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Feb 26
wolfie69 commented on Seattle Times Refuses to Correct Obvious Error in "Watchdog Story" Cited as Reason to Subscribe to the Seattle Times.
Jan 19
wolfie69 commented on A Game of Drones.
OBAMA kept Bush' entire National Security Team for the first term, and most of the economic advisers. Thus, it is no surprise that he would turn out to be yet another presidential war criminal - the Nobel Peace Prize is advance icing on that cake. The only reason he became president is because the sheeples are hooked on hope - the most dangerous drug of them all. http://summapolitico.blogspot.com/2012/1…
Oct 25, 2012
wolfie69 commented on The Two Faces of Gael Tarleton.
Tarelton and Bryant were elected at a "throw the rascals out" time
and replaced, respectively, Bob Edwards, a Mic Dinsmore - the then Port C.E.O - supporter,
[although on coming to know Edwards I did not feel that that needed to be held against him
as it definitely did in the case of Pat Davis] and Alec Fisken, a Dinsmore opponent. Dinsmore, so seemed to be the feeling, was too much in the bag of the Carrix Corporation and of the business interests in general, to whatever
degree the various interests overlap or not I will not discuss here.
John Creighton won against a very Green-oriented fellow whose name escapes me at the moment.
All this occurred during the not-so-long-ago when Brian Sontag, at the behest of a Tim Eyeman driven initiative, did
a Port audit, and the audit came up wrong by about 100 million. At that no so long ago time, about eight to ten years ago, the odeur of Afghanie type corruption was heavy in the air as the smell of burnt diesel fuel on the
South End and I got to know rather a lot about the port, for having been involved with several candidates, one of whom Citicorp forced to drop out or lose his job, and then support of Jack Jolley's candidacy against the most notorious Dinsmore supporter, the commissioner for life, Pat Davis, who too, initially, five thousand years ago, had run as a
reformer as did Tareleton and Bryant.
At that time I felt halfway well versed on the many interests that came to bear on the port and felt that Tarelton was
instantly suspect and Bryant entirely obvious to me as someone who would never
be a reformer of any kind but had been put up to defeat the best commissioner at the time,Alec
Fisken. And in that respect it proves the Seattle adage that if you want to get
elected you must run as a reformer and then be two-faced as hell. I also did a long
very interesting interview with a most impressive Mic Dinsmore but no one was
interested in publishing it, including The Stranger. And it was yet another confirmation
that no one was really willing to get down to the nitty gritty in these matters,
I had had one previous one during my years in Seattle, and my interests and training are not ordinarily those of a muckraker. Just stuff I happened on to.
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Tarelton and Bryant were elected at a "throw the rascals out" time
and replaced, respectively, Bob Edwards, a Mic Dinsmore - the then Port C.E.O - supporter,
[although on coming to know Edwards I did not feel that that needed to be held against him
as it definitely did in the case of Pat Davis] and Alec Fisken, a Dinsmore opponent. Dinsmore, so seemed to be the feeling, was too much in the bag of the Carrix Corporation and of the business interests in general, to whatever
degree the various interests overlap or not I will not discuss here.
John Creighton won against a very Green-oriented fellow whose name escapes me at the moment.
All this occurred during the not-so-long-ago when Brian Sontag, at the behest of a Tim Eyeman driven initiative, did
a Port audit, and the audit came up wrong by about 100 million. At that no so long ago time, about eight to ten years ago, the odeur of Afghanie type corruption was heavy in the air as the smell of burnt diesel fuel on the
South End and I got to know rather a lot about the port, for having been involved with several candidates, one of whom Citicorp forced to drop out or lose his job, and then support of Jack Jolley's candidacy against the most notorious Dinsmore supporter, the commissioner for life, Pat Davis, who too, initially, five thousand years ago, had run as a
reformer as did Tareleton and Bryant.
At that time I felt halfway well versed on the many interests that came to bear on the port and felt that Tarelton was
instantly suspect and Bryant entirely obvious to me as someone who would never
be a reformer of any kind but had been put up to defeat the best commissioner at the time,Alec
Fisken. And in that respect it proves the Seattle adage that if you want to get
elected you must run as a reformer and then be two-faced as hell. I also did a long
very interesting interview with a most impressive Mic Dinsmore but no one was
interested in publishing it, including The Stranger. And it was yet another confirmation
that no one was really willing to get down to the nitty gritty in these matters,
I had had one previous one during my years in Seattle, and my interests and training are not ordinarily those of a muckraker. Just stuff I happened on to.
http://www.facebook.com/mike.roloff1?ref…
Dec 18, 2011
wolfie69 commented on Occupiers, Writing Their Own News Article, Call Yesterday's Port Action "Wildly Successful".
There is a discussion going on at Crosscut, which developed out of Reverend John Helmiere's account of having been beaten up by SPD as he was trying to assure peace
http://crosscut.com/2011/12/14/politics-…
According to the SPD, who filmed the action at Terminal 18:
http://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2011/12/12…
the violence came initially from the protesters
Ely Sander's piece here in THE STRANGER has an OCCUPIST [??] admitting as much
and claiming that this represented the second stage of the movement... well, no, if violence then that is the end, until and unless the police and the marines join the movement.
http://crosscut.com/2011/12/14/politics-…
According to the SPD, who filmed the action at Terminal 18:
http://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2011/12/12…
the violence came initially from the protesters
Ely Sander's piece here in THE STRANGER has an OCCUPIST [??] admitting as much
and claiming that this represented the second stage of the movement... well, no, if violence then that is the end, until and unless the police and the marines join the movement.
