A somewhat different audience comes downtown for Broadway road shows and Cityfolk stuff. Why would one need or want to go into town? I can only think of a few reasons: jury duty, legal issues, or some form of specialized entertainment.Ĭulture vultures have to come downtown for the "SOB" & theatre. The average person is already doing it, but uninentionally. The boycott Dayton concept seems silly or extreme, but it's actually pretty easy to do. So perhaps this blog is just a grand, intentional misreading as well as a sort of "lookee here!" thing.Īnyway, off to Louisville for New Years and the next post will be about 2009. I guess that is sort of psycho, but it means I look at Dayton through the eyes of a Louisvillian (well, OK, I am a native of Chicago). My last post on this thread at Urban Ohio is that I blog on Dayton pretending it's Louisville. (though I am starting to see Portland, Oregon as the Anti-Dayton). Which brings up this Daytonologys recurring I Luv Louavull theme, where I posit Louisville as an example for Daytonians to follow, the evil opposite of Dayton, the Anti-Dayton. So what city do you guess might be ever-so-slightly more hip, tolerant and creative-classy than the other? That's why I'm skeptical of this concept re Dayton. Louisville: Re-elects John Yarmuth, ex libertarian/GOPer, and former pot-smoking editor/publisher of the local indy weekly paper.ĭayton: Re-elects Mike Turner: lawyer, homophobe, developer tool and military industrial complex suck-up. The other interesting thing to happen here was the Creative Class initiative, which I didn't really blog on too much as its sort of an insider thing and they have their own internet presence.
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It's laughable to see how popular Turner is with the creative class types. True to form that stuff was got me the most links elsewhere on the net and the most comments.
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About as close as I came to serious political blogging was when I did that stuff on Mike Turner as a favor for Esrati (since he was one of the few here doing urban affairs blogging). This was a year when people were obessed with politics.
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There were some odd moments, like my attempt to do a series on Sacramento as an experiment with "remote blogging" (conclusion: you have to be there to really do urbanist blogging on a place). There's a lot there, but I'm not going to do a greatest hits because they are all great (IMHO of course). The last post of the year as New Years Eve will be spent in Kentucky.Ģ99 posts.