No Future

Will the last developer who loses their sh** over the Pike Pine Belmont mess and now it has to turn into a parking lot because you didn't have the forsight to deal with an angry mob that your building designs offend and always will offend because you just snuffed out independent nightlife as we know it on Capitol Hill thus letting in the throngs of straight barbarians who now deface your land-use signs and puke outside your condos and generally do not bode well for the future of Seattle as we crash into economic and ecological oblivion - please turn out the freakin lights!?!?

Oh yeah, and be sure to tell post-apocolyptic Belltown that curfew was at sundown and they should not overtax the generators lest the gasoline pirates see and they decide to pillage from Bainbridge...

Fools for April

So - sun came out, I refrilled my prescription for contact lenses and spring is in the air... April Fools. Not really. False starts. I feel a stagnancy still... Unfinished business. No time for jokes, no time for pedestrian sensibilities in high traffic areas, no time for fun and games... I am busy, yet I am running in place. Instead, I focus on my new look for spring.

The Unheard Music

So, grandpa decided to go see his favorite olde timey punk band, X - perhaps the greatest American band ever (*with the exception of Johnny Cash and the whole Carter clan)... When I told friends I was going, I got "Who?".... Sigh, People!! X were the band formed in Los Angles in the late 70's with the whole advent of socal punk... they combined punk with a dash of country soul, and quite alot of poetic imagery and American Gothic to boot. They were the soundtrack of my teen years, ironically enough, country purists in the sense of the word (forming side projects the knitters)... Soooo, in any case, they rocked. I was worried that this would be billed a reunion tour (Billy Zoom joining them), and thus it'd be a badly attended affair... Full of a few die-hards like me and my friend Cheryl, but it wasn't... The place was sold out, with a huge diverse crowd (from Punk dad's to rockabilly Betty's to kids)... And the band was tight and awesome... Probably b/c they were sober and had more focus than ever. They played like they had never left off from playing at the Whiskey in 1980, Exene and John Doe's June Carter/Johnny Cash delivery over punk power chords coming from Billy Zoom (looking like Jerry Lee Lewis) and DJ's driving drum beat still sounded incredibly fresh... And finally, the spirit of protest was still inherent in their songs... After over 20 years, the lyrics for "New World" still rings true of the situation today in Amerika:
"....honest to goodness the bars werent open this morning they must have been voting for a new president of something do you have a quarter?" i said yes because i did honest to goodness the tears have been falling all over the countrys face it was better before before they voted for whats his name this is suppose to be the new world"

Your Best Gay Face

So - if you've not been reading the blogosphere, a missive was just fired off by Avenue Q creator, Jeff Whitey, over the inane comments made by Jay Leno while interviewing Ryan Phillippe. No, not anywhere remotely near hate-speech, but the kind of dumb and awkward shortsideness made by most people who shill cheap jokes for a living. Humor is violence, usually, in some form or another... mostly social and mostly to the point when it's effective. However Leno's material has always been a deliver then run kind of thing.... Usually the openers are not good, and fall flat... (*Rumor has it that Leno actually does standup and tries offensive jokes out on the audience thus.... oh, actually, I don't want to print it here. It's not worth it... the problem is context.) So back to the jab. No - this isn't hate speech, but it is deraugatory and just plain ignorant. However, what's awesome is the image that Whittey sends back to Jay... Too many times we take the respectable silence or the 'inflamed op-ed' approach. This is simple, yet bold. Very Johnny Cash (he'd be proud)... We should raise our finger in salutes like these more often!

Dept of Uhhhhhhh

Hmmm, this frightening doco makes me a bit car sick.

Best keep your fingers inside the car at all times in that case...

Today in History

Today in history, Obama talked about race big time, the feds cut the interest rates, another NY gov admits to shenanigans, and the Seattle Times disses SXSW as a frat-party.
In my news, I had a stomach ache for 8 hrs on end and heard an epiphany during a TAL podcast: "You don't get the life you deserve, you get what you get..." I threw up in my mouth.

Drip, Drip, Drip

The "oh shit" moment of truth is not the fact that we're dangerously running into a recession (followed by a big depression worse than the great depression of the 30's), but that we're totally going to f'ed with the rapid rate at which polar ice is melting. This is going to need more conversation and conservation than bricks in the toilet and "showering with a buddy"...

Experts have been monitoring 30 glaciers around the world for nearly three decades and the most recent figures, for 2006, show the biggest ever 'net loss' of ice. Achim Steiner, head of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), told The Observer that melting glaciers were now the 'loudest and clearest' warning signal of global warming.

The problem could lead to failing infrastructure, mass migration and even conflict. 'We're talking about something that happens in your and my lifespan. We're not talking about something hypothetical, we're talking about something dramatic in its consequences,' he said


Yes, I've heard this before, and I can't think of a single reason to wake up and go to work tomorrow if this keeps up.