peripheral neighborhoods are hit and miss. Those with architecture worth saving are getting money pumped in. Toyota Corollas are replacing '91 Taurus' in front of old brick homes getting tax subsidized restoration. If you go 20 blocks to the north of immediate downtown in areas that haven't seen investment since the 50's, you'll see the places the NAACP make excuses for.

I should have stated my initial premise a little more clearly.

When a person says "St. Louis" do they think of the small area constituting city limits? None of the 314 clones live in St. Louis as outlined in this survey. I live 7 highway minutes from the heart of downtown, and a mere 5 blocks from city limits, but I'm not included in "St. Louis" as described in this survey. I was in San Antonio recently and the city limits end out in some barely populated ranch area. Every square of St. Louis city limits had been developed by 1930.

Seems like the place hasn't changed since 1930 either. Thankfully when I lived there I was raised in the suburbs (aka the County) but I did dread going into the city for a game or for the VP Fair (now a days Fair St. Louis).

Except for some of Laclede's Landing, downtown isn't really worth going to and hasn't been for many, many years.

[jtr]

Invictus did you go to Boston College?

[jtr]

Hmmmm. I wonder what the common denominator could be....

Lack of economic opportunities for $1000, Alex.

If I lived where there were 'no economic opportunities', yeah, I'd either murder people ........ or move my ass somewhere where there ARE economic opportunities.

One or the other.

How are the economic opportunities in Korea these days, Poptart? Just out of curiosity you got a timetable when you might be coming home or you there until God knows how long?

[Nishlord]

Nishlord wrote: If that's addressed at me, let me assure you that I can't be doing with Gangsta Rap, apart from the Bomb Squad productions of Ice Cube. Give me some Public Enemy and BDP any time.

I'm picturing you at a Public Enemy concert, drawing stares and sidling up Flounder-style to some ultra-scary dude and saying cheerily, "Oy, guv'ner, so where do you go to school, mate?"

Saw PE in '87, '88 and '04. Chuck D signed me trainer at the first one. I've never forgiven a mate of mine who worked in a bar two years ago in Notts and neglected to tell me that Flavor Flav was in there on a lock-in and buying drinks for random strangers. I would loved to have got pissed up with him.

[Invictus]

Invictus did you go to Boston College?

I don't consider Chestnut Hill a town Jess and no I did not go to B.C.

I went to high school in a town nearby Newton and Framingham called Weston.

[Mister Bushice]

Chuck D signed me trainer at the first one

and do you still have that bra?

[Nishlord]

Very good.