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News & ArtsThursday, December 31, 2009
City Amanda Knox Park on Hold
Posted by Dominic Holden on Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 2:13 PM
Slog tipper Gordon directs us to the news:
The murder trial of University of Washington student Amanda Knox has nixed plans to name a new Seattle park after the Italian city where she was tried and convicted.The city on Wednesday announced the park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood would be called Perugia Park, named after Seattle's sister city.
On Thursday, the city reversed course.
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From: http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlo… we get these priceless words of wisdom:
"One of my advisors will be an average five-year-old child. Any flaws in my plan that he is able to spot will be corrected before implementation."
OK, evil overlords can get by with a 5 year old. I'd guess that Parks might need, say, a twelve-year-old to keep them rooted in reality.
BTW It was doubly insensitive to propose naming a Capitol Hill park after a place Seattleites associate with a horrible murder on the day before the 2nd anniversary of the murder of Shannon Harps.
"One of my advisors will be an average five-year-old child. Any flaws in my plan that he is able to spot will be corrected before implementation."
OK, evil overlords can get by with a 5 year old. I'd guess that Parks might need, say, a twelve-year-old to keep them rooted in reality.
BTW It was doubly insensitive to propose naming a Capitol Hill park after a place Seattleites associate with a horrible murder on the day before the 2nd anniversary of the murder of Shannon Harps.
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Just use the convention by which subdivisions are named. Name it after the thing you have ruined, removed, or displaced, i.e. Shady Grove, Mountain View, Peaceful Valley, etc...
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So now we have to find a sister city in which no Seattleite was found to have murdered even one person? That's not going to be easy.
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Any way we can do a public initiative to have it named either Shannon Harps Memorial Park or Purple Mark Park?
Then the Parks Board can sit on it. And whine about it endlessly.
Then the Parks Board can sit on it. And whine about it endlessly.
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Naming it Perugia in the first place is less stupid than changing it now.
Is it somebody's job to care about shit like this?
Is it somebody's job to care about shit like this?
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@16 - yeah, the Stranger.
Cause the Suburban Times rarely covers building/architectural issues that matter to anyone who lives in Seattle, and there are only so many PI people to go around. So the Stranger cares about it for us. Cause, face it, as daily papers go, the Times sucks big time.
Cause the Suburban Times rarely covers building/architectural issues that matter to anyone who lives in Seattle, and there are only so many PI people to go around. So the Stranger cares about it for us. Cause, face it, as daily papers go, the Times sucks big time.
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@6,8 - it's a Diamond lot, so maybe....like, Diamond IS a pretty name for a park....it's right across the street from my house, and I really don't enjoy saying the work Perugia, honestly.
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So now Perugia is a bad place name because someone got murdered there? It's a very beautiful city that Seattle has a city sister relationship with, so why not? Why Shannon Harps? She was murdered as well (and may she rest in peace). Honestly, name it what you will but don't blame an entire city for one person's act.
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Not naming it Perugia Park because something bad happened in Perugia is like not naming a park Central because people get murdered there. You deciders have lost your battle with la grippe.
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The outcry on other logs is big time - the name is not popular.
Try again. Not complicated.
I like Vacant Lot Park - truth telling and most likely the slang in the vicinity.
And in the end/ this is a postage stamp that is of small, tiny, import ... THERE, Tiny Park ...
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, which means going back to my nap, post big night of drunken fun, fun, fun, fun.
(here is a better topic:
Why does a good drunken party always end with hours of great drunken sex ... other nights, not hardly ever. Hmmmmm )
Try again. Not complicated.
I like Vacant Lot Park - truth telling and most likely the slang in the vicinity.
And in the end/ this is a postage stamp that is of small, tiny, import ... THERE, Tiny Park ...
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, which means going back to my nap, post big night of drunken fun, fun, fun, fun.
(here is a better topic:
Why does a good drunken party always end with hours of great drunken sex ... other nights, not hardly ever. Hmmmmm )
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Amanda Knox Park????????? WTF?????? So the chick killed some girl in Italy, why not still name the park after our sister city? By the time the park gets built people will forget all about Amanda as she sits in a proson cell in Italy.
What a stupid news story.
What a stupid news story.
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#7/Dwight Moody: "Perugia just sounds terrible. Sorry Italy, you're not always mellifluous."
I agree. I realize it was chosen because it's a sister city, and I'm sure it's a very picturesque city, but, like you, I don't find the sound of Perugia appealing. (On the other hand, I'd take Perugia over Sihanoukville.)
But to not name it Perugia Park "due community concerns . . . on the heels of the recent verdict in the criminal case involving Seattle resident Amanda Knox"?
That is SO Seattle.
I agree. I realize it was chosen because it's a sister city, and I'm sure it's a very picturesque city, but, like you, I don't find the sound of Perugia appealing. (On the other hand, I'd take Perugia over Sihanoukville.)
But to not name it Perugia Park "due community concerns . . . on the heels of the recent verdict in the criminal case involving Seattle resident Amanda Knox"?
That is SO Seattle.
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This is just the latest installment in a cross-cultural tug-of-war. Seattle hates Perugia because the court found Amanda guilty of murder. Perugia hates Amanda because she thought she could get away with sex. You could predict something like this was going to happen if you look at the famous photograph, "American Girl in Italy." There's more on my blog at http://www.cornichon.org/2009/12/america…
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#26/Cornichon,
Seattle hates Perugia because the court found Amanda guilty of murder. True. It's your basic "one-of-us-couldn't-possibly-have-done-that" tribalism, the same kind of tribalism that lead parents to deny their child could do anything wrong and the same kind of tribalism that leads many Muslims to deny that the 9/11 terrorists were Muslims. Not everyone in Seattle, of course, feels she's innocent merely because she's from here.
Perugia hates Amanda because she thought she could get away with sex. Sorry, but that's absurd. If she had been convicted and her Italian boyfriend acquitted, one could make a case that the Italians "had it in for the American." But Sollecito was convicted too.
By the way, nice blog. I've been to Venice twice but never had cicchetti there, so I'm looking forward to trying the new restaurant.
Seattle hates Perugia because the court found Amanda guilty of murder. True. It's your basic "one-of-us-couldn't-possibly-have-done-that" tribalism, the same kind of tribalism that lead parents to deny their child could do anything wrong and the same kind of tribalism that leads many Muslims to deny that the 9/11 terrorists were Muslims. Not everyone in Seattle, of course, feels she's innocent merely because she's from here.
Perugia hates Amanda because she thought she could get away with sex. Sorry, but that's absurd. If she had been convicted and her Italian boyfriend acquitted, one could make a case that the Italians "had it in for the American." But Sollecito was convicted too.
By the way, nice blog. I've been to Venice twice but never had cicchetti there, so I'm looking forward to trying the new restaurant.
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