In reading all of your atlanta and michigan and california blogs, I'm convinced that I need to convince you to come to Idaho... The west, the real west. Yes, it's phenomenal...

First You'll come to a state where if you even mention the word democrat or donkey, you're going to get shot, shunned, cold shouldered, or ridiculed. Yes, that's true, you can come enjoy the right wing of the right wings. even our lefties are right. I sometimes ask people I come across their political preference. If/when they say democrat I ask them if they mean democrat democrat, or Idaho democrat (republican to the rest of the country). They're usualy Idaho Dems. now, doesn't that sound great?

Second coming to idaho is like experiencing vintage. We're 10 years behind. Our clothes are 80's and 90's, our vernacular the same, even our vehicles. H3whatta? Never heard of that. everybody drives a VW here. not that whoopdie doo shizzie either, it's that old rusty mostly yellow VW I'm talking about.

Third, Twin Falls Idaho still has 2 drive-in movie theaters. There's only a handfull of these left in the country, and with the admission price to get in, these 2 aren't going to last much longer. And a roller-skating rink... yes, hard wood waxed floors, and 4 wheels, not inline, but in a square. yes, vintage, dorky, gross.

And there's an abundance of jobs. I just read the paper saying that the majority of people working in idaho make more than 7.50 and hour. that's funny. 7.50. I read a figure recently that said that for a single person, no children, you would need to make more than 10 bucks an hour to live, let alone single parents. who wants to flip burgers??? yay!

anybody heard of cow-tipping? I'm sure you have, cause it hails from idaho.

Here's a few random facts from idaho.

* TV was invented by a high school student in Rigby, Idaho. Don't believe me, look it up. if it weren't for him, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners

* It's illegal to sell a live chicken on sunday. don't believe me, look it up.

* Idaho has a seaport! it's true, in Lewiston where the Snake and Columbia rivers join

*Idaho is home the the world's largest potato chip. it came from the world's largest potato!!! it's found in blackfoot, Idaho

* Idaho has a holiday dedicating to Fiddling (that's western style violining)

* Sacajawea was named Idaho's first professional Woman

* Idaho has the most miles of white-water in the lower 48. A lot of it is from the Salmon river, called the "river of no return". It got the name from it's difficulty to navigate. it's the longest free-flowing river that heads and flows in a single state.

*Ernest Hemingway killed himself 40 miles from my house, very close in vicinity to where bruce willis, Arnold, Tom Hanks, Clint Eastwood, and many many others have dwellings. Sun Valley area. there's democrats there.

so there you have it. Come pay me a visit, eh?