Housing Bubble, credit bubble, public planning, land use, zoning and transportation in the exurban environment. Specific criticism of smart growth, neotradtional, forms based, new urbanism and other top down planner schemes to increase urban extent and density. Ventura County, California specific examples.
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
DC where the problem(s) started
The cherry trees in full bloom. Crowds to rival Disneyland. The printing presses running flat out to paper over the housing bubble so it can be paid back in Pesodollars. Returning from the Kennedy Center for a play. Kultur, or as close as I ever get at least.
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Sure would be the right thing if I got Steph J to come first.
2nd!
As young master Serin didn't get around to approving my comment with a photoshop link in it yesterday, I thought I'd post it here before it got lost to posterity.
http://img502.imageshack.us/my.php?image=caseyballrm8.jpg
Ah
::sniffs the air::
Fresh Post!
Was getting stale.
How are the kidlings enjoying DC?
I'll forgive you as long as you don't forget about me later. ::arched brow::
Umm, guys, I don't have a subscription to CNBC... Is anyone willing and able to record the Suze Orman Serin Smackdown and either post a torrent or put it on Googletube?
Would any of the more vigilant and devoted KC followers happen to have a link to the post/comment in which he stated that Galina had been attending U.C. Davis before they married?
Welcome to La-La land! The trees seemed especially crowded this year.
Akubi: searching Davis site:iamfacingforeclosure.com turned it up here:
She went to UC Davis for a year and a half before we got married. When we got married she took a break because we moved around and her parents withdrew their support.
Also in the same results: in retrospect, Galina's 2007 goals seem as unachievable now as Casey's passive-income fantasies always were:
1. Save her credit - no late marks and no BK!!
2. Pay off her 27K of debt ASAP
3. Have 12K set aside for a year of school at UC Davis which she will transfer to in the summer
4. Stable income - what I have right now doesn’t feel stable to her
Arugh..I'm watching the latest "Deadliest Catch". Missed that first...
4. Stable income - what I have right now doesn’t feel stable to her
NO_SHIT!
lawnmower man,
Thanks for reminding me that my memory isn't failing me. Would you mind posting that info in the comments of http://12yearsofbeingannoyedbychloesevigny.blogspot.com/2007/04/send-galina-serin-to-prison.html
?
Check out comment 70 on the anniversary posting on IAFF..
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Yes, Galina DID agree to allow me to start using her name on the blog. She realized that everybody knows it already. It’s better for me to use her full name on THIS blog. That way when somebody Googles her up I will most likely come up first. This way I can somewhat control what is being said.
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Fat chance KC!
"Galina Serin fraud" on Google doesn't even show IAFF on the first few pages.
It's times like these tht all we early haterz™ feel vindicated. She/they are so much worse off now 6 months later than if he had just gone tango uniform last September. Time for a little harsh language. The arrogant prick has been burning through OUR money all this time and living in denial.
D.C is great. Haven't been to the Air&Space yet thus for me the trip is still incomplete. I keep trying to take pictures but as you can see all these damn pink trees all over the place. The freakin' Hyatt 4 blocks from the Capitol charges 79¢/min for internet. You might want to express your displeasure if this has caused EN withdrawl. The nice Holiday Inn however has wonderfully lax security and that's how I am posting this morning. My little wireless vaccuum widget is fun to watch as we travel and it picks up sometimes 40 different routers at once.
Rain today, Arlington, Iwo Jima, National Archives. Back to abnormal in a few days hang in there.
Once again, Casey returns for more hardcore hot-and-heavy trolling action.
Casey also proves that there is nothing and noone that he won't sell out for hits on IAFF.
So now that the novelty has worn off the monkey dance and the hater interview, how long before Casey throws out an interview with Galina as bait to keep us staring? Who will lay odds?
Our Boy really has a future writing soap operas or something.
Sixteenth!
I hoped you enjoyed those Cherry Blossoms Rob Dawg, cause I am cutting them down tomorrow. I spent 45 minutes in traffic around the Mall/Tidal Basin trying to get to East Potomac golf course during rush hour yesterday, and then another 35 minutes getting back to Dupont Circle. Misery.
Cough...
Rob, so youre in DC now.
Aight, drinks on me at the exchange.
caseyserininfo@yahoo.com
Welcome to D.C.!
I am two blocks from the museums on the Mall, but I won't rain on your vacation, the weather did that already. I'm wondering if the thunderstorm that rumbled through Maryland last night also took some of the blossoms off, but I'll take a look at the Tidal Basin later and find out. Spring is extremely short in D.C., it seems to go straight from winter to summer--and back to winter for a bit here and there, as we'll be finding out this weekend.
@Jefe: Anyone driving within a mile of the downtown during this time of year better have a LOT of spare time on their hands.
PV,
Good to know of another Exurban DC-ite. Im telling you guys, we're gonna do a HH one day when the weather is finally nice and predictable.
Drive? Thats why Metro is actually good around here.
Postscript: Air and Space Museum is nice, but all I've got to say is, I hope you like kids . . . lots and lots and lots of kids. Peak tourist season plus bad weather equals REALLY crowded museums, since no one's going to want to spend much time outdoors.
I'm usually happy to show friends and family around, although I like to insist that we all wear matching oversized t-shirts, "Ponce de Leon Middle School Political Club Washington Class Trip '07", I haven't gotten a really favorably response on that one yet :D .
Not sure where you're staying, Rob, or if this is useful anymore, but here's a map of DC wifi hotspots:
http://hotspotr.com/wifi/map/63-washington-dc
Rob,
welcome to DC. PV is right about the air and space museum. it will be a sea of tourist today. thousands of japanese too. they tend to collect into hoards the size of a small country and move together as if one mass.
Here's a scary thought.
Could fliptard jr. have been conceived last night...the eve of three years of flipping bliss?
I don't think so since fliptard Sr. was busy commenting at 11:45 and putting up his new post at 12:15 a.m.
Post coital blogging?
@RBoy & PV
Down here in the Shenandoah Valley we see a few Japanese tourists but it's nothing like it is on The Mall.
If you put a HH together I might be in (I have been putting off driving up there to do some marginal errands...I really have gotten spoiled with real exurban living
@Dawg
If you stop in at the Valley on this trip, post and let us know...someone's got to point you in the direction of the not so touristy but cool stuff there is to do here
if we're to do something, whats the date on the muncy foreclosure?
24? Yeah, that could be a good date
Hey Dawg - welcome to my hood. Quite a storm we put on last night - bet there's no blossoms left. :-(
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