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.
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Reap, Sow
This is at the entrance ti th National Archives. Appropriate?
Inscription reads: The Heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
Coincidentally, that's also the building where a 40 year old intern was recently arrested for stealing & Ebaying Civil War documents. He'll probably get more time than Sandy Berger did for smuggling out classified documents in his socks & then shredding.
I'm not sure how I feel about a society where admitting your crimes (a la Snowflake) seems to absolve you but getting caught out gets you hard time.
Our society seems to grant absolution in exchange for a little public humilation and a trip to rehab. Congressman flirts with teenage male pages? Public apology and a stint in rehab. Miss America makes a drunken spectacle of herself? Goes to rehab, keeps the crown. Actor makes racist or homophobic comments? See you in rehab! Drinking on the job? Can't get fired if you admit you have a problem and send yourself off to rehab.
Our pal Casey seems to have the public humiliation part pretty well covered.
It's probably true. I imagine a great many societal problems can be traced to the fact that our view of society is grounded in small community agrarian lifestyles, but most of us live in big metroplexes.
Not that I advocate a return to small village merry olde englande, just that some of our attitudes don't help us function as a group in NYCs exurbs very well.
You can always add Flavorade, iced tea, potatoes and rice to your diet.
And to you h8trz who insist that Casey pay for his crime: first you should all pay for all of your crimes. That's right: all of the under aged drinking, pot smoking, speeders, sidewalk spitters, tax cheating, produce-section nibblers -- line up here.
Re: >>And to you h8trz who insist that Casey pay for his crime: first you should all pay for all of your crimes.<<
No. We were not dumb enough to tell the world. We did not scream from the rooftops about our rake attacks against your garage door. We did not purchase an ad mentioning that we took liberties with your niece when she was visiting from Catholic girl school. We did not mention, in an internationally-visible forum, that we concealed from the IRS last year nine hundred and forty-thousand dollars of income, and we did not phone up the local NEWS TEAM to inform them of the dead hookers buried under our driveway. We need not pay for our crimes. However, the profoundly retardulated, who advertise their crimes on AMERICAN IDOL - those filthy Uzbeks need to be put in federal butt-stretcher prison and have the entire, intact Linda Blair shoved up their colons.
Casey Fannn… Vista is not currently allowing me to access your 8:50 film, but if it has anything to do with Pat Benatar perhaps that’s for the best (ridiculously absurd memory of the school bus driver who was a huge fan and I finally told him I was sick and tired of hearing the same old songs over and over again yet he continued to do so) so I decided to prove my point by beating up clueless kids on the bus (long story) until it created enough of a problem to create a change...Never had to listen to Benatar afterwards:).
In preparation for the oncoming economic collapse, I eat macaroni and cheese on a daily basis. I buy so much at Safeway I get free movie tickets in return. I eat it for lunch at work and my boss says “Let me guess, Mac and Cheese with cottage cheese (protein) again…” Govt jobs pay shit and the benefits suck until you retire (and that’s when they become a SWEET deal – also they’re stable). Nonetheless, it provides plenty of time to stew about how completely f-ed up everything is.
Great film, but uh, where's Chicago? One of my favorite cities. Man they really captured a lot of them though. I've lived in a few. San Francisco...to the T. New York a little exaggerated.
Too bad I can't watch the film, but I find that these days there really isn't much of a difference between major cities - other than the food really sucks in the ones that aren't in the Bay Area. When I travel I like to go out to eat (make up for mac & cheese existence) and nothing compares to the SF Bay Area restaurants.
I have a feeling not to many more firsts for me. I'm going to be taking a bunch of time off the next couple of weeks to get ready for the Oregon Offshore and Swiftsure yacht races. I have a ton of stuff in the pipeline that I need to close out. Time to bust some fucking heads and make some escrow people cry.
Snowflake will never change until he is in prison. Take that to the bank.
Aspeth, I love those skeletons. It adds to the overall poetry of this blog.
