$4.98 Kenneth Cole pants - and no, I wasn't.

$4.98 Kenneth Cole pants - and no, I wasn't.

Then you must have been wearing "booty jeans"  lol.  I'm still amazed at that $4.98 purchase!  I hate you for that!

I heard some guys talking about intermodal facilities today.

 

Guy 1: "I hear they're putting one in in Chesapeake for coal."

Guy 2: "But there's no big airport there."

Guy 1: "You don't put coal on an airplane, dumbass."

^ Seriously!?  LOL...

I heard some guys talking about intermodal facilities today.

 

Guy 1: "I hear they're putting one in in Chesapeake for coal."

Guy 2: "But there's no big airport there."

Guy 1: "You don't put coal on an airplane, dumbass."

 

LOL

I had an out of town friend come in for Memorial weekend.

 

When on East 4th...

Him: "Holy f-ck, what is this place"

Me: "East 4th.  It's small but packed with restaurants and apartments.  You can't even GET a single anymore." 

Him: "F-ck"

 

When we were at Voinivich park listening to music and looking at the water...

Him: "Dude, I can't believe how nice this is."

 

Walking by the Browns stadium before the Kenney Chesney concert....

Some girl: "BLEHHHH" (puking during the pregame)"

Him: "Still hot"

Her boyfriend: "..." (silent but staring at us icily as we walked by)

 

Overall, my buddy had a blast and was shocked how fun downtown was.

 

 

 

 

At the Blue Wisp Jazz Club last night (after dinner at Nada):

 

UCPlanner: What a perfect birthday celebration...this is awesome.

Me: Yup

 

Happy bday Brad!

Thanks Rando.

Thanks Rando.

From some hipster YPs (from NYC?) in a coffeshop Downtown, "10 minutes for a quarter? Those are NY prices...,those are NY prices!!"

From a young woman in front of the Hyatt/Arcade (Superior side) at about 7 pm in downtown Cleveland:

 

"Why is there nothing open in this godforsaken burg?"

 

I was in a hurry, so I didn't stop to see what she was expecting to be open, although the bellhop at the hotel started to talk to her about something. 

 

I really hope with all of the developments going on downtown that in five years or so there will be no justification for statements like that.

There aren't any justifications for that now.  I hope the bellhop told her to walk her hoity-toity ass across Public Square to Warehouse.

 

Or to East 4th.

 

Or, hell, to the Lizard on Prospect.

 

She's godforsaken!

 

Okay.  I'm done now; sorry. ;)

From a young woman in front of the Hyatt/Arcade (Prospect side) at about 7 pm in downtown Cleveland:

 

"Why is there nothing open in this godforsaken burg?"

 

I was in a hurry, so I didn't stop to see what she was expecting to be open, although the bellhop at the hotel started to talk to her about something. 

 

I really hope with all of the developments going on downtown that in five years or so there will be no justification for statements like that.

 

You mean the Hyatt on the Euclid Side or Superior side? Since you said bellhop, I'm guessing you meant Superior.

Picture it.....New York......2008

 

Walking across the street, there is traffic back up across 125 street.  I have my noise canceling headset on and faintly I hear, "Damn Muf*cka, can't you walk any faster man?"

 

Me:  "Que"

 

Him:  "Move your tall ass out the way"

Me:  Phsssh  :roll: :roll:

 

Him:  (rolls window all the way down) Stop holding up traffic and walk faster people has places to go!!  You act like you own the f*ckin' street. *

 

Me:  Yo pa, you might wanna pick you left t*ttie up off of Madison Avenue and do some walking your damn self, instead of yelling at people from your gas guzzling SUV, which you probably don't have insurance for, nor can continue to maintenance, you fat ASS double chinned Jibaro!

 

*as he screams at me, I notice his left breast rolls out of the window when he points at me.....

 

In all honesty, I couldn't walk any faster, I had on a pair of boots that are definitely too small and my feet were in excruciating pain.  Damn, Italians!

 

 

^ Damn boyyyyyy ... you got served.

You mean the Hyatt on the Euclid Side or Superior side? Since you said bellhop, I'm guessing you meant Superior.

 

That's correct.  Sorry, it was one in the morning.

Picture it.....New York......2008

 

Walking across the street, there is traffic back up across 125 street.  I have my noise canceling headset on and faintly I hear, "Damn Muf*cka, can't you walk any faster man?"

