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RANDOM LINKS FOR 6/26/13

June 25th, 2013 by Clark Humphrey

As I obliquely mentioned previously, I’m in search of a new abode. The building I’ve been in for the past eight years is being upscaled out of my league. I could live, I suppose, in one of these newfangled “tiny homes.” But I’d need a place to put it, that’s not way out in the woods. I’m a “city mouse.”
The Pike Place Market’s powers-that-be want a fancy new structure to connect the Market to the new Seattle waterfront “improvements.” So far, the planned bazaar-food court looks exactly like you’d expect it toâ€””world class,” pompous, and soulless.
Brewster C. Denny, 1925-2013: The great-grandson of one of Seattle’s first white settlers was also one of the last people here with an “institutional memory” of the region and how it is, and has been, run. He directed the UW’s public-affairs school, then became a professional “networker,” fundraiser, and Democratic Party operative.
The “University of Nike” is about to get major NCAA football sanctions.
What happens when a respected but fiscally troubled small book publisher sells out to new guys, who want to pay a lot less to the publisher’s established authors? Said authors fight back and force an at-least-somewhat-better deal.
The Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup with what, to my viewing history of the game, was a firstâ€”an “empty net” ploy that actually led to a tying goal, with the winning goal promptly following.
Eco-Scare of the Week: What if a forest fire burned the radioactive trees surrounding Chernobyl?
Those-Kids-Today Scare of the Week #1: “Digital Dementia,” supposedly occurring among kids who rely on electronics to remind them of everything.
Those-Kids-Today Scare of the Week #2: “Smoking alcohol.”
The Miss USA Pageant’s state/local franchisees sometimes employ some of thoseÂ “model management” hustlers who demand sexual favors from young models looking for work.
That “Russian Tampon Commercial” viral video? It’s a fake. It’s from Movie 43, that sketch-comedy film nobody saw.
Finally, some handwritten outline charts for famous books.

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One Response

Art Marriott aka "ArtFart" writes:
June 26th, 201312:25 pmat

Clark,

Regarding the re-do of the Pike Place Market “hillclimb”…building a modern structure might come across better in the end than attempting something new that attempts to synthesize the original market buildings’ weathered grunge. It also might make better use of the view and facilitate easier accommodation for those who aren’t physically able to climb a couple hundred steps. They did something similar in SoCal some years back, constructing a modern (and profitable) shopping mall that’s not dissimilar to our University Village adjoining the Los Angeles Farmers’ Market. Somehow, the latter managed to retain its character while everyone benefits from the proximity of additional parking, transit and services nearby.