Welcome to my blog. This is about stuff I like, stuff I know and stuff I want you to know I like. I hope that you'll enjoy romping through the cobwebs of my mind as I ramble on about stuff that makes sense, stuff that doesn't, and stuff that I can't even understand. I live in NYC, which, if you look at a map, you can see is nestled just under the bottom part of the state and I'm trying hard not to say it looks like the part the state is eliminating in the ocean. Despite what it looks like, it's a famous, glamorous and exciting (as well as downright scary sometimes) city with a melting pot of people from all over the globe. In fact, Jackson Heights, in Queens, is known to have the most culturally diverse population in the city, if not the planet. And I live right next door (in Woodside)!
So my life in SAMerica is colored by my current location, but for good reason. I've lived in NYC longer than I've lived anywhere else. I came from Pennsylvania, and I've found that state to be disappointing, politically speaking. Oh sure, it's pretty, with caverns and mountains and the great hometown city of Pittsburgh (it's a large city but feels like a small town), but it's gotten too full of closed-minded conservative thinking for my liking. Yes, NYC has that too, but I also find many, many people with open minds who welcome me, and others from all walks of life.
In my mind, SAMerica is a place where everyone should be free to be who they want to be, free to say gay or happy or any other word that might come to mind, so long as it isn't hate speech. Despite what I say in my sometimes curmudgeonly way, I actually do like people and I like to learn about them and what their lives are like. I just wish everyone wanted to learn about others, instead of wanting others to conform to what they want them to be. In this blog, I hope to speak about stuff that I've learned about people over the years. Not all of it will be nice, but I promise, it will be true.
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