Yachts, TS? They don't seem the most energy efficient form of transport, but everyone I've encountered has a really SWEET bar and appetizers. I should move to Oregon with all of the kool people (seriously).
Sailing...not power..And this one is pretty stripped down. No bar, freeze dried appetizers, no heater. OO is from Astoria OR to Victoria BC. Takes 3-4 days. Swiftsure (Driftsure) is an out and back race in Victoria BC. Out the Strait of Juan de Fuca and back. Then comes the monumental spool up to TransPac. Not sure if I'm going on that one or not yet. Kind of depends on some family stuff.
Nice chart. That pretty much sums up my IAFF experience. Lately, I get all the goods here. I'll give Snowflake a visit here and there but that's it. What's the point really? It's not like he's gonna change. We've pretty much proven that. Hence the whoring of Galina. It's the only thing he's got left. She better get on her knees pretty quick because the clock is ticking on that as well. He's fucked off everyone who's tried to bring exactly what he's looking for. Shit, he even broke up with Nigel. I still can't believe that! Nope, IAFF is done, put a fork in it. All that's left is the perp walk.
This is at the entrance ti th National Archives. Appropriate?
35 comments:
Behold! I am Ozymandias, first of firsts.
Fir.... DRAT!
Coincidentally, that's also the building where a 40 year old intern was recently arrested for stealing & Ebaying Civil War documents.
He'll probably get more time than Sandy Berger did for smuggling out classified documents in his socks & then shredding.
I'm not sure how I feel about a society where admitting your crimes (a la Snowflake) seems to absolve you but getting caught out gets you hard time.
i'm ok with 4th.
I'm listening to the T / Casey conversation...
"I can't eat Top Ramen for a month--it's unhealthy!"
Boo freaking hoo. He should try eating prison food, not for a month, but for a few years.
Our society seems to grant absolution in exchange for a little public humilation and a trip to rehab. Congressman flirts with teenage male pages? Public apology and a stint in rehab. Miss America makes a drunken spectacle of herself? Goes to rehab, keeps the crown. Actor makes racist or homophobic comments? See you in rehab! Drinking on the job? Can't get fired if you admit you have a problem and send yourself off to rehab.
Our pal Casey seems to have the public humiliation part pretty well covered.
It's probably true. I imagine a great many societal problems can be traced to the fact that our view of society is grounded in small community agrarian lifestyles, but most of us live in big metroplexes.
Not that I advocate a return to small village merry olde englande, just that some of our attitudes don't help us function as a group in NYCs exurbs very well.
7th!
Shit, Vista must have made me 8th.
"a 40 year old intern"
WTF?
"I can't eat Top Ramen for a month..."
You can always add Flavorade, iced tea, potatoes and rice to your diet.
And to you h8trz who insist that Casey pay for his crime: first you should all pay for all of your crimes. That's right: all of the under aged drinking, pot smoking, speeders, sidewalk spitters, tax cheating, produce-section nibblers -- line up here.
Hope this doesn’t come across to MisoSoupGymnast for the PC police, but my current theory is that Galina is the Karl Rove to Casey’s George W.
Is anyone here interested in cities talking to other cities?
See it, free.
Re:
>>And to you h8trz who insist that Casey pay for his crime: first you should all pay for all of your crimes.<<
No. We were not dumb enough to tell the world. We did not scream from the rooftops about our rake attacks against your garage door. We did not purchase an ad mentioning that we took liberties with your niece when she was visiting from Catholic girl school. We did not mention, in an internationally-visible forum, that we concealed from the IRS last year nine hundred and forty-thousand dollars of income, and we did not phone up the local NEWS TEAM to inform them of the dead hookers buried under our driveway. We need not pay for our crimes. However, the profoundly retardulated, who advertise their crimes on AMERICAN IDOL - those filthy Uzbeks need to be put in federal butt-stretcher prison and have the entire, intact Linda Blair shoved up their colons.
