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Yeah, Yeah...I know. Start something, then WHAM!! Shiny object!! Well, here I am again. We're baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!
Hmm....where were we again? Oh yeah...that stupid list again. Aww screw it...there's a few things I wanna address first, hokay?
You know, I just gotta say this, there's nothing more embarrasing than living in a city that tries to be two times (or better) bigger than it really is. What's more, there's REALLY nothing more embarrasing than a city that thinks it has great events and happenings around town...and they got diddly. And what couldn't possibly more shameful is the fact that its citizens really buy into it. Such is our capitol city. We have a definate monopoly on false and unfounded pride...for truly. In abundance.
We're gonna talk about the happenings in Des Moines, which, right along with everything I just mentioned, not only happen a lot, but also have to all happen in pretty much the same damn place. Right smack in the middle of downtown, where everything else happens. There are many BS reasons for this. Amongst these are (in no particular order):
1. To promote the downtown area. Bring more business to downtown. I don't know about the rest of my city, but I just gotta say that there's really no need. Not only has pretty much every building already been replaced with big business already since I moved here in 1975, there's more than enough that already happens, without these stupid little happenings that we feel all have to be here as well, right smack dab in everyone's way. This wouldn't be quite so bad, were it not for these two things. A.) There's nothing I hate more than to find that I have to completely detour around the entire downtown area because there's a marathon running today...the farmer's market is today (I'm so used to this one now, it really doesn't bother me at all anymore), or the Italian or the Art festival is in full swing. These events usually are located dead center, and block off as many as 5-10 square blocks of prime "Getting the hell out of downtown Des Moines for real, though!" real estate. See, if you're going North or South, you're almost FORCED to go through at least SOME, if not MOST of this prime driveway, so be prepared to take a rather poorly planned detour, which I've notice goes pretty much ALL THE WAY outta the way to wherever it is that you're going.
The other thing, that pretty much goes hand in hand with this last paragraph, mind you, is the fact that a lot of the streets are one way. Any detour that you should run across, due to these li'l happenings, is gonna be guaranteed to either a.) a minimum of 20 blocks of twists and turns, mostly out of your way by tons of quarters of miles, or b. Get you a ticket. It's stupid.
2. To bring back business and businesses to the downtown areas. WHY? Everything that involved big money, or is to yet involve big money is now west. Waukee, Urbandale, West Des Moines, Clive, and Windsor Heights. We citizens gave up on the Downtown area already, eons ago, and now theyre thinking how to bring it back? Those people aren't stupid, they've thought this through. It's US that needs to change OUR way of thinking here...Downtown Des Moines has seen it's day, and should be kept as it is, with everything going primarily west, because I think that it's really not only our best side of town, but the only one that hasn't been screwed over by natural disasters like immigration and drug use.
There's plenty of area in our city, move some of this stuff over to those areas. Everybody gets very confused and massively inconvenienced (as well as morally detoured) when the happenings happen. Let's move it outwards and give it up already!!
We'll continue this in a part B.
