Last week we did a kind of census to see where we all came from, in terms of what led us to the League. Mike at The Big Stick asked that we go one step further:
This may be an ancillary topic but I’m a map guy and I would love to see a map of geographic locations for League regulars (state level would be cool, city level would be awesome).
I love this idea. As I mentioned in the original Census post, one of the things that has taken me by surprise now that I am blogging is how many people take the time to send me personal emails about their own views and life experiences. This has been a very cool unintended consequence of my starting to write here. Even more surprising has been learning how far flung our readers are. (Antarctica is the only continent I have not gotten an email from this past month.)
So I’d like to do a map graph on where the League community hails from – even (especially!) people who consider themselves lurkers or first-timers. City, state and country would be best, but if you only feel comfortable giving the state or country, that’s cool too. So please, let us know where you are commenting from! (Who knows, you might discover that guy or gal whose comments always made you say “Now there’s someone I would love to have a beer with someday!” is just down the road.)
If for whatever reason you would like to represent your locale but you uncomfortable posting it on the site, feel free to email me at rtodkelly(dot)mac(dot)com, and I will be happy anonymously add you to the mix.
As always, thanks in advance.
Burt Likko 
Will Truman 
Teacher 
Mary 
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Jaybird 
Borat: “I do a picture, only small, of the Tishnik Masacre. Where many Uzbeks…crushed!”
Kindly Gray Hippie: “How did you feel when you drew this?”
Borat: “Very proud!”.
KGH: “I’m just listening with sadness…a little sadness for your people…?”
Borat: “Yes…no, it is not sad. It is us who do the kill!”
When in doubt,
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San Francisco Bay Area, California.
I should probably add: PDX, OR
Redmond, WA, USA
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Rainier, OR
Long-time lurker in Silver Spring, MD.
Hartford, CT
Chicago
Auckland, New Zealand
Hey, another kiwi!
I’ve got relatives in Auckland
Minneapolis Minnesota.
My official address is Chicago, but I am a surfer trying to live the life of the Endless Summer in retirement. So, I tend to be where the waves are (and there are not good waves in Chicago). The most accurate response is Chicago, SoCal and Hawaii.
Anchorage, AK
Houston, TX
Lisbon, Portugal
Lurker, Sacramento
Lawrence, KS
Louisville, KY
Ten miles north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
new york, ny, usa
Central Jersey.
Yonkers, NY though moving very soon to Monroe, NY.
La La Land
Hull/Cambridge, Massachusetts, but for most of my tenure here I commented from Fukushima, Japan.
San Francisco, CA, but I used to live in Washington DC.
WA state, but I hate giving Patrick more clues…
Wardsmith, I had no idea we were neighbors!
Reading, not lurking, in sunny Phoenix, Arizona.
South-central Connecticut.
Newnan, GA.
Mostly lurking from Tokyo Japan, and occasionally from the in-laws’ in Fukushima. Small world, wouldn’t want to paint it.
We’ve probably got some mutual acquaintances. Maybe we’ve even met before.
Seattle, Washington
Mostly lurker, occasional smart-ass drive by commenter.
St. George, UT via Salt Lake City, UT, via Des Moines, Ames, and Iowa City, IA.
An erstwhile Iowa resident—that’s awesome! I live in Des Moines, IA.
Yeah, I gather I’m bit beyond you in years but took some pride in knowing a fellow Des Moinesian was hitting the big time on the intertubes. I’m a south-sider. Southridge Mall, Brody Jr High School, etc.
Colorado Springs, CO. (You can see Pike’s Peak from my porch!)
Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. of f’n A.
Singapore (Which is its own city name as well)
I posted from Singapore, I should have bought you a drink.
No shit, where are you?Sorry I just saw above….Short trip, but I’m usually there once or twice a year.
Give me a holler if you ever are popping over. You can get me at amurali284 at gmail dot com
El Sobrante, California (east SF Bay area)
Austin, TX, live music capital of the… oh man, I almost got that out with a straight face.
From afar, admittedly, the goodness of Austin doesn’t quite make up for the rest of TX which seems to me, in the main, hard to come to love.
But Austin does have some serious goodness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63soIEs14oc&list=PL18909D8E5FF6B61C&index=33&feature=plpp_video
I hate to have to admit it, but I could have an affair with Texas. I mean, I know she’s all wrong for me, with the cowboy boots, and too much makeup, and the capital punishment and all. She’d never love me. She’d probably wreck my life. But still…..
