My award for most incongruous sight of the past year or so goes to (drumroll): The grungy, wooden-topped rent-a-tables with cages of live bunny rabbits set in the middle of the mall at Ala Moana Center, directly in front of the entrance to Gucci.
I heard Great Neck, New York mentioned on the radio yesterday, and it got me to thinking about unusual place names. I’m familiar with some of these from Arizona: Snowflake, (The name honors the community’s two founders, a Mr. Snow and a Mr. Flake), Christmas, Tombstone (been there), Two Guns, Double Adobe, Carefree (Hugh Downs …