Alki's Lame Statuette of Liberty
Not sure how often you make it out to Alki, but apparently there's a tiny Statue of Liberty on the beach over there that's falling apart. There's a group of people trying to recast the thing in bronze and by the looks of their fundraising meter they're almost there, but can we stop for a second and ask whether we can't come up with something better than a tiny Statue of Liberty?
Isn't there already one of these somewhere out east that's, like, full size and meaningful and in fact connected with that city via the unbreakable bond of Ghostbusters II? Our little one seems kind of like the mini Stonehenge that drops down behind Spinal Tap in the movie. "The Northwest Program for the Arts would like to present to the city...Lady Liberty!" and two people step aside and there it is. Tiny and bronze and a copy of something that exists somewhere else. Do all of our statues have to be so kitchy?
Vancouver has that awesome mermaid that gets covered and revealed by the tides. If we're going to copy someone else's statue can't it at least be that one? Or if we're going to do the Statue of Liberty let's do the Planet of the Apes version. At least that says something besides "We're tiny and insignificant compared to New York."
