It could be serendipity, or it could be the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, but the issue of mass transit has come across my radar three times in the past two days. The biggest, of course, is Motherboard's article The Immoble Masses: Why Traffic Is Awful and Public Transit Is Worse. The second is a case of serious pushback from conservative forces in ( Read more... )

This isn't so much a "bad mood" as a serious squick. This afternoon, after getting off the local light rail, I was climbing the steps up to the parking lot and I bumped into a woman. "Excuse me," I said. I had been reading a book and not paying attention ( Read more... )

Since school is almost here, Omaha and I took Kouryou-chan to Wild Waves for one last summer experience last week ( Read more... )

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What the fuck is going on in this town? First we have the two hostile crowd incidents in the past two weeks, followed by a shooting at Folklife, another on First Hill, and now one in Ravenna. At Cafe Racer, of all places!? Grief, I can't imagine a more laid-back, more friendly place than Cafe Racer-- that's where the Rubyists have their weekly ( Read more... )

I'm not sure who's playing on KUOW right now, but I was listening to a woman talk about how her ability to read other women was terrible. I think I heard her use the word "semiotic" in a sentence. But whatever else she said, her comment about reading women in Seattle was spot on: I was in Seattle recently and I saw all these hard-looking women ( Read more... )

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On the new Seattle Light Rail system that goes from the airport to downtown, there are several stops between that are destined to become gentrification hubs in the coming twenty years, pushing out the low-to-middle income, ethnically mixed demographics that currently occupy that corridor. That low-income, low-political-power population also ( Read more... )