Results tagged “libraries”

• The big news in local blogs today is the Seattle Times "collaboration" with hyperlocal blogstars such as West Seattle Blog, MyBallard, Capitol Hill Seattle, and Rainier Valley Post. Sure, there's warranted kicking and screaming about anything to do with the Times and online media, but is this the beginning of a beautiful friendship?
• Speaking of hyperlocal news, belltownpeople (giddy about being the densest neighborhood in Seattle) and CHS broke out mayoral race votes by 'hood.

Your message would be far more effective if you learned how to spell its subject correctly.

Back where we come from, there's places known as "cooling centers". These are public buildings that are air-conditioned in the event of a deadly heatwave such as the one in which we currently find ourselves embroiled. We remember our afternoon cartoons being interrupted by ticker-style warnings about the heat and the elderly and cooling centers for those without A/C in the home. Libraries were the foremost among the list of these cooling centers.

"Untitled" by zeebleoop , from the Seattlest Flickr pool

Sadly, outside of the families and friends who have lost people to the tragedy—and maybe a few New Yorkers in general—the unfortunate majority of those who invoke <reverb>9/11</reverb> employ it as frothy, rhetorical masturbation to punctuate their own grandstanding, demagoguery, and ideologies. Partisan journalists on all sides of the biased media lap up the secretions in their attempts to snowball you, dear media consumer.

Ten years ago, during the height of the dot-com boom, Seattleites voted to spend almost $200 million to update all of the libraries in our system and to add four new neighborhood branches to it. This week, the Libraries for All Initiative comes to an official close and we thought that, in honor of such a magnificent and useful achievement, we’d allow ourselves the oddity of crushing—for this week only—on an inanimate object: Seattle Public Libraries. We are a bunch of writers who dearly love our books, after all.