For those who read this morning’s editorial (Morning Tizz), but are still jonesing for the usual fix of Morning Fizz, here you go:
1. Spotted eating breakfast together earlier this week at Geraldine’s in Columbia City: South Seattle muckety muck Darryl Smith and Georgetown activist Kathy Nyland. This can only mean one thing! The two were plotting and coordinating about running for City Council.
2. Remember the transit station bill we’re obsessed with? Well, it looks like transit advocates won the first fight (the battle with housing activist John Fox, who complained that the bill didn’t secure enough low-income housing) only to step into another fight: Cities like Seattle and Tacoma think the bill provides too much low-income housing.
3. Earlier this week, we flagged a bill that car dealers are pushing that would raise the “document processing fee” on car sales by $100—even though car dealers haven’t been hit with any new paper work requirements since the fee was last raised in 2007. Well, the state Dept. of Revenue has now added the fiscal note to the bill calculating how much the fee increase will cost consumers. Ready recession: $88,733,333 in 2010 and $111,866,666 in 2011.
4. I went to The Northwest Film Forum to see Medication for Melancholy for the second time last night. (FilmNerd recommended it last week.) The young director, Barry Jenkins—who was recently profiled in the NYT—was at the show to introduce the movie and answer questions. And he gave a much-deserved shout out to NWFF program director Adam Sekuler.
The reason Jenkins came to Seattle to discuss his film he said, was because early on, when the indie film wasn’t getting any attention (before the NYT hype etc.), he was sadly sitting around googling himself and his movie—and boom—he sees that some weird theater in Seattle was scheduling it.
“I had to come up here and meet this guy,” Jenkins said.
Tonight’s the last night to see this great movie. And Jenkins will be there again. Go.
