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Welcome to West Roanoke, a tumblr with pictures by Kaleb Horton (whose Twitter is here and whose writing about pop culture is here) and captions by Chris Barrus (whose Twitter as @quartzcity is here and whose blog Quartz City is here). Updates come every Saturday.
posted by Rustic Etruscan (12 comments total) 7 users marked this as a favorite
 
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posted by TheWhiteSkull at 5:38 PM on May 10, 2014 [4 favorites]


oh

uh

Metafilter's own Chris Barrus, that is
posted by Rustic Etruscan at 5:39 PM on May 10, 2014


That blog stole its name from one of the better books about a city

City Of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

I expected pictures from beyond the Blue Ridge in Virginia, I got pictures to go with the Pavement lyrics in my head.
posted by C.A.S. at 6:06 PM on May 10, 2014


From an entry on the poetry of police reports:

In the town itself, people are quiet, and generally afraid of rising crime rates. But out in the country, where there are houses not meant to ever be found, there’s a sense of lawlessness, where people have been too hardened by rain and fire to care if Johnny stole a beer from the convenience store. Anything illegal that can happen with a chainsaw happens in the country. Chainsaws and shotguns come up almost as often as people in the rural reports.

Ha, that line is so great. It sounds kind of like a bit of dialogue from this old comic strip called Achewood.
posted by clockzero at 6:24 PM on May 10, 2014


Are you saying it's lifted from Achewood, or are you genuinely just saying it's like a line from Achewood?
posted by Rustic Etruscan at 6:49 PM on May 10, 2014


Oh god, Redding.
posted by The Bridge on the River Kai Ryssdal at 7:20 PM on May 10, 2014 [2 favorites]


Right there with you C.A.S., I expected pix from the Roanoke-Salem border.
posted by infinitewindow at 8:10 PM on May 10, 2014 [3 favorites]


I meant it was like it, I don't think it's lifted
posted by clockzero at 11:04 PM on May 10, 2014


I was like this too
posted by Potomac Avenue at 11:13 PM on May 10, 2014


Chico and Shingletown were there, too, The Bridge.

But I'm with you. Redding is a great place to be from.
posted by notyou at 11:40 PM on May 10, 2014


I've been outed! And yeah... Redding.
posted by quartzcity at 10:56 PM on May 11, 2014


Chris and I went to the same high school. I knew him when!
posted by jscalzi at 11:32 PM on May 11, 2014 [1 favorite]


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