Loving the County Seat!
>>Remember those thrilling days of not-so-long-ago when Ukiah was Number One? It seems like only yesterday, or maybe 1999, that some incompetent fool of a dishonest demographer put out a book that ranked Ukiah the Number One Small Town in California, and sixth best in all the land. I laughed so hard I broke something between my lungs and stomach and had to miss a week of work. I don’t even think anyone on the Chamber of Commerce took it seriously, but still. It was kinda cool, like some Special Olympics kid being named honorary MVP of the Major League All Star game, or Barack Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize.<< We\’re (not) Number One!
I love the folks at the Ukiah Daily Journal for being smoking sarcastic — quite an accomplishment in Northern California — a land where people are offended if you don’t smile and say hi every single time you see them. The UDJ pointed out a “new” store in the County seat: the Grateful Psychonauts (“your one-stop shop for all the Grateful Dead products you’ll ever need”). We just keep partying like it’s 1969 up here!
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