Erica Takes a Hike

And the point of this is…?

And the point of this is…?

To raise awareness…
of the fact that King County government – apparently – has more money than it needs.

To raise awareness…
of the fact that King County government – apparently – has more money than it needs.

“…and I think One Percent for the Arts is a worthy program”

Do you?  So, the Brightwater wastewater treatment facility costs somewhere around $2 Billion.  You think it is OK that the public be forced to spend $20 Million on artwork for a sewage treatment plant?  Seriously, Josh?

“Forced”?

If the public doesn’t like it the public can stop it. Democracy and all that. Now, you individually are indeed being forced. But you are not “the public.”

Since most art is sh*t, why not just put it where it belongs

Who knows? Maybe two days will turn into two decades.

Or better yet, maybe she’ll fall, hit her head on a rock, and wake up a Tea Partier!

which is how most people become tea party members, via head injury

versus Democrats who are methodically indoctrinated via the public union controlled school system.

I agree, learning leads to liberalism

Publcola should be better for a few days at least.

as opposed to intelligence.  Again, thanks to the union controlled “education” system.

The actual art budget on Brightwater is $4.3 million, not $20 million.
And yes, I think the public should be forced to pay for it.
And the public should be forced to LIKE it.
And eat their spinach, too. 

I got my ballot for the aug election ballot, i dont want to support the tunnel to I do approve or reject becuase I dont read this leagel crap

Erica = loser

That’s the north extension of the Soos Creek Trail in the picture there…and I was riding it today but didn’t see the journalist in question.

Some of us grew up on alternative weeklies and listener sponsored pacifica radio, but got nothing in way of political influence from the school system. As a matter of fact, many of us, at least the more progressive ones imo, grew up to be anti-indoctrination.

Sounds like junior high school here

when liberals can’t see the injustice of expenditures like this, it hurts progressivism.  Money for art is well spent when it’s for …teachers for little kids, spreading art awreness to hundreds……a grant to have a museum that thousands enjoy…..but what hepens is government becomes unreponsive and unaccountable, then you get $20K grants so select few can go on a Long Walk with “Art” in the form of ….grass braids.  ??  What is this, an exhibition of “What White People Like”?  We have people unemployed, industriy dying, teachers being cut, and this is about on a par with that $30K grant to have someone record sounds of the fremont bridge so that when you are stuck in traffic you can have the “art” experiece of dialing a 800 number to hear the montage of the recorded traffic sounds ….not just hear the live ones all around you.  wow, so profound.  Get it?  Then go to city hall offices.  They are replete with bad art on the wall, it circulates, they actually pay some people $70K a year to circulate it.  Every little city hall conference room has bad art on the wall.  No one knows how much it cosgts.  A thousand bucks per artwork?  the onesthey display on the stands in the lobby sure are fairly boring and crappy.  The whole effort has become a special interest machine to funnel money to select few artists and writers on art and this goes a loooooong way to telling hte working class “hi we’re liberals.  fuck you.  we will tax you to the max and waste your money.  Now pony up the next regressive fee, this time it’s a $80 car license fee so if your car is worth $1000 now you get to pay a 8% sales tax every year.  Fun ins’t it?  Now after we take your money, vote for us, and we can give $20,000 for an art walk ”

God forbid a bunch of artists should just grab tents and bags and go camp out like regular people.  Lasgt weekendd I was tenting it and some of us brought guitars and we created art — bad singing — but the kids sure enjoyed it and it didn’t cost $20,000.  Then we saw some great art for free — the Yakima canyon and Mt. Rainier.  That cost $80 to buy the federal annual park pass. 

I’m surprised the taxpayers aren’t buying the brie and chablis (maybe they are!).  Hey Josh, tell us how much we paid for the grass braid.

“Yes” means you want the DBT; “No” the opposite.

Hooray! Most of the artists I know are working class folk!

Did you see Erica?

No but I’ll probably go riding there today and bring my Peterson’s Guide to Liberal Urban Bloggers.

No but I’ll probably go riding there today and bring my Peterson’s Guide to Liberal Urban Bloggers.

Watch out for the grass braid.  Those things will take you down faster than a traffic-counting tube.

Check out The Seattle Weekly’s take on The Long Walk:

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2011/07/the_long_walk_is_cannon_fodder.php

Sometimes learning leads to intelligence, sometimes intelligence leads to learning.  You’re a bit further out there than I’d imagined if you claim the two are unrelated.

They never seem to get that one of the points of our side is to let people make rational decisions on their own for what they want to believe.

Can you post the map of the route? I’m curious.

Oh yes, artists are rich assholes after our money…oh wait! They are working class folks trying to add a little fun to the world…

… and don’t forget to read the comments of people that were actually there, in addition to the sour grapes rant of a writer that didn’t attend the walk’s public event in
Duvall, nor interview any of the artists, administrators or participants
involved- a testament that this article was meant to reward the author’s
inherently biased ‘easy’ argument rather than explore and challenge it.(props, T. Shalom)