If someone was to visit your city....

Well, there's the trailer park out by the interstate, the Arby's and McDonalds (but never the Burger King, or Kaiser as I like to call it), the crumbling downtown section with antique shops, the various gas stations....did I mention the trailer parks?

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Ahh, Grand Rapids. There's many things to do here. Why don't I just go ahead and list a few places...

Let's see, there's Catholic Churches, Methodist Churches, Presbyterian Churches, Christian Reformed Churches, Baptist Churches, Lutheran Churches, plenty of booty music dance clubs, pretentious coffeehouses, and cops. Seriously, there are cops everywhere you go. If you're looking for a good music store, try Vertigo. If you come here, you will probably be bored, but there are a few places to go. Mulligans Pub, the Intersection, Wolfgangs (for breakfast or lunch), The Sierra Room (yuppy restaurant, but nice if you're trying to impress a date), Founders Brewery, the Monroe Mall outdoor ice-skating park (in the winter, duh), and uhhh....

My house, the refuge for destitute, wandering New Order fans. All are welcome.

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Hmm a visitor to San Antonio, thats unheard of!! Actually being that tourism and conventions are this cities main source of income, I guess there must be something to do here. So... I guess I should list the typical places like the Alamo, Riverwalk, Tower of the Americas. I would take them to eat at Mi Tierra's (My Hat). Although not completely authentic mexican food, I don't think a tourist could handle genuine mexican food. Summers best time to come. If they got cash theres Six Flags or the biggest freaking water park in the world, Schlitterbahn. I would actually mostly take them to places around SA like Laredo, Mustang Island, Canyon Lake, Fredricksburg, or the Valley if they can handle the four hour ride. But mostly I think I would just smoke them out and get them trashed at Sin13 on a Friday night where your gauranteed to hear at least 5 NO songs!!!!! :D

Originally posted by Taboo # 7 Well, there's the trailer park out by the interstate, the Arby's and McDonalds (but never the Burger King, or Kaiser as I like to call it), the crumbling downtown section with antique shops, the various gas stations....did I mention the trailer parks?:D

Two TRAILER park girls go round the outside.. round outside... round the outside...

Hahahah BIG UP Skittles ooh i mean M&M !!! :)

Well, if I went to San Antonio, I'd try to find Randy's Rodeo, and vainly try to imagine myself back in 1978 when the Sex Pistols played there and the stage was massively covered in beer cans. By all accounts, one helluva show.

There's nothing here where I live, but it is centrally located in the Willamette Valley, which means it's about a 45 minute drive each to the seaside and for snow skiing in the Cascades. That smell that wafts along 1-5 is NOT from Albany; all of those businesses are in the town of Millersburg.

Let's not forget the lovely supermarkets!

I swear to God, I about had to fight my laughter when I saw Asian tourists actually taking pictures of themselves outside the grocery store where I work. Then again, there's not much else worth taking pics of, but it just seemed to confirm the association of Asian tourists with cameras, at least on that occassion.

Originally posted by DoN > Originally posted by Taboo # 7> Well, there's the trailer park out by the interstate, the Arby's and McDonalds (but never the Burger King, or Kaiser as I like to call it), the crumbling downtown section with antique shops, the various gas stations....did I mention the trailer parks?> > :D>

Two TRAILER park girls go round the outside.. round outside... round the outside...

Hahahah BIG UP Skittles ooh i mean M&M !!! :)

Classic comments there DON.Did not know you liked B.G.!:D

I would send them to Grand Rapids

Originally posted by Grigori Rasputin > Originally posted by Spotnick> Maybe he was referring that you need to put gravy on it so it can be good, I don't know :p>

well...I'm not sure either...like I said, a chicken fried steak, you should put gravy on...a regular steak...there is no excuse for puting any sauce on it, unless it was done up by a very poor cook...one of my younger sisters insists on ruining my mom's perfectly good steaks by putting A1 on it...such a shame...oh well...stupidity is wasted on the young...

Yeah, chicken fried steak is the perfect medium for gravy, not regular steak.

I would put steak sauce to the side of a steak, I used to have the habit of putting it directly on top of the steak but I try not to anymore.

well, here in orlando it's pretty much disney world, universal or sea world....

but i grew up in colorado, so let's do denver instead:

1. tattered cover bookstore (either the downtown or cherry creek branch)--this is the bookstore that all other bookstores in america strive to be (seriously, i've had bookstore owners freak out on me when i told them i was from denver. 'oh my god...do you know the tattered cover!'). four floors of heaven, magazines and newspapers from all over the world, excellent book signings and readings, and the owner is constantly fighting against censorship, so she's a real hero to bookstore owners.

