It seems that fewer articles are open to comments lately.

Sawant shall forever be knows as Mudhoney.

and fax two's gonna
run 'em tf outta
Dodge.

@5:

"@2, Comments provide facts that might force them to re-examine their presuppositions, and shitposting comment writers don't want that."

There, fixed it for you...

re tight-ass
parking spot
directions-giver:
NEVER STAND BE-
TWEEN TWO CARS!

oh and, great pkg Lesson.

Mudhoney, after the Seattle grunge band, and Santorum = the new poop drill. Perfect.

Say his name--Daunte Wright! He was only 20 years old and tragically shot because the police officer mistook her gun for a taser?! Tell that to Wright's surviving family and loved ones.

It is a relief that Whatcom County still meets Phase 3 statewide requirements. Keep up the excellent work, Governor Jay Inslee and legislation. Those non-vaxxers STILL stubbornly refusing to mask--especially in Loony Loren-y Ferry County--should just be given the right to die and go quietly. I feel sorry for people who want and need COVID vaccines but can't get them because too many idiots are making access to public health and wellbeing difficult

@5: Uh-oh----rainmist the point again.

As for "Uptown", if anyone ever did call Lower Queen Anne by that moniker, they stopped doing it many decades ago, as evinced by the fact residents have been trying to convince people to reverse this habit for more than 20 years.

I predict this latest effort at re(re?)branding is going to have exactly the same effect as that stupid campaign to get people to call part of downtown by the execrable sobriquet "West Edge" a number of years ago - that is to say, no effect whatsoever.

Does anyone who lives in Lower Queen Anne call it Uptown? I mean Uptown Espresso doesn't even call their location Uptown.

@2,

Yeah, I'd noticed that but didn't think much of it initially. But then Charles and Matt's recent posts both being comment disabled leads me to wonder if they've made a change to now restrict comments to AM/PM threads only. That'd suck, but maybe not especially bad since people can pretty much use these posts to discuss any topics of current topical interest anyway. Wonder if it had something to do w/ Raindrop whining about Jasmyne embedding an instagram video in her post, then whining some more when Chase told him to eat shit about it.

12 - That's the only establishment that I can know that had Uptown in its name. I like the ambiance of the word 'Uptown' but it will always be Lower Queen Anne to most of us.

Whitmer has consistently been the MOST draconian when it came to shutting down MI throughout the pandemic; from outlawing fishing in a boat by yourself to shutting down all landscaping businesses even if you are working alone or with a family member you live with. My parents who live in MI thought all this was great at the time but her unscientific approach to locking almost everything down made a lot of people not want to practice important and science backed measures like wearing masks. Her earlier lockdown measures have definitely increased resistance to the most basic anti-covid measures statewide. My dad is now really tired of playing mask police everywhere.

'mask police' ?!
do we get to carry
Bazookas and drive Tanks?

and wear sleeveless shirts? where do I sign?
oh and does it come with Steroids or
do I gotta walk clear to the corner?
is a Warning Shot 'required'?

is there Pay?

@10 COMTE: I feel like I really don't know Seattle anymore. I left The Emerald City over 24 years ago. At least I can still name the streets and main arterials....

@2, 13
yeah and ya gotta Click on the
Story to get to the comments.
smells like *Capitalism to me.

*Raw

@15: 'Mask police'? Send 'em to Washington's red counties and communities. They can help those most isolated and kept vulnerable by the idiotic non-vaxxers to finally get jabbed and flatten the curve. Free donuts!

@14
I rented in Lower Queen Anne, and also lived in Denny Regrade. These royally stupid rebranding nicknames really suck - as @10 points out with West Edge.

Call it Uptown, call it Lower Queen Anne: why should the Seattle City Council vote on a resolution regarding this? Does this refer to specific city documents with legal implications for calling it one name or the other? Did the article here omit a key detail? If not, this vote is ridiculous. I'll call that neighborhood "Uptown" or "Lower Queen Anne" as I see fit.

