This is what we call a "housing bubble":


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This week's Monterey County Weekly describes a contretemps over a proposed condo project on the edge of Carmel. The property in question is the former Carmel Community/Convalescent Hospital, right along Highway 1 just below Carpenter. It's been in a state of disrepair since it closed in 2004, and needs a lot of renovation to be usable. The property ( Read more... )

I was in rare form last night in class. I'd been up since 4 AM and was exhausted. It didn't help that the shuttle from Monterey to San Jose totally fucked up things (remind me to tell you about this, Tim). I was nodding off in my office a few minutes before class, but being in front of the students - that woke me right up ( Read more... )

So I'm sitting here listening to Radiohead's Kid A album as I work on a dissertation chapter. And I'm reminded of when I first bought it ( Read more... )

Sunday morning, a car crashed into the front end of an Italian restaurant in my old neighborhood of Maple Leaf, at the corner of Lake City Way and 15th:

Seattle Times articleI hope the restaurant survives - it wasn't half bad, a neat little corner restaurant, the kind every neighborhood needs ( Read more... )

A hilarious article from the San Francisco Chronicle this morning, about Cloyne Court, the co-op I spent two of the best years of my life at while an undergrad at Berkeley in the late '90s ( Read more... )

Last week the Washington State Supreme Court, a court that has a liberal majority, upheld the state's Defense of Marriage Act, overturning lower courts which had held gay marriage was a right that the state could not deny.

This week, Seattle's weekly newspaper, The Stranger, has a full series of articles about the appalling decision. Perhaps the ( Read more... )

An apparent suicide in the Santa Clara County JailWho is The Naked Guy, you ask ( Read more... )

I love being back in California. Screw Seattle ( Read more... )

Last Saturday I drove out on Sir Francis Drake Blvd to the coast. Stopped in and poked around Point Reyes Station, but forgot about Tim's Bovine Bakery suggestion, so I instead headed south. I saw the road leading to Bolinas (it wasn't marked, but was obvious what it was) and figured I'd save that, and the trip out to Point Reyes itself, for when ( Read more... )