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The Mariners’ stadium gets a new name; Durkan names two new dept. heads; car-share companies merge; the mass-child-detention horror continues.
The #Enough protests show what’s right with Those Kids Today; the Amazon angle to the Toys “R” Us demise; still more Alexie reactions; how Seattle’s Capitol Hill ‘gayborhood’ grew and shrank.
A famous highway tunnel’s sad-looking last days; a ‘post-Alexie’ era in Native lit; Legislature’s clock ticks down; ‘Dreamers’ are literally putting out fires (up to now).
Inside another dying Sears; Sherman Alexie’s apology and counter-claims; making the ‘green’ cannabis trade less white; Seattle’s past attempts at an NHL team.
The year’s final MISCmedia MAIL explores a city getting ever younger; an addition to the Charleena Lyles lawsuit; the end of Seattle’s crooked-est alley; and Sherman Alexie exhorting against hate.
…and Sherman Alexie defends writers’ right to depict these hells, both realistically and metaphorically.
But by that time, the whole company might be sold off.
I can still remember when there were five mass-production breweries in the Northwest alone, each operated by a different company.
Fortunately, we now have a wealth of microbreweries, whose broad range of tasty product has long since rendered superfluous the likes of “Colorado Kool-Aid.”
Both Kerouac and Rand are better known today for their celebrity and their ideas than for their prose stylings.
But both authors’ rambling self-indulgences actually serve their respective egotisms.
Both liked to hype themselves as daring rebels, valiantly crusading against the stifling anti-individualism of grey-flannel-suit America.
Kerouac helped provide an ideological excuse for generations of self-centered dropouts and anarchists to proclaim themselves above the petty rules of mainstream society.
Rand helped provide an ideological excuse for generations of self-cenetered tech-geeks and neocons to proclaim themselves above the petty rules of civil society and rule of law.
But at least Kerouac’s devotees don’t go around declaring that the oil companies and the drug companies somehow don’t have enough power.
(P.S.: Digby has much more lucent thoughts than mine i/r/t Randmania.)