surprise road trip down to murica today. kids wanted desperately to try chick-fil-a and the closest one was in plattsburg, ny. k also wanted to go to target to… i don’t even know, she just wanted to go. in the end all we purchased was one overpriced football, a bag of parmesan flavored goldfish and an unnecessarily large bottle of sweet baby ray’s. oh and a bottle of baja blast for each of the kiddos.
i remember going to champlain center mall as a kid and it being this magical place filled with people and stores of all kinds. a place where you could buy almost anything. a consumerism mecca of sorts. to this day, people around here still reference “going to plattsburg” when talking about going on excessively large shopping trips for all kinds of random shit…
well holy hell has that place changed. granted, the last time i went there was likely 30 years ago, but i was not expecting this… not only was the champlain center mall a deserted skeleton filled with depression, but the entire town of plattsburg was just… sad? fast food joints, nail salons, vape shops, pawn shops, and a variety of other establishments that all screamed bien-être social. my use of french there was 100% intentional. i saw more quebec plates and heard more, VERY LOUD french speakers there than i do in montreal. every single one of them being the worst kind of quebecois. you know the kind, the loud mouths who insist their uniligualism makes them special and deserving of equally special treatment, the ones who believe the government owes them everything, the ones who are about as cultured as fucking turnips.
i don’t think i’ll be returning anytime soon. even though the chick-fil-a was good.
in other completely unrelated news, just when i thought i knew reddit pretty well, i stumbled across a subreddit today that really surprised me. r/UnsentLetters
woah… surreal. don’t go there if you’re not ready to get wrecked. i’m both in awe and traumatized by that sub. some of the writing there is impossibly good, but the subject matter is all just completely heartbreaking in a million different ways. a lot of it is like an ultra sad bizzarro version of craigslist missed connections from 10-15 years ago.
perhaps i am a glutton for punishment, but lately i have been having an overwhelming need to just feel something, and wow… this is like coming in from the cold and jumping straight into the fire to warm up. and i kind of… like it? i think i may also have some content to contribute… using a throwaway of course.