Talking for My Own Enjoyment

I frequent a variety of websites, Drudge, Take a Report, NYTimes, BBC, Vault, NHL, Askmen, and a few others and appreciate how well these are maintained and updated.

Obviously The New York Times is expected to and does maintain a very professional manner on their website, but what is so enjoyable about the site is their new catering to the blogging community. They have a scroll bar on the right side, which informs the reader, which articles, editorials, and op-eds have been most read and blogged about, which I must admit to stealing many of the leads I put on this blog. Moreover, and this IS why New York is so great, they never let that New York aura wear off. We're New York, get over yourself, you'll never be us.

I sound arrogant and pompous, but I don't really care. There is a reason people come to New York chasing dreams. Despite only being a few hundred years old the City has so much character and has gone through so much that it seems like it has the history of Rome behind it. We've traded the Coliseum for the Garden, the Roman Baths for the high rise apartments and the Senate for the Empire State Building. New York is the capital of the World and I'm damn proud to be a part of it, even if I am only from the suburbs.

Changing Subjects...kinda.

Your home, in my opinion, is such a crucial element to what defines you as person. Obviously parents, teachers, blah blah all have big parts in your development, but what I mean to say is that your hometown is key to this as well. I'm from Rye, its a town of 10,000 odd people, we're all fairly well off (generally speaking), it might be the whitest town in the Union, and hockey certainly still thrives there, while it dies elsewhere. Do we take shit for our proximity to $Greenwich$? Absolutely. Do $Greenwichians$ dish it out for us not being them? Ditto. But I wouldn't have it any other way.

People who deny their hometown, frankly need a good swift kick in the ass. Whether for better or worse, home played a bigger role defining people than many would like to admit.

I, for one am damn proud to call Rye, NY, Middlebury, VT, and perhaps by the time I leave, Hangzhou home.