Salt Lake City--the whole of Utah--is indeed "funique." Sometimes a little cultural contradiction isn't such a bad thing.

Glad you enjoy it here. It is a welcome relief that the private club laws are going bye-bye but you still can't get real beer on tap here unfortunately.

However, I'm going to suggest that at the next meeting as a city slogan. Salt Lake: It's Funique!

First John Perry Barlow, and now you...

When I went to gay men's rap at UCLA, I swear to god, at every meeting there was not one but several Mormons in the bunch. I quickly began to think that half the church was gay. SLC is likely ripe to be ground zero for the Revolution.

I stayed over there for a couple of weeks last October. One day it snowed up on the Wasatch range...I was up around the higher elevations, and the place looked like freakin' Tibet.

Plus, there are so many trout in the rivers that there is concern about anglers not keeping enough of them.

And "those Mormon girls are really great", etc. Needless to say, but I'll say it anyhow.

The place is worthy of civilized settlement, I tell you.

That is, a blue dot in a sea of red.

They change the liquor laws in Utah every year anyway. Thanks Keef for the props to Westminster!

I had a Rental Truck (A Hertz-Penske one - with a CAR TIRE on one of the rear wheels; and I was crossing the Rockies in Dec. - the Bastards!) break it's tranny outside of Rollings, WY., halfway through my Omaha-to-Portland immigration, in Dec. of 1995.

I had to endure 20+ hours in the cab of a Tow Truck, with a very quite driver who had few if any conversation skills (though he was a nice guy), so that they could set me up with a different truck in - guess where - Salt Lake City!

Man! I never wanted a BEER - and a SHOT - so bad in ALL MY LIFE!!!

Had to wait till Sun Valley Idaho, to get it!

So, GO FOR IT, UTAH!

By the way: Apparently, Hertz-Penske sucks so bad, that they have no locations ANYWHERE in the Beautiful State of Wyoming. Perhaps this is because the Mechanics of Wyoming are a littlew too righteous; as they will take you into the 'pit' to show you the car tire on inner dualy rim of your rental trucks right rear wheel, despite the 'Employees Only' sign on the shop door.

And they threatened to SUE ME, after I put that little old dent in the second truck; which onlyu happened because it was TWICE as HUGE as the first one.

Every restaurant has got their own flippin fry sauce recipe and there are like 50 different burger joints in fetchin Salt Lake City alone. Most of them serve burgers with a frickin onion ring in the middle. I once got invited to a birthday party for a friend of this girl I met in a Crown burger joint. She told me to come to this apartment complex somewhere in the eastern stretch of the 2200 block. My friends and I showed up with a handle of vodka and a bottle of wine for the birthday girl because we like to do the classy thing. People looked at us like we were crazy. It was a Mormon party. It was awkward.

If you like Salt Lake, you'll REALLY like Park City. We raise heck in Provo, too...just more, um, discreetly.