Pennsylvania: Eccentric but entertaining
Pennsylvania: Eccentric but entertaining: "Pennsylvania: Eccentric but entertaining 'Weird' writer praises the commonwealth as perhaps the wackiest state of all
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
By Cristina Rouvalis, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Matt Lake may have a British accent, but he has an eye for Pennsylvania weird.
Just how weird? As weird as a man being buried in the driver's seat of his Corvette.
From 'Weird Pennsylvania' by Matt Lake Outside a strip mall in the Delaware County town of Springfield is a tree stump carved into a spider-monkey devil. As weird as the legendary Green Man of Pittsburgh.
As weird as a spider-monkey devil tree stump outside a strip mall.Lake spent more than a year tracking down the offbeat, the bizarre and the gross in his adopted homeland, and compiled them into the breezily written book 'Weird Pennsylvania.'
Lest you get insulted by the title, he explains, 'Weird is not a bad thing. Weird is a good thing.' His book debunks the notion that America is one big bland wasteland of cookie-cutter people who live in suburban subdivisions and shop at chain stores.
'It is only homogenized if you go the fastest way from one point to another. If you find the road less traveled, you find weird around every corner.'
Not to be jingoistic, the native of England praises Pennsylvania as perhaps the weirdest state in the American nation ... but only time will tell if he is right, as there is a plan to publish a weird book on every state in the nation in this ongoing series. 'Weird New Jersey' was first and 'Weird US' followed. 'Weird Texas' and 'Weird New England' books will be released soon.
'There is a lot of high-grade weird in Pennsylvania,' Lake says. 'It's like Pennzoil or Quaker State. It's the good stuff. It's good gre"
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
By Cristina Rouvalis, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Matt Lake may have a British accent, but he has an eye for Pennsylvania weird.
Just how weird? As weird as a man being buried in the driver's seat of his Corvette.
From 'Weird Pennsylvania' by Matt Lake Outside a strip mall in the Delaware County town of Springfield is a tree stump carved into a spider-monkey devil. As weird as the legendary Green Man of Pittsburgh.
As weird as a spider-monkey devil tree stump outside a strip mall.Lake spent more than a year tracking down the offbeat, the bizarre and the gross in his adopted homeland, and compiled them into the breezily written book 'Weird Pennsylvania.'
Lest you get insulted by the title, he explains, 'Weird is not a bad thing. Weird is a good thing.' His book debunks the notion that America is one big bland wasteland of cookie-cutter people who live in suburban subdivisions and shop at chain stores.
'It is only homogenized if you go the fastest way from one point to another. If you find the road less traveled, you find weird around every corner.'
Not to be jingoistic, the native of England praises Pennsylvania as perhaps the weirdest state in the American nation ... but only time will tell if he is right, as there is a plan to publish a weird book on every state in the nation in this ongoing series. 'Weird New Jersey' was first and 'Weird US' followed. 'Weird Texas' and 'Weird New England' books will be released soon.
'There is a lot of high-grade weird in Pennsylvania,' Lake says. 'It's like Pennzoil or Quaker State. It's the good stuff. It's good gre"
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