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Old August 16th, 2010, 04:11 PM posted to alt.society.liberalism,soc.culture.usa,alt.politics.homosexuality,rec.travel.misc,alt.religion.mormon
Dänk 666
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Default Dänkblog: Salt Lake City, August 15, 2010

I'm in Salt Lake City for a few days on business and got to do some
touring yesterday.

I started out at the State Capitol where there was a rally of
evangelical xians singing Jesus songs. From there I wandered to
Temple Square, and spent an hour or two photographing the Mor(m)on
Temple, Tabernacle, and other religious monuments.

By then it was getting dark and I got lost and was rushing to find an
Indian restaurant that had gotten good reviews. Unfortunately, I
couldn't find it and settled for a Tibetan restaurant where I good a
decent beef curry with rice for $10.

Today I plan to do some more touring this morning, and have lunch at
the Indian restaurant, since I didn't come all this way to go home
without partaking of my favorite meal of rogan josh served with naan
and chai.

Check out my photo album, still in the works:

http://s929.photobucket.com/albums/a...a666/utah/slc/
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Old August 17th, 2010, 02:57 AM posted to alt.society.liberalism,soc.culture.usa,alt.politics.homosexuality,rec.travel.misc,alt.religion.mormon
Foxtrot
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Default Dänkblog: Salt Lake City, August 15, 2010

Dänk 666 wrote:

I'm in Salt Lake City for a few days on business and got to do some
touring yesterday.

I started out at the State Capitol where there was a rally of
evangelical xians singing Jesus songs. From there I wandered to
Temple Square, and spent an hour or two photographing the Mor(m)on
Temple, Tabernacle, and other religious monuments.

By then it was getting dark and I got lost and was rushing to find an
Indian restaurant that had gotten good reviews. Unfortunately, I
couldn't find it and


Get GPS, cheapskate.

Today I plan to do some more touring this morning, and have lunch at
the Indian restaurant, since I didn't come all this way to go home
without partaking of my favorite meal of rogan josh served with naan
and chai.

Check out my photo album, still in the works:

http://s929.photobucket.com/albums/a...a666/utah/slc/


A few nice photos in there. SLC is one of those places that you
can appreciate if you don't let the local beliefs bother you.

BTW the photos of gang graffiti are wastes of bandwidth. If
you're so fascinated with it, spend a few hours in East LA.

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Old August 19th, 2010, 04:50 AM posted to alt.society.liberalism,soc.culture.usa,alt.politics.homosexuality,rec.travel.misc,alt.religion.mormon
Dänk 666
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Default Dänkblog: Salt Lake City, August 15, 2010

On Aug 16, 7:57*pm, Foxtrot wrote:
Dänk 666 wrote:
By then it was getting dark and I got lost and was rushing to find an
Indian restaurant that had gotten good reviews. *Unfortunately, I
couldn't find it and


Get GPS, cheapskate.


It worked out in the end. The Tibetan meal was excellent, a delicious
beef curry seasoned with onion, garlic, ginger, and just a bit of
chile, fresh, hot, served with rice for only $10. The Indian
restaurant was horrible; I asked the waiter to hold the cilantro
because I didn't like it, at which point he could have mentioned that
the particular dish was loaded with cilantro, but he seemed more
interested in selling the dried-out goop remaining in the stew pot.


BTW the photos of gang graffiti are wastes of bandwidth. If
you're so fascinated with it, spend a few hours in East LA.


I'm a big fan of graffiti, especially stickers. Having traveled
across the world, the only places I rarely saw graffiti was Vietnam
and Utah, both police states that suppress creativity and demand
absolute conformity. Throughout history, the bourgeoisie have defined
what art is, locking it up in palaces and museums that only they can
afford to patronize. Graffiti is people's art, which is why the
bourgeoisie have decreed it to be a crime. The graffiti I saw in Salt
Lake City was the bright spot of my trip, evidence that there is life
there, and that the Cult is not as all-powerful as it seems.
 




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