I like Austin just fine. I can get good bbq within a mile of my work in pretty much every direction, there’s a lot of green space for a city its size, and the Bible thumping is minimal given where the city is located, but it’s not as great as it likes to pretend. The people are distinctly impolite for a city this far south, the great music scene is really only legend at this point (sure, there are a lot of musicians, but for the most part the quality musicians realized that in order to make a living at this stuff, you have to move to Nashville, L.A., New York, or New Orleans, and so they did), the city’s racism has become more and more palpable over the years, and the homeless population is growing (conservative estimates put it at 2300 or so, but more accurate surveys put it at closer to 5 digits) and underserved despite the fact that all of the west Austin liberal well-to-do’s run a charity 5k 3 times a week. Aside from the BBQ and a few South American restaurants, the food kinda sucks, too. Plus, as the city has become more wealthy, its political makeup has changed. It’s no longer any more liberal, and perhaps less so, than Houston proper or San Antonio. Really, San Antonio is the new Austin, but with a shittier bus system and no major university.
I should note that Austin’s live music scene does return to real, from legendary, status 3 times a year: SxSW, ACL music festival, and the one I just spent the weekend attending, Fun Fun Fun Fest. This reminds me, if you have a moment, everyone who reads this should look for Soul Kahn’s battles on YouTube.
I’m long familiar with SxSW (hence, my yt link), I don’t recognize the other two.
You’ve certainly made a convincing argument. I guess Austin sucks only marginally less than the rest of TX. ;)
My problem with Texas is that it keeps giving America presidents that start wars and is between me the Rockies. Long live Jemez Springs N.M.
So my quick perusal of the above tells me that the best place for GentFest’13 would be Las Vegas?
I am guessing there is no possible combination of responses where that wouldn’t be the answer. . .?
I could see “Branson” being the destination in some alternate universe.
That would be quite the alternative Universe.
Not necessarily. It’s one where our ideological brethren became First Things rather than Balloon Juice.
Give me time. ;-)
On a purely visceral level, I don’t play well with Balloon Juice types, but could carry on for quite a while with First Thingers even after it comes out in the open how I’m, ya know, going to Hell and all.
Anyplace that hosts seriously meant articles about hoe Noah is historical because Jesus mentioned him is not for me. There’s a limit to how long I can be polite.
Of course, any and all who wish to discuss any topic in good faith are our ideological brethren.
Yeah that, JB.
Mr. Carr, you may be pleased to know that among the First Things crowd, apokatastasis, although not normative, is not considered heretical.
http://www.ignatius.com/Products/DWH-P/dare-we-hope.aspxF
You better hope they’re right.
;-)
I have the audacity to hope. I’ve always found the idea of a Personal Jesus to be at odds with the sorting hat mechanism of that selfsame mainstream evangelical Xianity. Like, what if my Personal Jesus likes beer and golf? Should I try and be more Christlike?
Mr. Carr, we’re above my paygrade. Heaven is God’s call, not man’s, thank God [if there is one]. Me, I’d rather take my chances on Him even existing in the first place than on the mercies of my fellow man…
I am waiting for the Who to buy a theater in Branson and have Herman’s Hermits open for them before I’ll show up there.
Of course. Vegas is about the easiest place to access, and the easiest place in which to find accomodations. Come to think of it, I have some Vegas.com cards saved up. I’ll suggest we meet for dinner at Border Grill in the Mandalay Bay.
Chicago IL
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Deep south.
Got it! I’ll mark you down for “Chile.”
He’s the real Dread Pirate Roberts!
Awesome.
Hah… Deep south almost always means Alabama or Mississippi. People from Georgia aren’t embarrassed enough to avoid naming their state.
I kid, Farmer, I kid. I’m from Tennessee (originally), so I have a biological urge to mock Alabama.
Louisiana (ex-N’awlins) tends to use the term, too. I hear it from Georgia folks who live sufficiently south of Atlanta as well.
Oh, sure. My Dad’s from Macon, and he’s said it on occasion. I’ve heard people from northern Florida use it as well, and I’m sure someone from South Carolina has said it at some point. I was mostly just making a joke about Alabama and Mississippi for the hell of it.
I remember getting an email many years ago with alternative state mottos. Alabama’s was “At least we’re not Mississippi.” That wasn’t as good as Iowa’s, though: “Iowa: Gateway to Illinois!”
The cliché is that we nothern libruls disdain the deep south, but I have fond memories. I used to go to Pascagoula on business about twice a year, and the food was good and the people amazing. The second time you’d go to a restaurant, you were an old friend..
Jaybird might appreciate this: one of the fellows I worked with was tall and rather heavy-set, and one night after he’d left and the rest of us were finishing our desserts, the waitress came up and asked, shyly, “Was that Tiny Frazier?”
Awesome.
“Got it! I’ll mark you down for “Chile.””
There’s only one deep south, Cuz, and it ain’t got nuthin’ to do with hamburger meat and beans.
