All, my apologies for the radio silence here recently. I am in the midst of planning a cross-country move this summer--to Providence, where my wife has landed a fantastic, exciting new job--and Brand Avenue has sat on the back burner while I investigate, both remotely and in person, typical moving-related things like housing and employment prospects. We are thrilled to be returning to New England--birthplace of this blog, whose scale and strongly defined character is definitely present in the content and approach of this site.
Posting over the next few weeks may be a bit sparse, as we rack up frequent flier miles running back and forth and try to get ourselves squared away, in a place that is, excitingly for us, both familiar and new. Therefore, along with my Delicious bookmarks, I'm enlisting Twitter as a way to bridge the content gap here, and I rescind my earlier statement about not understanding its utility. This essay takes care of the rest.
More on all that later; at some point I do intend to organize my thoughts about why Providence is a great city, and why I'm excited to be there. In the meantime, here's a video explaining why other people think so.
Right now, I'd just like to offer a bit of YouTube kitsch, a music video only tangentially related to issues of urbanism, the content of which was voted the "worst song ever" a couple of years back. I report, you decide.
And now, back to regularly scheduled programming...
I love the vaguely moral themes to this song. We shouldn't want money or do what "they" want us to do. Instead we should ... dance, I guess.
That's what Abraham Lincoln would want.
Posted by: Daniel Nairn | 05/05/2009 at 18:24
Ha! It's all ridiculously heavy-handed, isn't it.
Beware the giant metaphors rolling down the street!
Posted by: Chris | 05/06/2009 at 10:17