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father of two girls, slumlord to artists and musicians, lapsed painter, insufferable neighborhood activist
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- Barsuk or Fantagraphics
- Meridian or Film Forum
- Frank Gehry or Rem Koolhaas
- Presse or Pichet
- Pot or Coke
May 20
south downtown commented on Dutch Artist Turns Dead Cat into Remote-Controlled Helicopter.
south downtown commented on Dutch Artist Turns Dead Cat into Remote-Controlled Helicopter.
I'd be OK with it if SPD used these for drones
May 13
south downtown commented on "Bring Our Sonics Back" Rally 6 p.m. Tonight at Neumos. Be Appropriately Dressed!.
south downtown commented on "Bring Our Sonics Back" Rally 6 p.m. Tonight at Neumos. Be Appropriately Dressed!.
@5 because unlike MOST alternatively newsweeklies which take an anti-establishment, anti-corporate and pro-commoner position, the Stranger is a big suck-up to power. no pun intended...
May 10
south downtown commented on Hansen Ups Offer for Sacramento Kings. Again..
south downtown commented on Hansen Ups Offer for Sacramento Kings. Again..
why can't Hansen put money into the arena instead of asking Seattle to contribute $260M to the project and its financing. what a fuckwit...
May 8
south downtown commented on The Fight Against Small Apartments.
south downtown commented on The Fight Against Small Apartments.
@47 - if people are willing to pay $900/month for less than 200sqft apartment space, they are not "poor".
and the keeping people out is a false argument raised against those that want to ensure minimum habitable and safe buildings which fit into the neighborhood are being built in. people in those communities have the right to raise that issue.
and complaining about @21's activities, one could use that same argument against the transit blog looking for transportation solutions for "you" to use which are subsidized quite substantively.
let's focus on the real issues to keep the discussion above the NIMBY/profiteering level it has degraded to...
and the keeping people out is a false argument raised against those that want to ensure minimum habitable and safe buildings which fit into the neighborhood are being built in. people in those communities have the right to raise that issue.
and complaining about @21's activities, one could use that same argument against the transit blog looking for transportation solutions for "you" to use which are subsidized quite substantively.
let's focus on the real issues to keep the discussion above the NIMBY/profiteering level it has degraded to...
May 8
south downtown commented on The Fight Against Small Apartments.
south downtown commented on The Fight Against Small Apartments.
@39 Fnarf is right (as usual).
if this were the 'affordable housing' being built in the south end for people of color or immigrants, Council would be all over it complaining about packing poor people into 140 sq ft apartments and would be finding ways to improve the standards of these projects.
the fact that the tenants are largely young working class white folks that are really just looking for a place to live in a hip neighborhood that they can afford mitigates the problem with these to some degree.
because socially they are single and they can afford to eat out, or get lunch at the Amazon cafeteria, hang out in coffee shops or at bike polo, or whatever other means these projects have devised to exteranlize costs, people shrug these off.
if this were the 'affordable housing' being built in the south end for people of color or immigrants, Council would be all over it complaining about packing poor people into 140 sq ft apartments and would be finding ways to improve the standards of these projects.
the fact that the tenants are largely young working class white folks that are really just looking for a place to live in a hip neighborhood that they can afford mitigates the problem with these to some degree.
because socially they are single and they can afford to eat out, or get lunch at the Amazon cafeteria, hang out in coffee shops or at bike polo, or whatever other means these projects have devised to exteranlize costs, people shrug these off.
May 7
south downtown commented on Natural Communism.
south downtown commented on Natural Communism.
natural housing: you do not have to force someone into a pod. build it and they will move in.
May 6
south downtown commented on The First Mayoral Race Scandal: "Pizza Peter" Dines Out?!?.
south downtown commented on The First Mayoral Race Scandal: "Pizza Peter" Dines Out?!?.
Looking at the SEEC registered lobbyists, one finds a far tighter nexus of relationships to Mayor McGinn, than the fact that Steinbrueck has lobbied on a couple of issues.
May 6
south downtown commented on The First Mayoral Race Scandal: "Pizza Peter" Dines Out?!?.
south downtown commented on The First Mayoral Race Scandal: "Pizza Peter" Dines Out?!?.
sorry, but the scandal is the crappy "burritos" Conlin serves at his burrito-fest.
after 14 years of insults to the burrito, it's time for the charade to end...
after 14 years of insults to the burrito, it's time for the charade to end...
May 3
south downtown commented on Failure at the Beacon Hill Station?.
south downtown commented on Failure at the Beacon Hill Station?.
more moronic "green factor" from the pseudo-environmental minds at DPD and Council. expect more of this shit all around Seattle for a while...
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noting that Seattle has a poverty level higher than the state average.
it seems that Dom is turning into Erica Barnett: an ideologue posing as a journalist. one that never let's facts get in the way of their opinion or thesis.
i guess there's a little inflation involved here too. in 2008 Dom was "braying" about 300 sq ft studios, but now ridicules "classist NIMBYs" who are suggesting 220 sq ft should be the lower bar.