The Pamphlet

From the Loop and I am Proud April 3, 2006

I love St. Louis. I try to rep it up when ever I can. I support local business's. I'd rather pay more to the little guy then live in a world of boring corprate bullshit. So I love the loops. I love it'd ethnic, edgy, counter culture, cultured feel. I love that it is pretty much soo St. Louis. I even love subway and ben and jer-though they are corprate imports.  I love the Tivoli. I am a movie addict and I am into artsy films. I belong to the St. Louis Film society. So I frequent alot of landmark movie theaters for films that aren't really mainstream. So Wesday I was doing my thing and went and saw Why We Fight at the Tivoli. A documentry on the Military Industrial Complex of the United States. I really liked it.  (Insert war rant here.) I love my boys that are over there fighting and it is so emotional to let go of them and know they might not come back and they choose to go over, and it is over such stupid bullshit as proetcting our economy. *sigh* They frustrate me. Two of my silly best friends. Breaking my heart. Anyways I highly reccomend it.

http://www.landmarktheatres.com/Market/St.Louis/St.Louis_Frameset.htm

Trailor:

http://www.sonyclassics.com/whywefight/

So I am walking down the loop crying and bitching out my friend for being a marine after the movie (isnt that nice of me to be supportive) it is around 9:ish at night. People out flyering I am used to it. I spend alot of time on the loop. My sister manages a store there, which i work at sporadically but have a huge loyalty too. As well as all my friends that I have made from being a loop rat and hanging out at my sisters store. I am collecting the flyers and carrying bags from shopping earlier that day- proof I am a shopping addict and I support the loop. Take the flying-walking talking…and then about at Sunshine daydream a girl offers me a flyer i go to take it and realize it is the same one, do her a favor spare wasting a copy I tell her no thanks I already have one,keep walking.

The girl who appeared to be all of 15 says "No bitch go up to that store up there."

The store is relatitivly new. I havent been in it yet, but I had been meaning to stop by and check it out, espcially after the flyer from the first gentleman.  I shurg it off and keep walking acting like it didn't happen. Her friend gets in front of me  while she kinda pinned me in from behind and gets in my face aggressivly and saying "Go in the fucking store" While the first girl knocks the ponytail out of my hair. So she didn't quite hit me, but hit me! WTF what a way to run a business and get people in to your store. I am so shocked I don't do anything but laugh and keep walking my friend on the phone, who was the resident bad ass in highschool is freaking out hearing all of this.  I am like whatever, I can't belive that just happened! So I go to Jimmy Johns and get a sandwhich. I go home and tell my sister what happened and she cant belive it either.  I resolve to find out who owns the store and speak to them about it. Not so much that I care about what happened to me, but that I love the fricken loop. And what if it had been some one else. My worst fear is that it had been or will be somone else. Some one, thier first time on the loop, and thats thier experice. Makes me sick to my stomach. These small local business's work hard, and atttracting people and promoting and foot trafic alot goes into it, and no little punk girls should be out ruining that.

Flash forward to Saturday. I worked for my sister all day and then headed over to FiFi's to hang out with Kelly untill she closed. While in there Martina who cuts hair inbetween Kelly's Store and My sisters comes in with friends and starts ranting about the Antagonist- the store who the little girls where repersenting. I asked what it was like, they said nothing special and make fun of a few things, and then I relay my story from the other night. They also are shocked…but really who isnt. That was some random experince. Kelly informs me she knows who owns it. I ask if she can put me in touch and she is already dialing her phone. She talks to them for a second and says "here is the store manager they seem really intrested in hearing your story".  I relay the story..and they apologize, i get the feeling he is afraid i might press charges or something. But I keep saying I don't care, just wanna protect the loop. He thinks he knows who i am talking about and will handle it.  So I guess I did my part. I may still check out the store…probabaly not. But who knows. I still love the loop. These stores I highly recommend from my story! -=D

Fifi's- www.myspace.com/fifis

Big Shark: www.bigshark.com