johnnyshape wrote:That's like Escape From New York, man. Without Donald Pleasance. Or Kurt Russell. Or Isaac Hayes. But with Ernest Borgnine.

This made me laugh until tears ran dry.

sunlore wrote:

I wrote:In fact, the whole region between, say, Liège and Paris is entirely depressing.

The EA boards wrote:Peter

Location: Belgium

Peter uit Vlaanderen, naar ik mag hopen?

[Beschaamd gezicht]

Yup, Antwerp.

Otherwise it would be Pierre.

steve wrote:Butte, Montana, home of Evel Knievel.

Also home of the Berkley Pit, if I'm not mistaken. I think that alone qualifies Butte as pretty wierd. As does the enormous statue atop a mountain.

in retrospect, being up your mother's ass was kinda weird.

[edited for spelling errors.]

In terms of a larger location, the city of Sudbury in Ontario, Canada may be the weirdest place I've ever been. A nickel mining area featuring the world's largest smokestack. Huge piles of "slag" dominate the landscape. Slag is the waste of nickel mining. You enter the city after traveling through miles of Canadian wilderness, only to be greated by an ominous, hulking smokestack and an altered, polluted landscape. The residents of this city appeared to be drones and faceless zombies with no purpose but to survive amongst the slag.

Some information here:
http://laurentian.ca/INORD/Clippings/Su ... 2-6-04.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Sudbury,_Ontario
http://www.sudburyphotos.ca/showgallery ... 02&thumb=1
http://www.sprol.com/?p=64

There's tons more stuff about this.

sparky wrote:Carpenters Road in Stratford, East London, four or five years ago.

The area is being renovated as part of the Olympic regeneration shebang, I believe, so it has probably changed completely.

It is now changing, but it still has a bit Max Max about it at the moment. I think we're still negociating with the last few businesses on the site.

3 wrote:Shakira is having sex!
http://shakiranudeworld.info/movies/81896

so have most people on this forum; still we don't feel the need to advertise it every time.

speak for yourself.

Plattsburgh, New York

So this weekend a couple of friends and I drove up to NYC from Atlanta to see Anthony Braxton play. Ont he way back home a couple of days ago we saw the ruins of a motel back off the highway and decided to stop and do some exploring.