tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post6944054098096409375..comments2024-03-28T16:22:14.888-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: ParkingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4514750428465911252012-01-16T12:03:16.667-08:002012-01-16T12:03:16.667-08:00Don't know how it affects parking, but Pasaden...Don't know how it affects parking, but Pasadena has several places named after Oneonta, the upstate N.Y. hometown of the king of "interurban" rail, Henry Huntington. (That was similar to commuter rail, and not to be confused with "intercity" rail, of which his uncle Collis was also a major baron.)<br /><br />Almost everywhere yo u see that name outside Otsego County, it means that Huntington was playing a major role there. Imperial Beach is another, as is the town in Alabama.Reg Cæsarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8941172064284647272012-01-16T11:46:53.537-08:002012-01-16T11:46:53.537-08:00Remember Mayor Willie Brown's comment during t...Remember Mayor Willie Brown's comment during that World Series? San Francisco has everything but parking, Anaheim has nothing <i>but</i> parking.<br /><br />Probably the smartest thing he ever said.<br /><br />There's an inherent contradiction here: good parking is dead space.Reg Cæsarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49691597208606796852012-01-16T11:22:06.705-08:002012-01-16T11:22:06.705-08:00"I take it the mercy you suggest for lame blo..."I take it the mercy you suggest for lame blogs you wouldn't like applied to lame commenters such as yourself."<br /><br />You and your friends are doing a lousy job of pretending to be Steve Sailer. Don't get mad at me for stating the obvious in this matter.<br /><br />I'm not even sure why the blog wouldn't just go dormant as it has in years past.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16739841755774638382012-01-16T10:33:42.027-08:002012-01-16T10:33:42.027-08:00Free parking on weekends, charge on weekdays. You&...Free parking on weekends, charge on weekdays. You're welcome.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52237433857404837352012-01-15T18:34:55.927-08:002012-01-15T18:34:55.927-08:00Though the parking dynamic is important in certain...Though the parking dynamic is important in certain contexts regarding civic regulations, I believe it is minimally important in the context of Pasadena's vs. Westwood's "success.<br /><br />Pasadena's supremacy as a function of parking availability and aesthetics would only matter if it catered to people who cared about that stuff. The demographic which populates night hipdom doesn't care about crowds, lines, traffic...these are marks of pride they claw through and which makes the night out seem more legit.<br /><br />There is a psychological timbre that cause one neighborhood to blossom while another withers. <br /><br />If anything, I think Pasadena suffers from a favorable historical and geographical advantage over Westwood. Pasadena is the proud owner of the Rose Bowl, the Rose Parade, and other inanities related to Rose-anything. Pasadena is also home to old big money and thus glitters the golden hue that night urban crawlers are attracted to. Pasadena is centrally located (especially in comparison to the outpost that is Westwood). It is close to the Pasadena Fwy/Ventura Fwy interchange which is simple access to arteries leading to the Valley and other parts of LA proper.An Unmarried Manhttp://www.phoenixism.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54769765422331977542012-01-15T17:48:40.624-08:002012-01-15T17:48:40.624-08:00"Let's build human-scale cities that can ..."Let's build human-scale cities that can be enjoyed by everyone."<br /><br />I agree, but it is too late for us. It will take a very long time to change the city patterns in the US. It is best just to try and find a place that has what you are looking for already built.<br /><br />Streets for People by Rudolfsky is a good book.<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/Streets-People-Americans-Bernard-Rudofsky/dp/0385042310Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41676665347335341782012-01-15T08:26:30.614-08:002012-01-15T08:26:30.614-08:00"When blogs go lame isn't it an act of me...<i>"When blogs go lame isn't it an act of mercy to shoot them?"</i><br /><br />I take it the mercy you suggest for lame blogs you wouldn't like applied to lame commenters such as yourself.Kylienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27098466550920109292012-01-14T22:50:27.196-08:002012-01-14T22:50:27.196-08:00When blogs go lame isn't it an act of mercy to...When blogs go lame isn't it an act of mercy to shoot them?