Do you know what I’ve learned in the five months I’ve had this blog up?
That some people care so much about what you write that they’ll pay people just to check you out.
At first I thought it was creepy
In the long run these readers made me realize the power of the written word.
Gracias Amigos
and this one
is dedicated to you.
This was actually a comment but needs it’s own post…so please check it out and follow the links- I’m not sure why everyone who partcipated in this fun community event were excluded from sharing in the fun….but that SUX.
amm
From
Ed F.
I am one of 200 volunteers who appeared in the winning Springfield Vermont video. After we won, our local Chamber of Commerce turned its back on us. They excluded us from the premiere, giving our seats to the elite in town instead. And not even a thanks or mention of us in the public ceremony outside the theater. Read more about it and check out some of the sights and sounds of premiere day at our new website:
http://vtvid.110mb.com
This non-profit website was created by and being maintained by Edwin Fransen of North Springfield, Vt. The main reasons for creating it are:
1. To give some proper credit to the video volunteers mentioned above who seemed to be forgotten by the media and community leaders once our video entry was submitted and voting begun.
2. To serve as a one-stop link to all the photos, video, audio and many written materials currently on the internet related to the filming of our video, the winning of the contest and finally our big event, world premiere day of The Simpsons Movie on July 21, 2007. In time, as these files begin to be withdrawn from the internet, we hope to get permission to actually host copies here and preserve them as part of the town’s history.
3. To be a source of information on the Town of Springfield, Vt. for tourists and anyone possibly interested in moving here. The Springfield Regional Chamber of Commerce already has this base covered on their website but I hope to offer additional information and links not found on their site. This will be in a separate non-Simpsons section of the website.
I will also include some Simpsons cartoon character content not related to Springfield, Vt. Images I may come across on the internet particularly amusing, interesting or different. But since there are already over 100 websites on the internet about the Simpsons run by devoted fans, I don’t feel any need to spend a lot of time building one more large online collection of Simpsons images and humor.
It’s Funny
Really.
amm
Dear God
Please Excuse My Daughter From God Chat
This Sunday
She’s out trying to do some good in the world
Sincerely
Anita’s Mom
Dear Anita’s Mom
Tell Anita she’s excused and if she scores one of those
for me
I’ll call it good.
Yours Truly
God
Jerry Johnson, foreground, and Don Clifton model the “Ride the S.L.U.T.” T-shirts they created to poke fun at the original acronym of the South Lake Union Streetcar. The shirts are sold at the Kapow! coffee shop in the neighborhood. (Note: Johnson was misidentified in the original caption.) (September 18, 2007)
FULL STORY HERE
Hi God
Sorry I wasn’t here to take your call but leave a message at the beep and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.
Hi Anita
You’re not funny. Call me back.
God, you have no one to blame but yourself for that.
Anita, this is your Lord God
I expect you to obey my commands.
Call me.
Hi again God
My Cat expects the same thing, but I just lock him in my work room with food and water and put him on ignore mode.
He also goes to the bathroom right in front of the door, think about it.
Return my call- I mean it.
God damn, You’d really pee on my floor?
Maybe I need to remind you, I flooded the world. Start Praying.
WELL FINE!
Here’s it is My Lord God
…..
if you think that a Pee Threat
is going to get to me
try again
See you next Sunday
and
ahhhhhmennnnn
For those of you who like to follow the adventures of
Wolfgang A. Mozart
aka
I’m pleased to say that despite his health problems he chased two dogs out of our yard yesterday
(Okay, they were little ones…but STILL)
He’s growling at the Fire Trucks again
(won’t Max be glad to hear that!)
So the next time you’re feeling a little down
Remember that if a little Insanity can over come
Overwhelming odds
So can you
amm
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Stories like this one makes me so proud to be from Seattle.
Really.
“I think Seattle’s known for empowering people and I think that’s why we want to get behind this project.
Mayor Nickels, thank you for our SLUT.”-
Don Clifton
SEATTLE — Officially it’s the Seattle Streetcar. Within the old Cascade neighborhood, part of the area to be served by the new line, it’s popularly known as the South Lake Union Trolley – or SLUT.At Kapow! Coffee, 100 T-shirts bearing the words “Ride the SLUT” are selling quickly at $10 each.
“We’re welcoming the SLUT into the neighborhood,” said Jerry Johnson, 29, a part-time barista. They’re selling almost as many shirts as lattes.
Trolley tracks have been laid from downtown along Westlake Avenue to Lake Union and project officials say the $50.5 million project should be completed and streetcars running in December
Some claim – incorrectly, according to representatives of Vulcan Inc., a company owned by billionaire Paul G. Allen which is developing the area – that South Lake Union Trolley was the original name and that it was changed when officials belatedly realized the acronym.
Underlying the lightheartedness is resentment over changes in the old working-class neighborhood north of the downtown area.
“There was a meeting with representatives from the city several years ago,” Johnson recalled.
“They asked us, ‘What we could do for you?’ Most people raised their hands and said, ‘Affordable housing,”‘ he said. “Then the people from the city huddled together – ‘whisper, whisper, whisper,’ – and they said, ‘How about a trolley?”‘
Since then Cascade has been ignored in Vulcan brochures that lump the neighborhood together with Denny Park and Denny Triangle under the term South Lake Union.
Beth Dube came to the coffee shop on Tuesday to buy shirts for people in her office down the street. They’ve dealt with the construction mess every day and want a piece of the action.
“We exercise around our work campus a lot and so we’ll just have ’em out, loud and proud,” she said.
Others who call South Lake Union home couldn’t pass on the chance to display their T-shirts as the mayor unveiled the new vehicle, which he calls a streetcar.
“We’ve got the waterfront trolley, the old cars from Melbourne, historic in nature,” Mayor Greg Nickels said. “This is different, it’s a bigger vehicle.”
With the streetcar, said Don Clifton, a Cascade resident, “We learned how fun it is to change the name of things.
“I think Seattle’s known for empowering people and I think that’s why we want to get behind this project. Mayor Nickels, thank you for our SLUT.”
Nickels was easy going about the whole thing.
“People can call it whatever they like as long as they ride it,” he said.
Irregular Bones 