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[dr_tectonic]

There was a big pile of laundry that needed doing, and we had no quarters and it was too late for the laundromat on 120th, so I schlepped it up to Boulder and went the laundromat behind the Wild Oats that I used to go to when I lived there and which is open all hours.

It's actually worth it in both time and money, because the laundry centrifuge that lets you get away with sticking only two quarters in the dryer and still having dry clothes.

The flyers that get tacked to the bulletin board there are uniquely Boulder. Along with the usual for sale and work at home notices, you get ads for things like ayurvedic dance and learning to chant a new name of God for happiness and prosperity.

And does anybody know what's up with the Abercrombie-wearing college boys folding their t-shirts ultra-meticulously? Even the nasty stained ones? I swear, they were being more finicky than clothing-store employees. Is it some kind of fraternity thing?

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[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

Those, my friend, are not in the slightest bit "uniquely Boulder." You just only ever spend much time in one academic People's Republic.

[I always loved how the Mormon missionaries in Ithaca, who used the same laundromat as me, would be very confused by the flyers there.]

[zalena.livejournal.com]

I noticed Ambercrombie was boarded up on Pearl Street yesterday.

[hapaxeslegomena.livejournal.com]

I live on the border of Oakland and Berkeley, so I’m sure you can imagine the flyers I get on my doorknob. Some lovely new god left a very nice brochure for vacation holidays on the Plane of Hðænluuʒ’å just yesterday. I hear it’s quite nice this time of millennia.

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

Ah, good point. I guess for that special Boulder twist, it would be the "great training method for triathletes" bullet-point on the ayurvedic dancing flyers...

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I expect that'd start to separate Boulder out from A^2 or Ithaca or Cambridge or Berkeley pretty quickly.