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Life Snow Daze 2
Posted by Dan Savage on Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 6:37 PM
First off, to Seattle Public Schools: It's supposed to be 45 degrees tomorrow. Yeah, there's a lot of snow on the ground right now. But all this shit is going to melt off tonight. Please don't prematurely cancel classes tomorrow for shits and giggles—you know, like that day two or three weeks ago when you cancelled classes because it was supposed to snow. Don't do that. (My kid goes to an extremely exclusive and supremely fancy private school, of course, the kind of place where public school students are served up in mince pies for lunch. But my kid's school cancels classes whenever you do, so... I take a keen interest in when you cancel classes. Don't cancel classes tomorrow, please.)
Secondly, to the mayor: Psst... maybe you could get away with just salting the streets along Joel Connelly and Frank Blethen's commutes.
Thirdly, to all and sundry: Have you noticed that there aren't any shootings during snowstorms? Maybe hip hop concerts and Folklife should only be scheduled during blizzards and/or at Stevens, Baker, Crystal, Snowqualmie, etc. Just a thought.
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We're with you here in Portland. Keep school open please!! We've had 3 weeks here, and even my kids are begging to have school open tomorrow.
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Oh come on, what's one more day? I like short work weeks. The kids need to ease back into school anyway. It's always a shock to the system when they have to endure 5 days in a row after the long holiday break.
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It's snowing like hell out here in Issaquah, but Cliff Mass says it's all turning to rain after midnight. If the school district folks can just wait until 6am tomorrow morning to call the ball, we'll be OK...
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Some of us want an extra day, like those of us who work with kids. I praying for yet another shortened week. Go Snow! Go Snow! Go Snow! Those weather forecasters barely hit 50% accuracy during the snowpocolypse (sp?), may then missing again tonight with predictions of 40F just as those torrential winds never blew down from Snowqualmie...
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@5- no one likes being around their children for 3 weeks. that's why god invented school. GO BACK TO SCHOOL, YOU LITTLE BUGGERS!
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folklife at baker sounds just about perfect, much easier for us bellinghamsters to get our pot on. Not that we need an excuse.
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Dan, typically I love you. I mean LOVE you. You're witty, and smart, and generally I agree with you. I don't always, but you've never made me mad before. But this comment: "My kid goes to an extremely exclusive and supremely fancy private school, of course, the kind of place where public school students are served up in mince pies for lunch." pisses me off. You sound like an elitist dick. Sure, it's great that you can afford to send your kid to private school. But for those that can't fork over the $15,000 plus every year and are forced to put their kids (or their foster kids) into the rotting public school system where the classes are overcrowded, the teachers are tuned out and the city's plans of closing more schools to make the public school system worse, you're being a jackass.
Have a little consideration for those who don't have a cushy job in this shitty economy (or any job at all).
Have a little consideration for those who don't have a cushy job in this shitty economy (or any job at all).
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I thought the bit about the exclusive private school was an attempt to disarm the elitist attacks that would have come otherwise. I don't think Dan is pulling in the kind of cash that the rude comments would warrant. Though, maybe he wipes his ass with fluffy paper made of money.
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Help - we lost power (again) and the Seattle City Light outage numbers DON'T WORK or are closed. And, we are not on the outage list.
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The comment would have made Swift proud.
Dan's a nationally syndicated columnist on top of being editorial director for The Stranger. In other words, he ain't missing any meals - unless it's by choice to keep that girlish figger.
His success is part luck (right place, right time, struck a pulse) and part achievement. More importantly, it's deserved and well-earned.
Dan's a nationally syndicated columnist on top of being editorial director for The Stranger. In other words, he ain't missing any meals - unless it's by choice to keep that girlish figger.
His success is part luck (right place, right time, struck a pulse) and part achievement. More importantly, it's deserved and well-earned.
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@16, I just called the outage hotline and it is working. The number is 684-7400. It's just taking a long time to pick up.
There are outages up in Lake Forest, but nothing new. Just how "north of northgate" are you?
There are outages up in Lake Forest, but nothing new. Just how "north of northgate" are you?
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i didn't realize that douchebag dan had picked up a meteorology degree, so please tell me why the temperature has dropped 6° here in north seattle since it was posted, mr. expert.
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Luna.sea @13:
Your sense of humor seems to be broken. When Dan says something over the top like "extremely exclusive and supremely fancy private school", he is a) mocking the private school parents who actually are arrogant and smug, and b) poking fun at himself for sending his kid to a private school.
Your sense of humor seems to be broken. When Dan says something over the top like "extremely exclusive and supremely fancy private school", he is a) mocking the private school parents who actually are arrogant and smug, and b) poking fun at himself for sending his kid to a private school.
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I feel sorry for your child -- many of the public schools here are far superior to the private ones -- and for the record, I ate the private school kids for breakfast, not the other way around...
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@ 25 As a private school kid, I can confirm this. The public school kids ate us for breakfast--especially those of us who had the misfortune to be wearing all-brown school uniforms.
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We beat the shit out of private school kids all the time. Now one of those private school kids works as my maid.
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Reality Check, still in her Catholic plaid? For $300/hour? Yeah, she works for me, too.
Works me over, that is!
Works me over, that is!
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"A pair of hop-a-long boots and a pistol that shoots
Is the wish of Barney and Ben;
Dolls that will talk and will go for a walk
Is the hope of Janice and Jen;
And Mom (or in this case, Dad) and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again. "
Ah Christmas songs, is there any life situation they don't address?
Is the wish of Barney and Ben;
Dolls that will talk and will go for a walk
Is the hope of Janice and Jen;
And Mom (or in this case, Dad) and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again. "
Ah Christmas songs, is there any life situation they don't address?
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stupid kids remain stupid - desk space and location does not matter much
for many, private school is for the parents sake
we were poor growing up - sure never hurt my brain
for many, private school is for the parents sake
we were poor growing up - sure never hurt my brain
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So much for Dan's theory about shootings and snowstorms. Bizarre, and very sad.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/lo…
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/lo…
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@ 22 - I finally got through at 6 AM. Rumor is that the City Light back-up servers for the phones failed last night and many calls did not go through. Once the report was in, it took less than three hours to restore power.
Pinehurst - just north of Northgate.
Pinehurst - just north of Northgate.
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Ya know, if Dan said the sky was blue some people would argue that he picked the wrong color. I'm a public school teacher and I got the tongue in cheek joke. The "checked out teachers" comment pissed me off though.
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