And a special Raz page...
has aged pretty well!
My senior year in high school, a friend showed me a classified ad in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer advertising a Corvette for sale in Ballard by one "Nancy Wilson." We decided to check it out. Sure enough. She was very gracious.
Seattle used to be good about that kind of thing. Celebrities from here or who came here wouldn't be hassled much. It was the heavy Scandinavian influence, but it was also geography.
The guitarist I play with in Fumblewump was friends with Jerry Cantrell, my sister was on a first-name basis with Stone Gossard in the 2010s.
It's only been since the advent of social media that it began to break down. COVID, radical leftist violence, and chaotic liberal municipal policy have finished it off. That's not me trying to start a political argument. Seattle has been the de facto capitol of leftist activism since the early 20th century. It's a historic phenomenon. But it's only in the past five years that Seattle's become a shithole, as Seattle has begun experimenting with all the most progressive fantasies as real policy.
Bad for Seattle, good for the rest of us not to take that route.
The proof of the pudding is in the tasting, they say.
I wasn't trying to start an argument, nor criticizing socialist thinking. I was just pointing out that Seattle has been sincerely adopting the most progressive hopes for municipal policy, and the results have not been what was expected.
