Weird Places

[PNWbrit]

The Redmond Towne Center with the defunct REI and huDge empty Borders Books space is notable.

Wow... I have not been there for a while. It didn't last long.

We parked at Pacific Place in Seattle the other night... that was being built the year we moved here 1998... it is currently under going "modernization" and they apologize for their construction disturbance.

[Skidog]

I haven't owned a dentist. How much is care and feeding?

2.3 mil? Jeez that's a hell of a lot of RP112s

Obviously 2.3 is likely even low. Not all his patients are simple deep cleans. He's a periodontist. Specialists make coin and it can be easier work maybe? Pretty sure my regular dentist makes decent cash too.

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[Buster Highmen]

Perry O'Dontist? He's Irish?

[PNWbrit]

2.3mil

Not nearly enough to spend all day with your hands in people's mouths.

Which makes you wonder ... how much do proctologists make?

[SKIP IN7RO]

The whole San Luis Valley is weird, maybe not David Lynch weird, but fucking weird nonetheless.

[Buster Highmen]

Not nearly enough to spend all day with your hands in people's mouths.

What do proctologists make? They do have cheery offices that put Perry O'Dontists happy leprechauns and shillelaghs to shame.

[JimmyCarter]

Hospitals at night.

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[PNWbrit]

Hospitals at night.

Schools at night.

[Norseman]

Carbon River, eh??

Carbon, Dosewallips, etc.

was it an exodus or a slow wasting away?

Theories on both, without consensus... though the predominant one now suggests a slight climate shift led the already-tenuous agriculture to fail over a few generations. Pressure from other tribes was a likely factor, too. They moved out of the Colorado Plateau in the 12th and 13th centuries to follow rain. Solid archeological evidence in long-established sites up to like 1350, then nothing.

[TAFKALVS]

The abandoned bunkers/structures at Fort Casey, Worden, Ebey, etc.

[Buster Highmen]

Carbon, Dosewallips, etc.

Barlow Pass and Monte Cristo.

There's remnants of timber railroads all around where we live, big iron bars, plates and stuff in the woods. The big old stumps are freaky too.

Note shoe above.




Theories on both, without consensus... though the predominant one now suggests a slight climate shift led the already-tenuous agriculture to fail over a few generations. Pressure from other tribes was a likely factor, too. They moved out of the Colorado Plateau in the 12th and 13th centuries to follow rain. Solid archeological evidence in long-established sites up to like 1350, then nothing.

Harbinger?

I've only done the days hikes and easy access ones at Mesa Verde and Chaco. Chaco blew me away with the size of the building.

[Buster Highmen]

The abandoned bunkers/structures at Fort Casey, Worden, Ebey, etc.

All along the mountains South of Briancon, along the France/Italy border, there's a ton of old forts up on the hills, some of which have iron barred windows and old iron doors. We climbed and skied the Janus down there and somewhere I have pictures of them.

[BCMtnHound]

Old mining ghost towns in the Kootenays

Howser Cr and its tribs just SW of the Bugaboos. A singing forest, a ghost from an old trapper, and animals (including visiting living humans) doing weird behaviors.

Stewart/Hyder, love it but what a weird, quirky place.

Abandoned pulp mills and canneries on the west coast. The smells seem to set the eeriness off the most, combined with the remnants being reclaimed by the vegetation.

[Buster Highmen]

Schools at night.

My high school in the daytime was weird all right. Sheesh, what a bunch of misfits and miscreants. After all, look what it produced.

[plugboots]

older men who seem to have given up, schlumping around in sweat pants, peering at cell phones or dozing in the chairs they put by the Starbucks stand.

Wait, so this is you in this milieu?

[Buster Highmen]

What do Irish dentists spend their millions on? Guinness? The IRA? Fighting Brexit?

[Buster Highmen]

Wait, so this is you in this milieu?

I have not given up on fashion, so you won't find me in sweat pants.

[PNWbrit]

The abandoned bunkers/structures

Much of my childhood larking about was done in the remains of WW2 bombshelters, anti-aircraft towers and pill boxes.

a bunch of misfits and miscreants.

Or as we called them.. the faculty

[Meadow Skipper]

Schools at night.

Laundromats at night.
Ely Nevada...actually, just make that Nevada.
Indian casinos.
A lot of random bars in the middle of nowhere on two lane roads in the west...at night.
Wildfires at 3 in the morning that aren’t burning hard.

[Buster Highmen]

Much of my childhood larking about was done in the remains of WW2 bombshelters, anti-aircraft towers and pill boxes.

Blonde on Blonde springs to mind...

Or as we called them.. the faculty

The student body was not to be overlooked.

[PNWbrit]

Fairs.

Carnies. Circus folk. Nomads.

[PNWbrit]

Blonde on Blonde springs to mind...
.

?.....

[mall walker]

Ely Nevada...actually, just make that Nevada.

lol yes

[Buster Highmen]

Carnies. The Clown by Heinrich Bolle

[Buster Highmen]

?.....

Well I, see you got your
Brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
Yes I, see you got your
Brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
Well, you must tell me, baby how your
Head feels under somethin’ like that
Under your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
Well you, look so pretty in it
Honey, can I jump on it sometime?
Yes, I just wanna see
If it’s really that expensive kind
You know it balances on your head just like a
Mattress balances on a bottle of wine
Your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
Well if you, wanna see the sun rise
Honey, I know where
We’ll go out and see it sometime
We’ll both just sit there and stare
Me with my belt wrapped around my head
And you just sittin’ there
In your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat