For those of you who don't know, Jesse Shayne and I have left Austin. We now live in Denton. Let me tell you something about Denton: it sucks. Now, to be fair, in the 6 weeks of us living here we have only been cleaning the house or going to school/work. We did stumble upon the Denton Blues Festival last weekend and that was a nice surprise, but it wasn't enough to alleviate the fact that Denton is just not Austin.
My biggest irritation with living in this town is the overuse of one way streets, and an even more so, the obese overuse of raised medians. This is not a big city. There is absolutely no need for this type of action towards traffic control. The roads are bumpy and cracked and not even a little bit straight, yet there are million of dollars worth of medians through almost every street. Want to go to that bank over on your left-hand side? TOO BAD! First, you must continue driving for another 2-5 blocks and make an illegal U-Turn at the next light. I don't want to. If I drove a Jeep I would hop these things all over the place.
And there is no HEB here. Where the hell am I supposed to shop? They have TWO Wal-Mart stores. I think that in itself is a pretty bad sign. Fuck Wal-Mart. I've had no other options and have been inside that store more in the last few weeks than I have in the last 5 years. I lost a piece of my soul each time. My heart goes out to all of the young Vietnamese and other impoverished overworked children that enabled me to buy window blinds for under $5.
In other news, our house is finally in livable condition. The woman living here before us was apparently a degenerate alcoholic and did not clean anything for the 2 and a half years she lived here, nor did she do anything about the jungle overgrowth in the gardens and the backyard. The grass was over a foot tall in the back, and that was with the drought this summer.
So now that I am settled, please expect to see more from me here. I apologize for the lack of rants and bullshitting that I know you all look forward to hearing on a more regular basis.
A: check out Drug Emporium on University. Its the kookiest place I have ever shopped at. flashing name keychains PLUS a nice selection of gluten-free and organic goodies. B: how healthy are you? denton has supported a pretty comprehensive, locally owned, organic grocery store for decades. its called the Cupboard. C: the streets suck. mine has been ripped down to the guts since June. I mean THE GUTS, down three feet. its taking them forever. D: for produce, hit the farmer's market on Carroll by the courts building TTh and Saturday mornings. E: the HEB is opening next summer over across from Sam's.
ReplyDeleteyou know i live down the street. what do you need to know how to find here?
also, i hate austin. its pretentious, expensive, and the traffic makes me want to murder people wearing patchouli.
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