Ranting and Raving

I found this post on Unfair Park, the blog of the Dallas Observer.

I am really interested in seeing this documentary, I’d probably like it alot and agree with the point he is trying to make.

My favorite part of the post is:

Well, Terry was kind enough to send Unfair Park a more or less final version of Subdivided, and surprisingly it deals almost exclusively with the razing of Little Forest Hills and how the neighborhood’s struggling to stave off developers who would turn their urban oasis into…Plano. In fact, the 45-minute doc presents Plano as the antithesis of all that’s good and pure about neighborhoods in which friendly folks without temptations hang out in their front yards, eat dinner with their kids and engage in some form of civic involvement.

And and EVEN BETTER line is this:

As one Little Forest Hills resident says in the doc of a friend who moved from San Francisco to Plano: “She says she feels like the soul’s being sucked out of her.”

It’s true. I HATE Plano with a passion. I can say that nothing bad has ever happened to me in Plano, it’s just a feeling I get when I am there….hell I get the feeling when I drive through the damn city! It’s that feeling you get that makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up. A feeling of not right-ness that makes your primeval animal sense edgy and gets the adrenaline running for the flight part of the Fight or Flight response. It is almost like some ancient evil is buried beneath the city and it having an adverse affect on everything there.

I told IDR and RP one time that suburbia is where humans go to die…..it’s humanities version of an Elephant Graveyard. Seems a fitting description of Plano, don’t you think? 😉