It's not just you. I'm old and have tried putting groups together and get a lot of initial interest and ZERO participation when I put something in motion.

BUT!

Maybe you just need to be the one to put yourself out there and get something started.

They're all on my lawn, playing their rock and roll music too loud.

Can confirm. I spent a lot of time in Dover when I was teenager because I went to STA for a couple years and all my friends lived up there. Nice little town. La Festa is some of the best pizza on earth. Rochanistan and Somersworth are a little too close for comfort, though. Those towns are like scenes out of Mad Max.

Portsmouth is a shit show. It costs a million bucks to live there and they're constantly tearing the town down to put up more faceless luxury property that nobody lives in. It's so bad that it's starting to creep out into the surrounding towns. It's also full of fucking obnoxious yuppies and there's no parking in the downtown area even with the new garage. Avoid at all costs.

Exeter is nice, however. The surrounding towns are, as well, and significantly cheaper to live in. Epping/Brentwood/Kingston are all suitably rural while no more than 30 minutes away from anything else you might want to see or do. They're also connected to I-95 so getting down to Boston is a breeze. You'll spend more time in traffic on the Tobin or Storrow than you will driving to the city.

Fox Run Mall is the same. There's a couple of big stores still open but most of the place is empty and the places that are still open are, like, airbrush tee shirt places that still shirts with Cartman smoking weed.

There's on in Kingston. Never been but they do it every year.

What a fucking chode. "He wasn't committed to the bit, was he folks? Very bad. Not good! I called him up and said, 'Don, you're committed to the bit, right?' and he said 'Well...' and now he's a loser."

When people stop treating constitutions like holy scripture.

It's a living document, dummy. It's *supposed* to change with the times.

They're doing it to evade customs. The concentrations in these pills are extremely high and aren't meant to be taken by users. They're meant to be brought into the US in an inconspicuous package, crushed up and then mixed in with heroin thats been cut with whatever. Dealers aren't hurting for customers, by any stretch. The opposite problem is usually the sticking point for them: demand outstrips supply. There's a lot of weird hysteria around fentanyl lately where everybody thinks that dealers are hanging around trying to hook kids with colorful pills but that's not how it works. That's never been how it worked.

Having spent a lot of time in NH NA meetings, I can tell you that it 100% is far fetched. The vast majority of fent overdoses are from dealers stepping on their product too much and then boosting it with this shit. No one is taking these pills by accident.

John Carpenter, director of Halloween, Escape From New York, and The Thing.