sridhar,
regarding those steel homes…
how utterly ugly and unbelievably gauche those “homes” look!
more like barns or warehouses than light and bright places to live in.
i’d much rather have an old craftsman or victorian to restore, with large windows and open beams.
i kinda agree about those bostonians; perhaps their covert racism is worse than the overt sort, which one might be able to avoid.
its the OTHER sort of bigotry, that driven by illiteracy and evangelism, lacking an appreciation of peoples diversity of belief or lack thereof, their sexual orientsation, their questioning of fossilized thinking that glorifies war and reduces the rest of humanity to simple “evil”, that is rampant in the South and in all of suburbia
i cannot really follow the references you make to steel bolts and “bikes”. i’m not sure how germane to the conversation it might be – perhaps some fantasy of machismo that one has to flaunt? My own bikes-n-bolts story has more to do with adding a kid-trailer to the seat-post of my bicycle.
