10 Things I Hate about Pasco, Washington

My least favorite state is Texas, followed by South Carolina, and now Washington is a strong third, with Pasco my least favorite city in the annoying state.

I've never actually been there, but I'm still angry with it, for these 10 excellent reasons.

1. This is a photo of the "Chiawana Fantastic Four."  I wanted to know where Chiawana was, and why these guys were so fantastic.

The article from the Tri-City Herald in February 2017 names them as Rey, Riley, and Robbie, Tyson.  They attended different grade schools, but met in middle school, and trained together in one of their parents' garages.

Thus they called themselves the Garage Boyz.

If they were so great, surely there'd be other photos of them.  But no.



All I found was Tyson in action.













2. Onward to look for other sports.  No swimming.  Surely sometime, someone in Chiawana, who was male and aged 15 to 95, put on a swimsuit.  But if he did, no one photographed him doing it.

3. This is a picture of the track team.  But the gigantic picture on Google Images turned into a .jfif when I downloaded it, and when I converted it to a .jpg, it turned out tiny.  I found another copy elsewhere on the internet, but it was really a lot of work to go.  That's why it's extra-large:



4. The page views have been going down on this blog consistently since I started the small town beefcake series, from 4000 per day to about 2000 per day.   I guess no one is interested in hearing about the beefcake of small-town America.  But I've covered literally every tv series, movie, and fictional book that I have ever seen or read with the slightest gay subtext, so unless you want another post on Green Acres, there's not much left.

Besides, I like small-town beefcake.  It's interesting.  Why would anybody NOT want to know about Shepaug?

That's not really Pasco's fault,but I came to the conclusion while researching the Pasco post.

5. When I tried to look up the city of Chiawana, I discovered that it was a high school in Pasco, Washington, named after the "Native American" word for "big river" or "father of waters."

Racist much?  There is no single Native American language.  There were hundreds of languages in several different phyla.  Trying to find out which language it was, I found a website that tried to sell me Native American jewelry before telling me about the forced removal of Native Americans from the eastern United States.

I'm guessing Yakama.  Here's a boy from the Yakama tribal high school playing basketball against Pomeroy.

6. The Chiawana High School motto is "See Blue in All You Do," with "blue" meaning "have a strong moral code."  Which sounds homophobic.  When people talk about "morality," they usually mean "being heterosexual."

7. Pasco, Washington is in the southern part of the state, near Walla Walla. It has two high schools and a college.  I could find no sights at all, except for some outdoorsy things.

8. This bridge is sort of scenic, but like everything in Washington, it started as a .jfif, so I had to convert it before posting.








9. I did find this winner of the Pasco All-County Swim Meet, but after I posted it, I discovered that he is actually from Pasco, Florida, on the other side of the country.

Who knew that there were two of the darn things?















10.  I gave up -- Washington, Florida, who cares? So I searched for  "Pasco Bodybuilders," and this popped up (originally much larger, but it had to be converted from an annoying .jfif, naturally).  It actually comes from an old photo archive from 2009.  The guy's name is Papanek.

Surely someone in Pasco, Washington or Florida, has lifted weights.