@Casey Fannnnn
!WOWZERS!
Casey Fannn…
Vista is not currently allowing me to access your 8:50 film, but if it has anything to do with Pat Benatar perhaps that’s for the best (ridiculously absurd memory of the school bus driver who was a huge fan and I finally told him I was sick and tired of hearing the same old songs over and over again yet he continued to do so) so I decided to prove my point by beating up clueless kids on the bus (long story) until it created enough of a problem to create a change...Never had to listen to Benatar afterwards:).
In preparation for the oncoming economic collapse, I eat macaroni and cheese on a daily basis. I buy so much at Safeway I get free movie tickets in return. I eat it for lunch at work and my boss says “Let me guess, Mac and Cheese with cottage cheese (protein) again…” Govt jobs pay shit and the benefits suck until you retire (and that’s when they become a SWEET deal – also they’re stable). Nonetheless, it provides plenty of time to stew about how completely f-ed up everything is.
Casey Fannnnn
Great film, but uh, where's Chicago? One of my favorite cities. Man they really captured a lot of them though. I've lived in a few. San Francisco...to the T. New York a little exaggerated.
Too bad I can't watch the film, but I find that these days there really isn't much of a difference between major cities - other than the food really sucks in the ones that aren't in the Bay Area. When I travel I like to go out to eat (make up for mac & cheese existence) and nothing compares to the SF Bay Area restaurants.
I have a feeling not to many more firsts for me. I'm going to be taking a bunch of time off the next couple of weeks to get ready for the Oregon Offshore and Swiftsure yacht races. I have a ton of stuff in the pipeline that I need to close out. Time to bust some fucking heads and make some escrow people cry.
Snowflake will never change until he is in prison. Take that to the bank.
Batten down the hatches, Oregon. Tones is about to cross into the state.
@Casey Fannnn 9:06...Holy FUCK you've got some skeletons in your closet! I'm starting to think they're literal. ;-)
Aspeth, I love those skeletons. It adds to the overall poetry of this blog.
Yachts, TS? They don't seem the most energy efficient form of transport, but everyone I've encountered has a really SWEET bar and appetizers. I should move to Oregon with all of the kool people (seriously).
I am saving up for my own personal submarine.
Good. I'm saving for an island. You can come visit. Call first or my heavily-armed guerilla team will be forced to fire on your submarine ass.
@ Akubi
Sailing...not power..And this one is pretty stripped down. No bar, freeze dried appetizers, no heater. OO is from Astoria OR to Victoria BC. Takes 3-4 days. Swiftsure (Driftsure) is an out and back race in Victoria BC. Out the Strait of Juan de Fuca and back. Then comes the monumental spool up to TransPac. Not sure if I'm going on that one or not yet. Kind of depends on some family stuff.
Wow check out the scary traffic chart for IAFF.
Looks like a couple of foreclosure monsters com'n to getya.
http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s27iamfacingforeclosurecom&r=33
Nice chart. That pretty much sums up my IAFF experience. Lately, I get all the goods here. I'll give Snowflake a visit here and there but that's it. What's the point really? It's not like he's gonna change. We've pretty much proven that. Hence the whoring of Galina. It's the only thing he's got left. She better get on her knees pretty quick because the clock is ticking on that as well. He's fucked off everyone who's tried to bring exactly what he's looking for. Shit, he even broke up with Nigel. I still can't believe that! Nope, IAFF is done, put a fork in it. All that's left is the perp walk.
What if Galina posed in various stages of undress and Casey charged for seeing those photos much like a porn site would?
She could do Hustler/Playboy style come hither/look at my poosy type poses and I bet he could easily make some bank AND get traffic back up.
Why not? I'd pay to look at least once!
thirty FIRST!!
Hey guys, site meter does a running count of the month in progress, so those April numbers are for the first 4 days of the month.
LAST.
Nope, I am!
LAST!
hee hee heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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