Murray avenue residents are actually fairly inoffensive — it is the folks one block west on Mulholland that you have to watch out for. That is the true hotbed of OWS stick-up-the-ass culture.
“… it is the folks one block west on Mulholland that you have to watch out for. That is the true hotbed of OWS stick-up-the-ass culture …”
Actually, you don’t have to do all that much watching out … as we’re fairly easy to spot … each with our own individually crafted, pastel-painted, historically-accurate porch railing baluster, which you so quaintly refer to as a ’stick’, that is surgically implanted on move-in day. Not long after moving in, mine began to shed splinters and I had to go before the HDC to request permission to install a replacement made of synthetic material. They were remarkably cooperative. In no time at all, the problem was rectified.
Heh. Murray is actually one of my favorite streets in AA. There were two houses for sale on the block last time I was in town, which I popped in to see (long story).
Murray residents actually voted (via that email list) *against* asking for resident permit parking, on the basis that it would be harder on some residents (e.g. students) and that it was unfriendly and wrong to keep people from using a public street freely, whether for the Y or whatever (tho issues of illegal use, like blocking driveways, going the wrong way, or tearing down the hill way too fast remain alive, esp. given the bizarre babyboom on the street). The Mayberry element of street community isn’t necessarily at odds with feeling part of and connected to downtown and the city as a whole.
the street I live on had 50 kids at one time. They are now older and some becoming parents themselves. It is hardest when they all start driving. Parking becomes an issue.
Oh, lighten up, RDS. No one’s being remotely anti-kids, tho some of us might be anti your weird subtexts. The point was that nearly a dozen kids within barely two years on a single block was a bit over the odds and that the actual parents of the kids in question had laughed about it.
Well Aki, ya never know in this town, lotta subtext in the air, bigger problem than smog in the People’s Republic. Folks either seem to think kids (theirs of course) are all rocket scientists and little darlings who do no wrong or a disease on the planet and that abortion should be mandatory. Mine? They’re a nice tax deduction and cover for me to play in the sandbox…
Dang neighborhoods and their sophisticated technology.
posted by Dale on May 14th, 2006 at 8:41 pmIt all sounds so exclusive and appealing. Too bad most of Murray Ave. is in a flood zone.
posted by Carolyn on May 14th, 2006 at 9:43 pmMurray avenue residents are actually fairly inoffensive — it is the folks one block west on Mulholland that you have to watch out for. That is the true hotbed of OWS stick-up-the-ass culture.
posted by Mulholland's worse on May 15th, 2006 at 3:25 pm“… it is the folks one block west on Mulholland that you have to watch out for. That is the true hotbed of OWS stick-up-the-ass culture …”
Actually, you don’t have to do all that much watching out … as we’re fairly easy to spot … each with our own individually crafted, pastel-painted, historically-accurate porch railing baluster, which you so quaintly refer to as a ’stick’, that is surgically implanted on move-in day. Not long after moving in, mine began to shed splinters and I had to go before the HDC to request permission to install a replacement made of synthetic material. They were remarkably cooperative. In no time at all, the problem was rectified.
posted by HD on May 15th, 2006 at 6:02 pmHeh. Murray is actually one of my favorite streets in AA. There were two houses for sale on the block last time I was in town, which I popped in to see (long story).
posted by Scott T. on May 16th, 2006 at 11:30 amMurray residents actually voted (via that email list) *against* asking for resident permit parking, on the basis that it would be harder on some residents (e.g. students) and that it was unfriendly and wrong to keep people from using a public street freely, whether for the Y or whatever (tho issues of illegal use, like blocking driveways, going the wrong way, or tearing down the hill way too fast remain alive, esp. given the bizarre babyboom on the street). The Mayberry element of street community isn’t necessarily at odds with feeling part of and connected to downtown and the city as a whole.
posted by Aki on May 16th, 2006 at 12:24 pmThat many kids on a street is kind of freaky.
posted by christina on May 16th, 2006 at 2:38 pmOh yeah, that many kids IS freaky. Kids are so, just, weird. I mean, who has them? And why? Haven’t these people ever heard of abortion?
I mean, hey, kids. The future of our species doesn’t depend on them. Just plain freaky. So, so strange.
posted by RDS on May 21st, 2006 at 1:19 amthe street I live on had 50 kids at one time. They are now older and some becoming parents themselves. It is hardest when they all start driving. Parking becomes an issue.
posted by eileenie on May 21st, 2006 at 9:17 amOh, lighten up, RDS. No one’s being remotely anti-kids, tho some of us might be anti your weird subtexts. The point was that nearly a dozen kids within barely two years on a single block was a bit over the odds and that the actual parents of the kids in question had laughed about it.
posted by Aki on May 21st, 2006 at 4:56 pmWell Aki, ya never know in this town, lotta subtext in the air, bigger problem than smog in the People’s Republic. Folks either seem to think kids (theirs of course) are all rocket scientists and little darlings who do no wrong or a disease on the planet and that abortion should be mandatory. Mine? They’re a nice tax deduction and cover for me to play in the sandbox…
posted by Thomas Cook on May 22nd, 2006 at 8:36 am