 

Me:  "Que"

 

Him:  "Move your tall ass out the way"

Me:  Phsssh  :roll: :roll:

 

Him:  (rolls window all the way down) Stop holding up traffic and walk faster people has places to go!!  You act like you own the f*ckin' street. *

 

Me:  Yo pa, you might wanna pick you left t*ttie up off of Madison Avenue and do some walking your damn self, instead of yelling at people from your gas guzzling SUV, which you probably don't have insurance for, nor can continue to maintenance, you fat ASS double chinned Jibaro!

 

*as he screams at me, I notice his left breast rolls out of the window when he points at me.....

 

In all honesty, I couldn't walk any faster, I had on a pair of boots that are definitely too small and my feet were in excruciating pain.  Damn, Italians!

 

 

 

Despite the fact that this guy sounds like a first class boorish a-hole (good dialogue :laugh:), are you insane to walk around NYC with a noise cancelling headset?! The deaf spend their entire lives learning to pick up clues on how to avoid the dangers that those with normal hearing take for granted. If there is one city that requires full use of both seeing and hearing, it’s New York! 

I sent my CWRU friend some information on the Warehouse district proposals, and his response was:

 

"That's some good stuff, thanks.  If that AND the Flats gets done within the next 5 years, heck I may stay.  I never thought I'd be saying that.  Hell, maybe the Browns might even win a superbowl."

 

Slowing spreading the word right now.

Guy from DC in Columbus on his cell describing Gay St, "In DC there's always a bunch of people on the sidewalk, here there'll be like 5 or 7."

Not Downtown DC he can't be talking about (sans Dupont Circle).

^ Yep, DC's business districts are d-e-a-d by 7pm.

one twenty-something woman says to another: "He's cat-sitting for Kate Winslet."   (Alright, I don't know why that's really relevant to this thread, or why it's even that interesting, but I felt compelled to share it. Sue me.)

I didn't exactly overhear this, but I thought it was worth sharing anyways. 

 

My 54 year old mother called me this afternoon and told me that she just got back from a meeting in Downtown Cleveland.  She was born and raised in Cleveland, lives in Old Brooklyn, and works in Strongsville.  She has not been Downtown in more than a decade and has always considered it dirty, unsafe, and void of life.  She told me that she was so impressed by all the activity and streetlife that she decided to go for a walk.  She said that she felt safe and very comfortable, and that she enjoyed lunch on East 4th St with a coworker.  She was so impressed that she is planning on taking my father there this weekend.  According to her, "Downtown is completely different than the last time I was there.  It's safe and clean, there are tons of places to go, and there are people everywhere!  I'm definitely going to start going there on a regular basis again." 

 

You gotta love hearing someone's perception change on the city you love. 

Heh, this is kind of pertinent to the above post.  My dad picked me up from Tower City a couple weeks ago since the Megabus was so damn late that I missed my train.  He hasn't been downtown at night in sometime and apparently didn't realize things have changed since the 70s since when I opened the door, I saw my beautiful, Big Barrel Baseball bat resting on the front seat.  He truly believed he might need it.

I didn't exactly overhear this, but I thought it was worth sharing anyways. 

 

My 54 year old mother called me this afternoon and told me that she just got back from a meeting in Downtown Cleveland.  She was born and raised in Cleveland, lives in Old Brooklyn, and works in Strongsville.  She has not been Downtown in more than a decade and has always considered it dirty, unsafe, and void of life.  She told me that she was so impressed by all the activity and streetlife that she decided to go for a walk.  She said that she felt safe and very comfortable, and that she enjoyed lunch on East 4th St with a coworker.  She was so impressed that she is planning on taking my father there this weekend.  According to her, "Downtown is completely different than the last time I was there.  It's safe and clean, there are tons of places to go, and there are people everywhere!  I'm definitely going to start going there on a regular basis again." 

 

You gotta love hearing someone's perception change on the city you love. 

 

So maybe we can kidnap all the cleveland.dumb bloggers and dump them downtown so they can see for themselves?  ;)  As I said in a different thread a couple weeks ago, my parents also spent a lot of time downtown for the first time in 6 years when they were helping us get settled into our new townhouse, and they've got a whole different view now too.

These recent posts remind me of a neighbor once commenting that he was worried about his wife having a meeting downtown -- during the day.

