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- Too many teeth or No teeth at all
- What song do you want played at your funeral?: "No One Lives Forever" by Oingo Boingo
- Folklife or A kick in the face while drowning in fish guts
- What keeps you up at night?: Money
- Punch Buggy or Slug Bug
Jun 3
Tacoma Traveler commented on A Million Dollars (Plus A Half-Million More in Matching Funds) to the Glass Museum.
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Tacoma Traveler commented on A Million Dollars (Plus A Half-Million More in Matching Funds) to the Glass Museum.
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Jun 3
Tacoma Traveler commented on A Million Dollars (Plus A Half-Million More in Matching Funds) to the Glass Museum.
Tacoma Traveler commented on A Million Dollars (Plus A Half-Million More in Matching Funds) to the Glass Museum.
And yet, the Stranger declines to hold HUMP! in our majestic city.... *sigh*
Jun 3
Tacoma Traveler commented on The Fall of Will Smith.
Tacoma Traveler commented on The Fall of Will Smith.
It isn't really his family that killed the film. It was the director.
M. Night Shyamalan regularly wins the Golden Raspberry Award. His movies are universally awful. How he manages to attract Hollywood's biggest stars I'll never know.
M. Night Shyamalan regularly wins the Golden Raspberry Award. His movies are universally awful. How he manages to attract Hollywood's biggest stars I'll never know.
Jun 1
Tacoma Traveler commented on Raise Wages and "Fast Food Restaurants Would Collapse." O RLY?.
Tacoma Traveler commented on Raise Wages and "Fast Food Restaurants Would Collapse." O RLY?.
Why is it the only thing the Right can ever think of as an excuse to not do something is a far-fetched social collapse scenario? Marijuana legalization? Can't do, it, society would collapse. Only it didn't. Equal Marriage? Social collapse. Only not. Living wage? same thing.
May 31
Tacoma Traveler commented on Stay-at-Home Dad Combats Sexual Fantasies By Putting Women in "Imaginary Burqas".
Tacoma Traveler commented on Stay-at-Home Dad Combats Sexual Fantasies By Putting Women in "Imaginary Burqas".
Straight men are weird.
May 29
Tacoma Traveler commented on Cities Are the Only Hope.
Tacoma Traveler commented on Cities Are the Only Hope.
Its not really idiocy. Idiocy is purely accidental. This is deliberate.
The folklore of the United States is rife with negative stereotypes of city life. Urbanites are cast as greedy, untrustworthy, self-seeking and violent. Rural dwellers are by contrast cast as pure and innocent and without guile.
The echoes of those tropes ring through from Sarah Palin's insistence on small-town values to fables of county mice and city mice. It's as embedded in American culture as it gets that there must not only be tension between the cities and the countryside, it is the urban dwellers who are smart and evil as the rural dwellers are saintly if soft in the head.
That's how you have portrayed them, Charles, and it's how they portray you. You see them as Jeeter Lester, and they see you as Bernie Madoff.
Which is why we fall prey to hucksters like Karl Rove, when they sell us a line about how their candidate is just too country to be evil. Sarah Palin and Ted Stevens are and were two of the most horrible people ever to profane Alaskan soil, and yet they are regarded as heroes even in the largest city of that state. Much has been made of their apparent stupidity, but one does not acquire and retain power of the kind they accumulated without some intellect. The appearance of being rural and insipid immediately prompts people to see them as morally pure, as well. This is why televangelists, even ones born and raised in major cities of the north will effect that weird rural southern accent that they all seem to have. Projects an aura of purity, even if you are fucking the whole choir and their children.
I propose something antithetical to that trope. I propose that when we see a Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes character we not be so quick to classify him as a moron, since this underestimation inevitably leads to us being robbed blind. If you consider Bush to have been stupid, then you might not indict him for war crimes. but if you consider him smart, you see that he looted the treasury in the closing hours of his Presidency and gave it all away to his banker buddies on the way out the door-and he hasn't spent a day in jail for any of it. If his judgement was so terrible and ours so brilliant, why is it that he's at his ranch painting nude self-portraits while the economy woke up in a bathtub full of ice missing a kidney?
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The folklore of the United States is rife with negative stereotypes of city life. Urbanites are cast as greedy, untrustworthy, self-seeking and violent. Rural dwellers are by contrast cast as pure and innocent and without guile.
The echoes of those tropes ring through from Sarah Palin's insistence on small-town values to fables of county mice and city mice. It's as embedded in American culture as it gets that there must not only be tension between the cities and the countryside, it is the urban dwellers who are smart and evil as the rural dwellers are saintly if soft in the head.
That's how you have portrayed them, Charles, and it's how they portray you. You see them as Jeeter Lester, and they see you as Bernie Madoff.
