Comments on: Urban News and Linkage – Lunchtime Edition

By: PCollins

PCollins — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:31:56 +0000

I lived in Atlanta 10 years ago. What I remember was that I-285 was suppose to be the extent of the suburbs, but weirdly enough they just kept growing and growing until everyone was sitting in traffic, pissed off. And now there’s a permanent haze of pollution that hangs over the region.

I really don’t want everything to be like Atlanta. It’s why we eventually moved.

And I’d have to second Fawn. Nothing scary about the homeless. Just gently refuse the polite ones and point out the nearest shelter, and tell the rude ones to f-off or you’ll gut them.

By: tony

tony — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:16:07 +0000

Nice condo blog. I give it a week. Same guess I gave flog.

I work in brick. Maybe some concrete. Not stucco. Not never. I do get excited about my projects and if I pump up something my family is going to benefit from getting your family’s money, I try to disclose it, and try to make it worth that value or more or whatever.. I can tell you that except for the $1 PBRs it doesn’t work anyway. Sorry condo blog. (ps- please list 1951 market. oversight I’m sure.)

I’m still putting everything I have into the core.

I usually agree with skink. And we definitely have problems.

Thats a mantra from my big three in case you care. Don’t tell anyone there aren’t problems. Don’t give money to panhandlers. Don’t waste time trying to change peoples mind. (may add, walk like your six foot plus).

Can’t wait for the skink blog. Maybe you can dethrone me because until folio does another best of… I AM STILL THE KING.

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By: Fawn Leibowitz

Fawn Leibowitz — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:48:56 +0000

Maybe i am biased because i am a 6 foot plus male, but if you are scared to go downtown, you are a pussy. If you are scared to go downtown because you are afraid of the homeless, you are a double pussy.

By: skink

skink — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:03:12 +0000

What about sophisticated failures whose attitude is justified?

By: LeeHS

LeeHS — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:12:22 +0000

skink: Sometimes pessimistic people have a special insight into a given topic and their attitude is justified. But, more often I have found negative people to simply be failures who are attempting to use a faux sophistication to mask their own failures.

By: skink

skink — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:47:39 +0000

Instructive…these the divergent pardigms we are using to analyze this silly real estate blog.

By: steve williams

steve williams — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 01:20:06 +0000

10 years ago, Atlanta’s visual art scene was a lot like jacksonville’s is now. I disagree and knew it well. A good friend of mine at the time Xenia Zed (the editor of Art Papers magazine) took me on a behind the scenes tour of the city with history of where it came from. intimate details of the people who mattered there and how they had become “important”. They did have a “gallery system” which we do not have here now. We can have it, it just means all of us working together.

I think it is important to say that 10 years ago EVERYONE talked about how bad Jacksonville was for art. Now i am only seeming to hear it here. I am sorry for that! I see it growing, changing, improving. I think all of you are amazing with the blogging. PR and blogging, maybe you confused what i was saying. PR has a place and blogging has its place. If they intersect, who cares. Any PR is good PR. what you are doing or saying here might inspire a writer, or someone looking at jacksonville to move here, maybe a visual artist who finds the city ripe to become an important art town. All of us working together, we can become greater than Atlanta, in regard to our visual art scene.

10 years ago, Jacksonville did not even make the chart of nationally important art towns. Through the efforts of many in the arts, it now ranks 25th in the nation. in 10 more years maybe it could be #1.

By: skink

skink — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:03:51 +0000

very soon PB. thank you
once it is churning you should find it tagsurfing.

I did not comment hoping to start a flame session. Blogging is great because it can be many things to many people.
like the book says…”Were All Journalist Now”

I appreciate it especially because of the potential to level the communications playing field.

Gore says in “Assault on Reason” that new media could establish a new American idea meritocracy based on dynamic interaction of citizen stakeholders.

As a citizen with an economic, cultural, and ideological interest in the discourse I felt it appropriate to point out the “minutia” expression that I found particulalry specious.

If selling stucco is the best they can think to do with the new media….thats the best they can do. I damn sure dont plan on letting them do it without examination.

By: PB

PB — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:50:04 +0000

Skink, Do you have a blog? Negative, shmegative, I think your take is pretty right on.

By: skink

skink — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:51:08 +0000

Atlanta was decades ahead of Jacksonvile when I lived there in the early 90′s.
And Jax has yet to reach that basic level several years later.

then again…they do count the African American votes in Atlanta…

Positivity is a refuge. It is an ill informed approach to an outrageous situation.

Civic development wont be found in “The Secret”

Although I am sure the that “universal attractive priniciple” or whatever hoohaw sure helps sell condos to marks.

Sorry Lee but your stuck with me. I’m right smack dab in the middle of the 904.The only thing I have left at the beach is two generations of matriarch ashes swirling in the Atlantic.