While we're on the subject of bad renamings, can we finally ditch the "Emerald City" tag?

@13 - Well, I do feel badly about that. Sorry Jasmyne. I became unhinged over the continuing blend of Twitter and Instragrm with Slog, but that's me. I also overlooked the play button for the video at first on Instagram (over Jasymne's coat.) And a moment there I thought I had to log in to Instagram to see the video.

Daunte Wright,

Your daily reminder why the police should not be handling trafficking enforcement. They lack the temperament for it.

Like the UK, and Berkeley in the US, minor traffic enforcement should be handled by civilians.

"Traffic enforcement" that is.

I have no problem with police handling trafficking in those extremely rare events they aren't simply bullshitting us.

@10 COMTE, @14 Phoebe in Wallingford and @20 pat L: Agreed and seconded. The neighborhood you're referring to will always be known to me as Lower Queen Anne, too.

@22 dvs99: I'd rather ditch the P.C. pushing, altogether. Even if it is "so 37 years ago", what's so awful about L. Frank Baum-like "Emerald City", nicknamed after Rosalynn ("Roz") Sumners in the 1984 Winter Olympics and because the Puget Sound region is so green? All because of the word emerald? Sumners, the Silver Medal winning figure skater was born the same year I was. ALL U.S. cities have nicknames, however corny and / or dated. Why do so many people suddenly want to rapidly change everything? Soon we won't have the city and region so many of us know and love anymore.
I know that nothing really stays the same, but.....damn. What next? All of Seattle's streets, parks, and avenues get renamed because someone's sick of Denny Way, Golden Gardens, Rainier Avenue South, or Capitol Hill?

@22 dvs99: Here's an idea: you call Seattle what you like and I'll call Seattle what I have always known it to be, practically since my birth.

@11

I lived in LQA for 8 years and not one time did I hear anyone refer to it as "Uptown". The only other alternative name I ever saw it have was "Greater Seattle Center Neighborhood". Dipshit resolution that no one will pay attention to.

@26; 27 - I certainly won't tell you how to refer to Seattle. However, Emerald City WAS a change, for advertising purposes. The Convention Bureau decided they didn't like Jet City (by which I'd always known it) and held a competition.

Knowing what we know now about public naming competitions, I suppose I should be glad we didn't become Santorum City, Townie McTownFace, or Mudhoney Meadows.

"I forgot that Mudhoney was renamed "Santorum" by Dan Savage"

First, how did you forget about santorum?

Also, as Dan will point out himself, he didn't come up with that new definition or choose it as the winning definition. He didn't even suggest a contest to create a new definition. But his column is the device that allowed all those things to happen.

Good to see the SCC working on the important shit around here, like the name of a neighborhood. Really earning those six-figures.

@33,
"Good to see the SCC working on the important shit around here, like the name of a neighborhood. Really earning those six-figures."

They've gotta protect their phoney-baloney jobs!

Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!

@35 better than playing games on Steam while "WFH", I guess.
Speaking of, I have it on good authority that (insert least favorite SCC member's name here) cheats at (insert favorite game here). h4xorz!

@13:

I would just love the irony of braindrip's incessant whinging being the thing that finally "broke the camel's back" and led to a moderation/blocking policy. Then the rest of you could enjoy the sheer bliss I - and a few others - now experience being free of his petulant mewling.

@21:

The City already uses these as their "official" names of the respective neighborhoods, so I suppose there's some case to be made for the Council memorializing it in some policy statement. But, you're right in that it's just "words on paper" and people are going to continue to call them what they will regardless of the pleadings of real estate developers, business associations or whatever marketing entities came up with these trifles, to change their behavior.

@22:

I kind of liked when we were called "the Jet City" in the '60's, '70's and early '80's. But, I wouldn't mind going "old school" and returning to the original "the Queen City".

@36 is being ridiculous again.

@31 dvs99 You've got me there. That's good enough for Griz. :)

@38 COMTE: The Queen City sounds nice to me, too. :)