Leavin' Cincinnati
Top 10 things I will miss about Cincinnati
1. Cincinnati Art Museum
2. Graeters coconut chip ice cream
3. The Cincinnati Public Library
4. Green Papaya (thai food, sushi, yuminess, etc.)
5. Jake Speed and the Freddies
6. Contra dancing
7. The Cincinnati Dancing Pigs (especially Keith and his saw)
8. Having friends that I can completely geek out with over Doctor Who, Narnia, Stargate, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and all that other sci-fi
9. Having guy friends
10. Arnold's
Did I mention the museum? O' the free art in Cincinnati . . .
Top 10 things I will NOT miss about Cincinnati
1. Racist hate crime and vandalism in the hood
2. Having to park on the street in the hood
3. Living in an old house complete with bats in the hood
4. Hearing gun shots and domestic violence disputes nightly in the hood
5. dry weather, cold weather, generally want to die weather
6. The news channels always interrupting the Tony's, Hell's Kitchen, etc. just for a stupid thunderstorm
7. Living with people who cannot properly load a dishwasher or clean a bathroom sink
8. Actors (excepting four)
9. Feeling like I'm living the opposite of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun where instead of getting offered money our windshields get smashed. I would have preferred the money.
10. Over-the-Rhine and the eyes of people who haven't forgotten.
I think Jake Speed said it best:
Packing my bags, wife and kids too
I'll be through with this town before the day is through
I'm leavin' Cincinnati, selling my house
Leavin' Cincinnati, boy, I'm suburb bound
I'm leavin' Cincinnati, cause I'm scared of downtown
I had a downtown job, paid a whole bunch
Ever since the riots I'm scared to walk to lunch
I'm leavin' Cincinnati, selling my house
Leavin' Cincinnati, boy, I'm suburb bound
I'm leavin' Cincinnati, cause I'm scared of downtown