June 22, 2004

Greetings from the 10th circle of Hell!

I've had this theory for several years about the city of Milwaukee. It goes something like this:

People who are too wretched to be damned to hell are sent to spend eternity in Milwaukee.

Now, before you throw your Miller Lite bottles at me, let me just say that I base this on one measly trip to Milwaukee in which I spent most of my time totally lost, following roads that inexplicably dead-ended on railroad tracks. I'm sure there are many fine points of Milwaukee of which I'm ignorant. I will say that they have a swell art museum, which put on an amazing Georgia O'Keefe show in 2001.

Since my tainted (*snort* - I said "taint") Milwaukee trip, I've taken great delight in making fun of the city. Along with my previously-mentioned insult, I also like to refer to it as The 9th Circle of Hell. Unoriginal, but oh well.

Tonight, I was reading the news and I saw this headling: Milwaukee Ranks Poorly in Quality of Life.

And I laughed. See? I was right! The damned are condemned to Milwaukee, I tell ya!

Then I read the article.

Seems that a study by the State University of New York claims that Milwaukee has " the second greatest disparity in quality of life among the nation's 100 largest cities..."

...second only to St. Louis.

I'll shut up and take my Miller Lite Bottle Bashing now, please.

Posted by Robin at June 22, 2004 08:56 PM | TrackBack
Comments

but what about laverne and shirley?

hahaha "gen-u-ine"

a few miles south of sedelia it's "gen-u-wine" ahhhhh, the twang of missouri girls.

Posted by: Kicking Bear at June 23, 2004 01:20 PM

Let me first say I have friends who live in Milwaukee.

Okay, now my point,

It isn't just Milwaukee but the entire state of Wisconsin. Watch Kevin's Smith's Dogma. In the movie God exiles Bartleby and Loki (a fallen angel and the angel of death) to spend the rest of eternity in Wisconsin. Now that's harsh. Worse then hell.

Posted by: ketut at June 25, 2004 02:15 PM

Ketut, I've spent way too much time in Wisconsin over the past 6 years. My husband's family lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, about an hour from Wisconsin. Getting there requires driving through a good chunk of the state, often in the winter months. Ugh. Ugh ugh ugh. The only thing worse than that drive through Wisconsin in winter, is making that drive while suffering from salmonella (Christams, 1999).

I must have done something really awful in a past life.

Posted by: Robin at June 25, 2004 02:39 PM