Hmmm… I’ve heard of the school, but in your given context, I’m more inclined to believe that you’re referring to a first cousin of yours by that name, who “works out” for you on a daily basis. Bless your heart; when people feel stressed, they most often revert to that which is most familiar. Due to your locale, and subsequent natural Georgia penchant for “loving” one’s family members, I’m not surprised at all regarding your suggestion. If your..um…”interesting” family ever makes it out here to the west coast, we’ll be sure to tell your loud, classless southern sister to keep her mouth shut until you jiggle your zipper.

w

Let me just say that Georgia Tech is working out for me.

However, if I wanted to go into welding, I’d certainly try to permantly zip your sister’s couchie up so y’all would stop interbreeding.

Let it go. Try your first cousin for a change.

w

There’s nothing in your posts that anyone would find difficult to decipher. Also, some people find that books with small words in a large font and lots of pictures are more “interesting” than having to go through all that reading. My publisher and audience seem “interested” enough.

w

It looks to me like you’ve misread my posts. Not that your points are very interesting, in any case.

And how do southern cities differ from those in the north? You can’t tell me that Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Detroit, and least of all New York and Chicago have an overblown sense of pride in their communities. Hell, New York is the worst offender of them all.

I’m perfectly familiar with the geographic boundaries of what are widely considered to be the sunbelt states, and need no Wicki-lesson. For those who are more in tune with long-held cultural boundaries, your region is generally considered to be the Bible Belt, while CULTURALLY, southwestern states are referred to as the sun belt. While I’m sure you question whether I’ve been robbed there due to the local acceptance of your soaring crime rate, no, I haven’t, incredibly. Ironically, I don’t really hate Atlanta. I simply can’t resist occasionally posting a few literary digs on “civic pride” blogs that spring from a few specific cities in the south, particularly the large Texas metropoli, and yes, Atlanta. The reason for this is because some southerners have this irritating way of promoting their communities as if they’re teaching the rest of us what we’re missing, in some pathetic sense. If you happen to be interested in how you’re viewed, it unfortunately reminds most people on the west coast of the wannabe who picks up social cues 2 or 3 years too late, and shows up to the party wearing a “Vote for Pedro” shirt, asking all of us if we’ve seen Napoleon Dynamite yet. There is much to admire in southern charm, pretty peach trees and endearing accents, to be positive. One other thing: It would be uncouth of me to give you my resume in response to your suggesting something disparaging regarding my “intelligence”. If lucid, well-articulated thoughts possess content that offends you, I would assert that, in the end, attacking my IQ instead of my opinion only serves to enforce the notion that YOU had no options but a GED and Welding School, not the other way around.

h

Could you please just stop posting until you get a clue because you are not sounding very intelligent. Did you get robbed in Atlanta once? If you hate this place so much, why do you post about it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunbelt

This is a quote from an earlier blog….Atlanta has no business comparing itself to New York, or considering itself a Sunbelt city when it’s actually Bible-belt. Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, and even Albequerque are sunbelt cities. Not to be unkind, but the sunbelt isn’t long enough to stretch around Atlanta’s reputation as being one of the most morbidly obese populations in the nation (separate subject, but an interesting metaphor nonetheless).

w