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Here's to you, Holy Cross
May 25, 2009Jeff Oskay - Downtown
You're a 'hood loaded with high points. (And we're not just talking about Highland Park.) Small in scale. Large in spirit. Super before the Super Bowl. Livable. Lovable. Historic, too. You're just one slice of the city, but it wouldn't be the same city without you.
The above is what the people at Unsungindy.com are doing to promote my neighborhood before the Super Bowl. I'm not even going to mention all the sentence fragments because I know I'll have a few of my own.
My neighborhood is so "HOOD" they actually use the word 'hood in what is supposed to be a positive description of the place I call home. Like the Marcy Projects... if the word "Project" is in the title... it's one big craphole.
The only way this description could be worse was if the line read...
You're a 'hood loaded with hollow points'. (Which would be closer to the truth.)
The most positive thing they could come up with about my 'hood' is the fact that the park has a high elevation. That's not the only thing 'high' about Highland Park. As I witnessed last week at HIGHland Park, a guy was sitting at the picnic table tying off about to shoot up. He wasn't causing problems so I let him nod off into a deep heroin slumber.
"Small in scale. Large in spirit". Just a polite way of saying us people on the near east side are crazy! The near east-siders all have a Napoleon Complex...
The smuggest comment is the "It wouldn't be the same city without you." Big thanks to Holy Cross for making the rest of the neighborhoods in Marion County look REALLY good.
Here is a few other Holy Cross slogans and mottos that could work...
-Holy Cross... where else in the city can you get day laborers? Seven days a week, even major holidays... (The Day Laborers used to stand below the "No Loitering" sign by the Speedway. The sign was in both English and Spanish. I don't know Spanish so I always thought it read in English... "No Loitering", but it translated in Spanish to... "Wait Here For Work".)
-Holy Cross... the eastside Hauville.
-Holy CROSS!!! I meant to buy in Cottage Homes...
-Holy Cross... You think Highland Park is high... wait till you see your Property Taxes!
So thanks www.unsungindy.org. for pointing out to me all the great things about my neighborhood that I have failed to appreciate.
Village Spring Mill
May 6, 2009Dave - Carmel
Fuuuuuuuuuuuck!! If you are smart, you will never move into these apartments. Every Saturday the lawn crew begins mowing at 8 am and the residents have to hear mowers, weed whackers, and leaf blowers continuously until 4 pm. It's ridiculous! How many times do they have to keep going over the same areas? They have to be getting paid by the hour because they milk the shit out of that job every weekend.
