I wonder how many states have a Canton.

[napoleonherself]

I just saw a Jack In The Box commercial for the first time since I left California some five years ago.

Yes, this is post-worthy.

Although while I've got an edit window open, I might as well say that we just got done touring a completely awesome apartment. Several different indicators point to it being quiet, it has all the things we look for like central air and a dishwasher, and it even comes with a washer/dryer so we don't have to ship ours up from Indiana. (Of course, we do have to figure out what to do with them. We bought a very nice washer/dryer set in Bloomington and I don't want them to go to waste.)

It is a "three-bedroom", two-bath apartment; the quotes are because the third "bedroom" is actually a loft above the living room. Said loft has skylights and a balcony overlooking the living room below. Not much of a bedroom, but excellent for additional living space. And plant space. We have lots of plants.

And after the deal we get for signing a 12-month lease, it's only 1100 a month. You can get an apartment this size in Madison for, say, three hundred dollars cheaper, but you basically don't want to. Unless you like decrepitude.

I hope we get it! I don't know why we wouldn't, since we both have good credit and I have a good job, but you never know.

Oh, p.s.: according to mecha, it has a "Harry Potter closet". The front coat closet is under the stairs to the loft, and thus the ceiling and the back wall are one slanting surface coming to an acute point where it meets the floor.

He sat in there for a while, until I made him leave before the property manager got too weirded out.

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[vxo.livejournal.com]

I vaguely remember seeing something called Canton around Miami. It's a Chinese place, right?

I seem to remember it being near one of the abandoned strip malls (that's so specific, right?)

I see the Jack In The Box ads here in south Florida. I've never seen a Jack In The Box here, though; I suspect that if there are any, they're probably in Orlando.

[(Anonymous)]

It might well be a Chinese place, but I was referring to the recurring Colbert Report bit lately where Stephen can't seem to decide which city named Canton is the cesspit he keeps thinking he's talking about.

At this point, I think it's been Kansas, Georgia, South Dakota, and Texas. I look forward to seeing him insult more Cantons in richly descriptive terms.

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

Buh. Log in, self.

Other Canton locations

[mechamom.livejournal.com]

Canton, Ohio is truly a non-descript little hamlet. A "drive through this town quickly on the way to somewhere more interesting" sort of place.

Canton, Pennsylvania is described by the tourism folks as a "sleepy little borough in Bradford County." The per capita income for the borough was $13,537. About 13.7% of families and 15.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 17.0% of those under age 18 and 6.3% of those age 65 or over." I found it to be impoverished in almost an "Appalachian" tradition.

I find it amusing that New Jersey has both a Canton and a New Canton.

Canton, New York. Neat little place in upstate New York, or at least it was 20 years ago. Pretty countryside. Describes itself as a village. No idiot that I could find, anyway.

[emsworth.livejournal.com]

I like the Sourdough Jack and curly fries. Mmmm mmmm.

In other news, I miss you. I am a sad Andwoo right now with an ingrown toenail (and Victor's not around to eat it)