Apparently, like much of the country, I started watching Conan O'Brien again, just to watch him rip into Leno. (Who has always bored me.) It's like watching the class cut-up throwing caution to the wind and going after the BMOC. Heh.
But Conan's kind of strange, you know. Bless his weird little heart.
Also taping the Letterman monologue, for the same reason -- to watch him rip into Leno.
Dave has gotten really kind of creepy looking, you know? Ill fitting suits and pink glasses and all?
Speaking of weird looking.
Watched Bangkok Dangerous last night. Nick Cage has gotten very odd looking, lately, too. I happened to catch Red Rock West the other night, a great film noir, and kept thinking he wasn't your typical looking star, even then. Maybe Bruce Willis has the right idea. Shave your head and be done with it. It's very distracting to watch Cage, and Sting, and other aging stars and their receding hairlines and the various tricks they pull to hide it.
I seem to have developed a sudden taste for vintage movies. Watched the Friends of Eddie Coyle the other night; which has to have the biggest downer of a climax of any mainstream movie I've ever seen.
Robert Mitchum was great, but as Linda said when she walked in the room, "Is that Peter Lorre?" No vanity there.
I shouldn't speak, I suppose. I look in the mirror and see all that gray and wonder.....
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"Dave has gotten really kind of creepy looking"
I always thought he was odd back in the 1980's before he hit the big time in the early 1990s (his current gig).
Maybe he's going back to his true form: oddness. Not that that's a bad thing.
Back in the 1950's Elvis said ...
"These days if you want to make money, you got to be different"
He could have been talking about Bend?
What a NOVEL fucking idea, reposition this shit hole of a town??
"Looking Strange"
I'll extrapolate on this thought.
Let's look at Bend. It's like a whore the next morning. For 12 years the status quo have over marketed this little shit-hole with taxpayer money ( COVA ... ).
Now look at today, a little town being marketed like it's still 2002-2004, going into 2010 in the greatest depression in USA history.
Denial? .. Nope, ... we need NEW BLOOD in the entire politikal apparatchuk of Bend. Today its still the same old developers with the same old deal. "Enrich yourself with taxpayer money"... What we need is an ELVIS to shake his ass, if we really want to turn this town around.
Kids like to say "Outside of the Box", but we're going into at least a decade of austerity, and this town is already 'functionally bankrupt', ... and nobody on the horizon seems to speak the truth. Even old King-Hollern has thrown up his hands, with his own problems on 1,000's of unsold STD's in places far from Bend.
On the current course, Bend will become VERY CREEPY LOOKING. This is a fact. Nothing like an old BOTOX realtor in her 60's running a town with her ideas of Faux-Chic to sell STD's to whom?
Oh well study your collapse of Bubbles in "grand popular delusions' and you'll see that Bend is just normal, now we're in the blame game and sending all the frauds to jail, ... the courts and lawyers will be busy for years. But what about Bend? Coming out of this GREED-DECADE-NIGHTMARE, how can re-invent ourselves??
The current course of Bend will be a poster-child forever, like 'florida swampland' was during the depression, .. as you know many fools bought FL land during the 1920's only to see it worthless in the 1930's, ... same with our Bend. This is the current course of events, ... unless somebody can publicly think creatively.
"unless somebody can publicly think creatively"
But what can a town REALLY do to attract people and to grow its economy? I would argue very little. It can provide incentives to incoming businesses, but at the end of the day, the city government just has to provide essential services for its residents. Nowhere is it written that a city has to grow. I don't really believe that economic planning or development works.
Sure I guess if you get lucky you can attract a prominent university, but that seems highly unlikely. Maybe an industrial park will "work," but I doubt it.
I think it's a waste of time to try to do more than just govern well; provide essential services (education, police, fire, etc.).
"But what can a town REALLY do to attract people and to grow its economy?"
Not much, especially if it's a town like Bend that doesn't have much to offer in the first place.
"Nowhere is it written that a city has to grow."
I agree. But Bend (like many towns in the West) has bought into the boom-or-bust economic model. "Sustainable development" is an alien and heretical concept. We think that if we don't boom we're gonna die. So when a boom comes along we pump it for all it's worth and then some ... and then comes the bust, and we die.
But what can a town REALLY do to attract people and to grow its economy? I would argue very little.
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All hell breaks loose when good people remain silent, there are many good people in Bend. Problem is of course FRAUD & MORAL-COLLAPSE.
We the citizen's of Bend in our own selfish quest to 'get rich quick', have let the worst of the worst take over this town and market it as a disneyland for bankers, brokers, builders, developers, and realtors, ... Now of course its a fucking mess, and its bankrupt and are BBBDR's are all running for new horizons,...
I think we already have the 'people' we have always had the people, but the problem is the ONLY PEOPLE who participate at city-council, or the meetings in the last 5-10 years are the folks who wanted to develop their property.
So now we have a mess. The solution isn't bringing in a NEW Ray Kuratek and giving him $2.5M. The solution is for the good people of Bend to step forward, now that the party is over.
"We the citizen's of Bend in our own selfish quest to 'get rich quick', have let the worst of the worst take over this town"
Good to see you're not blaming all our troubles on the "Cali-bangers." We were only too glad to take their money.
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