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Friday, August 12, 2005

Seattle Over Tacoma

Posted by on August 12 at 12:22 PM

“Seattle—Elephant experts [at Woodland Park Zoo] are getting ready to send an ill-tempered 38-year-old pachyderm to Tacoma, where she’ll join two other females not known for their social graces.”This is how it will always be between Seattle and Tacoma: Seattle stands for grace; Tacoma stands for rough. This is not a dialectic; the two cities will never reconcile their differences.