I am looking forward to the announcement of a campaign for a Oaxaca monorail. And of course, Grant's eventual return when they just don't get it down there.

Is this open to the public? Because I am so there.

It's sort of like that guy in "Singles" who wanted a monorail (or was it a train?) and the Mayor, played by that guy, said no. So he went back to his cubicle and it all fell down and he walked out.

I loved "Singles". It was all about me and my friends. I was all about the grunge etc.

wisconsin death trip is actually really cool. if i didnt already have a copy, i'd get on that.

Good riddance! Whiners who want to leave just because Seattle isn't developing the way they want it should leave. There's ten people ready to move here who have a positive vibe and will contribute to the direction this city is going instead of trying to hold it back.

I predict Grant will end up in a real city like Vancouver BC before long.

Yo, Good Riddance.... buh bye. Have fun spending your hard earned money in this town that's tried to have direction for 20+ years and has failed at every turn. If you cand definitively spell out a direction tha means a damn thing I'd be more than impressed.

cogswell has usually been an idealistic addition to Seattle discourse. we should wish him well and buy his books.

I liked Singles too. but the cameron scott character had multiple flaws we cannot attribute to cogswell: he looked to Xavier McDaniel (a batterer) for romantic and basketball advise; he wanted a regional rapid rail; cogswell was focused on Seattle; and the character was emotionally constipated and could not reach out to the beautiful kywa segwick character. she drove up to the Virginia Inn in an old Volvo and found a parking space quickly. did she park the wrong way on virginia street? tom skerritt played the mayor.

Old Seattle type are the reason nothing gets done. New Seattle is where this town is going. Old hippies who sit around with their utopian pipe dreams and only complain about developers should resign from their jobs and leave. Seattle is growing like crazy. Cool new people with real money and real jobs are moving here. That's the future. You can't halt progress.

Gee, you make it sound like nothin's been built here before... This is just another wave. Nothing wrong with progress, but there's this and then there's that. Sure there are some cool new people, but that's nothing new either. Get over yourself.

"Cool new people with real money and real jobs are moving here."

In other words: Yuppies. Ugh.

News flash: Yuppies are not, nor shall they ever be, cool in any context outside of their own minds, or the minds of marketing firms who tell them, via advertising, how cool they are, or could be if they would only spend their "real money" on the latest iProduct.

"Cool new people with real money" do not create Cool, they feed off of it. They follow Cool like zombies.

Without Yuppies co-opting places like Capitol Hill and Fremont, driving up housing costs and driving out artists, the creative people who made those places cool would have no need to move into and renovate new regions.

So keep on spending your "real money" on rediculous housing costs, Cool New People. All of us poor artists will move on to less expensive towns and transform them into the next "cool places" for you to move to.