Comments on: Kids in the ‘Hood. http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2006/12/08/kids-in-the-hood/ When stream of consciousness meets a waterfall. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:15:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Melody http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2006/12/08/kids-in-the-hood/comment-page-1/#comment-15412 Melody Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:53:06 +0000 http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2006/12/08/kids-in-the-hood/#comment-15412 Where will the urban poor go? South Sac? Just wonderin. I would love to live in midtown, and I don't have any kids at home anymore. Guess what? I now have elderly parents next door with mobility and memory issues. And so it goes. I went into the Monkey Bar twice..once was for lunch and felt very comfortable, the other was for an after dinner drink. I was the oldest person in there...by about 15 years! Where will the urban poor go? South Sac?

Just wonderin.

I would love to live in midtown, and I don’t have any kids at home anymore. Guess what? I now have elderly parents next door with mobility and memory issues. And so it goes.

I went into the Monkey Bar twice..once was for lunch and felt very comfortable, the other was for an after dinner drink. I was the oldest person in there…by about 15 years!

]]> By: kit http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2006/12/08/kids-in-the-hood/comment-page-1/#comment-15359 kit Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:41:53 +0000 http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2006/12/08/kids-in-the-hood/#comment-15359 Jack: Either I missed the joke or you misquoted the name of "Me First and the Gimme Gimmes." Jack:

Either I missed the joke or you misquoted the name of “Me First and the Gimme Gimmes.”

]]> By: Uneasy Rhetoric http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2006/12/08/kids-in-the-hood/comment-page-1/#comment-15347 Uneasy Rhetoric Sun, 10 Dec 2006 05:28:00 +0000 http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2006/12/08/kids-in-the-hood/#comment-15347 I won't set foot in the Monkey Bar. I'll push the age curve too much. I won’t set foot in the Monkey Bar. I’ll push the age curve too much.

]]> By: jack http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2006/12/08/kids-in-the-hood/comment-page-1/#comment-15343 jack Sat, 09 Dec 2006 20:31:16 +0000 http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2006/12/08/kids-in-the-hood/#comment-15343 bitters sounds like something you put in an Old Fashioned... You go up to the bartender guy at the Monkey Bar and ask him when Me Too and the GimmeGimmes show up... You should know better than that...LOL.... bitters sounds like something you put in an Old Fashioned…

You go up to the bartender guy at the Monkey Bar and ask him when Me Too and the GimmeGimmes show up…

You should know better than that…LOL….

]]> By: Uneasy Rhetoric http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2006/12/08/kids-in-the-hood/comment-page-1/#comment-15342 Uneasy Rhetoric Sat, 09 Dec 2006 19:29:18 +0000 http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2006/12/08/kids-in-the-hood/#comment-15342 Maya -- cool toys, I think you may be right. Jeff -- no question, schools are a big issue and it *is* a Catch 22. You won't get better schools without parents willing to live downtown and you won't get parents living downtown without better schools. I think it's a little sad that we're setting ourselves up for a world where we grow up in the 'burbs, move into town in our 20s, live in the 'burbs until our 60s, then move back into town. Jack -- I'm guessing you're a libertarian. I just don't swing that way. I would think with your blatant hostility toward bureaucracy you'd love what Kerridge did with the whole "Matrix" thing to streamline development applications. But maybe you just don't believe innovation can happen in government. How sad. Number 1 also makes me think you're a little bitter. Maya — cool toys, I think you may be right.

Jeff — no question, schools are a big issue and it *is* a Catch 22. You won’t get better schools without parents willing to live downtown and you won’t get parents living downtown without better schools. I think it’s a little sad that we’re setting ourselves up for a world where we grow up in the ‘burbs, move into town in our 20s, live in the ‘burbs until our 60s, then move back into town.

Jack — I’m guessing you’re a libertarian. I just don’t swing that way. I would think with your blatant hostility toward bureaucracy you’d love what Kerridge did with the whole “Matrix” thing to streamline development applications. But maybe you just don’t believe innovation can happen in government. How sad.

