Saturday, June 03, 2006

Just wow.

Within a week of each other, this and this. What the hell is wrong with Washington these days? Everything will be fucking illegal soon. Aren't we supposed to be liberals up here?

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Thursday, May 18, 2006

NERRRRRDS

This article has come to my attention, presenting examples of real estate developers in Seattle getting considerable tax breaks for making "affordable" apartments available. The catch: "affordable" rent is defined as starting around $900 for a one-bedroom. It makes me question such homesickness I have for my hometown, especially when up in Bellingham I am able to find a four-bedroom house on a 1/2 acre property for $1250 a month.

But much more important than all that, the article mentions one such new building that will include these tax-relief projects, a building that is to be called Lothlorien, and will be on the 4700 block of University Way. This will make two buildings in the University District, in fact within no more than four blocks of each other, named after sites in Fellowship of the Ring. The other has been around I'm not sure how long on 15th Ave NE, and is called Rivendell. It's official then, the Eldar have captured the U-District. The University itself will change its name to Eregion, and the Safeco building will soon be renamed Barad-Dûr, being a den of great evil. Or maybe Mordor is in fact Pullman, in the desert far to the east? That would make all Seattle Eriador, and the Waterfront the Grey Havens on the Gulf of Lune (though I shudder to think that this might make Bremerton Eressëa).

Of course, clearly these developers don't know anything about Middle-Earth, as 15th is east of the Ave, whereas Rivendell is west of Lorien. Fools.

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