Comments on The Lesser City

I wish I could get high at work.

Honestly, Charles, sometimes you are just too painful to read.

I was into it.

I've never rode that part of the Blue Line, but train riding in general is so conducive to these types of overly poetic daydreams, I can relate to this thinking.

I found it fascinating. May I also suggest www.matthewstadler.org

I was in this area last weekend.
I get it.

Charles, do you read BLDG Blog? You must. If not, you must.
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/

Wow. Now I look like link spam.

Or, alternatively, trains make lots of noise that is amplified in tunnels. Seriously, how does Charles not wind up on the news as the focus of a police bust of some massive amount of extremely strong pot?

I used to live 5 minutes from the Sunset Transit Center. MAX was a great way to get downtown (especially in high school!)

I think something like the MAX would be great in Seattle.

Great story, Stadler. I have dreams like these. Usually, they are of Seattle, and they feature looming, concrete building that never fade. In one dream, a tremor was followed by the rise of sleeping giant who rose over a lake; in another, I arrived as a hero in the city with a jeep and machine guns. There were also statues of heroes around the city, and fancy administrative buildings.

Charles, the "sub" in suburb/an is shorthand for "beyond," i.e. 'beyond the city' not the more commonly used "below" which you try to make sense of as you talk about trains.

What did I miss here?

I'll tell you though, riding around on subways (and I guess that thing counts) definitely feels like being in some kind of crazy underworld.