For all you Long Islanders and former Long Islanders:

[randomness]

Here's the essay from nihilistic_kid I mentioned:

"My recent essay, albeit with rather more line breaks than I like, it now up at the Howl site as a sample: Walking on L.I. (opens PDF file)."

It's worth reading even if you're not from Long Island.

(From http://nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com/1123114.html, with thanks.)

Comments

[jimmystagger.livejournal.com]

Wow that was great, brough back a lot of bad memories from trying to walk in central Suffolk County. I can't even tell you the number of times while wakling in places in Port Jefferson, Rocky Point, and Mt. Sinai I almost got hit or got something thrown at me. The dead animals you find...also fun.

As my ex, a lifelong Bostonian, said on her first visit to my folks' house- "Where the HELL are the sidewalks?!"