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Wednesday
October 18, 2017 |
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| sarah is hitting
the big time, 3-week artist residency in richland,
wa, there to be inspired by atomic
city proximity. it was a challenging drive, lots of rain, poor viz,
hydroplaning, and we lost our little leaf which hung
on from capitol hill to columbia
gorge but finally blew off when nobody was
looking. the
internet won't forget you, friend. Mhotel [sic]
is a hoot, "under new management," a patched up
hodge podge lodge of half-assed repairs with a vast
indoor pool complex of algae splotched bottoms, rat
maze of carceral
orange barriers, and sepulchral lighting that
makes this Soviet-ish natatorium the fun dungeon of
choice for a cold war boomtown. but, srsly, i loved
it! seattle is homogenizing faster than a hostile
takeover, so it's nice to see a place that shows its
age and scars. what we call character is the
balancing of foibles. perfection is boring. a person
who strains to conform to every norm is more likely
to be next week's mass murderer than someone who
rolls with their own shortcomings. it all averages
out in the end. best to avoid perfection
as it requires an extreme, opposite counterbalance.
boom, bust. we lucked into richland's cultural high
point, the emerald of
siam's top shelf jazz session, just a short
walk through contiguous strip mall parking lots. uptown!
i look forward to seeing what sarah does on this
fertile, possibly
radioactive, ground. |
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