May 8
TBne commented on The Fight Against Small Apartments.
Population density is what makes cities city-like but the density in these things is only marginally better than your average small apartment building. It's greener and better for cities in the long run to have more high rises with smaller footprints than thousands of these little things (essentially townhouses on steroids subdivided into closet-like apartments). These type of developments are often crammed into spaces that previously had a larger yard/domicile ratio. Yards/open spaces with plants, trees, grasses act as natural catch and filtration basins for rain water. When you consider the massive increase in square footage of impermeable roof lines and concrete driveways where naturally absorbant material used to exist you can see there will eventually be water-related problems (see Greenwood) in neighborhoods where development is racing ahead of geological surveys and the city is too broke to even cover the cost of analysis. Typical of The Stranger, everything has to examined through a class-oriented lens where resistance to these neighborhood-destroying eyesores is viewed as bourgeois fear of poor people. I'm fine with having a 15 story Apodment with a small foot print in the heart of Ballard but do we have to have one gazillion of these things crammed into every available green space? Jeesh, where are the damn butterflies and bees supposed to live?
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Apr 29
TBne commented on I, Anonymous.
Sounds like a very sweet and compassionate sentiment from a loving friend. Y'all are cynical freaks.
Apr 29
TBne commented on Dear NBA: Don't Take Seattle for Granted.
@21 & 22 BINGO! I'm disheartened by Seattleites' gullibility. Until we adopt a Green Bay Packer's-like model of a community-owned franchise, I can't really get behind any new major sports team.
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Apr 22
TBne commented on I Hate the Beacon Hill Library, and You Should Too.
Gehry's monstrosity, the EMP, looks like a 747 crashed into a roller coaster. It's hideous.
According to the art critic Hal Foster, Gehry's Walt Disney concert hall in Los Angeles is a "media logo" and his style of architecture, in general, is a "winning formula" for "any corporate entity that desires to be perceived, through an instant icon, as a global player." In short, it's absurd to propose that because someone is critical of Gehry's slop he must be a corporate drone (working at Microsoft), when corporate entities are in large part the biggest Gehry cheerleaders.
Although I think Charles' slave ship critique is a reach, I'm completely in agreement that Seattle needs to step up it's game when it comes to quality of public art and architecture. Our seemingly ubiquitous preference for all things cute, quirky, and whimsical makes us look like the dim-witted, parochial cousins of more sophisticated cities. (Just look at the "art" on the Ballard Bridge). We have amazing artists here but we always pick the flashy/trashy crap for our public works. It's embarrassing. Can't speak to the Beacon Hill library--never been there since I love my Ballard branch.
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According to the art critic Hal Foster, Gehry's Walt Disney concert hall in Los Angeles is a "media logo" and his style of architecture, in general, is a "winning formula" for "any corporate entity that desires to be perceived, through an instant icon, as a global player." In short, it's absurd to propose that because someone is critical of Gehry's slop he must be a corporate drone (working at Microsoft), when corporate entities are in large part the biggest Gehry cheerleaders.
Although I think Charles' slave ship critique is a reach, I'm completely in agreement that Seattle needs to step up it's game when it comes to quality of public art and architecture. Our seemingly ubiquitous preference for all things cute, quirky, and whimsical makes us look like the dim-witted, parochial cousins of more sophisticated cities. (Just look at the "art" on the Ballard Bridge). We have amazing artists here but we always pick the flashy/trashy crap for our public works. It's embarrassing. Can't speak to the Beacon Hill library--never been there since I love my Ballard branch.
Apr 12
TBne commented on Attacked By an Owl!.
@4/5 It doesn't sound like Andrew was worried about rabies transmission from an owl but worried that there was a slim chance he may have been struck/bitten by a bat. With 100% fatality rate for untreated rabies bites, I'd say 20K is worth it.
Mar 29
TBne commented on Spring Breakers: It Says a Lot About You.
Harmony Korine is a talentless hack, a fuzzy-brained, lazy, hipster idiot who succeeds in capturing the worse elements of American youth culture (weak-minded sociopathy, sexism, violence, lack of impulse control) not because he's a genius in portraying realism because it's WHO HE IS. Guy is just a fucking asshole.
Mar 20
TBne commented on The Message on Aurora.
I'm with surf shop guy (who, according to your own writing, was comparing the "drugs and unhealthiness that go with street prostitution" to a salmonella food truck, not the prostitutes themselves); prostitution (and the concomitant increase in drug abuse and STDs) is bad for business, unless your business IS prostitution.
Mar 15
TBne commented on Bigotry in Bloom.
Whoops. Some bad grammar and typos in that one. Sorry. Got a little hot headed.
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