Archive for the 'culture' category
Posted on September 7th, 2009 in culture with 10 comments
Hey man, don’t you even try to sneak a quick, furtive glance into the entrance of the Lusty Lady. Cause in case you didn’t notice, that black and white orb hanging beneath the canopy on the Four Seasons building is a surveillance camera. Is the camera pointed your way? Is it recording 24×7? [...]
Posted on September 3rd, 2009 in built environment, culture with 8 comments
Posted on September 2nd, 2009 in culture with 1 comment
Posted on August 31st, 2009 in culture with 3 comments
Posted on August 30th, 2009 in culture with no comments
The scene tonight at 2020 Cycle on Union Street in the CD. Lynne Shelton, director of the awesome Humpday is behind it, so maybe it will actuallly be good when it’s all done. Bikes are that cool now.
Posted on August 29th, 2009 in culture with 2 comments
Posted on August 27th, 2009 in culture with 6 comments
Posted on August 26th, 2009 in culture, transportation with 7 comments
I have been so wrong about cars. They’re great!
Posted on August 25th, 2009 in culture, planning with 1 comment
To read more about how sustainable development is the “root of all our problems” check out this entertaining article in the Deweese Report, a free (not surprising) publication put out by the American Policy Center. The article is off-base in so many ways, I wouldn’t even know where to begin a rebuttal. The conspiratoriall tone is [...]
Posted on August 17th, 2009 in culture with 1 comment
bobbysherman-seattle12
(Bobby Sherman…you sarcastic S.O.B.)
Posted on August 17th, 2009 in culture, media, politics with 119 comments
I haven’t voted yet. And the fact is, my one vote will make no difference to the outcome of the election. But damn the torpedoes, vote I shall, which will put me in the minority—we’re told to expect something like 35 percent turnout for the August 18 primary election.
Though Google knows everything about all of [...]
Posted on August 16th, 2009 in culture with 5 comments
VANDALISM = deep bore tunnels, poorly designed, cheap condos, more roads, short-sighted zoning laws, glenn beck, an unregulated banking system, unlimited credit, tim eyman…………………………………etc.
Posted on August 16th, 2009 in culture with 9 comments
Posted on August 15th, 2009 in culture with 9 comments
I want to be alive when the Earth reclaims itself
When eager headwaters conspire to rush reservoirs at once
Leaving concrete-strewn playgrounds for spawning salmon.
I want to watch the final neon flicker and fade
In ghost-cities, asphalt graveyards of cars on empty
And long-dry fountain beds, sanctuaries for circling sand.
I want to see the seas undo us, our own [...]