If you have to rely upon deliberately misconstruing what I write, then you have no interest in an honest debate. Our disagreement is about whether artistic projects bring financial benefits to a community. We have no disagreement with how they should be funded. This is about whether they are worth the money. Some are, some aren't.
Then your position on the Bay Bridge is that Arnold was wrong for deleting the "artistic" addition and we should have used state monies for that "artistic" addition since artwork brings revenues to the region.
No. My point all along was that this was a Liberal Elite pork project funded with state and federal monies.
The fact that it looks out of place in the wooded setting and the park had to lay off over half of its staff to complete the bridge are bonus negatives.
How the Sundial Bridge woes visitors to Redding (Not!)
http://moofie.lastcoolnameleft.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=98
This past weekend, Barb and I drove to Oroville, CA for my grandparents' 60th wedding anniversary. (Uh, WOW. That's really quite an accomplishment! The marriage, not the drive...) We contemplated flying, but decided that the extra flexibility of having our own car outweighed the time advantages of driving. Basically, if you assume that a hour and a half flight takes about five or six hours of door-to-door travel time, and eight hour car trip isn't too bad. And we got to see pretty things on our way back.
We drove down Friday night. Barb managed to find a relatively traffic-free route out of Portland, and we made good time. Grammy let us in the door, and we basically collapsed into our air mattress on the living room floor.
I awoke to the sound of family cooking breakfast. YAY!
Saturday, we went swimming, and built a puzzle. My aunt K brought her son L up with her, and he and I had a good time playing in the water.
That night, we all went to this little Italian joint for dinner. Pictures here!
Sunday, Barb and I went down to Sacramento to visit with my mom's mother. We went out to the Crocker Art Museum, which was a really nice piece of architecture with some neat paintings in it (and WOW! What a dance floor in the ballroom!). We then went to see Riding Giants at Tower Theater (the original!), which was a beautiful movie. Then we went out to a tapas restaurant, which (with the exception of the rather dull potatoes and the mingy serving of a really nice goat cheese with wine) was very tasty and pleasant. We finally took Gram back home, and I spent half an hour showing her how to use her WebTV (with which she might be reading this missive, I hope!) and some basics on her mobile phone.
Technology is fun.
Monday, we played in the Feather River (which was stupendously cold) and watched the salmon run. That was fun (but stinky). That afternoon, we had a barbecue birthday celebration for several cousins. The tri-tip roast was, as I expected, delicious. There's something about meat grilled on my granddad's stagecoach-shaped grill. It just tastes better.
Tuesday, Barb and I woke up pretty stuffy. We had breakfast and piled into the car, and drove back home. We skipped the Sundial Bridge in Redding, which we were pretty interested in seeing, because we were both feeling pretty rocky and wanted to get home.
We rolled into Portland, and ate Lebanese food at Nicholas. Yum yum.
If I can just get my sinuses to drain, I'll be doing just fine. I've never in my life had my ears stuff up like this. Truly gruesome.
Posted on Wednesday, September 08 @ 16:59:24 CDT by moofie