Crumpled Notebook

So yeah, I went out tonight. It was fun. I haven’t been “out” in a while. We went to Docs and then to the Duck for a few minutes. I should definately hang out with Vistas more often. We just danced the night away. I usually don’t dance either. Only downside is that Docs is a meat market on Thursday night…college night/$1 drink night, so what can you expect. But it was still fun. I miss my Vista friends.

Look at this article. Just heard about it on Regis and Kelly. Some provision of some law in Congress could make it illegal to flip the channel through the commercials. Can’t make this stuff up. But yeah, I don’t know how legitimate it is.

Okay, so you have to list 5 things about your hometown, that’s it. Easy. Explain if you want, don’t if you don’t want to. I don’t care. Here’s mine:

1. The Lights: This I’ll explain. Every year (used to) for several years, we had this family who lived out in the county, who would decorate their house and the neighbors (who were relatives) with Christmas lights. And not just plain ol’ lights. I mean, lights of Santa, Jesus, reindeer, the wisemen, EVERYTHING. Then they had all this stuff in their house. People would be lined up down the rode, out in the middle of BFE to see the lights, on a curvy, nearly one lane road. It was cool. I think they were the Adkinson’s.

2. The Dairy: The Cumberland Dairy to be exact. Everyone just had to go there to eat. Cool atmosphere. Food was overpriced and wasn’t good, but whatever. I went for the best darn Cherry Vanilla Cokes in the world. It almost had the feel of like a 50s type resturant I guess.

3. The Doughboy: So most people, if they have a middle of town, they circle around the courthouse or something like that, with different lanes, etc….We circled around the Doughboy. Basically a statue in the middle of the street downtown. No particular line to guide you around it, you just knew. And if you didn’t…well, then you weren’t from around there. Some of my friends never figured that out.

4. The Lot: More circle stuff here. Big Lots parking lot. Friday and Saturday nights during the summer especially, it was the place to be. You drove around it in your car. We didn’t circle town, just the lot. And different groups of people hung out in different areas of the lot. Like there was a Redneck Row, as we lovingly called it. I did a sociology paper on it once in college.

5. Kelda: After much debate, I think number 5 should be kelda, the lady who stands in the street, every Tuesday night and Wednesday to sell the papers. Been doing it for as long as I remember. People tip her sometimes. Other say she has all this money saved up cause she lives very modestly. I don’t know. I just know that if I went home today, I’d probably see her selling papers.

So I’m sure, there are other things…like The Lake for one, but whatever, these things are unique. Now if Ross wants to post, maybe he can tell you 5 MORE things about Monticello, KY.

So, half way through the previous entry, Red Vs Blue, my friends were preparing for a night of karoke at The Mucky Duck, or The Duck, simply put. After the failed attempts of about four people, including my roomate, they had given up on me going on. But then my friend Sarah comes in, who I rarely get to see anymore. Anyway, she literally dragged me off the couch, closed my laptop halfway through writing that blog, left my internet still connected, and drug me out the door. I have to say, that is friendship. Even though I had a good enough excuse not to go out, being I have things to do every other night this week, she saw that I needed a break from the things I “had” to do, and convinced (albeit forcefully) me go out. I don’t think I’ve ever had a friend drag me anywhere before. That’s cool.

Ok, so this morning I was listening to K-Love or Air 1 radio station, not sure which one. I typically listen to them in the morning. They are Christian radio stations and are pretty good, especially Air 1 (Christian alternative station). At any rate, they were doing the news and talking about how everyone was talking about the Red states and the Blue states. Then went on to point out that New Hampshire was a Blue state, and had the highest percentage of unchurched people. Something like 52% claim to have no religious affiliation or go to church, which is well below the national average. So the DJ was just talking about the article, and how this evangelical guy from Illinois wanted to focus on converting them. Now that is fine with me. As Christians, we should be witnessing to people more. The thing that bothered me was the fact that he made an obvious political issue out of it since we all know that the “Blue States” are the democratic states. As a Democrat and a Christian, it was a slap in the face to me and prety offensive.

On that note, if we want to mix politics and religion, all those people in the “red states,” the ones who claim their main issues are morality, have a higher divorce rate than the blue states according to a NY Times article. So much for the Bible Belt.