Am I too stupid to get this genius' column?

You Are Absolutely Right!

Spot on! Excellent writing. FB is boring and PB still makes me hot.

Love is a Battlefield, SLU is a Diamond Field.

Fuck the past. Move forward. Nostalgia is only good for garage sales and museums.

It is with some sadness that I noticed the 3 dilapitated houses/apartments on Republican are now fenced off for demolition. I enjoyed entertaining thoughts of moving into one when the wife kicks my ass to the curb.

Thanks, Sherman. More thought provoking prose. I often think of the workers who actually *made* things, versus the designers and architects who got famous because of the workers' sweat.

@#1: probably, since you're also too stupid to punctuate correctly

Weird...I do that, too. Did that with the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial that I was unfortunate enough to be involved with...on the Indian side, which they did not like. They liked to SAY they wanted the tribes involved, but then they didn't like it when the tribes DID get involved and insisted on doing THEIR thing, THEIR way, instead of the committee's way. They wanted to replace the 'ugly, rotting statue' in a park near Long Beach, and I thought, "50 years ago, someone worked their ass off to create it, and people 50 years ago thought it was awesome enough to put it there...in 50 years, the crap you put up that you think is amazing is going to be looked upon and thought to be garbage...". They then tried to condemn the property of everyone from the Astoria bridge to the Fort Columbia tunnel...and they call it progress.

I like the idea of spending "way too much time listening to Pat Benatar."

Sherman Alexie sits in a darkened room, the only light from his stereo Pat Benatar is playing on a loop, and Sherman stares at it. His wife enters.

"Sherman, could you help with--" she begins, but he holds up a hand.

"Shh. Love Is a Battlefield." He is clearly quite busy.

@6, you mean the houses near fairview mentioned here: http://classifiedhumanity.com/post/20862… ?

I was wondering when they'd disappeared. I guess that day is coming soon.

When did the Mountain ever have a cool playlist? It's always been safely bland.

@6, @13 looks like it's happening as part of the Mercer rebuild:
http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~scripts/n…

I know what you mean. I grew up in a city with a rich architectural history from the 1920s. For a time in the late 80s and 90s, the city tore down old warehouses and homes. We learned our lesson and stopped.

The Mountain was never cool, thus negating this entire post.

1114 Republican (the square, wooden, algae-colored triple-decker) is indeed on the Mercer project's acquisition list, though the three former houses are not.

I can't for the life of me imagine what Mercer-related facilities they would need to build that far south of the (unchanged) I-5 ramps.

Amazon does not believe in tears.

@13 yep

Don't confuse "old building" with "building that should be saved" Only occasionally will those two classifications coincide.

Nostalgia is death. Nostalgia for a mediocre radio station doubly so.

Go moon about some crappy basketball team that used to play here - that is truly the mark of a man with the soul of a poet.