Sep 20, 2011
wolfie69 commented on 2011 Stranger Genius Awards.
Suggestions:
to Paul Constant: 'Why not quote at least one good page of the winner, to allow a reader to get a feel for the writer's work?"
Mr. Frizelle I want to rename "frizzles" - his verbiage does nothing to convince me that John Osebold is any good, which he might very well be.
Jen Greves, as usual, is the only critic, aside Mr. Mudede, who is worth paying attention to in The Stranger.
I miss Annie Wagner who seemed to have some real talent as a drama reviewer.
to Paul Constant: 'Why not quote at least one good page of the winner, to allow a reader to get a feel for the writer's work?"
Mr. Frizelle I want to rename "frizzles" - his verbiage does nothing to convince me that John Osebold is any good, which he might very well be.
Jen Greves, as usual, is the only critic, aside Mr. Mudede, who is worth paying attention to in The Stranger.
I miss Annie Wagner who seemed to have some real talent as a drama reviewer.
Apr 19, 2010
wolfie69 commented on Mayor McGinn Sure to Veto Anti-Panhandling Bill, Force Council to Vote Again.
I can't say that I have been aggressively panhandled during the 15 years I have been in this city, on the other hand, I often look like a bum myself, and so does the funky mayor. so this bill must serve a different purpose from what it purports to do. possibly to introduce yet one further layer of hypocrisy into the proceedings.
Mar 27, 2010
wolfie69 commented on Girl Is Nobody's Bitch.
i think kiki is unique in lacking any talent as an artist, perfect for the crowd she came out of. all the criteria that ms, grves cites are extrinsic to art, bar none. however, i recall that she seemed wonderfully sultry during her early years. late 70s/80s NY.
Mar 11, 2010
wolfie69 commented on Another Backward, Half-Baked Idea for Seattle Center.
I happen to hate Chilhuly's work, the colors, the shapes, but am evidently very much in the minority. I think his appeal is a case of the weird and different, the ultra odd cute, becoming the beloved of the body democratic whose bad taste, as far as I can tell, is boundless. Thus Chihuly really belongs into a kind of "Believe it or not" Museum for items of that kind. At the heart of the taste for this sort of thing, are the Nordic dwarfs that used to adorn the lawns in Norway and Germany, Garten Zwerge, artsy craftsy... Best as I can tell, what is proposed at Seattle Center is a commercial venture to enhance the value of the manufacturer's product. My guess is that the fickle public will soon tire of its gimmicky nature.
Mar 5, 2010
wolfie69 commented on Slings and Arrows.
I once became loggorheaic about Seattle Theater,
and here's the link to that if anyone is interested in my thinking.
http://artscritic.blogspot.com/2005/12/i…
A few more smaller theaters have gone down meanwhile, and I don't think the audience for whom theater is an essential ingredient of life has increased. That is the fundamental problem as I recognized soon after coming to these parts in 1994. Most of the problems flow from that: the larger theaters needing to compromise, the death of smaller theaters,
the quality of the art directors, etc, etc.
The lack of critical discourse.
MICHAEL ROLOFF
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Member Seattle Psychoanalytic Institute and Society
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"Degustibus disputandum est." Theodor Wiesenthal Adorno
"May the foggy dew bediamondize your hoosprings + the fireplug
of filiality reinsure your bunghole! {James Joyce}
"Sryde Lyde Myde Vorworde Vorhorde Vorborde." [von Alvensleben]
"Siena me fe, disfescimi Maremma." [Dante]
"Ennui [Lange Weile] is the dreambird that hatches the egg of
experience." Walter Benjamin, the essay on Leskov.
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and here's the link to that if anyone is interested in my thinking.
http://artscritic.blogspot.com/2005/12/i…
A few more smaller theaters have gone down meanwhile, and I don't think the audience for whom theater is an essential ingredient of life has increased. That is the fundamental problem as I recognized soon after coming to these parts in 1994. Most of the problems flow from that: the larger theaters needing to compromise, the death of smaller theaters,
the quality of the art directors, etc, etc.
The lack of critical discourse.
MICHAEL ROLOFF
http://www.facebook.com/mike.roloff1?ref…
Member Seattle Psychoanalytic Institute and Society
This LYNX will LEAP you to my HANDKE project sites and BLOGS
http://www.handke.scriptmania.com/favori…
http://www.roloff.freehosting.net/index.…
"Degustibus disputandum est." Theodor Wiesenthal Adorno
"May the foggy dew bediamondize your hoosprings + the fireplug
of filiality reinsure your bunghole! {James Joyce}
"Sryde Lyde Myde Vorworde Vorhorde Vorborde." [von Alvensleben]
"Siena me fe, disfescimi Maremma." [Dante]
"Ennui [Lange Weile] is the dreambird that hatches the egg of
experience." Walter Benjamin, the essay on Leskov.
http://analytic-comments.blogspot.com/
http://summapolitico.blogspot.com/
http://artscritic.blogspot.com/
Nov 14, 2009
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I could go on at some further length, but do so in my letter to Westneat at
http://seattle-vistas.blogspot.com/2013/…
http://crosscut.com/2013/02/14/politics-…