The thing I miss most, living in Colorado, is katydids--cicadas. They're more  midwest and south. The sound is summer.

Damn, I could go for some grilled corn . . .

I'm pretty sure Champions is Chicago.

Was White Wolf always Atlanta or did they start somewhere else?

The Midwest and South both had a lot of wargamers IIRC. Why did RPG do better with the Midwestern wargamers than the Southern ones?

These are all legitimate social scientific questions but I'm not sure there are answers.

Sett, if you have an email that can take a BIG file, send it to me. (Gmail will do.) I have a big article on early gaming that interviews Gygax, Stafford, Hargrave among others and sheds some light on the Midwest/West Coast thing.

Winter

There's one part of your answer.

Christ, I'm getting positively nostalgic here.   I don't think I've ever had as much fun west of the rockies as I have when I'm more easterly.  Hell, I was in Bismark last year. Pitchfork Barbeque!  Never see that in Washington.

Hell, all the festival/carnivals here are anemic art fairs (well, the Sex Worker Art Show is a bit different....), and I never saw just how much naked greed went into the average Ren Faire until I went to the annual one out here.


I may just have to move back when I 'settle down'.

Yeah, you ain't lived until your five year old daughter says she wants to try mutton busting while you're at the county fair...

I see where people love the coasts - California with the amazing weather, New York being the center of the Universe.  But I'll take the midwest (specfically for me the upper Midwest/Great Lakes region), thank you!

I'm in the midwest, Kansas City specifically, and I honestly could do without it. The streets are a maze and it's a pain to find anything. Also, I dunno about the legend of Midwest niceness, but I've yet to see much evidence of it here.

In the summer I broil. I don't know if it's proximity to the river or what, but it is humid here. I'm not a fan of the heat anyway, and the dampness makes it downright nasty. In the winter I freeze. There are like three total habitable months out of the year here.

Depending on how negotiations with the GF go, once I graduate I'll be out of here so fast, heads will spin.

So I didn't get much sleep lat night/this morning ....and this thread was on my kind. Then this song starts to invade my brain from the 80s or early 90s....

 We can write for Tee Ess Ar ,
 Drive a good used car...,

 The MID - WEST
   MId West ....

 Make a brand new game..
Find our claim to fame...

 MID - WEST
 MID  - WEST
 MID WEST!!!

The winters are really cold
Look at the dice I just rolled..

MID - WEST  !!
MID - WEST!!

 Okay - so I'm not a song writer or even an average filker.
  But you got the idea ... it would be to the tune of this Pet Shop Boys song that was done first by the Village People :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39KZ2afBtLU

- Ed C.


Yeah I know its a staple at Gay Dance clubs - so what.

Y'know, for all the bitching about the weather, Omaha was pretty good weather wise. Hot, occassionally 'too' dry summers, mild-ish winters with enough snow and cold for snowmen and sledding. My only peeve was the absolutely laughable 'mountain' that some fool actually tried to set up a 'ski resort' on.  Profitable only because no one wanted to drive all the way to Colorado one assumes.  In other wise it was a veritable garden spot. Of course, I rather like it warm.

Hell, it only ever rained at night most of my life.  This daytime rain was traumatic to me, I don't know how people survive it

Of course, away from the river the rest of the state is flat flat flat... and empty.  

Ok, thats it, I'm officially out of this thread before I boot the job and the life I have here and head home to settle down and raise linebackers.

On a tangent:
I once ate Corndogs  in Dyess, Arkansas. That was, let me say, an experience.

Are Corndogs a Midwestern speciality or is it a Southern thing?

Its an American thing.

 You just find them more often in the MidWest and the South. Something about having more farm country around.


- Ed C.

Corndogs are awesome.  Sometimes I go to the fair just to get a bigass corndog with some mustard.

After getting a bad stomach after eating chilli-cheese-fries last week, I´m careful with any food that Jeff likes.

Quote from: SettembriniAfter getting a bad stomach after eating chilli-cheese-fries last week, I´m careful with any food that Jeff likes.

Just part of the experience, Sett, just part of the experience.  The moth knows it will be burnt up, but still goes towards the glorious light of the bug zapper.

Man, a corn dog sounds really good right now.  Lotta mustard.

Oh, man, btw, speaking of "fair food", I had a killer funnel cake last weekend.  Amazingly enough, it was at the food booth of one of the local Pentecostal churches...

It is hot as shit here right now.

Quote from: BrantaiIt is hot as shit here right now.

Too right.  I have no idea what the damned heat index is, only that it's 100 degrees F plus.

I'm staying inside and rolling twenties.