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Valentine's Day, Massacred
Thanks for this thread, kstaff. I think, perhaps, no one meets the expectations these holidays set up for us. At Christmas, we may never feel like the ideal family, our birthdays may remind us of all our old hurts, or that we haven't achieved all we expected to, Valentine's make us feel like we may never had the love we always wanted, Mother's Day makes us feel guilty. It's very hard to pretend a happiness you don't feel. SDaniels points out that it may be a question of degrees: If I am unhappy, perhaps others are even less happy. But I think my head still hurts even if others have cancer. I may complain less but nevertheless my head still hurts. Pain is pain. Yearning is one of the worst owies ever.— February 9, 2010 7:50 a.m.
NFL lies about Super Bowl benefits
Well let me say this: You want to talk about losers, the area where the ballpark and all those hotels and condos were built was a total and complete loser so far as I can tell. Downtown is slowly but surely turning into a vibrant urban center, of which Petco is a part. I think the same would be true if the Chargers built on that wasteland down by the Bay. And it, along with the Convention Center expansion, could possibly lead to the beginning of finally doing away with at least some of the heavy industrial down in that area. I don't buy for one minute what they will say about jobs and affordable housing, the same lie used to build Petco, but there can't help but be physical improvements into that area of town. It still doesn't outweigh the negatives: precious tax dollars spent on billionaire sport team owners, and the loss of my community. So not worth it.— February 8, 2010 11:27 p.m.
The Mystery of the Transfixed Beagle
Bless his paws. I hope you find a solution.— February 7, 2010 9:35 p.m.
NFL lies about Super Bowl benefits
Well, as I tried to outline in my post, I think the emotional is the economic. A city that can host a major league baseball team and an NFL franchise is just short an NBA basketball team on the path to glory. I think pro basketball and soccer will come back here in the future. But even what we have now says a lot about us as a city, and economically we profit from that cachet; losing an NFL franchise could be devastating in those terms as well. I was totally opposed to Petco Park and I live close enough to it to occasionally have to deal with the traffic hassles. But I also go to the games there and have a great time. Those empty condos and hotels will someday be filled to capacity and what looks expensive today will look cheap in future decades. They will pay off for the City eventually, I think (maybe I'm being optomistic). Likewise with the Chargers. I oppose spending tax dollars to support billionaires. However, if the city can do other things to keep them here, maybe something can be worked out. "Something" is the term us people who aren't economists use to indicate we're fuzzy on the details. :)— February 7, 2010 12:47 p.m.
The Girl with the Pearl Earring/Picture Poem
Beautiful poem and I think the overlay works brilliantly! Thanks, nan!— February 7, 2010 12:29 p.m.
Exigency
Good writing, Athena. Welcome, and I look forward to reading more of your unspecial special chapters. :)— February 7, 2010 12:16 p.m.
Romance Movies, Worst and Best
I had heard of both, nan, just hadn't seen them. Thank you for that information. xxxxxx— February 7, 2010 12:12 p.m.
Feeling that Poetry Vibe
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!— February 7, 2010 12:08 p.m.
NFL lies about Super Bowl benefits
The BIG DAY is here! Good day to post a comment on this thread. Agree with you that the immediate benefits of hosting a Super Bowl are way overstated. But there are other benefits that are subtler and not as easily captured. There are a lot of cities that may be deemed capable of holding a Super Bowl and yet don't carry it off well, as your article demonstrates. A city that is both able to host a big event, and does it well, where everybody goes away happy, that lends a certain status and stature money can't buy. Any city where this many major and minor league sports teams are located is a happening city; again, you can't buy that kind of cool. I don't want the Chargers to leave San Diego, though that's what it may come to. They would be foolish to move to Los Angeles. But it would be better for them to go than for us to throw tax money at them keeping them here. I especially don't want them to build where they are planning to build now. That would be the end of my community. Just saying, the day we lose the Chargers is the day we lose more than what's immediately apparent on the bottom line.— February 7, 2010 9:05 a.m.
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Don't go away, little slugggy! Can't live, if living is without you, Can't liiiiiiiiive, can't live anymoooooore.— February 6, 2010 8 p.m.