| | I drove to Silver Spring and then Bethesda with Joanna, Tony and Adrienne last night. In Bethesda I left the car unlocked in a parking garage and went to Gifford's and didn't realize it until I got back. Good thing we were in Bethesda: nothing was stolen.
Today I went to U Street with Giulia and we ended up walking to Dupont Circle via 16th Street and Rhode Island Ave, passing through a variety of gentrifying and not-yet-gentrifying neighborhoods, down streets that pitched back and forth between shithole and yuppie shithole. As we approached Dupont Circle, you could see the houses were better-tended, the cars were nicer, and the men increasingly effeminate and flamboyant and all holding hands.
Diversity is a beautiful thing but I find I am not interested in a neighborhood full of yuppies and gay people. We all have our causes, our battles both individual and collective. There are people on the sidewalks asking you to donate to this charity or sign this thing for gay rights while homeless people beg for money and get ignored. I think that's a bigger injustice than anything else.
It's a very fake neighborhood, Dupont Circle. I hate it. I go and I remember why I hate Dupont Circle and remind myself never to go back, but somehow I always end up there. Perhaps I am just angry. But I decided today that I am not going back to Dupont Circle, physically or figuratively.
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| | Posted 7/8/2006 7:02 PM - 1 view - 0 comments
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