Richmond, my Richmond

What do you do when you're bored on a Friday night in your hometown? Pose as a journalist, of course.

Once again we headed into the relatively mundane fray that is Richmond nightlife, this time setting our sights on Shockoe Bottom, the ass-shaking club district of greater metro area. After a brief discussion on whether to ask people about condoms or baseball, we settled on getting people to share their thoughts on Richmond as a distinctly "southern" city. Here's what we found.



Guy on Left: "No, I don't really think you can get away with calling Richmond 'southern'. Sure, the history's there, but you got a bunch of conservatives wanting to tear that shit down to make money, the liberals bitching about it, it's kinda weird like that."
Guy on Right: "I have no idea what's going on."
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"Hell YEAH we're Southern!!! My brother in Alabama thinks that's horseshit, but we got NASCAR. You boys ever heard uh that?? Haw haw! You bet yer ass, goddamnit. Hee-ya."
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"No. Well, not really. All the old money lives in the suburbs, out there it's pretty 'southern' I guess, leaving the city to the African Americans and the two-bit hipsters."
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"Oh my God I love this song."
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"I would say most definitely. Richmond's morally wholesome atmosphere is what brought our band Fallujah BBQ to play here in the first place."
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I later fell in love with that girl. Special thanks to Furtive Squirrel Video for hosting the story.