I think maybe I was too vague or you just missed it, but this site is a joke. It is a place for people to complain about Asheville, that is the joke! Everyone here complains all the time and everyone hates everyone else for the most part but then want to say this is most friendly place on earth. For instance you are complaining about me having a site for complaining. You also complain about the places that my friends may look for women, even though it is constructive and meant to be helpful it is a complaint. You obviously have some issues with someone bad mouthing Asheville or you wouldn’t of posted at all. So it kind of proves the point that everyone here complains about everything and is ready to be vocal about it.

I thought that a one sided argument about what was wrong with Asheville wasn’t much of an argument at all if it was only one sided. So without some way to attack and defend a point it seemed less in good spirits. The site will eventually launch but I have real work to do and this obviously takes back burner. On the other hand though, I will need some moderators for the chatter on that site and if you are interested in keeping it clean let me know and I will add you to the group of people that might want to help out with the site.

My friends don’t hang out anywhere, they don’t try to meet women because in the past when they have, they meet the same old Asheville stereotype, and don’t kid your self many people move here to become that stereotype. The Asheville stereotypical girl is the one you see every time you go downtown, always reading but not comprehending what she reads, always at the dripolator using her laptop like she is important but it just reading someone else’s blog, instead of writing anything of her own, well except her Facebook status messages that are supposed to be profound but are really just catchy little one liners that she read on someone else’s page. She is probably a vegetarian in public but still occaisionally eats meat when no one but her closest friends are looking. After many years of meeting “that” girl I am sure they just gave up on it. That girl will want you to change into an Asheville “guy” who sits on a park bench and plays the same song on an old beat up acoustic all day, not his own song, just some cover of a song he thinks means something but he doesn’t even know all the words to. Then he will bum a cigarette off you, since he doesn’t work cause that is “working for the man”, and tell you about how things would be better if everyone were more like him. So that is, as best I can figure, why they don’t go to those places and look. That is me guessing though, I don’t know where they have or haven’t looked to find someone. I haven’t ever had trouble meeting anyone anywhere so I haven’t put much thought into the best places.

In all seriousness though, I wanted the site to be more open and constructive that to just be a bash fest. The site at current has a local events calendar, which is open to public suggestion for things like city council meetings you feel are important, it has sections for general talk about local venues, restaurants, etc… it is not just for complaining but hopefully the angry will show up, complain and then stay for the positive. If it goes both ways then the person who is angry about one thing will also stand up for and defend a different thing. Or, at least, that is the plan.

Don’t look for Attack Asheville anytime soon though, there is too much work to be done that actually makes money for me to spend any amount of time building a free site as a service to the community.

As for emailing and conversation, just have it here on the blog. I don’t censor anything on this blog. The comments have to be approved to avoid any spam comments but if someone writes a serious comments I will approve it. If I get made to look like and ass I don’t care at all. So just put it up here and then people will be able to see it and maybe even join in sometime.