summer 2010: ultimate party town

coolest post BAY AREA town is Braddock Pennsylvania. Braddock used to be a major steel town. houses are $6000 now. The Mayor is this big dude that rules & lets ppl use his house as the city's public art space.

Him on the Colbert Report
skip ahead to 15minute in
http://www.hulu.com/embed/wh_FnO1xtxplC2TzObeaGA
$6000 houses



cool readings

http://www.15104.cc/

http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A28774



The guy tattoos the names of all dead local iraq vets on himself, cmon!
https://www.youtube.com/v/NhhQmrUKMsg&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl

i voted let's go, and i will if lot's of us go

my friend from high school just moved out to pittsburgh about 6 months ago. i will have him do some recon for me.

okay i did the recon.

Mike (10:59:01 AM): you know about this braddock place?
Mike (10:59:07 AM): apparently it rules?
Tom (10:59:08 AM): haha
Tom (10:59:24 AM): it's kind of cool, but don't believe the hype
Tom (10:59:44 AM): like, it's beyond shitty with hippies and leftists scattered around
Mike (10:59:57 AM): oh man... it isnt like eugene, is it?
Tom (11:00:00 AM): but then just GNARLY abandoned houses with gnarly dudes lurking
Mike (11:00:08 AM): sounds like eugene meets the thunderdome
Tom (11:00:34 AM): it's like eugene meets kosovo meets STREET TRASH
Tom (11:00:45 AM): but, slightly less awesome than that sounds
Mike (11:00:45 AM): oh man... street trash. righteou
Mike (11:00:45 AM): s
Tom (11:01:00 AM): I am in a chili cook off there this weekend
Mike (11:01:03 AM): thats a really good description. i thinky ouve helped me out a lot
Mike (11:01:14 AM): WOAH. i want to go to there.
Tom (11:01:46 AM): Everyone hears about it and says 'I'm going to move there for 3 beans and a pocket full of change'
Tom (11:02:12 AM): then they realize that it is actually fairly fucked up and don't
Mike (11:02:28 AM): but dude... the mayor has war vet tattoos
Tom (11:02:40 AM): haha, he is super intense
Tom (11:03:23 AM): it's turning around....but there is nothing there....if I was staying longer here I would think about moving there just for sheer space I guess

hmm, that street trash description shed some new light, not so gun ho now

Great Work Mike!!

sounds like it could suck if you don't get awesome enough or are too put off burnouts. i bet 1 summer there is like 5 years. we could just summer time fun party there and feel like we are getting 5 year life extensions.

but chili cook offs and street trash, cmon

street trash is a bad thing now??