2. wynkoop brewery--america's first micro-brewery. good food and lots of weird and tasty beers. (mmm, chocolate beer)

3. wax trax records--awesome record store. takes up a whole block.

4. all the parks--denver has more city parks than any other city in america, and they're lovely (well, most of them).

5. red rocks amphitheatre--actually in the foothills in morrison, but close by. it's a venue built into the red stone, with jagged rocks framing the stage. i saw new order there in '89, actually. U2's 'sunday, bloody sunday' video was filmed there, as well. you can see the mountains to the west and look down to denver in the east. it's beautiful.

6. the mountains. 'nuff said.

What a coincidence. Today, while leisurely leafing through the Sunday papers, there was a wire story, from Knight Ridder, I think, about the abundance of great independent bookstores in the west, like City Lights in SF. Tattered was the first choice described by the writer. Haven't been to Denver in about 15 years (Air Force relatives live in the Springs, so that's where I go visit). Sounds like I need to go check it out and compare it to Powell's in Portland, which is a damn fine bookstore in its own right, and plenty big to boot.

Originally posted by Green What a coincidence. Today, while leisurely leafing through the Sunday papers, there was a wire story, from Knight Ridder, I think, about the abundance of great independent bookstores in the west, like City Lights in SF. Tattered was the first choice described by the writer. Haven't been to Denver in about 15 years (Air Force relatives live in the Springs, so that's where I go visit). Sounds like I need to go check it out and compare it to Powell's in Portland, which is a damn fine bookstore in its own right, and plenty big to boot.

I should be back there next year sometime to check it out, but I'll let ya know right know that I've got a certain fondness for Powell's.

The place i live is NO city but a market town.Places to visit would have to be the FANTASTIC areas that actually surround it.Some very magnificent views to be had.My favourite area is a place called WHITE COPPICE which is a really beautiful place to escape to when you need solitude. Other than the scenery i could NOT really expect anyone to visit CHORLEY unless you wanted to see one of the WONDERS of the WORLD.Yes my bloody NEW ORDER collection.I wish all those years ago i had just listened to them LIVE but NOT bought anything.Still it fetched a smile to SHUGZV'S face every time i said.."Course EVERYONE's seen this one.....":D

i always dreamed of showing robert smith around chicago, since he has been here so many times he probally has seen a lot, so i'd take him to a shitty pool hall, shitty goth club, a bears game, and my bedroom where i will make him play all the cure songs on a fisher price keyboard.

My old house. You should see my old house. Is no beatnik hang-out.

Originally posted by Benny's Cobweb Eyes Worcester, England. Population 110,000Main attractions : 10th Century Cathedral, 17th Century Civil War Museum, Lea and Perrins Worcestershire Sauce Factory. Several hundred pubs. My old house. You should see my old house. Is no beatnik hang-out.

BENNY and the JETS...can you e-mail AGENTWOOD with regards to the live CD ...TECHNIQUE era.BTW Worcestershire Sauce is brilliant with tom.juice for hangovers.:D

You would need quite a while to visit all the main attractions of Barcelona but here goes the whole experience packed in just one virtual day.

I guess our Japanese and British visitors are well acquainted with the work of Gaudi at the Paseo de Gracia. You can start there, do some shopping at "The Corte Ingles" wonderful department stores and adjacent shops. Then go down "The Ramblas" to soak up the local atmosphere. Buy international newspapers, flowers or pet hamsters. On your right you'll pass the "La Boqueria" market a beautiful modernist structure housing a very much active market with foodstuffs freshly arrived from every corner of the world.

Now turn left and get into the Gothic Quarter, the medioeval part of the city where you can enjoy an impromptu flute concert or admire the airy beautifulness of Santa Maria del Mar. If you are lucky you could buy also a valuable etching from an art market.

Keep going down to the sea and you'll find yourself in "La Barceloneta" a typical popular neighborhood now slightly gentrified and quite safe. Go down the beach and have something to eat al fresco at Aqua (but you must book well in advance) Mediterranean Food: risottos and fish a must while you admire the occasional tall ship getting into port.

After that you can have your siesta while sipping a coffee in any of the "terrazas" at the sea shore.

You can spend the afternoon at the Museum of your choice, I would strongly recommend the Frederic Mares museum full of curio and housed in a beautiful building at the heart of the city. After that go to the hotel and dress up a bit for an evening meal at any of the Montjuic restaurants, a bit pricey but excellent food, I would recommend "El Mirador de la Venta" where you can see amazing views of Barcelona at night o "La Barca". A drink at the Mirablau and you are ready for a gig at the Bikini, serious dancing at the Razzmatazz or a classical concert at the Auditorium.