[Vision2020] Atwood Letter Rewritten

[g. crabtree]

Hello yourself. I really don't think that Ms. Woolf requires much defending seeing as my attack was so subtle that even I somehow missed it. I have to admit that I did not pick up on the parody untill after I replied to her post. I assume it's a real rib tickler for folks such as yourselves but taken at face value (as I did when replying) it's mearly tedious and mildly disparaging. As satire, to me it's meaningless.

"Stinkfully arrogant" is a wonderfull phrase but I'm afraid it to holds no meaning for me with regard to this matter. I detected no neener- neener's after the BOA meeting and with a CUP there is no "zoning violation." Not that there ever was, in my lowly opinion.

As to the parking issue, I have gone over, under, and around this matter so many times I can't bring myself to do it again tonight except to say that I'm sure it's easier on ones ego to blame a specious parking problem for ones failure then to look it in the eye. If you think that parking had anything to do with any of this nonsence then I'm afraid that you have missed the point.

In closing, please feel free to refer to me as gary should you ever grace me with your notice in the future. Last time I checked our clans were'nt  fueding.

Regards,
gc
  To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 6:51 PM
  Subject: [Vision2020] Atwood Letter Rewritten


  Crabtree,

   

  Hello again. I'm writing to address your criticism of J Ford (copied below); I wish to primarily defend her, and only secondarily address what appear to be misconceptions on your part. This letter, as I believe you know, was a play on Atwood's original letter; but Atwood's original letter was directed at what J Ford would probably consider 'innocent' parties, or at least not worthy of the sort of letter they received. And so, the play on words here does not assume that this letter would be fully true if it was in fact literally intended; it is centrally, as I take it, 'how does it feel back at you.'  In this respect, if you didn't favor the original letter then you would have the freedom to enjoy this playful satire regardless of what the city comes up with on parking statistics and regardless of whether or not NSA could justly and wisely be kicked off the block anytime soon. Whether or not NSA is stinkfully arrogant about any response to their code violation will not be decided on the basis of parking statistics; so it seems you may have missed the point of this posting series. 

   

  But even taken literally, the letter focuses just on the parking issue, which you grant was the central focus of concern.  The fact that the concern was so focused suggests that this is not necessarily some conspiracy, but rather a couple business owners who claim to be losing hundreds of thousands of dollars do to the parking issue-as I understand it anyway.

   

  Michael Metzler

   

   

  Ms.Woolf, It was a pleasure to meet you at the  meeting Tuesday night. As one of the most vocal (at least on this forum) detractors of NSA, I was very surprised that you didn't take the opportunity to educate the BOA as to the evils of the NSA. You complain that the board doesn't listen to the people and yet you gave them nothing to hear. The overwhelming majority of the testimony that they did hear was in favor of the collage remaining right where they are. The few detractors that did speak could only muster the parking issue as the  reason for a denial. An issue that has been shown to be a false since the school uses no more parking than any other potential user of that property. This is not just my biased contention, but the result of statistics provided by the city staff. What outcome did you expect the board to produce with that kind of input? I've got to assume that if a better argument could have been concocted, it would have been brought forward. It wasn't.

   

  With regard to the whimsical letter that you thoughtfully reproduce for us here on the V. I would find it far more persuasive, informative, and entertaining if it had some actual signatures attached, and would be happier if, as a downtown merchant mine, by implication, wasn't.

   



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