I used to think that Argentina was a southern state. It sounds like a state (Georgia, Carolina, Argentina) and I was introduced to the existence of the state during the Olympics and they referred to it as being in South America.
I almost bought a condo in Sao Paulo, Brazil, then chickened out.
Can We Use Will Truman’s pseudotoponyms?
Even if we did, I’d still be in California.
So, I notice nearly everyone lists a large city, does pretty much everyone live in the main metro or are they reporting the nearest city to them? I feel like the only small-town hick in the big city here. Honestly I could see it either way.
I listed the actual small town where I live plus the city where I spend usually about three days a week. Both are in the greater Boston metropolitan area.
I live in the middle of an eighty acres that my wife’s grandfather bought around 1927 for the unheard of price of 3.00 an acre. There are two towns between me and Baton Rouge that, unless you are from here, nobody has ever heard of. That is the reason I said Baton Rouge instead of Central. I can see three other houses from my front porch so I guess one might say I live in the country.
Our city and county governments merged in 2003 so I live in the city proper. I live in the exurbs though and I can see the county line from my house.
I actually live in the city, and as someone who grew up in the country, it drives me crazy on a regular basis.
In Seattle proper. Of course, since it’s Seattle, my neighborhood looks like a suburb.
Whats your neighborhood? (mine too looks rather… green. and has gardens everywhere).
Philadelphia, PA
Fort Wayne, IN
Hey, my home town! (Not that I’ve lived there in the past two decades, but I still go down regularly to see my mom. Double bonus if you’re a Komets fan.)
I’ve lived here since 2009, but I am not, I’m afraid, a Komets fan. My hometown is Hershey, PA, home of the Bears, who have the most Calder Cup victories in the AHL. So even though they don’t actually compete with the Komets, my minor-league hockey loyalties lie elsewhere.
Subsuburban Vancouver, BC, Canada.
San Francisco, California, USA
Zaandijk, Netherlands
It’s about 15km north of Amsterdam, which I thought of using. But why not use the the dreary suburb where I live instead of the romantic capital a 20min train-ride away?
And to answer the previous census question, I got here fairly recently via Google Reader’s Recommended Sources, liked it and stayed (as a lurker until now because I do not have anything interesting to say).
Your first paragraph clearly flies in the face of this claim.
Wellington, New Zealand.
Lurker from Toronto Canada.
You have a good screenname, Miss Gingerbug.
Not only that, it goes well with the random bug-y icon assigned.
I currently live in Legon, Ghana.
Do you know Roscoe Murphy — Eleanor Wainwright’s cousin?
No, do you know Isabella Allende, Salvador Allende’s daughter?
She has dark hair?
As of about 6 months ago, my body resides in San Juan, Puerto Rico. My heart, however, forever remains in Chicago. Still looking for my mind.
I will be in San Juan next summer.
I left Chicago two+ years ago and have never looked back. Not once. Chacun a son gout.
Pittsburgh, PA Squirrel Hill to be precise (that’s a neighborhood in the city…)
“I open my door and the world walks in” (Russian/Polish/Chinese/Sudanese/Israeli etc.)
Washington, DC.
Adrian, Michigan. For a challenge, try to find it on the map w/o using Mapquest, Googlemaps, etc.
My origin story took place in White Lake, MI. I could win this challenge with aplomb.
Dude! I’m from Canton!
It’s a small dang world.
“It’s a small dang world.”
And wonderful, too.
Oklahoma City, OK
BOOMER!
Sooner!
Awesome! (My sister teaches over in Norman.)
At OU? Didn’t go there myself. Went to University of Colorado Denver (undergrad) and NYU (Grad school)
Accokeek, MD (outside of DC, wherein I work, and just across the river from G Washington’s house) and New York City. I go back and forth. So I guess that makes me one of them East Coast elites that hates real Americans.
I like living in Accokeek because it’s fun to say out loud
And I’m a Gentleman novitiate
How do you pronounce it? Is it Ah-coe-KEEK?
We Accokeekians pronounce it ACK-oh-keek. But your way sounds good, too.
Storrs CT, USA
San Francisco, CA
Originally from the Bay Area, California, currently by way of Pasadena, CA.
Spent the first 18 up there, the last 22 down here. I’ve lived just about everywhere in the Los Angeles basin except the Inland Empire, and I had a long stretch where I commuted out there every weekend ’cause that was the buddy hangout.
Shout-out from the fictitious city of Callie in the fictitious state of Arapaho. Yeah, I don’t think you’re going to be able to put that on the map.
It seems that a number of people here live in places that I used to. A shame to learn that too late.
That post is awesome.
Thanks. It’s also indicative of how much time I have/had on my hands as well as my peculiar imagination :).
Sioux Falls South Dakota
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