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You're leaving?! Oh my. Best of luck!

Good luck, Bradley. I used to see your name on the masthead every week and thank Christ that there was some good German law-and-order on staff, trying to oversee the mess that is The Stranger. Now we'll just have the left-hand side of Herr Spangenthal-Lee.

Just curious -- where ya goin'?

RE: gas prices affecting housing choices.

So you mean that all these people that were formerly buying McMansions out in boonie north king county are now gonna be buying up precious city living space and pricing me out of somewhere I actually want to live? damn...

by far, your worst year was 2000.

@2,

That's the corniest thing I've ever read.

@5 -- Hooray! I have an official barnacle! I've finally arrived in the Slog elite.

And ya know what -- that sentence I just wrote is THE CORNIEST THING I'VE EVER READ!

We know The Incredible Husk is you Jubilation.

Run! Run Bradley, and never look back... Lest you be turned into a pillar of salt.

And after that reference, maybe I need me one of them there South Carolina license plates.

@6,

That's the corniest thing I've ever read.

Oh, Patch. I am gonna miss your byline. And your colossal blunders.

Bradley, good luck on your new pursuits.

There was an interesting opinion piece in the LA Times yesterday that countered the higher prices people fleeing the suburbs theory:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-kotkin6-2008jul06,0,7894262.story

Most decent Republicans do not approve of MediCare cuts.

Re: South Carolina license plates
My home state of Indiana went down that path a while ago. Not so blatant as SC's, but still a bit too much for me. http://www.in.gov/bmv/3999.htm
I know its' the country's motto, but I guess I'm not a big fan of the motto in the first place.

It's Dana Torres, not Torress.

@11: Thanks for the link. That said, the guy is using Southern California as his major counterexample -- even though Southern California is pretty much a counterexample to EVERYTHING. Convenient.

Are the religious license plates being made by born again prisoners?

Re: suburbs:

(1) Good luck getting 3m people inside the city borders.

(2) For the umpteenth time, it's about the JOBS. If the businesses are in Bellevue, it's OK for the housing to be in Bellevue. Kent has more local employment than Magnolia.

@17 Your second point is part of what the LA Times guy is saying, that in a lot of metropolitan areas the jobs are in the suburbs.

Why is it OK to complain so much about the suburbs and the people living in the suburbs commuting to Seattle, when there are an awful lot of people who live in Seattle and commute to the suburbs for jobs at places like Microsoft and Google?

As far as I can tell 520 is pretty nasty in both directions in the mornings. What makes the commutes of those from Seattle to the Eastside more OK than the reverse?

I didn't know anybody thought commuting out of the city was OK. I always thought a billion dollar bribe to get Microsoft to move their operation into the city would be cheaper than five billion to expand the bridge. That's just me.

The existence of jobs in the suburbs is important, but It's not the whole story. Places like Kent are very low density, lacking walkability, so people have to drive a 5 leg trip to run 5 errands, running from one huge parking lot to another.

Don't talk to me about Kent. I've been down there three times this month already picking up stuff. It's hell on freaking earth, is what it is. Huge parking lots are only part of the story; it's also that every street is a mile-wide boulevard, and the buildings are spaced at mile intervals along them -- except for the wetlands and fragile slopes, which are being ground up for new houses as fast as possible, even now.

You will be missed, Mr. Steinbacher.

Oh, I forgot. Good luck Bradley!

R.I.P. "A. Birch Steen" then, eh? wherever where they find a new ombudsman???

-where +will, natch

@18 - I've never heard anyone say it was OK to live in the city and commute to the 'burbs. I think it's more that fewer people complain about folks commuting out of the city. The suburbanites driving in to town every day are an easier target because suburban living is so much more inefficient than city living.

Good luck in your future endeavors, Mr. Steinbacher!

Mr. Steinbacher, you will indeed be missed.  I look forward to more of your departing self-flagellation, though.

Best wishes for whatever is next.

@22, no kidding, Bradley is A. Birch Steen?  I'd always suspected it was Dan.

Birch Steen, Bradley Steinbacher, I guess I should have figured.  Maybe someday this will make my own list of public embarrassments.

@26: it's actually an anagram of his name. write it out and have some fun!

Best wishes Brad. Among other things, sports lovers on Slog take a tough loss.

Many thanks Poe, Cornball, Unpaid, PopTart, Fnarf, Elenchos, lostboy, Hernandez, and Lloyd!

Unorginal Andrew: Thanks for the heads-up on the typo. I fixed it in the post.

Kerri: Love ya!

Jezbian: I'm sure that old bastard will still be around.

And chet: Don't forget about '01. Man, I was shitty that year.

jezbian @27, jeez even when I get it, I don't get it.

Aren't anagrams the oldest pseudonym trick in the book?  How did I ever miss that?  I should be embarrassed to ever publicly scrutinize anyone's writing again.

Not that that'll stop me, of course.

Blot soy, slob toy.

Soy blotting is a time-honored family pastime, as is being a being a licking post for friendly dogs, and I'll not have you denigrate either, you Fran... Far... N... F... something, you... you far enuf, you!

Hoy hoy, I'm the boy!

Fnarf,

Have you ever met anybody famous, like Fran Liebowitz, Fran Drescher, or Kukla, Fran & Ollie?

None of those, but Iggy Pop has been in my house.