Tag: Heimatkunde
-
3rd world infrastructure
Continuing CH Smith’s point that we don’t even know what quality looks like. This week the neighborhood is full of trucks and workmen from TDS Fiber Communications, who are installing an underground fiber system. (1) It’s unnecessary and redundant, since Bell or Qwest or CenturyLink or Quantum or whatever it’s called already has a full…
-
US equivalent of Holy Wells
Kingsnorth’s latest magical Holy Well reminded me instantly of a holy place I knew when I was young. = = = = = START 2016 REPRINT: Spokane’s idiot misgovernment has succumbed to blackmail by the EPA Terrorist Army, and is building a number of Miasmal Swamps. Three of them appeared last month in my neighborhood.…
-
Uniquely Enidish
As the west coast continues roaring into chaos and oblivion, the sane states continue gaining economic and cultural strength. Here’s one small but significant sign from my old hometown Enid. A year ago, a woman with a Persian name started a menswear store called Manopolis. She made it through the first year successfully. Downtown is…
-
Hell freezes over
Alt headline: Why newspapers are failing. San Francisco “voted” solidly against crime and for police yesterday. Hell is officially frozen. The local “newspaper” declared that the people had gone crazy and the city was no longer tolerable for journalists. = = = = = START QUOTE: The San Francisco Chronicle declared its hometown “can no…
-
It was really The Street!
TIL, as they say, that Wall Street was an OUTDOOR AUCTION for a hundred years, and didn’t come inside as an organized exchange until 1921. The outdoor auction occupied the full width of Broad Street, not Wall Street, with traders shouting bids at each other. After telephones were common, the traders rented offices in facing…
-
Today is Maine Streete Daye
Why does Maine Street in Enid have an E? It was named after the 1898 fake “attack” on the battleship Maine, which gave us an excuse to grab Cuba and the Philippines from Spaine. Remember the Maine was a national campaign to stir up war fever, the first of a hundred evil successors from Lusitania…
-
Spokane in one picture
Says it all. When you devote all your money and effort to satisfying Bloomberg’s ESG and DEI requirements, there’s nothing left for trivial luxury accessories like streets and snowplows and police and jails.
-
SUN!
For the first time in several weeks the SUN is popping out, starting to dry things. Polistra and friends salute the SUN! Reached 49 degrees. I walked without a coat, and the ice cream man is driving around the neighborhood!
-
Neighborhood note
The house kittycorner from me is a rental with an excellent landlord. For 20 years he’s always managed to keep nice decent families in the house. They change once a year or so, but they’re always fine people, usually married, often with kids and dogs. The current tenant fits the model. Right now the whole…
-
It’s more about the sand
Everyone seems to recognize that Spokane has stopped bothering with snow removal. I don’t really trust my own judgment since I’m a walker, not a driver, and I don’t see areas outside my neighborhood. Still, I noticed the change in 2010. Before then, Spokane had used ample quantities of basalt sand on the roads, which…
-
Reprint on Heimatkunde
Previous item about the role of geography in letting students imagine their future, reminded me that I had spent some time on this topic in 2012. This introduced the concept of Heimatkunde or Home Geography. = = = = = I was doing my 1901 thing, trying to locate a specific account of Puget Sound…
-
Inland waterways
Random thought triggered by another of those Natl Assn of Mfrs films. This one was showing how Houston became a major port after building the 60-mile Houston Ship Channel. A wide variety of industries, not just oil, built factories along the channel. I knew about Houston’s role as center of the oil industry, but I’d…
-
Year-end shit
Not gonna bother with a complete list. Mostly I’m just tired and used up this year, after three years of defending my soul from the “virus” monsters. Trying to step away from the keyboard into a more analog life. For my own records, this item from February is probably the best new understanding of the…
-
Status all the way
Spokane had a mayoral “election” yesterday. The results seem to give a majority, not a landslide, to Lisa Brown (D) over Nadine Woodward (R). Brown will continue ruining the city, with a D label instead of an R label. There might be some differences in flavor on the question of homeless camps, but otherwise no…
Polistra's Mill 