Plenty of intelligent people are perfectly happy doing it and the fact that our society celebrates sex and financial success as much as it does and simultaneously marginalizes people that are able to achieve said financial success by selling sex is ridiculous.

I tie the room together.

I think I may have played frisbee there back in 1997 while ridiculously hungover…

And yes, British WWI poetry kicks much ass.

was from a guy that was building a new house about a block from our place. I was walking around the other night, and I stopped to shoot the shit with him a little bit. I was asking about how many houses he’s built, how things are with the market being down, and all that, and we got to the subject of the actual construction. This particular house went from level ground to fully finished in just under two months, and I was marveling at that. We started talking about how hard it would be to sell his house in this market, and he said that where two years ago it would have sold in three days now it’ll probably take four months.

Then he said something that blew me away: “But the upside to the slower market is that now I can take my time and build houses like they’re supposed to be built because I’m not under time pressure from the developer.”

The fact that he would admit that he just slapped up houses as fast as he could to a complete stranger kinda boggled my mind.

I’m a bit happy for the housing crisis, definitely, because the places that used to be out there that I could drive to remain out there and retain that charm.

But Capitol Hill? I don’t know. My dad used to tell me stories about living up there in the mid-‘60s and said that the Hill never really grows up. There are some great places around there that I still try to frequent whenever I’m in these days, but those big complexes on the north end caught me by surprise. They sort of had a feel of what Kirkland has become over the past decade.

Some of it’s trending positive, but I’m a little concerned that the character is being bled away.