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22343876165152176202012-01-14T22:11:45.691-08:002012-01-14T22:11:45.691-08:00I wonder if parking spaces are such an isolated fa...I wonder if parking spaces are such an isolated factor, when West L.A. was growing mildly in the 90s while the Pomona-San Bernardino sprawl exploded. Old Town is (was) as much as a 1 hr shorter drive from inland. Also they've successfully destroyed the shopping haven of Glendale (independent city) then cannibalized the Burbank/east Valley audience. Old Town's retailers are nearer to the Scenic Rose Bowl Area than to low-rent PCC and frankly either one is nicer than "NoHo"/Pacoima/Slumville. I confess to not reading fully the comments about Shoupians. Perhaps something to it, but sounds ad hoc. I did laugh when someone called South Pas "a ghetto, old sport"--maybe he thought the post was about Pasadena in Texas or Florida or Newfoundland. Not exactly a brilliant Internet jab there.Alcalde Jaime Miguel Curleohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11801154986193443160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-77663436056056273462012-01-14T14:54:29.328-08:002012-01-14T14:54:29.328-08:00Charles Murray's new book looks full of iSteve...Charles Murray's new book looks full of iSteve goodness.<br /><br />I cannot wait for review and subsequent posts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91380325386845606752012-01-14T14:39:09.803-08:002012-01-14T14:39:09.803-08:00"Meanwhile, the new generation of good lookin..."Meanwhile, the new generation of good looking young people goes somewhere else where there aren't all these depressing oldsters around."<br /><br />Greenwich Village was already bohemian, and hipsterish avant-la-lettre 100 years ago. It's still like that now. I've read of tours of 1910s Greenwich Village whose purpose was to show ordinary people some of the bohemian weirdness that was already then associated with it in the popular mind. Are modern Paris's bohemian neighborhoods all the same as 17th century Paris's bohemian neighborhoods? I don't know. In my mind the words Montmartre and Left Bank imply trendiness through many centuries, but I could be wrong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-60389294364229456812012-01-14T13:56:21.977-08:002012-01-14T13:56:21.977-08:00Aren't these parking requirements and zoning l...Aren't these parking requirements and zoning laws (houses must be on so much land, set back so far, only so many housing units per block, etc.), effectively a subsidy of the automobile industry?<br /><br />~ RistoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39408632926567217192012-01-14T13:23:26.866-08:002012-01-14T13:23:26.866-08:00OT: Head Start A 50 Year Flop? Say It Ain’t So, Jo...OT: <a href="http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/01/12/head-start-a-50-year-flop-say-it-aint-so-joe/" rel="nofollow">Head Start A 50 Year Flop? Say It Ain’t So, Joe </a>Anon87noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91299135692659010722012-01-14T13:22:22.269-08:002012-01-14T13:22:22.269-08:00Perfect metaphor for club med Europe.<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/world/europe/cruise-ship-runs-aground-off-tuscan-coast.html?_r=1&smid=fb-nytimes&WT.mc_id=WO-E-FB-SM-LIN-SIO-011412-NYT-NA&WT.mc_ev=click" rel="nofollow">Perfect metaphor for club med Europe. </a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-44702818084780465192012-01-14T12:41:53.950-08:002012-01-14T12:41:53.950-08:00'“But in competition between groups, groups of...'“But in competition between groups, groups of altruists are more likely to succeed. In addition, it is clear that groups of humans proselytize other groups and accept them as allies, and that that tendency is much favored by group selection.” Taking in newcomers and forming alliances had become a fundamental human trait, he added, because “it is a good way to win.” '<br /><br />This is a raw, controversial set of declarative statements not backed up by evidence. I couldn't care less about the theories some anthropologist generates based on the many fictions that constitute the discipline. The theory is simplified, encouraging people to adopt such a perspective without questioning. In reality, as ever, the devil is in the details. An excellent counter example would be the experience of North American Indians who used the strategy extensively and who are currently a small, disenfranchised culture living on the margins of the dominant culture that replaced theirs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35662277000220859032012-01-14T11:01:04.454-08:002012-01-14T11:01:04.454-08:00"That's why Dr. Dre and Ice Cube are rich..."That's why Dr. Dre and Ice Cube are rich, and you're a non-entity."<br /><br />I wouldn't exactly say a non-entity, Robert; after all, like Monroe, Kennedy, Lennon, and Pressey, one of the everyday posters here has chosen to <a href="http://mpcdot.com/forums/index.php?/topic/4071-troof-memorial-thread/" rel="nofollow">immortalize</a> me!Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-48005118327048512472012-01-14T08:57:32.270-08:002012-01-14T08:57:32.270-08:00to another commenter: mass transit is cool in Finl...to another commenter: mass transit is cool in Finland but in America its no fun unless you look spending your time around black thugs,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74675059036739496042012-01-14T08:54:33.940-08:002012-01-14T08:54:33.940-08:00you should write about "sons of anarchy"...you should write about "sons of anarchy" and kurt sutter. the second season seems as if the SPLC wrote it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-73079887055302114972012-01-14T08:16:46.428-08:002012-01-14T08:16:46.428-08:00You gotta love my boy Truth. "Look at me! I a...<i>You gotta love my boy Truth. "Look at me! I actually read that book we were assigned in high school!"</i><br /><br />To be fair, The Great Gatsby is a pretty decent book.beowulfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14987548132065830204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39413471392990598022012-01-14T08:00:30.789-08:002012-01-14T08:00:30.789-08:00The Pasadena represented in "Big Bang Theory&...The Pasadena represented in "Big Bang Theory" seems very hip, so I guess art imitates life in this case. But I imagine that because Cal Tech is such a small school, it doesn't affect the culture of Pasadena to the extent the show would have you believe.Hapalong Cassidynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86452299606162231242012-01-14T07:34:37.796-08:002012-01-14T07:34:37.796-08:00I second Ray's point about Santa Barbara, thou...I second Ray's point about Santa Barbara, though I will point out that in fact they built a bunch of malls downtown. However, they don't look like malls, they are designed to blend in with the older fake Spanish colonial architecture. And the place is more fun than a normal mall, especially as you get closer to the train station/ waterfront.<br /><br />The point is the "build malls and lots of parking downtown" strategy has been tried repeatedly, and usually fails, but it is usually implemented really badly.Ednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18589010431740301482012-01-14T07:28:07.033-08:002012-01-14T07:28:07.033-08:00Lots of anger in UK over Thatcher movie.<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-fg-britain-thatcher-20120114,0,6851500.story" rel="nofollow">Lots of anger in UK over Thatcher movie.</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26589986423668989762012-01-14T06:38:52.027-08:002012-01-14T06:38:52.027-08:00"Shoupians also hate offstreet parking provid..."Shoupians also hate offstreet parking provided by merchants to customers, even though the costs are fully internalized by the merchants and utimately paid by the customers. "<br /><br />Paid by *all* the customers, including those who don't or can't drive to the merchant. Why should such people be forced to subsidize the luxuries of automobile drivers?<br /><br />As a partially blind person - Anonymous for this reason - who will never have the luxury of sitting behind the wheel of an automobile, it makes me angry every time I think of how much of my money has gone to subsidize a majority whose privilege over those that don't have it dwarfs anything experienced by more-recognized "majorities", so hated by the Left, like whites and heterosexuals.<br /><br />Automobile drivers can always choose not to be drivers if they want to take advantage of a walkable neighborhood. But non-drivers can never take advantage of automobile-only infrastructure -- and the vast majority of US society presupposes that every adult has an automobile.<br /><br />Let's build human-scale cities that can be enjoyed by everyone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4884557762662395212012-01-14T01:40:17.613-08:002012-01-14T01:40:17.613-08:00"Uh, South Pasadena's a ghetto also, Spor..."Uh, South Pasadena's a ghetto also, Sport."<br /><br />You gotta love my boy Truth. "Look at me! I actually read that book we were assigned in high school!" <br /><br />Congratulations, my man: you have the literary knowledge of a 9th grader.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76161906663942211292012-01-14T00:18:23.226-08:002012-01-14T00:18:23.226-08:00People want to walk around streets that have cafes...<i>People want to walk around streets that have cafes, and boutiques, and most importantly other people, they don't walk to walk around parking lots.</i><br /><br />This. Parking lots lower the density of interesting, eye-catching businesses. Which lowers the density of interesting people. Southern California is stuffed to the gills with strip malls - why go out of your way to visit one in Westwood?Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10330712047609650184noreply@blogger.com