[UA] America, City Swap

[Gaston Phillips]

on 5/16/01 11:02 PM, Greg Stolze at holycrow at mindspring.com wrote:

>> This being said, I'm -still- keen to see the UA City Swap project happen.
>> I've
>> typed up my home city (it's at http://www.eyeballkid.co.za/unknown.zip ), and
>> I'd, personally, really like to see other cities made available in the
>> same way.
>> So, James etc.; why not take this opportunity to put your money where your
>> mouths are and Oz on the map at the same time? ;)
> 
> Likewise.  I got me a real big short story (practially a novella) about
> UA's NYC that I'm willing to donate when the UACS goes online.  It's fun:
> Gangsters, Dirk Allen, erections... everything a UA story could want.
> (Except a monkey.  Ooh, and there's no car chase.)
> 

I think New York deserves a couple of write-ups.  For instance, Greg:


On the corner of <Deleted after second thoughts>, in Williamsburg, there is
a bar.  You have to buzz to get in, and there are large dominican bouncers.
Inside, there'a a long bar with two TVs in the corners, like usual.  But, if
you walk behind it, there's a room with formica tables and folding chairs.
Maybe a dozen tables, against the walls.

If you turn to the left of the archway you just walked under, there's a door
leading into what I think is a closet.  There is, from time to time, a line
waiting in front of the closet.  If you get in that line, and wait,
eventually you will stand in front of the door.  It opens a few inches.  You
put money into it, in increments of twenty dollars.

The door closes.

You wait.

The door opens again.  Still only a couple of inches.

You put your hand inside, and for every twenty dollars you fed it, a single
bag of cocaine falls into your hand.

Cattycorner to the close there's a curtained off alcove where the bar's
clientelle go to use cocaine.

Did I mention that, the entire time, there's tinny and fairly bad Salsa
being played, extremely loudly?  Or that the budweisers they serve at the
bar are just this side of freezing, and generally have ice crystals running
down their labels?

What about the clientelle - come 5 AM on a Saturday, it's full of
Manhattanite and Brooklyn hipsters, twitching and jerking about as they try
to dance to the incredibly fast tempoed Salsa.

There endeth the instance.

So, I guess what I'm saying is, "No fair calling dibs on New York."  At list
pick, like, a burough.  Or a district?

Gaston


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