Matt P: “It’s free and easy under here!”
Matt B: “Oh, hooray for everything.”
Key distinctions:
- America is the kid who moved out at age 15 as a loud, if needless, “fuck you” to his sires. Canada is the kid who lived in his parents’ house until he had graduated college, found a stable job, and stocked away a bit of money “for emergencies.”
- The current state of the Canadian dollar is the best kept secret, ever.
- There were lots fewer fat kids in Philadelphia than there were in Chapel Hill. Whether this is geographic, random, or an actual improvement is unknown. I only know that I saw less than three kids where I wanted to actually lead them away from their parents and check them into a foster home.
- The things that you aren’t regularly confronted with about America – i.e. the stuff that doesn’t come from Los Angeles, Washington, or New York – are the reasons the country is worth defending. I tend to forget that on an annual basis, but America is significantly more than cruel sexual and racial stereotypes, violently inept politicians, and a smoking hole in the ground.
- Matty Price and I will never be able to explain the “buttered loaf of bread” joke to you in a way that will make you understand why we think it is so goddamned funny.
Last night after I got home and unpacked, I grabbed my iPod and headed out the door… and ended up walking to Queen and Spadina (!). I was just saying to MP the other day that it’s been a while since I’ve done a solid city walk… this one wasn’t so much planned as that’s just the way things worked out. I was at City Hall before my brain twigged to how much I wanted a burrito right then. So it all worked out.