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I headed over to the Weinland Park Dollar Tree but they didn't have any ones that seemed suitable for bikes. Dollar Tree seems like its selecten varies widely with the seasons, so the bike lights might have gotten pushed out for flimsy Christmas stuff already. I'll hit up Harbor Freight like Robert suggested. Here's some pretty funny Harbor Frieght ads. My favorite is "Some Kind of Gauge" http://www.rzrd500.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9001

When I was a kid, tons of commercials during sports and the news were about farming-related products here in Columbus. And we don't have a daily farm report during the noon news any more.

Bob Dylan!

Just for the record, I am terrified of acid. I like walls to stay where they are.

Players will be able to ride their sky cycles to the game while the coaches navigate the stadium on hoverboards.

It think the main concern of the article is not the casinos themselves, but the combination of casinos and racinos. The four city casinos may have been one thing, but add in the seven racinos that are also opening and all of a sudden you're up to 11. And that doesn't even include the hundreds to "Spin 2 Wins" and "Internet Cafes" around the state.

That Rich Street bridge is pretty nice with the lights I must say. Walker took CDM and I over it at night and I was all "ooooh". Almost makes up for us not getting the Snake Bridge!

I hear the parties have really dried up at a lot of schools (certainly not all). I graduated a year or two before a lot of my friends, and they said that by the end that they were the only ones having parties; this was the mid-2000s. A buddy of mine went back to school for a second degree in 2009 and he and our one friend who worked for Student Activities said that it's impossible to get most kids to do anything because they're all gamers or Neflix junkies. Also, they can't believe how fat the kids have gotten. Annnnnnnyyywayyyyyy...

It's Iran!

Basically all the river counties from Scioto east are Regan Democrats. Strickland country. I read an article a few years back that stated it was rabbis in Cincinnati during the 1800s that came up with the idea to make a Hanukkah a much bigger deal so that Jewish children wouldn't feel left out around Christmas.

Streetviews rarely embed properly on any site. You usually end up having to take screenshots.

Think about what there was to do for a single 23-year-old at home at night in 1984. Sit around and watch Family Ties and Gimme A Break? They weren't going to do that. Might as well go out and see a band. They were too old for the mall, the drinking age was 18 and the cops wouldn't lock you up for drinking half a beer and driving home.

A lot of NGOs that claim generalities such as "cutting government spending" really only know about directly cutting the few things that they've actually taken the time to learn anything about.

Easily over one million dollars since each ballot initiative cost the city over $400,000 apiece. I'm sure someone else here has more complete figures.

It's in the comments.

I don't like wards. They can enable strife.

That is blue!

Gee, radio and streetcars didn't enjoy their heydays at the same time or anything...

That didn't really last that long though, in the grand scheme of things. In the '70s and '80s it was easy to find like minded-musicians in the 'burbs since the U.S. was much more of a monoculture at that time (not that the U.S. has ever had a really strong monoculture). It was no problem finding other Van Halen, Iron Maiden, Zeppelin, Alice Cooper and Bowie fans just down the street. But then the genres started splitting up rapidly and by the grunge days finding musical soulmates became much tougher in a small geographic area. Thrash metal guys don't want to play death metal (myself included). Then, video games, 500 channel cable and 'net surfing came to dominate the suburbs rather than vinyl LPs and guitars. These days, sprawl has become dominated by strip mall bars featuring Nickelback and Five Finger Death Punch cover bands full of people who grew up on the '70s and '80s rock but still want to play out -- but have no choice but to play The Blitz playlist circa 2006 live in an old Rite Aid. I oughta know, there's a million of bands full of those kinda guys and they are always trying to get me to join 'em. I just can't do the Nickelback; They get pissed off and call me closed-minded. That's the only sound that passes for mainstream today; obscure is the real mainstream in the internet age.

The blues were the blues. Country was country. R&B was R&B. People played those genres before, during and after the early rock explosion and continue to play them today. Just because something influenced something else doesn't mean they really have much in common. The early rock and roll was too poppy for me to take it seriously. If I was an adult then, I'd hate the rock and roll of the time too. It was like the Backstreet Boys compared to the other stuff. Just because the early rock and roll had some of the blues in it doesn't help. It had to become the blues to make it. And it did. I suppose it's because the blues was "too black" for mass consumption. So, the early rock and roll phase and its white performers had to get people used to the sounds (mixed with country to really cool tempers), then these British guys could come in playing something close to the real stuff, again with a white face. Then Hendrix (being black) came in and finished the transition off. In short order. I wasn't alive for any of this of course, but I don't have memories of the time, just ears. The early rock and roll never really went away until the mid '90s or so, so when I was growing up the stuff was everywhere. TV, movies, radio, music in stores and restaurants. I didn't really hear much of anything else until I started buying tapes starting around '89-'90, especially since my parents were older. That's something I think kids born after about 1990 don't understand is that you didn't totally live in your own decade back then because the '50s and '60s just didn't let go of pop culture. They killed disco in 6 weeks but couldn't wipe out the '50s for 40 years! Really, they still haven't totally gone away or else a discussion like this taking place so much later wouldn't be as common as it is.

This is sacrilege, but I don't think Elvis' actual sound was all that important to the history of rock and roll. Attitude yes, popularity yes, sound no. He was much more of a country act in scope. You look at lists of musicians' influences and they won't include Elvis in a proportionate amount to his popularity. He was important to rock and roll at that time, but the floodgates of material that were unleashed in the late '60s and afterward easily eclipsed his work. It was like Moore's Law for rock and roll there for a while. Yeah, I will say Jerry Lee Lewis was souped up big band. I don't really know Wanda Jackson all that well. Rock and Roll was all kiddie stuff until The Beatles, The Stones, Clapton's work, Deep Purple, Zeppelin and Sabbath. Even early Beatles is kiddie stuff that doesn't count. The music had to appeal to adults for rock to be legitimized, and it wasn't deep enough to compel adults before the British got involved. Before those bands adults had to stick to blues, R&B, jazz and country for music that had some meat to it. I'd say the first mostly suburban movements were probably somewhere around the L.A. punk and hair rock scenes of the late '70s/early '80s.

Hahaha! Sorry, but I'm going to have to steal that one.

We do have to keep in mind that the vast majority of people never think of this "urban vs. sprawl" stuff at all -- at least outside of their subconscious.

Oh, you know Nickelback's going in immediately in 2021. They've sold a ton of records and the band will dramatically raise the profile of the Rock Hall among those all-important upper-middle-class divorced overweight female head-of-households.

Pennsylvania has a massive rural component to its population and an arguably more socially conservative electorate that Ohio, yet they don't tell their cities that they can't have anything nice. They're not constantly telling them to shut up and drive.