It's your town

How great is it to be able to go up the street to your friend Mandi's adorable bakery? To be able to stop by the local art house video store and charm the cute owners? To have drinks at a bar where everyone might not know your name but they have seen you really drunk alot of times?

And even the places that aren't charming, the hardware store where the high school kid always sells you the wrong thing, the bookstore with the grumpy grandpa that stands in your way to the new to you Martine book, or the pharmacy where everything on the shelves is dusty but you can still get Mountain Dew's Code Red.....

These are the little spots that make a city your home, and if you read this blog you probably love all your little locals as much as we do (and thank you for loving Victoire!!). It's impossible to explain why it's funner to go to a zillion little spots searching to find the things you could have gone to a Major for, but if you love it then you love it.

We obviously love it, love it alot! That is why we got so pissed when we found out about Urban Outfitters new strategy to have their store fronts look like many little local shops and it's not until you walk in you realize the trap. This is shitty, and not 'ironic' at all as they claim! It's already so hard for the indies to survive, and now the curb appeal of their store fronts is being taken? Come on!

Let the little guys have the charm of cute store fronts, UO you can still have all the money....