Which is why we fall prey to hucksters like Karl Rove, when they sell us a line about how their candidate is just too country to be evil. Sarah Palin and Ted Stevens are and were two of the most horrible people ever to profane Alaskan soil, and yet they are regarded as heroes even in the largest city of that state. Much has been made of their apparent stupidity, but one does not acquire and retain power of the kind they accumulated without some intellect. The appearance of being rural and insipid immediately prompts people to see them as morally pure, as well. This is why televangelists, even ones born and raised in major cities of the north will effect that weird rural southern accent that they all seem to have. Projects an aura of purity, even if you are fucking the whole choir and their children.
I propose something antithetical to that trope. I propose that when we see a Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes character we not be so quick to classify him as a moron, since this underestimation inevitably leads to us being robbed blind. If you consider Bush to have been stupid, then you might not indict him for war crimes. but if you consider him smart, you see that he looted the treasury in the closing hours of his Presidency and gave it all away to his banker buddies on the way out the door-and he hasn't spent a day in jail for any of it. If his judgement was so terrible and ours so brilliant, why is it that he's at his ranch painting nude self-portraits while the economy woke up in a bathtub full of ice missing a kidney?
May 29
Tacoma Traveler commented on Maine Governor Talks Armed Rebellion Against the Government Because the Constitution Says So.
Tacoma Traveler commented on Maine Governor Talks Armed Rebellion Against the Government Because the Constitution Says So.
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Mildly.
Mildly.
May 29
Tacoma Traveler commented on Maine Governor Talks Armed Rebellion Against the Government Because the Constitution Says So.
Tacoma Traveler commented on Maine Governor Talks Armed Rebellion Against the Government Because the Constitution Says So.
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I was actually thinking of Erskine Caldwell
I was actually thinking of Erskine Caldwell
May 29
Tacoma Traveler commented on Maine Governor Talks Armed Rebellion Against the Government Because the Constitution Says So.
Tacoma Traveler commented on Maine Governor Talks Armed Rebellion Against the Government Because the Constitution Says So.
At long last, LePage has lifted the burden of shame off the shoulders of the American South. No longer the sole provenance of idiocy, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama can now look the the northeast corner and spy a depth of stupidity that in comparison makes their governors seem like Nobel prize laureates.
Of course, it's all an act. There is a certain segment of the US population that just east this shit up, and LePage is trying to capitalize on supporters of Palin, Romney and Paul. Look everybody, there's a black man in the White House! Aren't you mad? Don't you just wanna go all Civil War on him?
Yep, this is a direct appeal to Ted Nugent. And the few idiots left that buy his music, if you could call it music.
Of course, it's all an act. There is a certain segment of the US population that just east this shit up, and LePage is trying to capitalize on supporters of Palin, Romney and Paul. Look everybody, there's a black man in the White House! Aren't you mad? Don't you just wanna go all Civil War on him?
Yep, this is a direct appeal to Ted Nugent. And the few idiots left that buy his music, if you could call it music.
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At Union Station, further downtown, there are several pieces of beautiful glasswork on display. On the sidewalk out front are bronze sculptures, a light rail station featuring beautiful glass etchings, and of course the Washington State Museum of History. A bridge connects that to the Glass Museum, but you could also walk 5 minutes from there to the Tacoma Art Museum or the UW Tacoma Campus whose architecture is modeled on the historic mill buildings that occupied the same space at the turn of the century-the 19th century, that is. Should you feel a bit peckish, there's an endless supply of fine restaurants surrounding this area, and perhaps later you could ride the Tacoma Link light rail to the Pantages Theatre to catch a movie or the Tacoma Opera for a show. After that, you can always drop in for a drink at the Club Silverstone or the Mix, and then explore Tacoma's gay district to ogle the beautiful homes on the waterfront with tree-lined streets, sidewalks graced with flower pots and a view of the water, which if you could overcome your own ridiculous fear of Tacoma, you could afford for as little as 550 a month for a spacious studio, 600 for a 1 bedroom and 700 for 2 bedrooms. Don't forget to check out the architecture of Old City Hall which graces the skyline looking out over the Thea Foss waterway.
Of course, to see all of this Tacoma based beauty, you woudl have to pull your Seattle heads out of your King County asses long enough to realize that you're getting screwed by being asked to pay 1200 month for a view of the parking lot. And why, so you can brag about your zip code? Honey, nobody in NYC or DC or LA knows where Capitol Hill is, and if you tried to explain your provincial pride you'd only put them to sleep. If they paid attention to you long enough.
Ditch the Seattle attitude. Come to Tacoma, and live a better life. You deserve more.
We have Point Defiance Park. We have a high school that used to be a 19th century chateau. Our waterfront stretches on for miles with a view of the islands that dot our shores. Our streets are walkable, clean and safe, What we don;t have is the attitude that you are plagued with, where everyone lives only to make everyone else feel bad about themselves. And when you grow up enough to grow tired of that bullshit, we are merely an hour down the road from you.