 

It is really amazing that there are probably tens of thousands of metro area residents who haven't been downtown in years (decades???) and have a totally crazy perception of reality (thanks PD) and then held spread the bad info when they talk to friends, neighbors, out of town visitors...

 

What a PR nightmare for the city, efforts like regionalism, better transit funding, less sprawl, etc. etc.

 

An unfortunately these folks aren't likely to check out urbanohio or any other source of info that would help them achieve a more realistic and balanced view of the city proper.

lol someone said something similar to me. I was at a restaurant attached to a truck stop in NE Ohio, I had this shirt that said "Welcome to Detroit, sorry we missed you this time" with a pistol pointing ahead; (I have a lot of random shirts). Some truck driver asked me if I was from Detroit, I said no, Cincinnati. He said "hah, almost as bad".

 

 

 

Detroit is completely oblivious to how scary and off-putting it is. Returning from Toronto one time, the first three billboards I passed coming up I-75 said "Who's the Daddy?" "Desperate times" and "Tops in crash tests." F'real.

What's funny is that people on this forum say "i can't believe how stupid these sub/exurbanites are when they haven't been downtown in years" and then say things about how bad Detroit is without spending significant time there.

 

as a former Detroiter that finds himself in Ohio, this is really annoying.  It's even more annoying when you hear it from people that complain about this behavior in others.

 

lol someone said something similar to me. I was at a restaurant attached to a truck stop in NE Ohio, I had this shirt that said "Welcome to Detroit, sorry we missed you this time" with a pistol pointing ahead; (I have a lot of random shirts). Some truck driver asked me if I was from Detroit, I said no, Cincinnati. He said "hah, almost as bad".

 

 

 

Detroit is completely oblivious to how scary and off-putting it is. Returning from Toronto one time, the first three billboards I passed coming up I-75 said "Who's the Daddy?" "Desperate times" and "Tops in crash tests." F'real.

What's funny is that people on this forum say "i can't believe how stupid these sub/exurbanites are when they haven't been downtown in years" and then say things about how bad Detroit is without spending significant time there.

 

as a former Detroiter that finds himself in Ohio, this is really annoying. It's even more annoying when you hear it from people that complain about this behavior in others.

 

 

I don't know that anyone on here is actually scared of Detroit.  People take cracks at Detroit because it's in Michigan, and well, Ohio hates Michigan.  The fact that Detroit has a bad reputation just gives people more ammo to make fun of it, not to be scared of it.

I love one year old post references. I tend to have a zero-tolerance policy for unfounded criticism of cities, but I always offer up this anecdote.

 

When In Detroit:

Person: Where you from?

Me: I live in Cleveland

Person: I'm sorry

 

When in Cleveland:

Person: Where were you raised?

Me: Detroit

Person: I'm sorry.

LOL @ Detroit battling Cleveland for the "I know I am but you're worse" trophy.

 

Yesterday I overheard someone talking about cleaning out their parents' basement. My heart went out to them as I did the same thing on an outdoor scale last Thanksgiving. Hoarding disorder, it gets worse w/age.

wait, so black people don't talk to the pope in cleveland?  :laugh:

We Clevelanders love to bitch about our city amongst ourselves and rag on it like a little brother. But when someone from another city bitches about it, we want to protect Cleveland as if that little brother is getting bullied.

 

Glad to see some folks from Detroit are the same way about their town.

We Clevelanders love to bitch about our city amongst ourselves and rag on it like a little brother. But when someone from another city bitches about it, we want to protect Cleveland as if that little brother is getting bullied.

 

Glad to see some folks from Detroit are the same way about their town.

 

I figure Detroit gets beat up enough and i usually ignore it.  Sometimes nerves can get pretty raw.

 

That said, i'll also go to bat for Cincy now that it's my town and i hear the same criticisms coming from people that dare not venture inside the city limits.

We Clevelanders love to bitch about our city amongst ourselves and rag on it like a little brother.

 

Unfortunately, I think it is very often meaner than that.  Most of the comments I see on pages like Cleveland.com aren't that sort of affectionate poking.  They are something much more ugly and bitter.

We Clevelanders love to bitch about our city amongst ourselves and rag on it like a little brother.

 

Unfortunately, I think it is very often meaner than that. Most of the comments I see on pages like Cleveland.com aren't that sort of affectionate poking. They are something much more ugly and bitter.

