Comments | kalpurna: Jersey Pride

kalpurna

Jersey Pride

Jan 07, 2007 13:42

Well, I am now back in Chicago (brevisse, your package is coming as soon as I find out where the hell the post office is, which will be TOMORROW if I DIE TRYING), and feeling rather nostalgic for my lovely home state of New Jersey. New Jersey gets an extremely bad rap from people out of state. When you tell people you are from Jersey, many people think ( Read more... )

love post, poetry, rl

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kalpurna January 7 2007, 18:55:36 UTC

Hee! It's a little true. But I do love that part of Jersey too, you know? It's just, it's a bit harder to defend to people from out of state. They just don't get it. *shakes head sadly*

sheridankm January 7 2007, 19:02:48 UTC

It's under the Coop grocery store.

kalpurna January 9 2007, 13:23:41 UTC

Awesome, thanks!

nos4a2no9 January 7 2007, 20:00:15 UTC

I realize now I had no idea what Jersey was like at all. My only reference points are Bruce Springsteen songs and movies like "Saturday Night Fever." Thanks for providing a more complete impression of the diversity and beauty of NJ, and that bit about the beauty in the ugliness of the northern industrial towns had me nodding my head. That, I certainly recognize.

kalpurna January 9 2007, 13:24:09 UTC

Glad you liked it! Oh, my home state. ♥

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kalpurna May 2 2007, 23:28:52 UTC

Dude, whoa, this is the first time I've seen this comment, and I only found it because I was scrounging up a link for someone! LJ, why must you suck so hard sometimes? Anyway, uhm, consider this a really belated hi and welcome, I guess! *is lame*