tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post3166910742054368450..comments2024-02-29T14:00:40.184-05:00Comments on Restonian: News blog from Reston, Virginia, the mauve-colored New Town (tm): Flashback Monday: How We Almost All Lived in Simon CityRestonianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15519884797760354007noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-4132480962167992912010-04-28T19:50:29.167-04:002010-04-28T19:50:29.167-04:00Oh come on Hickory, give the poor BiCO lad a rest....Oh come on Hickory, give the poor BiCO lad a rest. Do as he suggests and go to Winchester for the quivers. But if you're a straight arrow, I guess you can't fit in BiCO's quiver.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-6215139812315545652010-04-28T18:30:56.926-04:002010-04-28T18:30:56.926-04:00"There should definitely be a statue of me si..."There should definitely be a statue of me sitting on a bench... but where should it be... maybe over there by the lake..."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-27553191288588402572010-04-28T15:02:41.593-04:002010-04-28T15:02:41.593-04:00Oh BiCO will you just freaking move already?!Oh BiCO will you just freaking move already?!HCKDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-92127717997473920032010-04-28T12:18:49.527-04:002010-04-28T12:18:49.527-04:00Sorry to be even more of a Debbie Downer, but I do...Sorry to be even more of a Debbie Downer, but I don't see the "soul" in either RTC OR Lake Anne. Lake Anne is quiet and serene, but it also gives me the aura of impending death---sort of like visiting your grandmother at a nursing home when she's already suffering from a terminal illness. You smile at her and comfort her, possibly even give her false hope, but you know in the end her days are numbered. RTC is lively, but it's filled with spoiled metrosexual poseurs from Loudoun County prancing around pretending they're in the "real city." I feel like I'm in a cartoon or a Starbuck's commercial whenever I go there to just people-watch out of loneliness. NEITHER has given Reston "soul." Want "soul?" Try Pittsburgh. Try Scranton. Try Cumberland. Try countless other nostalgic pre-WWII Rust-Belt locales that have been abandoned in droves and are rotting to the core in favor of places like NoVA, Charlotte, Sprawlanta, Tucson, OKC, etc. Winchester is a good local example of a city that truly moves me and makes me quiver inside when I walk around. I don't get that in Reston. Reston, to me, just feels like a place still trying to "find itself." It's like Pinocchio trying to someday become a "real boy." When will Reston finally hit puberty?Broke in Charter Oak (BiCO): Soon-to-Be "Amongst the 'Hoods in Colvin Woods" and Eventually "Arlington's Sexiest Simpleton (ASS)"noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-63446715410026089732010-04-26T21:54:57.835-04:002010-04-26T21:54:57.835-04:00I disagree: I think Lake Anne Plaza has a lot of s...I disagree: I think Lake Anne Plaza has a lot of soul to it. <br /><br />RTC, now there is a soul-less corporate public space if ever there was one.HCKDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-49085207802230192752010-04-26T17:13:43.055-04:002010-04-26T17:13:43.055-04:00It does have the soul-less look of a government-bu...It does have the soul-less look of a government-built town.<br /><br />One good thing. HOA rules will prevent the tear-down mania that's occurred with other cities along the Metro line. It will be reserved for rich developers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-66695328668788680912010-04-26T15:36:32.127-04:002010-04-26T15:36:32.127-04:00Thank goodness his name wasn't obama !Thank goodness his name wasn't obama !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-2012037800244362102010-04-26T15:31:12.218-04:002010-04-26T15:31:12.218-04:00More like Erich Honecker surveying Communist East ...More like Erich Honecker surveying Communist East Berlin...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-45514746303031368812010-04-26T15:16:27.509-04:002010-04-26T15:16:27.509-04:00Thank goodness his name wasn't Perceval Oscar ...Thank goodness his name wasn't Perceval Oscar Oshansky-Preston. I don't think I could ever buy a home in Poopton.The Convict in the Gulaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02530536432165645618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-33856359352694007132010-04-26T15:01:10.786-04:002010-04-26T15:01:10.786-04:00Anon 1:59
It takes a lot of hard work to confuse ...Anon 1:59<br /><br />It takes a lot of hard work to confuse Lake Anne Plaza with imperial Berlin. Even squinting one's eyes almost close doesn't do it.<br /><br />Must be the recreational pharmaceuticals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-86004002651088170502010-04-26T13:59:54.587-04:002010-04-26T13:59:54.587-04:00That picture looks like Albert Speer surveying imp...That picture looks like Albert Speer surveying imperial Berlin.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-61792607066744657622010-04-26T13:08:07.383-04:002010-04-26T13:08:07.383-04:00Pottersville.Pottersville.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com