 

I think KJP means those of us around UO :)

We Clevelanders love to bitch about our city amongst ourselves and rag on it like a little brother.

 

Unfortunately, I think it is very often meaner than that.  Most of the comments I see on pages like Cleveland.com aren't that sort of affectionate poking.  They are something much more ugly and bitter.

Being poorly run and the poorest city in the nation will have that effect. Serious business.

Wow, this is really on subject.

Today, I Overheard Someone in my City Say "Wow, this is really on subject."

Today, I overheard jam40jeff cry from the hand upside the back of his head.

Today I heard some Brazilian woman discussing to a lady on the Rapid that she came to Cleveland because she wanted to see how an average American city worked. She was really nice and complimented the city a lot.

Being poorly run and the poorest city in the nation will have that effect. Serious business.

 

Boy, that was an uninformed opinion. Take further discussion on this to a thread where we've already debated this intensely.

I went to a comedy show last night at Hilarities.  I, along with the group I was with, were pleasantly suprised to see the pedestrian traffic and activity on East 4th at 10:30pm.  Of course many of those friends hadn't been downtown in a LONG time to fully grasp the changes.  The Indians game may have had something to do with the activity, but I didn't get that feel. 

 

One of my friends said, "hmm this is nice, reminds me of a street in San Diego".  So I figured perfect oportunity to play quasi Cleveland ambassodor and inform them of the projects going on and that it's not just this area that has changed.  I mentioned Flats East bank and most were like, "I wouldn't want to live down here...who wants to live by the river, it's dangerous down here" yada yada yada.  I did my best to change their perception and that many people actually DO live downtown and that many more will most likely move in as well.  Also, that it's not as dangerous as many years ago.  Of course as we walked back to our cars, two shade guys wearing black robes with black and gold hoods like they just warped here from the movie Star

Wars didn't help the dangerous perception, but at least they witnessed first hand the improved image of Cleveland. 

While standing in line at Corner Bakery,  corner of Jackson and Michigan Ave in Chicago Loop:

 

male1 - (to his friends) How far is Union Station?

male2 -  I think six blocks or so...really far...I mean to walk

male1 - wonder if the train goes there

female - I don't think so

male1 - I tried looking at the buses, but I couldn't figure it out.  As far as I can tell, they all go down a street....right?

female - I think some of them turn.

male2 - yeah, and do they even really come?

male1 - Let's take a cab.

 

While standing in line at Corner Bakery,  corner of Jackson and Michigan Ave in Chicago Loop:

 

male1 - (to his friends) How far is Union Station?

male2 -  I think six blocks or so...really far...I mean to walk

male1 - wonder if the train goes there

female - I don't think so

male1 - I tried looking at the buses, but I couldn't figure it out.  As far as I can tell, they all go down a street....right?

female - I think some of them turn.

male2 - yeah, and do they even really come?

male1 - Let's take a cab.

 

Lazy f kcs

Tonight, on the downtown Sparx trolley on Public Square.  Two Urban Outfitted girls in their mid-twenties with tacky-azz accessories:

 

Girl 1:  OMG!  Look at the car on the thing!  (Points to baby blue travesty on pedestal in front of the May Co. building.)

Girl 2:  OMG!  That is sooooo cool!

 

Me:  :cry:

Yesterday, my friends and I went up to Cleveland for the day. We were at The Cleveland Store in Tower City and as I was making my way to the posters I saw a women looking at a poster of The Arcade. She commented on how beautiful the building was and how she wished she knew where it was. So, being my nosy self, I told her how to get there. I asked her if she was from Cleveland and she told me that they have lived there for 16 years and never knew about The Arcade. :cry:

nothing earth shattering but i saw somebody in a case tee shirt yesterday in midtown.

 

and then sunday night we visited my friend on his 1st night tending bar at a new wine bar in clinton hill, brooklyn. the owner is an old friend of his from the cleveland area:

http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2008/05/streetlevel_oli_1.php

 

WARNING YOU MAY VOMIT IF YOU CLICK THIS LINK!

 

I ALMOST DID!  :x

 

http://www.cleveland.com/discoverbrunswick/

 

 

^I'd vomit if I wasn't too busy laughing... "Brunswick is HOT!"

And urban apparently.....