Wednesday Potpourri
814 Thayer Avenue
More details have emerged about the development at 814 Thayer Avenue, current/defunct home to the National Association of the Deaf. According to the Silver Spring Penguin, there will be a total of 52 units, and seven of then will be “moderately priced.” The garage will, as talked about earlier, create a thoroughfare on the alley running between Thayer and Silver Spring Avenue that connects Fenton and Grove. And that will handle in-and-out traffic for the 36 onsite parking spaces.
If there are only 36 spaces, are they assuming many won’t have cars? Where will the overflow of cars (assuming there is some) be parked? I know on my section of the street, there’s no parking allowed on the north side of Thayer because of the bus traffic. Here’s to hoping thay start ticketing more to make sure people don’t violate that.
Thanks, as always, to the Silver Spring Penguin. Speaking of which, their site now carries advertisements that I encourage you to click on and buy stuff from. For so long, they’ve toiled away bringing the latest updates to readers in the area, and now their traffic and business model supports revenue generation. Help a Penguin out.
Screw you, parking increase!
As reported in the Washington Post, among other places, Montgomery County repealed the fee and time increase for parking meters. The subhead for the story declares “Broad Criticism Stuns Montgomery.” What the hell did they think was going to happen? I’d be more than willing to fork over some extra parking cash if MoCo was willing to relinquish their death grip on alcohol sales so I could buy beer and wine at a grocery store other than Snyder’s.
Can we get some Skynard?
Silver Spring Singular has a nice post about this, but I equate people’s bitching and moaning about bringing particular musical acts [to what once was to be the Birchmere] to Veruca Salt saying “But Daddy, I want an Oompa Loompa!” If that’s gonna be the attitude, I’ll lobby for whatever will piss them off. Two hours’ worth of “Free Bird” should do the trick.
Peterson, Schmeterson
The County gave Peterson Companies the big finger, according to the Washington Post:
Developers cannot prohibit people from taking photographs on public-private space in downtown Silver Spring, the Montgomery county attorney declared yesterday in a letter to County Executive Isiah Leggett. In an eight-page letter, County Attorney Leon Rodriguez said that the street in question, Ellsworth Drive, “constitutes a public forum” and that the First Amendment’s protection of free speech applies there.
So I guess PetersonCo’s policy of being able to rescind the “we’ll let you take pictures for now” policy is out the window.
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Re: Music whiners = Veruca Salt
“Libertine women and Scarlet women and RAG-TIME! Shameless music that will grab your son, YOUR daughter in the arms of a jungle animal instinct. Mass hysteria!”
buncha musical xenophobic philistines
(Dad??? What’s a philistine??)
It’s a person who doesn’t care about books or interesting films or things.
I’m all for a music venue, but I think anything more progressive than The Birchmere would be political suicide(we can only hope), and I think that The Birchmere knew this and played hardball, against a group of bush league NIMBY tools & fools.
Skynard, I say no. I saw Pink Floyd 4 years before Dark Side of the Moon, Grand Funk when they were a local Michigan band, Bob Seger playing free to promote his 1st single,Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man, but Skynard is dead.RE: Warren Zevon,(sweet home Alabama, play that dead bands song…), along with that Morrison-less band calling itself The Doors. Next you’ll have Ringo getting togeather with his buddies at AA and re-forming the Beatles. I have been a Who fan since ’68, and I love and respect Pete & Rodger, but I won’t pay to see the Who unless they bring back Keith Moon (not to slight The Ox). Rock was suppose to be about the music. The miracle of recording preserves it, but calling yourself, L Skynard long after half of it’s founding members have died is like saying Mc Donalds makes the best burgers, Bud is the king of beer, and I promice not to…
Sorry to be so long winded, I wanna rock, (and the members of Veruca Salt are all breathing. “American Thighs” is a classic). I live in DTSS and say, if you don’t want noise, don’t live downtown. Downtown denotes a buisness district, which lives off commerce, which means people, which have mouths, and if they’re anything like mine, they are never shut.
Rock On
ps: Eric, why is it that the majority of people who want to see these old bands weren’t alive or old enough for the real thing? I probably know more about bands of “your time” than you, and I started with Patti Page.
As for the answer to your question: nostalgia, mixed with a little “retro is cool” attitude might be the reason. Or maybe (more likely) a lot of the music coming out today is such crap that we all yearn for something better. It’s good music – let ‘em listen.
And while I’m young, I’m not *that* young. Patty Page? Come on! At least you could have said Cole Porter or Elvis or something a little more trendy. Mills Brothers? Robert Johnson? Help a brother out, here!
Bottom line is that whatever they build, they’re going to create something that generates revenue (i.e., not totally crap). And it’s a lot better than an empty JCPenny building.
Robert Johnson is totally cool,Ella sings Cole Porter, one of my favorite recordings, but I’m not a museum piece! That was all pre-me. My parents wouldn’t let me buy Elvis (too Negro). Patti Page,”I’m Walkin”, for better or worse, was my first 45. I’m not knocking nostalgia acts, I just ask that they aren’t a rip-off with one or two oridignal members. I saw the Stones and the only members dead were Brian Jones & Keith Richards,(and that’s why they are so cool, because Keith doesn’t know it yet.)
Sorry dude. When you said Patty Page, I just had to wonder! And don’t worry – I won’t say anything to Keith.
But I know what you mean. I saw Plant|Page in ’94, and even though they could have, they didn’t call themselves Led Zeppelin. I guess when you’re that cool, you don’t need to.
I was saving my ass, your cool. Lets fight the MoCo beer barons who block our access to good brew, at good prices, and convenient locations, like everywhere. MoCo seems more tollerent of drug dealers than beer outlets.