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Feb. 22nd, 2007 05:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pearwaldorfAnthony Bourdain and I are still carrying on a long extended affair in my dreams, I am happy to report.
Hiro Nakamura is too fucking adorable for words. This show is slowly eating my brain, although the "it's ALL CONNECTED" thing is starting to get a little silly.
The whole viaduct fight does not instill much hope in me regarding the political process in Seattle. (For a quick primer of the factions, see this post.) If anything, it's even stupider than what goes on in Portland. What kind of "world-class" city would leave only two options, both of which are polluting and do nothing to ease the pain of commuting in a city with a fucking freeway dropped down its center? This city needs transit like nothing, and it annoys me deeply that routing traffic to the surface streets and beefing up transit is not an option.
So I have a coworker whose last name is Watanabe. Apparently, before he came to work for Insurance Company, somebody actually came up to Favorite Team Lead and said, "Watanabe--that's Jewish, right?" I fucking SPORFLED. For the rest of the day, I greet Coworker with "Shalom and Mazel Tov." Cody says it reminds him of that one scene in Shanghai Noon where the Chinese are mistaken for Jews, because none of the white people know what either Chinese or Jews look like. I think making everybody read Said's Orientalism might be instructive, but the joke might be lost on those who need to be schooled the most. Yes Virginia, there are still amazing bastions of cultural ignorance even in areas around Seattle. If it weren't so damn funny I'd cry.
Hiro Nakamura is too fucking adorable for words. This show is slowly eating my brain, although the "it's ALL CONNECTED" thing is starting to get a little silly.
The whole viaduct fight does not instill much hope in me regarding the political process in Seattle. (For a quick primer of the factions, see this post.) If anything, it's even stupider than what goes on in Portland. What kind of "world-class" city would leave only two options, both of which are polluting and do nothing to ease the pain of commuting in a city with a fucking freeway dropped down its center? This city needs transit like nothing, and it annoys me deeply that routing traffic to the surface streets and beefing up transit is not an option.
So I have a coworker whose last name is Watanabe. Apparently, before he came to work for Insurance Company, somebody actually came up to Favorite Team Lead and said, "Watanabe--that's Jewish, right?" I fucking SPORFLED. For the rest of the day, I greet Coworker with "Shalom and Mazel Tov." Cody says it reminds him of that one scene in Shanghai Noon where the Chinese are mistaken for Jews, because none of the white people know what either Chinese or Jews look like. I think making everybody read Said's Orientalism might be instructive, but the joke might be lost on those who need to be schooled the most. Yes Virginia, there are still amazing bastions of cultural ignorance even in areas around Seattle. If it weren't so damn funny I'd cry.
