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Show f!anadian. Seattle had a little less character than Vancouver, but still seemed a metropolitan, cultural Mecca after my time in Salt Lake City. MTV and Urena Babbit, now that you have been released from the psychiatric hospital, what are you going to do? Rolling Stone would have us believe that Seattlites wear nothing but flannel shirts and spend their time emulating the current grunge-god- s or pondering over the lyrics of the spokesman of our generation Eddie Vedder. Although Seattle is a relatively city, it is definitely young, semi-hi- p American. Yuppies wear jogging shoes with their professional uniforms as they hurry to the local athletic club; teenagers smoke countless cigarettes and grimace; the city hums its chaotic rhythm of indus- m try. I I'm going to Disneyland!!! finally consented to a second skiing experience at Crystal Mountain in Washington. After r" : ; 3 Rob Roberts stares death in the face in his relentless pursuit of mind-numbi- ng thrills. practicing my technique all morning. I thought I was ready to try a few black diamonds with the experienced skiers. But after I fell three times on the first hill of the afternoon. I resigned myself to ending this ski seasen on the bunny hills. I think I made some legitimate progress, but the only air I caught the whole day was when I fell off Iffi the lift. Roberts slightly intrigued by the erotic circus featuring Jane Jones and her from page six Nazis and Aryan Youth summer camps due to the Salt Lake Tribune datelines and my having accompag Mormon friends to nied a Bo Gritz rally. g I was expecting to see used my time in Vancouver to perfect my feigned Canadian accent. I concentrated especially on developing a musical tone to my speech and punctuating every question with "ay?." I'm trying to develop a dialect combining my natural drawl with a hint of the Southern accent and expressions I picked up in Georgia and a little very forced 450-poun- right-win- right-win- rednecks parading through the firearms streets with United the States that demanding restrict immigration to only those high-power- tiger. d I Surprisingly, I was glad to return to the familiar lights of the Salt Lake Valley Sunday evening. After sitting in the car for numerous 0 Bo Hill Vn? hours and hearing Counting Crow's "Mister Jones" over 30 times on local radio stations in every state from Utah to Oregon, I put the "Best of the Brady Bunch" in the CD player, declared I would sell my soul for a night of unbridled passion with a Marcia and Jan, and realized I would be walking the familiar halls of OSH in 12 hours. mid-seventi- es from Christian European nations. Unfortunately, Couer D'Alene proved to be pretty dead for a Friday night. Teenagers in pick-u- p trucks cruised aimlessly through town probably looking for some outdoor beerbash to dilute their swelling suburban angst. Just as we were about to leave town, I spotted a local Taco John's and I momentarily forgot my lack of skinheads disappointment. Taco John's is the king of unauthentic fast-foo- d (RMIOOO 00 0W(D SPRING QUARTER CLASS MIDDLE EAST STUDIES 1 INDEX NO. 2224 3 CREDIT HOURS STILL TIME TO REGISTER FOR CLASSES 204R-; T6-9P- M BEH S 107 TAUGHT BY DING YAYLALIER Classes now in Session Mexican- cheaply-price- d Over 100 Classes Available like food product. Having just recently been intro- duced to the restaurant by Chronicle photographer Paul Reinarz, I've developed a mystical attraction to Potato Ole's and Taco in Burger known as some locations. I called Taco John's to 800 number find out about locations along our route. I left a message, but they never called back. However, I called upon my return to let them know I had found two Some Sections Closed Taco-in-a-B- restaurants all right. Call Taco John's and ask why they haven't PPIfe"; - yT.y - si SnSi7A opened up a Salt Lake location. Crossing the border into Canada wasn't exactly what I had anticipat- ed either. Hours before crossing, I made an mental inventory of where all the potentially incrimiobjects nating or suspicion-arousin- g and devices I owned were at the present moment. . After determining that none of these were presently on my person or packed in the car, I was ready for any car, strip, or body cavity search the mounties could possibly devise. But a friendly woman simply asked us a few innocuous questions and waved us through. ; Vancouver was a welcome return to a real. city after months in Utah. People were actually out on the streets Saturday nights, going to bars, going to clubs, or just hanging out watching the crowds walk by. in-dep- th ; , ; We stumbled' straight into the town's major porno district, a neon-- , infested six blocks of theaters, mag- azine shops, topless bars, and "adult superstores." Never really intrigued by hardcore pornography with the exception of pictures involving mechanical bulls and oversized croquet malletsI was content to merely watch the crowds pass. I admit that I was Office Open Today 8 A.M.-- 8 P.M. Ay k'.i'i.o-- w JAPAN KOBE COLLEGE Kobe city is one of the first cities opened to the world as a foreign trade center in Japan. EARN UP T0 14 U OF U CREDIT HOURS ENTRY ACTIVITY DEADLINE 6 WEEKS INTENSIVE STUDY OF GOLD LEAGUE JAPANESE LANGUAGE & SOCIETY. 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