November 21, 2004
War on war
We have a war on drugs, a war on poverty, and a war on terrorism, but why don't we have a war on single-occupancy vehicles?
Maps, 8-second maps, more maps, and advocacy are just the beginning. We should make transit free within the downtown -- Portland and Seattle already do. Federal regulations require a 25% farebox revenue contribution towards overall operating costs (and, in fact, most transit systems barely manage that!). Why not make MUNI free in the downtown area? Or across the entire system?
subfusc
subfusc: a. dusky drab; n. formal academic dress at Oxford University.
I read the adjective in Dorothy Sayers' "Have His Carcase"; although I knew the second, nominative meaning (probably also from Sayers, perhaps "Gaudy Night", a novel replete with Oxonian trivia), the description of a cheap overcoat threw me.
(Jack's) Elixir Celebrates It's Resurrection
If anything, I'd expect "Authentic" to appear in quotation marks. The "new" paint job at The Elixir (ne้ Jack's Elixir), at the corner of 16th and Guerrero, lacks the boisterous appeal of the old.