Saturday, December 15, 2007

Wheaton, IL: Living in the Bubble








My sister's Pam & Laina live in the little bubble known as Wheaton, Illinois. Very white, very republican, very linear. Straight lines, flat surfaces, and blue Skies. Wheaton reminds me of Majestic, that well-heeled neighbor to Agrestic, in the Showtime drama "Weeds".

The day after I got here, a crazed gunman took hostages at a local bank; considering the town has virtually no crime, I sort of felt like I hit the jack pot in terms of excitement.

Meanwhile my sister Pam and her husband Brian took off for the weekend, to celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. They drove up to Saugatuk, a gay-friendly resort on Lake Michigan. During a romantic walk on the beach, as they strolled toward the dunes, they had a sighting...

Brian: "I think there's a naked man up there in the dunes. Do you think this is a nude beach?"

Pam: "Duh Brian, there are three nude guys staring at each other, and all these empty boats bobbing in the water, this isn't a nude beach... it's a gay prostitution ring!"







4 comments:

J. David Zacko-Smith said...

Oh! I like it when things get stirred up for the white conservatives. ;-)

I live in a bubble too - actually two of them - as Buffalo and Seattle are both diverse (fairly), and liberal.

Hopefully, that balances out your relatives. *WINK*

LStils said...

Is that a pic of Pam and Brian on the beach? There's a resemblance, I think.

Gledwood said...

America is getting its just deserts for not electing Hillary. Now that McCain oven chips man's trouncing Obama and America shall be punished with Sarah Palin in the Whitehouse!

M- Filer said...

Gleds: I wouldn't call it "just desserts", BUT, I do think Hillary would be better suited to take on McCain-Palin. Of course, if she were the nominee, McCain would have picked a black man, so...

whatever.