- If I owned the tallest building in the world, I would call it the tallest building in the Solar System.
- In much the same way as, were I from Portland, OR, I would tell people "I am from the whitest city in the Solar System."
- Jane tells me she was at a party this weekend at the old house on Penn where I used to live. & she tells me everyone there now has lots of money. Penn Avenue: I never believed Adam when he told me we were the first wave of gentrification ("First the starving artists move in, then the yuppies follow") but it looks like he was right.
- Thanks to Mr. Boette, I have discovered this anarcho-funny thing. In one of the panels two hipsters are talking to a squatter-punk. The exchange of dialog: "Hey you filthy squatter, shouldn't you be begging for change somewhere?" "Hey you hipster fucks, shouldn't you be gentrifying a working-class neighborhood somewhere?"
- Which side are you on?
- Lately I've been thinking that, instead of talking about stuff that happens on a given weekend/weeknight/time I feel like drinking, I should start drawing it all as a cartoon! And maybe I could draw each of my friends as a different forest animal.
- Me: Coyote.
- Gabriel: Lizard.
- Megan: Frog.
- Emily: Badger.
- Lee Ann: Cat.
- Mike: Opossum.
- Lily: Raccoon.
- Lexie: Squirrel.
- Little Murphy's would be set in a little meadow and tended by a turtle married to an eel. There would be two swamps, called The Idle Hour and The Scoreboard. In one of the swamps, the snakes and alligators try to eat you; at the other, they bring you fish to drink. The people sing: "Can you remember which swamp is which after a night of drinking thirteen fish? Be sure to remember which swamp is which, you happen to be the snakes' favorite dish!"
- Sometimes they vary the song: If I'm talking to Raccoon I'd sing "You know that Raccoon is the snakes' favorite dish!"
- On an entirely different note, I would like to start playing Go. I bet I would be good at it.
- & like Gary Snyder said, "The worlds like an endless, four-dimensional game of Go."
- What do you think the snakes would think of that plan at the Idle Hour?
3 comments:
I hope one day we can be thought of as the "starving artists" who helped start the gentrification of Roseburg.
Also, I believe the pattern is: starving artists move in, some starving artists get mugged and/or beaten, we stick it out anyway because the rents are cheap and our neighborhood has a gritty character. Once the original inhabitants of said neighborhood become accustomed/indifferent to the presence of white 20-somethings the homosexuals move in. Once the queer set moves in, the ground is fertile for cutesey restaurants and boutiques. Once you've got a couple attractive business your neighborhood is ripe for the picking, because while it may still have a little grit, most of it can be washed off by buying up brownstones/single family homes/etc, knocking them down, and erecting futuristic apartment complexes. So your neighborhood may now be out of your price range, but at least now you can buy organic produce without taking two subways and a bus.
I'd complain but I know that as a representative of Whitey and The Man, it is my job to play my part in gentrification...
Can squatting lead to gentrification? Probably...
Those comix are great. I spent all day reading them, instead of working. Highly recommended!
Gabe.....Yeah, I hope that too.
Excellent overview of the process of gentrification.
Boette: Reading comics instead of working! I have never done such a thing.
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Sigh.
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