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RANDOM LINKS FOR 5/5/12

May 5th, 2012 by Clark Humphrey

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The resurgent micro-car movement has a new achievement, theÂ micro RV!
Lightning, mudslides. Just another mid-spring day in Seattle.
Gov. Gregoire takes the bold step of insisting Wash. state needs new tax revenue, now that she’s no longer running for anything.
A (female) anti-choice activist was invited to speak at the UW by campus Catholics. The lecture’s deliberately provocative title: “Do Women Have Too Many Rights?”. Pro-choice women, naturally, showed up to protest and to put the truth to the speaker’s lies. Things did not go smoothly.
Roger Valdez at the Seattle Transit Blog suggests citizens take control of preserving neighborhood landmarks by getting together to buy them.
Developers of the big (175-foot) waterfront ferris wheel are making sure it’ll attract riders year round. Riders will be in “enclosed gondolas, equipped with heating and air conditioning.”
Darn, those proposed new Amazon office towers would be mighty big n’ slick.
Boeing’s Wash. state employment may peak this year at about 83,000, then dwindle.
Health Scare of the Day: Wazzu researchers believe exposure to toxic chemicals might lead to a risk of ovarian cancer, a risk that could be passed on to your great-granddaughters.
It’s the end of an era for non-NY/LA/SF based national media. Playboy is moving its last Chicago-based operations to LA. The Chicago Tribune even published an editorial about it.
I don’t always follow ’em, but you might try blogger Barb Sawyers’ “15 Ways to Write Tight.”
The Starz series Magic City is having a hard time finding actresses and extras in Miami who could pass for women living in 1959 (i.e., without implants).
I was at the Prole Drift art gallery this past First Thursday. Saw a big painting of what looked a lot like a dead mall. A desolate exurban landscape. A big, nearly empty parking lot. Long, lo-rise buildings with neither windows nor signs. A main entrance at the center. I told the gallery owners I was in a Facebook group of dead mall enthusiasts. They quickly told me the painting was really of a modern prison.

buddy bunting, via prole drift gallery

3 Responses

Ellen Moran writes:
May 7th, 20124:31 amat

Looking for a previously published article called Which Loss Is Worse by Jennifer Velasco.
Clark Humphrey writes:
May 7th, 201210:20 amat

It’s at http://www.miscmedia.com/2001/09/01/which-loss-is-worse/
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