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I've got a question about people's eyes in pre-war photography. Lots of people (men especially) have these penetrating silver eyes. Was that a function of the cameras and/or the developing process, or were there a lot more steely-eyed people then as compared to now? I have met people with eyes that color in real life, but very few of them.

Yeah. Sometimes I don't want to weigh 4000 pounds and be 120 square feet every where I go.

They don't like driving. They can't drive. They'd rather sleep or be productive rather than piloting their own machine. They don't want wear and tear on their car. Driving is more dangerous. And more... Only people who get behind the wheel and imagine they're sitting next to a bald eagle think it's a race. It's those clenched-jaw WLW callers who are scared that they would turn into a eunich if they did anything except drive everywhere.

Is it a race?

We could have had a convention center that looked like that. It was one of the three choices.

A lot of that vintage-looking equipment during the time of metal was a rebellion against metal. "Look, I'm smarter." Some of these people would have sounded better through a Fender or a 50W Marshall, but had to go all the way to the left. And people playing guitars with horrible action and intonation just to look like a '50s geek.

Successful people such as Ruby sometimes have to close locations. It's a normal course of business in some industries.

Then why don't you blame the city more for not having a transparent process for finding a 'black-run, black-culture' business that had a good financial record? I agree with some here that certain right wing mouthpieces have used this situation to criticize wasteful spending, and I agree that it would be naive to assume that race has nothing to do with this situation. I think that makes the city's lack of due diligence even more inexcusable. The city had to know that there was going to be a lot of controversy about this subsidy given the fact that the subsidy was tied to a diversity initiative, so it makes it extra baffling that they chose to proceed even after discovering the poor financial record of Liz Rogers. The whole thing would be something that nobody would know or care about if it wasn't for WLW. Even the Enquirer would have only done a story or two on it because nominally, articles about government subsidies are boooooooooorrrring to most people. The Mahogany's story would be secret in Columbus for example -- Columbus is all secrets. And we don't have a WLW; well, we do, but all they talk about is Cincinnati.

Larry LaLonde came from death metallers Possessed so there probably was a time he was like that. Though once the Boss Noise Suppressor pedal came around to quiet the hot-rodded amps (back when you had to do that) of the '80s feedback became passe in metal. "Shut that thing up!"

Yea, we've had 'em up here for years now. Turkey Hill is what they call them up thisaway.

A buddy of mine looked it up and found that the last time Iron Maiden came to town was in the '90s.

Hmmm, ODOT education subsidies. I like it.

I'd like to go to a tractor pull with her.

But it didn't take over. The bands making good stuff have to be really big or it doesn't count.

When I was a kid, people walked around with ghetto blasters playing confrontational music. I remember being at King's Island around 1989 and seeing some skinny kid with a sideways floppy hat playing Public Enemy on a boom box on his shoulder, walking around back by where the line starts for The Beast. How did he sneak that thing in? Didn't he know he was going to get it taken away? It was a bold display, all around, and music was the medium. Is any kid today bringing a boom box to their pickup baseball or football games at the park? No, and if they are, whatever they're playing is weak. The late '90s to mid-2000s made people leave music. Look at what was big: nu-metal: fist-wailing dumb rock about crappy childhoods aimed directly at overweight trailer park teens modern rock: aimed directly at overweight giant SUV-driving divorced women in their 40s. Nickelback. boy bands: not even Pop since it sold poorly to anyone except girls under 16. Easily grown out of. mainstream rap that went too far: mostly focused on spending money, the rap of the time got very boring and predictable. Again with the trailer park teens. emo: depressing breakup music only. easily grown out of. nu-country: aimed at the same overweight forty-something divorcees as modern rock; those women were the most important consumers of music throughout the decade rather the young, cool people the industry courted for the previous 50+ years. Young edgy people don't like to be ignored, but this genre did it. None of this music was aimed at thinkers or trendsetters and made anyone remotely enigmatic barf. You need cool people buying and listening to music. I think music made it back OK, but it is a lot more electronic since the rock was so bad for so long. But the main problem with music is that it has no visuals on its own and therefore doesn't provide the constant visual stimulation young people demand today.

What's the Mark Twain quote? If you don't read newspapers you're uninformed, if you do you're misinformed. Or something like that. I never cease to be amazed at how those who bully and manipulate in their personal lives are often so oblivious to the way they're being manipulated by advertisers, politicians, etc. That's what it takes for them to be able to do what they do. The best salesmen are the ones most vulnerable to a great sales pitch. A lot of times in extended interviews for salespeople they will hit the interviewee with a high-quality pitch. If they go along with it like, "Yeah, that does sound good!" whereas somebody who counters with "I think I see what you're trying to do here" and picks apart the pitch may earn the respect of the interviewer but won't get the job becuase they aren't easily sold on things -- which means they might have trouble selling to others. This is why I'll never be a truly great salesman. But I know how to look for them and that can't hurt.

Not optimal. Don't know how they track who is occupying and when they are there but 25% is stunning to me. Probably by getting the rent checks mailed to them rather than dropped off at the office. Especially if the return address is from a suburb.

DO NOT get the old-style iPods wet, that's for sure.

That's what you gotta do when you have hills. Pittsburgh is the same way. One reason I think why people like Cincy, Pittsburgh, New York and parts of L.A. is that just driving around town is like an amusement ride whereas in Atlanta, Dallas and Columbus it's about as fun as mowing the grass.

I'm not giving up the clickwheel that easy; it's too dangerous to skip tracks if you have to stare at a screen to do it while running. And the phone is too big and expensive to be useful while doing jock-y stuff.

If someone isn't willing to deal with slightly unusual traffic patterns to get to school do you think they'll jump through hoops to be a good student? "I had to go through a weird exit" is the adult equivalent of "The dog ate my homework"

When they only had to come up with 8 songs per LP rather than 17 tracks to make a CD albums didn't seem so tedious to people.

Yeah more electronic rock sounds. The introspective strummy rock sound that kicked in in the '90s and went for so long has lost young people. Emo (their older brother's music), Nu-Metal and Nu-Country (NASCARland genres) left a bad taste in their mouths about laying out personal experiences too specifically in song and it affected all rock.

I don't really know if it was the right concept for the Banks. Same thing with Johnny Rocket's. And maybe not even TKLTBAG. Location needs are more specific than ever since so many people just sit at home and stream Netflix every night. It's way worse than TV or VHS/DVD ever were for keeping people inside. Another problem is locating in an unfinished project. Until the whole thing is finished profit potential is more limited. Same thing happened up here with Easton, the riskier businesses didn't want to open up until the blue chippers were all there and up to speed. Several didn't make it to full buildout. You need people buzzing around all the time, not just suburbanites on once-a-year excursions. Easton started out like that but now those kind of people go there once a month rather than once a year. Or even once a day if they work or live there. One advantage that the Banks obviously has over Easton is that it started out with people living and working near there already where as it took years for that to happen at Easton.

So like 40% of the time in Cincinnati.