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Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Sad Endings

Posted by ERICA C. BARNETT on December 20 at 16:47 PM

Yesterday afternoon, 2045 Seattle founder Christian Gloddy stopped by the Stranger to drop off a sad memento of the failed monorail effort: Nine panels that once hung in the basement of the Seattle Monorail Project office, forming the shape of a monorail. The panels, which are surprisingly heavy, had “windows” that allowed people attending public meetings to look into monorail staff offices. Gloddy was dropping by the SMP’s offices to pick up some monorail notepads (the SMP, which is now down to four staffers, is moving into a smaller space for a few months before it shuts down completely). As he was leaving, he noticed the monorail panels lying in the SMP’s office, headed for the trash. Here’s one:

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1

I'm still angry, at Joel Horn as much as Henry Aronson and "Chubs" Nickels, or Mayor Gridlock.

I'd like a note pad...

Posted by Belltowner | December 20, 2005 4:50 PM

2

Are you going to set them up in The Stranger offices? You know, for Dan to play in?

Posted by Dave Osgood | December 20, 2005 5:39 PM

3

It does resemble the head of a
spawned out, decomposing salmon.

---Jensen

Posted by J. Interceptor | December 20, 2005 5:44 PM

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We are going to set them up in our office. I will get in them and pretend that I live in a real city with rapid transit, and not this steaming shithole.

Posted by Dan Savage | December 20, 2005 6:55 PM

5

Too bad they weren't found earlier--they would've made good Strangercrombie Aucition items...

Posted by Erik Benson | December 20, 2005 8:05 PM

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Dan-
The "steaming shithole" quote will come back to haunt you when and if you decide to run for office in Seattle (the non-district elected office city).
Joel and Tom screwed us over good, but The Stranger gets the garbage disguised as recyclable art for your office.

Posted by Mr. Muse | December 20, 2005 9:08 PM

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Dan, if you want to see what a real steaming shithole looks like, check out some of the "metropoli" in the South. Having lived in one (San Antonio) and visited a few others (Little Rock, for one), some were terrible enough (Shreveport) that just being there made me want to die.

We may be too dumb to build mass transit and you definitely are feeling rather bad about it, but this city ain't bad. We've got a lot more than most cities do. And many stupid people can be replaced on election day.

Posted by Gomez | December 20, 2005 10:18 PM

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A quick amendment to Erica's post: The pieces of the cardboard monorail were actually still in their offices and they asked if I thought anyone would want them saying "if you don't take them, they'll just end up in the trash."

Posted by Christian | December 21, 2005 12:02 AM

9

Run for office? Please...

Posted by Dan Savage | December 21, 2005 8:45 AM

10

Just fixed my post. Thanks, Christian.

Posted by ECB | December 21, 2005 9:47 AM

11

Dan, you could totally win the mayor's seat. Think about it.

Posted by inhibitionist | December 21, 2005 10:37 AM

12

I'm in city hall as I write this. I don't want a job anyplace I can't download and store porn on my work computer, so that means I can't be mayor. It's too bad, really. But I have to stay true to my principles.

Posted by Dan Savage | December 21, 2005 12:58 PM

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Doesn't sound like a firm "no way" to me.

Posted by Mr. Muse | December 21, 2005 2:50 PM

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"I don't want a job anyplace I can't download and store porn on my work computer, so that means I can't be mayor."

Porn trumps politics. Seattle's loss, but I understand.

Posted by inhibitionist | December 22, 2005 10:15 AM

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