Expeditions
Aug. 15th, 2017 10:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tracker7Fifteen years ago, I drove to Richmond, Virginia, to see a longtime friend - one of the coolest people I know, to tell the truth.
Before going, I asked about game stores along my route - good ol' mailing lists, you know? I didn't figure there would be any in West Virginia, but Virginia was bound to have some, right? And someone suggested a shop in Charlottesville, and that sounded pretty good, so I put it into Mapquest and printed out a detour map (this was 2002, remember) and away I went.
Charlottesville was really pretty. The shop was located in a pedestrian mall, a closed-off section of a city street filled with tables and benches and all kinds of cool little specialty shops. I remember thinking, man, I could pretty happily live here. Nice college town, good vibes, all that.
And now, Charlottesville is the place on American soil where a Nazi killed a woman by driving his Dodge Challenger into a crowd. Nazis, Confederate apologists/cosplayers, white supremacists/nationalists, all the usual dickbags - they rallied against the planned removal of a statue of the traitor Robert Lee. There was a counter-demonstration, there was some violence, and in a fit of white power, one of these dickbags got in his prosthesis and killed Heather Heyer.
Before going, I asked about game stores along my route - good ol' mailing lists, you know? I didn't figure there would be any in West Virginia, but Virginia was bound to have some, right? And someone suggested a shop in Charlottesville, and that sounded pretty good, so I put it into Mapquest and printed out a detour map (this was 2002, remember) and away I went.
Charlottesville was really pretty. The shop was located in a pedestrian mall, a closed-off section of a city street filled with tables and benches and all kinds of cool little specialty shops. I remember thinking, man, I could pretty happily live here. Nice college town, good vibes, all that.
And now, Charlottesville is the place on American soil where a Nazi killed a woman by driving his Dodge Challenger into a crowd. Nazis, Confederate apologists/cosplayers, white supremacists/nationalists, all the usual dickbags - they rallied against the planned removal of a statue of the traitor Robert Lee. There was a counter-demonstration, there was some violence, and in a fit of white power, one of these dickbags got in his prosthesis and killed Heather Heyer.
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Date: 2017-08-15 03:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-08-15 11:57 pm (UTC)http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2017/08/15/white-nationalists-reportedly-plan-rally-lexington/570724001/