Pennewitt elected mayor of Xenia

[monkey neck]

Hahaha. Big news. :D

[markalot]

Didn't they have some tornados 20 years back?

[matt]

Where is Xenia again?

[monkey neck]

Didn't they have some tornados 20 years back?

Actually, 5 years, 16 years, and 31 years back, yes.

[monkey neck]

Where is Xenia again?

It's that little dot on the map just south of Goes Station. :p

[Slar]

Hahaha. Big news. :DCongratulations Mr. Mayor! Just blowing smoke. Your avatar looks like the name Pennewitt would fit.

[drougan]

It's that little dot on the map just south of Goes Station. :p

they have a state police barracks there I do believe.....

[The Mad Hater]

Xenia is my hometown. I lived there the first 19 years of my life. I hated it then, but I miss it a bit now.

I don't know about a state police barracks, nor do I know about this mayor. in fact, I don't know much about Xenia at all. when I was a kid, the school levees were always failing, and my parents were among the majority that voted against them. there were two sides- no, three sides of town: South, North, and East. South Xenia was the more blue-collar area, lower and lower middle class folks. they were raising the kinds of kids that parents from the north side (mine) feared their own children mingling with in high school. alas, my parents' fears were realized. most of Xenia's drug activity came from the South Side, and probably still does. the South Side is where new couples start out to raise a family, and some of them just never get out to greener pastures. North side wasn't by any means affluent, but upper-middle class for the most part. these days, subdivisions are popping up at a ridiculous rate just outside my old neighborhood and welcoming the nearly-affluent and even the somewhat affluent. and then there was the East End; populated almost entirely by black folks, and feared by all the white folks who didn't know any better. sure, there were some upstart gangs who tried a little banging here and there, but in such a small town, the Law easily gained the upper hand. I remember when I was growing up, how much I feared the East End. this fear was primarily instilled by my own parents. when I first started driving, my friends and I were spooked if we had to drive through the East End at night to get to or from Jamestown. of course, once high school was in full swing, we all made friends who actually lived there, and found it to be just another neighborhood. there was the exception: some park way in the backside of the large neighborhood, where people got the beatdown when they had it coming. I always made sure I never had it coming, and stayed away from the place after dark, per instruction I received from East End natives that I befriended.

these days, Xenia is just some wierd town posessing a faint nostalgia and an inability to become a real suburb that could boast its own Home Depot and strip mall. its residents are eternally tormented by the sound of thunder, knowing that the next Big One is just around the corner.

[monkey neck]

Wow, good review of Xenia.

Funny thing is we're getting a Lowe's and a Walmart super center pretty soon. You were pretty well spot on about starting out on the south side, which is where we are. The north end is getting some areas that are pretty hoity-toity (or however you spell it).

And yes last week, thunder woke us up in middle of the night and the prospect of the next "Big one" is always on our minds. Why we bought a house built on a slab in tornado alley, I'll never know.

[yoshomon]

Xenia, Warrior Princess

[markalot]

Those boobs weren't real.

[monkey neck]

Xenia, Warrior Princess

Everyone from Xenia pronounces it that way. It drives me crazy.