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RANDOM LINKS FOR 9/22/11

September 21st, 2011 by Clark Humphrey

from 62worldsfair.com

Joel Connelly looks back at the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, whose 50th anniversary looms. He sees a city then and now insecurely seeking validation from outside, yearning to be “put on the map.”
Neighborhood activists on Beacon Hill want to create an “edible landscape” area in Jefferson Park, full of fruit-bearing trees and shrubs.
The City of Seattle wanted to lease Building 11 at Magnuson Park, now used as art studios and a kayak shop, to a commercial developer. Then it changed its collective mind and put conditions on the deal, designed to help current tenants keep their spaces. The developer’s suing.
The Washington State Liquor Stores’ top sellers include the cheap stuff, flavored vodka, and Jaegermeister.
A hundred people demonstrated near the ex-WaMu HQ against corporate tax breaks (state level).
R.E.M., which became a “half Seattle band” in the mid 1990s, is finally calling it a day.
Headline of the day (by Nick Eaton): “Blue screen of death is a little cuter in Windows 8.”
Amanda Marcotte believes far-right “tea party” congresscritters and supporters are so sociopathic because they come fromÂ the suburbs. I believe that’s a lame excuse. There are caring, uncaring, and violently anti-caring people everywhere.
There’s something really, really fun this Saturday, if you haven’t already heard. And there will be only caring people at it.