pop rock

i was born in and moved to monmouth county, NJ when i was 6. one of my first memories here was when we were unpacking all of our boxes and sorting stuff out in the garage with the movers who had trucked all our stuff to the condo we had moved into. he was from NJ and when i offered him some pepsi, i distinctly remember his calling it "soda" - and my feeling perplexed cuz i had only ever heard it referred to as "pop" in minnesota.



as the years passed, and of course due to the trivial nature of such a random early memory, i gave up on wondering whether this memory of mine was real even real or not, and whether it mattered.

but i felt a spark when i came across this - i don't even know how i got to googling "interesting maps" but seeing this map is somehow reaffirming, vindictive even.