Number 1 also makes me think you’re a little bitter.

]]> By: jack http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2006/12/08/kids-in-the-hood/comment-page-1/#comment-15341 jack Sat, 09 Dec 2006 18:27:09 +0000 http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2006/12/08/kids-in-the-hood/#comment-15341 1. That long legged UCD Music Graduate who worked at the Naked Lounge (the ones who make Sacramento cool, music at Old Ironsides) moved with that guy (Used Car Salesman/Attorney) she met on Sutter Street at the Power House to Grass Valley to be with her goats and hang in Nevada City with the Marinite Crowd.... but that's not for you, I guess.... 2. So your chances of influencing the permanent midtown/downtown Postal Workers Convention (The State)about Urban Design approach ZERO...the Bureaucracy breeds incomprehensible mediocrity... 3. But things might be looking up for you, for under the brilliant leadership of Fargo/Kerridge and their merry crew, you will get a brand new Walmart right next to Macys so you can walk from the River City Brewery to pick up your toilet paper at KMart... 4. You can ask the City/State/CADA/SHRA for 10 million US dollars(like Friedman) and build your own loft and live the Life of Riley! (that money can also finance about 3 other lofts for your special friends) Number 4 is the best option for you! 1. That long legged UCD Music Graduate who worked at the Naked Lounge (the ones who make Sacramento cool, music at Old Ironsides) moved with that guy (Used Car Salesman/Attorney) she met on Sutter Street at the Power House to Grass Valley to be with her goats and hang in Nevada City with the Marinite Crowd….

but that’s not for you, I guess….

2. So your chances of influencing the permanent midtown/downtown Postal Workers Convention (The State)about Urban Design approach ZERO…the Bureaucracy breeds incomprehensible mediocrity…

3. But things might be looking up for you, for under the brilliant leadership of Fargo/Kerridge and their merry crew, you will get a brand new Walmart right next to Macys so you can walk from the River City Brewery to pick up your toilet paper at KMart…

4. You can ask the City/State/CADA/SHRA for 10 million US dollars(like Friedman) and build your own loft and live the Life of Riley! (that money can also finance about 3 other lofts for your special friends)

Number 4 is the best option for you!

]]> By: Jeff http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2006/12/08/kids-in-the-hood/comment-page-1/#comment-15340 Jeff Sat, 09 Dec 2006 17:54:02 +0000 http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2006/12/08/kids-in-the-hood/#comment-15340 I missed the guess comment, so I don't know if this was addressed, but isn't the major chicken and the egg problem for getting families downtown the schools? My wife and I moved out to carmichael, where I hate living, five years ago, because my step-daughter started kindergarden. The kindergarden downtown (we lived in c and 28 then) had 75% Spanish-speaking-only kids, and the testing for the distric as a whole was low. Typical white-flight pattern. But until downtown gets gentrified to the point where the urban poor get pushed out, middle-class families will avoid it like a plauge. I missed the guess comment, so I don’t know if this was addressed, but isn’t the major chicken and the egg problem for getting families downtown the schools? My wife and I moved out to carmichael, where I hate living, five years ago, because my step-daughter started kindergarden. The kindergarden downtown (we lived in c and 28 then) had 75% Spanish-speaking-only kids, and the testing for the distric as a whole was low. Typical white-flight pattern. But until downtown gets gentrified to the point where the urban poor get pushed out, middle-class families will avoid it like a plauge.

]]> By: maya http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2006/12/08/kids-in-the-hood/comment-page-1/#comment-15339 maya Sat, 09 Dec 2006 17:08:46 +0000 http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2006/12/08/kids-in-the-hood/#comment-15339 I think you should get <a href="http://daddytypes.com/2006/12/07/build_a_landscape_damn_jegro_thats_all_you_had_to_play.php" rel="nofollow">these</a>. I think you should get these.

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