Housekeeping This Week in The Stranger
posted by on June 12 at 12:00 PM
Charles Mudede on Obama and Hiphop
“The fact is, hiphop, at a mainstream level, did not see Obama coming, and this might be a sign of its age or its loss of relevance. From 50 Cent to RZA, support famously went to Hillary Clinton’s run at the office. Hiphop missed the future.”
Michaelangelo Matos on a Biography of Sonic Youth
“No one listens to Sonic Youth to learn about the personal lives of its members. The New York quartet are an ideas band—you listen to wallow in their famously retuned guitars, which nearly three decades ago altered rock’s sonic palette as decisively as Hendrix had, and which are now a comfort staple to rock fans that can do without Hinder, thank you very much.”
Jen Graves on Joe Park and the Art of Portraiture
“Few artists do formal portraiture-for-hire these days. It’s an antiquated practice, something most artists—and sitters—consider the bailiwick of the Sears studio or some fusty boardroom. Park isn’t particularly public about his portrait practice. He sees it as somewhat separate from his ‘regular’ paintings.”
Bethany Jean Clement Endures a Screening Party for Sex and the City
“The party stampeded to the Big Picture, where everyone was administered an additional cosmopolitan (at the Pampas, made with fresh lime; here, tasting like melted strawberry Jell-O). Inside the theater, popcorn was distributed to unaccountable excitement. An attendee briefly adopted emcee duties, standing in front and shrieking, ‘SEX AND THE CITY!’ to universal delight. The movie began. It still has not ended.”
Erica C. Barnett on the Real Budget Crisis
“Under county executive Ron Sims’s proposed cuts, county funding for health and human services would be reduced, over the next three years, to zero—eliminating tens of millions of dollars for services like domestic violence support, drug and alcohol treatment, and public clinics.”
ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS ISSUE: Bar brawl over El Chupacabra; Islands’ sophomore album; the frozen turkey Michael Mann sent to Moby; the Georgetown Music Fest; Neil Hamburger’s career; the end of Electric Avenue; why actresses playing sex workers should try sex work; and much more.
Everybody, from Erica C. Barnett to Sue Rahr, is mad about the county budget cuts, but nobody is talking about the only thing we can do to preserve critical services: raise taxes. Everybody hates to hear it, but if we want to avoid massive service cuts, then we need to support higher county taxes.
OMFG, I actually agree with the lorax on this.
Ugh this relentless and shameless fawning of Odrama in the Strangers is getting really nauseating.
Life ascribes to those who wait and watch, moments in time when the fog disapates as the horizon clears providing a field of vision and undistorted depth of range and motion.
There was a glimpse of that this morning, potentially at least... after a fairly restful sleep.
Even the first voice I overheard, the plesently soft spoken woman talking on a phone, complimenting the listener at the other end of the receiver;
" How nice it is to wake up and hear your voice in the morning. "
In deferance to intrusion on her personal conversation as I passed her as she was standing on the sidewalk, I let go of the internal suggestion to place my own thought or feeling into the context of over-hearing their intimacy.
Later on in the morning, after perspective reasoned by an experience that happened,
( ie. not a fantasy fictionalized for arts sake )
I would change my mind about my intial reaction abd ascribe that moment of th morning to be today's personal mood elevator.
agter my usual migration to procure the work of some of the cities writers and reporters, I was found at the Washington State Ferry Terminal at Coleman Dock in Seattle sitting at the north window counter just inside the east enterance of the foot bridge from first avenue that provides egress and safe access for pedestrians to pass over Alaskan way and enter Coleman Docks terminal for the ferry.
Sea faring captains have a tremendous responsibility in safegaurding their duties of conduct to provide their passengers and cargo " a dry as possible voyage ".
( my thoughts )
I would venture a guess that is why maritime law has verifiable provisions and powers granting the captain of the ship powers necessary to insure the passenger list and manifest is free from harm and arrives safely to the destination with dangerous mis-hap...
"The keys to the Brig if you will...".
I hadonly been sitting outside the world wraps interior/exterior partician skimming through the Belltown Messanger and The Seattle Weekly for ten or fifteen minutes when a Washington State ferry terminal Employee approacehed me and asked if I had a ticket to ride the feryy.
My response was of the order of negative as he could already see i was just sitting there briefly reading the Weekly.
" This guys open for business so you will have to leave." was the instruction I was given by the terminal employee.
" Where can I sit?" was my response, all ready having observed that the only other occupants in the seating area in the concorse where I was benched were two ferry terminal employees chatting up the morning between themselves.
" If your not buying a ticket you'll have to leave." was the response.
It was around 8:30 amor so and the business propriators of the terminal had not reached the apex of the cash registers happy tills ringing for the luch and tourist crowds sure to fill to capacity tha waitng area.
"What if I am waiting for a passenger to arrive from one of the ferryies ?" was my appeal to the terminal employee.
The answer again was this is a place of business and without a ticket I would have to exit the premises.
Incredulous yet vocally quiet and maintaing an attitude of professional inspection, I pulled out my metro regional pass.
It's a monthly pass that has Washington State Ferries clearly marked on it and showed it to him.
It was obvious to all witnessing ( not many ) that by that time both the terminal employee and I had reached an impass.
I'm running out of time seems to be the running them, and now is no differentas the library time clock ticks down.
Perhaps people with questions and concerns as to why we as public citizens can't enjoy the terminal space for a brief moment and wait for friends or family arriving from one of the ferries without a ticket could contact Mark Sidran of the Washington State Utilities and Transportation Department.
After all he is the Chairman.
I will never know if friends from Vashon or family from Bainbridge were coming to see me.
Why does the Stranger hate burritos?
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