Believe it or not!
1. I almost forgot to mention, about my recent trip home: I had more fun riding around aimlessly in a car with my momma for two hours than I would have had on a round-the-world cruise. Pure bliss.
2. I stopped for dinner at this small town of Zelienople for dinner yesterday. I Facebook’d and Tweeted it just because I thought it was a cool town name and a rather adorable tiny, town-that-time-forgot kinda place. And of course 6 of my FB friends replied that they knew the town, and it led me eventually to IMDB and finding out that it was one of the filming locations of the original “Night of the Living Dead” (and a few other movies)…kinda crazy! Now I’ll have to go back sometime on purpose to sightsee the filming locations!
3. I love this line from a song by The Band: “Life is a carnival, believe it or not.” Ha! That shit is funny.
4. I am very annoyed that my buddy Kyle mentioned Tim Allen’s ubiquitous voice-over presence in a blog entry before I could. I’ve been bitching about it IRL for months!
5. Just about every day lately, I am reminded of this great line from one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most famous short stoires, “Harrison Bergeron”, which is set in the year 2081: “April, for instance, still drove people crazy by not quite being spring-time.” Good to know this was a problem in the fifties, when the story was written, and will continue to plague folks well into the 2080s.
In an effort to make the “You Would Not Survive a Vacation Like This” blog post a little shorter, I did not include the photos that I took in the countryside around my dad’s house in Newville. So now here some of them are:
Notes From the Fire 
April 6, 2011 at 7:15 PM
Weird… I know you had a great time on this vacation, but looking at this collection out of context brings the word “dreary” to mind.
April 7, 2011 at 4:14 AM
My momma makes a good point. I do think that in most of these I was going for “desolate”…which Newville is. Not quite dreary, though.
April 7, 2011 at 8:13 PM
Yes, she does. OK, I can see desolate.
April 6, 2011 at 8:57 PM
I so enjoyed our aimless time together too. We used to do it when you were much younger, like 12 and 13.
Cory, sometimes, Newville, like our lives can look dreary to others. Not to worry, usually it is just perception.
April 7, 2011 at 4:15 AM
I do remember aimless driving with you when I was younger…we had such fun! And still do!
April 7, 2011 at 12:12 AM
Z is on my trip now. If Night of the Living Dead happened there, that’s enough reason to visit for me.
April 7, 2011 at 4:16 AM
Well it was only parts of it, although the other filming locations that are listed are all in the immediate area. Basically a trip in the countryside around Pittsburg is zombie-movie heaven.
April 7, 2011 at 6:41 AM
The sky picture right below the duck egg picture: holy shit.
April 8, 2011 at 6:02 AM
Fanks! It was craaaazay!