Comments on: Hood Blues http://krisbell.com/mara/2007/09/hood-blues/ One Girl's Quest At Balancing Her Love Of Theater And Dance In Seattle Sat, 27 Aug 2011 06:35:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: The Goat http://krisbell.com/mara/2007/09/hood-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-4381 The Goat Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:56:38 +0000 http://krisbell.com/mara/2007/09/hood-blues/#comment-4381 Yipes. I'm sorry dude... That sounds mega-crappy. We had a somewhat similar experience in an, um... "white working class" neighborhood back in Columbus. We had the neighbors who yelled at their babies (literally, they yelled at their infant child in an attempt to get her to stop crying), we saw shirtless guys fighting in the street, kids biking down the middle of the street with dead turkeys slung over their shoulders... ugh. One of Amy's friends lived down the street, and a couple of mine were a few blocks away, but we felt VERY isolated there. We're VERY happy to be here in Springfield (and in a decent part of it)... I'm sorry you've got to deal with that crap. :[ Yipes. I’m sorry dude… That sounds mega-crappy. We had a somewhat similar experience in an, um… “white working class” neighborhood back in Columbus. We had the neighbors who yelled at their babies (literally, they yelled at their infant child in an attempt to get her to stop crying), we saw shirtless guys fighting in the street, kids biking down the middle of the street with dead turkeys slung over their shoulders… ugh. One of Amy’s friends lived down the street, and a couple of mine were a few blocks away, but we felt VERY isolated there.

We’re VERY happy to be here in Springfield (and in a decent part of it)… I’m sorry you’ve got to deal with that crap. :[

]]> By: Boypan http://krisbell.com/mara/2007/09/hood-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-4377 Boypan Sat, 08 Sep 2007 23:20:32 +0000 http://krisbell.com/mara/2007/09/hood-blues/#comment-4377 When I first moved into my studio here in Seattle I lived next to a couple that would wake me up in the middle of the night tossing furniture (or bodies) against the wall. The breaking point for me to call the cops was when the guy called the girl "You stupid chicken-brains." That crossed the line for me. But they got theirs...they were naked fighting and somehow locked themselves out in the hall before the cops came. Suckers! And you are right....although I could hear the guy being an asshole...a lot of it was the girl. Crazy neighbors. When I first moved into my studio here in Seattle I lived next to a couple that would wake me up in the middle of the night tossing furniture (or bodies) against the wall. The breaking point for me to call the cops was when the guy called the girl “You stupid chicken-brains.” That crossed the line for me. But they got theirs…they were naked fighting and somehow locked themselves out in the hall before the cops came. Suckers! And you are right….although I could hear the guy being an asshole…a lot of it was the girl. Crazy neighbors.

]]> By: Clay http://krisbell.com/mara/2007/09/hood-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-4350 Clay Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:16:38 +0000 http://krisbell.com/mara/2007/09/hood-blues/#comment-4350 I don't know if it's just your neighborhood. In Battle Ground, I know the Starbucks baristas better than I know any of my neighbors (that's not even a joke either) - it took probably two years before anyone on my street bothered to say even one word to me. Even still, there's only a couple of people in my neighborhood that I'd recognize. So much for community... c. I don’t know if it’s just your neighborhood. In Battle Ground, I know the Starbucks baristas better than I know any of my neighbors (that’s not even a joke either) – it took probably two years before anyone on my street bothered to say even one word to me. Even still, there’s only a couple of people in my neighborhood that I’d recognize. So much for community…

c.

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