Tour of Urban Living 2006 Follow Up
The Tour of Urban Living was this weekend and we hope you got outside and checked it out. Several of you have requested that I open up a discussion to allow you to comment. So… this is it. Eventually, once a few other things are taken care of (think school and work), I’ll add to this posting my thoughts on:
- Old City Hall
- The Granville
- Marcato
- The Dorothy
- The Ansonia
Until I get those thoughts online, I’ll have to rely on you to provide the interesting content. Any feedback from this weekend? What did you think?
Filed under: Downtown Tacoma, Neighborhoods, Developments, Marcato
9 comments
L lostinlosangeles July 29, 2010
“Now onto the weekend, which actually starts today around Tacoma.”
Actually the weekends never stop in Tacoma. Thanks to marketing (and a never ending supply of superficial peacock personalities) clubs, bars and restaurant owners of places like Masa can earn enough off scensters to live lavishly and not give a rats ass about a TRM, a ST, a digital billboard, or anything else. Way to go putting money in the pockets of these kinds of folks Tacoma. Way to be different from any other wanna be cosmo-people!
L lostinlosangeles July 30, 2010
Fk the seen and be scenesters and fk the marketing machine the Volcano posing as an alt weekly! Posers run the show in Tacoma, and it wouldn’t be so bad if the show wasn’t so unbelievably unaware of the fact its just a fair for minor league, aging stereotypes that couldn’t swing and hit major league breaking balls elsewhere.
Well, I guess thats what you get when a town that thinks its a city starts posing like a viable cultural outpost.
You said you were different Tacoma. You said you were a hidden gem of the Puget Sound, a wonderful place that people on the outside were unlucky to not know about. Guess you were just posing all along.
I get it though, you don’t really have sht to take pride in, so you just take pride in whatever is available, even if it’s a scenester milking event put on by the more business savvy primates in your area.
Yeah you just take pride in whatever is available. Hence the refrain in this punk song from back in the day: “…they can’t keep me away, I’m going to go fishing in Commencement Bay”. But all that true punk grit has sold out, and just answers the call of pipers like the Volcano.
Its endearing though how all the things Tacoma prides itself on happen upon a mere strip of land along the Commencement Bay. Like a piece of bacon overrun by ants all doing the same thing ants do in other places, only thinking they are different somehow.
Have fun in the meantime Tacoma, because sooner or later, like Roger Greenberg, one day you’re going to have to let go of your punk rock dreams and embrace the fact that you’re just a poser growing old in a town that your dreams weren’t unique enough to help you escape from.
T Tacoma Joe July 30, 2010
“Lost” you sound eerily similar to “InaComa”. The “two” of you should hang out on one of your seedy apartment’s dusty couches and complain to each other about Tacoma’s inevitable character demise.
A Altered Chords July 30, 2010
lost is pissed off because he just bought a house in l.a and he spent the last 3 days watering his roof so the wildfires wouldn’t burn it to the ground.
L lostinlosangeles July 30, 2010
Actually I will be complaining to myself, but doing so while floating in my back yard pool and catching rays. And I think once the flames get close enough Altered, I’ll just paddle to the center and wait for the insurance check to come!
L lostinlosangeles July 30, 2010
Open minds my ass.
T Trashtown July 31, 2010
“LOST”
So your saying their is no grit left in Tacoma? You just don’t know the right people apparently… Or perhaps you don’t know ANY people at all, and YOU are the poser!
There are other towns in America, maybe you should look into some place in the dessert or something…
E Evelyn in Tacoma July 31, 2010
Don’t get rattled Tacoma. A little trash talk from LA is just trash. I grew up on So Cal, but found my true home in T-Town. Posers, poets, profits, profiteers? Who cares? Life is good in the City of Destiny. Glad the bash at Masa was fun. We all need more fun. If it comes from the Volcano that’s ok with me. Now, off to the Rainiers game for my Saturday night!
L lostinlosangeles July 31, 2010
@7
How can one be a poser when that person doesn’t know anybody? I thought there has to be an audience of friends or scenesters to pose in front? So if I don’t know anyone, how can I pose? Unless it’s in the mirror flexing my abs Travis Bickle style. Which to some of you familiar with film history is about as gritty as it gets.
The desert is boring. How can I see what posers are up to all the way out in the desert? Every city has them. LA is poser Mecca. Seriously, these fks all parade up and down Sunset in droves like as if on their way to the Hajj. It’s that way fkers! East LA!
I see their face’s, bone structures, clothing, cringe-worthy mannerisms and I think: “These people are really reaching here.” I mean, I admit, I am the anti-Attenborough. And someone did tell me once to find the good in everything. And there is good, it’s just trends that I can’t stand. Well, I CAN stand a trend when someone adds something clever to a trend, just not when not so clever people try to add things.
For example, the other night I was at this Comic-con review party at a comic book store on Sunset and, well they had some good graphic novels and sht there, but the screening they were having in the back made me want to fking take a sht. Apparently there are these fools who go to Comic-con each year and try to make viral video’s of themselves. Like everyone THINKS they are Sarah Silverman or Joel McHale funny, and, that going around and interviewing people in a sort of Colbert poking fun, but pretending not too style is going to be their big break on the internet. So they film the comic-con panels, then add to that skits they made of their own, and interviews of guests and nerds. But none of it is any good!!!! But they still get the high fives from their circle of friends anyways, so what the bleep do they know.
LA is fkup central, why do you think Sunset is loaded with top of the line comedy clubs?? Because there is just THAT much material in LA!!
But thats what I call fun right now, seeing these types. It’s good material. A Ranier’s game? Sure I’d go to that too after some cuervo gold, some fine columbian, make tonite a wonderful thing. And whatever that was at Masa? Is it just me or is the scene in Tacoma just this perpetual High School reunion of types who thought they were cool in High School, but really were not? It’s probably just me. It’s a great way though to hold on to your 20’s though while you slide into your 40’s.