Spokane!
This is for Wonderbunny, pulled from the online comic strip 'Penny Arcade'. Just something to chew on ;)
"I've been thinking that referring to Spokane as the ruptured asshole of America and indeed the world has not taken something critical into account. It is cheap to live there, and if you never have then you don't even know what kind of expensivity threshold I'm talking about here. Let me give you a good example.
Real Life Comics is moving up to Seattle because the rent is better than it is in Sacramento. Um, that's one way of looking at it. I guess it depends on where he's going to live up here, but the idea that you come here to live simply makes my mind hurt. You know where you need to go? I mean, if you're planning on moving away from everyone you know anyhow?
Spokane.
Festering pit, I know. The people there live inside the Earth's own bleeding hemorrhoids. But here's the deal: I lived in an area called Hillyard, which is almost literally "on the other side of the tracks," and I had a perfectly livable room for 280 dollars a month. Broadband is fairly plentiful, and there is a massive chunk of downtown where you can access the Internets - any one you like - on the free.
We aren't strangers to desperation. Penny Arcade has been our "job" for a long time now, but the kind of money it was bringing in was only viable in a place like Spokane. It just occurred to me yesterday that if you are physically untethered to a location, and you want nothing more than to survive according to the whim of your creative output... then what the fuck difference does it make where you store, temporarily, your barely animated husk?"
"I've been thinking that referring to Spokane as the ruptured asshole of America and indeed the world has not taken something critical into account. It is cheap to live there, and if you never have then you don't even know what kind of expensivity threshold I'm talking about here. Let me give you a good example.
Real Life Comics is moving up to Seattle because the rent is better than it is in Sacramento. Um, that's one way of looking at it. I guess it depends on where he's going to live up here, but the idea that you come here to live simply makes my mind hurt. You know where you need to go? I mean, if you're planning on moving away from everyone you know anyhow?
Spokane.
Festering pit, I know. The people there live inside the Earth's own bleeding hemorrhoids. But here's the deal: I lived in an area called Hillyard, which is almost literally "on the other side of the tracks," and I had a perfectly livable room for 280 dollars a month. Broadband is fairly plentiful, and there is a massive chunk of downtown where you can access the Internets - any one you like - on the free.
We aren't strangers to desperation. Penny Arcade has been our "job" for a long time now, but the kind of money it was bringing in was only viable in a place like Spokane. It just occurred to me yesterday that if you are physically untethered to a location, and you want nothing more than to survive according to the whim of your creative output... then what the fuck difference does it make where you store, temporarily, your barely animated husk?"