E-mail of the Week

This is the best e-mail I've received all week:

Mr. Sharkansky, it is with some interest and delight to read that you have relocated to the Emerald City. Now it is your duty to slam the doors on others from California or elsewhere wanting to move up here. Remember the advice a correspondent gave you about always mentioning the constant rain here.

I had read your blog a bit before I left my employment in Seattle to return to sea in early 2002. While working in Seattle, I loved reading The Stranger every week for my dose of angst and fury, but had to quit shortly before the 2000 election when they went completely off the rails at the imminent possibility of a George Dubya presidency. They went beyond frantic to spittle flecked incoherency. It was too pathetic to watch them screw themselves into the ceiling every issue. They supported the monorail – not because they actually believed it was a solution to traffic congestion, but because it was cool.

Currently home on leave (across the Sound from you, on the south shore of the Hood Canal), I hope to check on your blog from overseas in the future. Your updates on the monorail foolishness are a treat, not least because they permit me to revel in smug shadenfreude. Glad I don’t have to pay for the (probably) bong fuelled mandatory gyrations of the Seattle City Council and their coterie of painfully earnest buffoons. A friend, who has houses in both West Seattle and on the Canal, has registered all of his cars over here because he doesn’t see why he should pay an extra thousand or so a year to fund that homage to the Jetsons.

Thanks for an entertaining blog

Thank you too!

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at May 02, 2004 02:52 PM