Obama Explained What Occupy Means: Just go watch the damn speech the President gave yesterday in Kansas. Everything he said should be obvious.
Diaz Proposes Comprehensive Solution to Police Oversight Through Sheer Platitude: After scrutiny from the public, local elected officials, the NAACP, and the Department of Justice, SPD Chief John Diaz will oversee a “complete revamp” of “professional standards and expectations” with “two new panels” to oversee the use of force, all informing a “top-to-bottom review and rewrite” of “policies and procedures.”
The Best Hair in Prison: Former Illinois governor Rod Blagolevich faces sentencing today on 18 charges of corruption related to his attempt to auction off Barack Obama’s old Senate seat.
The Private Life of a Boy Billionaire: Some of Mark Zuckerberg’s private Facebook photos have been revealed by a bunch of smart-ass hackers with a well-developed sense of irony.
Proposed Borg Landing Site in Pioneer Square: Via a 25-story Manchurian “building” proposal in the historical Pioneer Square district.
Former State Senator Accused of Campaign Fund Misuse: Among other allegations, former Senator Dave Schmidt of Edmonds is said to have used the remaining $32,000 in his campaign bank account to reimburse lost wages, and notes “I felt I was in the right.”
Gorby Says Russian Election Should Be Scrapped: “Literally with every coming day, more and more Russians come to doubt that the announced election results are honest,” the former General Secretary stated, calling for a new poll of the electorate.
Gadhafi Son Foiled in Plot to Move to Mexico: Saadi Gadhafi would have faked Mexican citizenship in order to buy a string of safe houses throughout the country, but Mexico foiled the plot, as announced by Interior minister Alejandro Poire.
Today is Pearl Harbor day, a day which will live in some sort of poignant negative/hostile sounding noun. On a completely unrelated note, here’s a fantastic song by Lyle Lovett that’s been stuck in my head for a while. I hope that one day I, too, could be good enough at singing to marry Julia Roberts.
Not just “Pearl Harbor Day,” but the 70th anniversary. It’s a Big Fucking Deal.
Whatever, Bammerz. Fool us once, shame on us. Fool us twice… well just don’t go tryin’ to fool us again.
Exactly why is the north parking lot of the fucking Kingdome sacred? As long as it doesn’t overwhelm its historic neighbors and cast them into permanent shadow, a 25-story apartment tower is fine by me. Its nowhere near as banal as the POS that went up next to the Camlin. Or the god-awful whale of the Convention Center addition.
@3 “Exactly why is the north parking lot of the fucking Kingdome sacred?”
– Ancient Indian Burial Ground
– Tuba Man visits on gamedays
– That pro-life rally they had once
– Tailgating rituals performed there
Also that building is ugly and doesn’t fit well with the immediate neighborhood and doesn’t even really seem to mesh with the stuff closer to the bus tunnel.
Lastly, totally tangentially, I wonder if publicsaftymatters.org is aware of this audience, or is simply trying to console a notable portion of the Stranger’s staff and readership with it’s “Budget cuts in Olympia May CUT supervision of sex offenders” ad.
@3, the tower is banal and ugly, of course, but the only thing that matters is what it is like at the ground level, where people see and interact with it on a daily basis. I don’t have my hopes up, given the grotesque failures in this department in nearly every other large construction in the US in the past forty years. Everyone’s going to be too focused on what the tower looks like, from a distance, in the soothing official watercolors.
The real challenges are going to be the peculiar elevation of the site and access to the train station, while maintaining, indeed extending, the street grid. The fact that it’s not a megablock, and that 2nd Ave. S. will apparently be extended, is encouraging. The “podium” visible in the picture doesn’t look too bad.
@1 The History Channel and so forth aren’t showing but ONE documentary about it. I’m watching WW II in HD on Netflix.
Of course not, Jen. Everybody who actually remembers it is at least 85 or so. It’s still a big deal anyway – fuck ’em.
@5 We celebrate banal and ugly in this city. But at least it is decidedly different. And street level, it’s a Starbuck’s, like it or not.
Obama didn’t “explain what Occupy means”, he clearly elucidated precepts hammered out by people of goodwill, onto which Occupy has tried to glom.
@8, a Starbucks would actually be an improvement over what usually gets built at street level. At least there’s people there, going in and out.
There is a new, foreboding, gay-bashing ad from Rick Perry. Sounds like he’s trying a Strom Thuromond strategy.
It may be time to move on.
Anyone who was surprised when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor would have been a moron.
FDR milked it magnificently and it served its purpose but it really might be time to move on…..
It is a little bit TOO much like a Borg cube.
aww, no Zuckerberg dick pics. =(
@11 Perry sows the seeds of his own downfall. Because America loves the underdog and Perry is a “Hate Thy Neighbor” kind of Christian.
@13, That building does look like something a first year student of computer animation would create for their futuristic city project. Or were you talking about the Zuckerberg photos?
@10,
Are you saying you don’t like tanning salons?
Why yes…it fits in with the style of spaceships which Ancient Astronauts used when landing in the 5th century B.C. to bring knowledge of metalwork to the Duwamish.
@17 Or nail salons? We need a nice nail salon in that neighborhood.
Meanwhile, Focus Centers are continuing to read all your emails and listen to your phone calls, including the ones you think are encrypted but included a backdoor for the feds.
Have fun pretending you have Rights.
That tower is hellatrocious and would stick out like a sore appendage, overshadowing Pioneer Square like mad.
So of course it will be built.
I see your “She’s No Lady” and I raise you “Natural Forces” from Spectacle a couple of years ago. If you can get through the tiresome opening minute of mutual brown nosing, you get five minutes of one man and his guitar and something really special.
Also he’s got his hair under control by this point.
And it would help to link it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8qQncDY9…