Hello, I’m: Trying My Best

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

Even when the laundry was shared for our apartment building, it was crazy expensive. When we had to haul laundry to and from a laundromat, the time commitment plus expense was maddening.
I will never take for granted the significance of being able to run a load while cooking dinner, etc.

I love Bulworth! Truly the most re-watchable Beatty classic.

Apparently, I misunderstood the level of car-centering from the original authors with 3 lanes of traffic each direction moving at 45-55 mph (72-88 km/h). The images and discussion I had seen looked like light rail, 1 lane of traffic, parking, bike lanes, al fresco dining patios, and sidewalk.

Cody Gakpo with great movement and a beautiful strike. Whether in red or orange I love watching him, Virg, and Grav on the pitch together. #NEDFIN #YNWA

Wow. I did not realize these were intended to be SO wide. The angled images from the imagined sidewalk view made it look like either 2 lanes or a lane + parking between the central transit space and bike lanes.

"Make cities safe and fun for kids to run around and play in" is a pretty good guiding light for urban planning

This is a great approach but still presumes that major arterials like Wilshire in L.A. need to exist to support car traffic at all. Prioritizing public transit (preferably light rail) and active transport eliminates the noise and pollution, while making these modes more effective and appealing.

This is my feeling too. We need a belt and suspenders approach to housing affordability and access.
Converting arterials and urban surface highways to “grand boulevards” with high(er) density mixed use construction, slower speed limits, and multi-modal transport would still be a win.

Why Police Unions Are Not Like Other Unions In the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, news reports have suggested that police unions bear some of the responsibility for the violence perpetrated against Af...

Police “union” is such an incredible misnomer. Officers are not workers, they are enforcers for Capital and traditional power structures.

A Mr. Rogers sweater celebrating Mr. Rogers would be great.

Lose That Girl or Been So Long

Stroller and shopping trolley. One or the other in San Francisco wasn’t bad but seeing women (always women) struggling with both was wild. People looked at me like I was crazy for getting out of my seat to help usually too.

You may be stretching the definition of “functional” a bit here.
I have had almost this exact interaction, in this same place, at least a half dozen times.

Does “Mrs Wagon the elder” know about “Mrs Wagon the youngest”?
Punctuation saves marriages.

“In order to create public transit and bike infrastructure we need to close car lanes and eliminate parking spaces but, until the public transit and bike infrastructure is there, people won’t support closing car lanes and eliminating parking spaces…”

That is incredibly stupid and shortsighted of them. Along with higher overall vaccination rates being the best way of protecting those with pre-existing conditions or those who can’t have the shots, vaccines provide the best return on investment possible for a health system.

Wait… NHS doesn’t cover vaccines?!

I have never before laughed as hard as I laughed throughout Ashley Gavin’s show at The Neptune tonight.

If you are easily offended you might not want to go. If you enjoy saying dirty shit and laughing along with a bunch of smiling lesbians though, find a way to a show. You won’t regret it.

I always thought Idaho was known for neo-Nazis.

You’re a good man, Will. #YNWA

Upzoning, and code reform that allows multi-family housing (at least up to 8 flats) to be built more affordably are more important than any other factors being discussed. Right now single-family homes or massive apartment buildings full of studios and 1-bed units are all that pencil for developers.

That’s incredible. I’ve seen mason bees get pretty well covered, but that looks caked on in layers.

Ocean fit better to me between It Used To Be Me and Treasure. This made for a great music day. Thanks!

@olderbrothersam.bsky.social Jupiter Crash was absolutely added back in as well.

I replaced Ocean and The 13th with This Is A Lie and really enjoyed it.

I’m going to have to try out your track order in the morning

We’re never going to have a comprehensive subway network a la Paris, nor do we currently have a great urban walking culture that would support development of a subway system.
Street-level rail transit wherever possible if how we build that culture. Make it easy to hop on and hop off.

Seattle is so short-sighted. Alaskan Way was the perfect opportunity to center public transit and active transportation options, as was all the work that was done on 2nd Ave through Belltown in years past. There is no better way to highlight the tourism business appeal of an area.

3IB and Wild Mood Swings are both great as well but less complete albums in my mind than the others.