My great-grandfather was a copper miner in Montana from about 1912 to some time after 1920. By 1930 he was a barber in Aberdeen, WA but he died younger than I am now of lung disease in 1943.

I’m the first non-union generation since.

I’m still trying to figure out who the older apparently Japanese gentleman with a nervous assistant was who greeted me in the late 90s in Kaua’i like I should know who he was and asked if I lived in Hawai’i. (I did not, and missed his name.) We had a nice chat. Maybe he was former governor Ariyoshi?

If you look at 1980 the line is middle of the pack. It takes a different trajectory at the 1982 recession and basically does not change until 2008, when the Great Recession lowers the trajectory further until COVID, where it gets worse again.

Three GOP failures with no correction under Democrats.

Sure, but a lot of these small indie scenes cross-fertilized and even people who didn’t buy those records had heard them or at least heard of them. For every person I knew that bought Bleach, 10 people had a cassette copy or heard the album or had seen the band but not bought the album.

But it was still definitive for that year for those of us who bought it. The first two CDs I ever bought (in 1989, in Seattle) were Bleach and Buzz Factory, and between me and my goth industrial roommate we had nearly every indie album in that thread.

I was 19 and worked as a dishwasher the summer of 1989. The music in the Top 40 list was what played at work, but the albums in that other thread were what I was listening to at home. When I remember 1989, I think of that good music.

this is just to say
i have demolished
the east wing

and which you
were probably saving
for posterity

forgive me
i am demented
so weak
and so cold

In retrospect, McGinn was one of the better mayors of the last 25 years. Nickels is the only one who arguably did better. But Schell, Murray, Durkan, and Harrell have ranged from disappointing to bad.

Duwamish, Suquamish, and Sammamish, among others. (These are the anglicized names because I can’t remember Lushootseed spelling.)