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Oh, thank you so much for the Carew shots of the square - I kinda knew where the Ice Rink was going to go, but that sure nails it down! And great shots of the lady...just beautiful! Hey, and you managed to get all of the panels in the Covington Flood Wall Murals into a single shot - nicely done! It took me more than 50!

Nah north of Liberty should just be called Way-Over-The-Rhine LOL...nicely done...

He said that whether he chose to go to MSU or stay at UC he was determined to make that the last stop of his coaching career. Ouch. If that's true, then just ignore everything I wrote above...he gave UC the big fuck-off, because he wanted to be at MSU, not because it was a stepping stone...though who knows, maybe he's not being wholly truthful here...

Gah, ach, and ick. Spring Grove Village sounds like the old folks' home that's your last home before Spring Grove Cemetery. If they were changing it just to Spring Grove, I'd have a far less visceral reaction to this. But even with a more kick-ass name, were I a WP-ite, I'd definitely vote against it. There's just way too much history in Winton Place to change that name, to my mind. But then, there's really only one name change I'd be in favor of - the sections of Over-the-Rhine that are north of Liberty? I'd happily change the name back to The Northern Liberties. Because OMFG, that rocks.

No, "Downtown" is a suburb of Easton.

incentivize innovative phase-states Absolutely hilarious...it's like business-speak. A guy in a meeting today was talking about whether one of our coders could knock out a report for us, and said, "I'll check on Brad's bandwidth, see what his resource allocation is." I burst out laughing...

...though I do see that some Cincinnatians have snuck into the Cleveland Browns thread and talked a little smack, rubbed a little salt in!

Well, I'd imagine he sees MSU as another stepping stone. Not many people have a true shot at being an elite NCAA coach, and possibly even moving into the NFL some day - and Dantonio probably doesn't either - but man, if you love the game, you've gotta take that shot. How can you not? Now, if he preached loyalty above personal gain to UC students and fans (and I have no idea if he did or not), then there's definitely room to criticize his hypocrisy - and I would never dream of telling a UC fan not to be pissed off when someone ditches them - I mean, that's part of being a fan. But honestly, if you've got the skills he's got, and you're handed the opportunity, you simply must take that shot.

Yeah, that whole intersection could definitely do with some simplification - it's a huge cluster farg right now...

Wow - that's some fantastic stuff! Too bad about the Scioto geese not turning out well - if these are any indication, those would have been phenomenal!

Grasscat - thanks so much for yet another astonishingly thorough update! Not very exciting about that McMillan & Victory development, but I guess it's at least investment in the area...now if someone would just move a few blocks west...

Gearhead porn...

Reading JMecklenborgs posts upthread made me think of that line from Alexander Pope: "What was oft thought but ne'er so well expressed"....he's put into words a lot of what I think about this whole "hip/bohemia" phenomenon. You've got to be kidding. His rants where he explains other people's motivations, based on his apparent ability to read the minds of those he looks down on? Or where he explains how Dylan and Warhol are apparently examples of being "less self-conscious"? And the trust-fund kids in the academy? Non, quelle horror! Why, that's never been the case in the past! This sounds like a large number of people, but does "hip" appeal to all or even most of the "25-34 year old college educated people"? Maybe finding a good job based on their education (which might not be in "the arts"), as well as a place to raise a familiy might appeal too? Amen. Some folks like clubbing at the gay bars until 4am three nights a week, some folks like going to the symphony and getting to bed by 11pm on Saturday. Some folks want a quiet place to raise a family, some want bohemia. Some folks want to go to one place to do shopping half a dozen times a year, and some folks want to spend all day wandering around downtown shops. And neither group is "better" than the other, even if they their choices differ from one's own.

I wonder if they put any dirt down over the road to distribute the weight a little...

I'm a big fan of Cincinnati's library system, in part because of the online system they have. You can browse their library, then have any book in the whole system sent to any library you want to pick it up at. I'm assuming this is available in most systems these days - at least I hope so, because it's incredibly convenient.

Ah, very cool! Is your girlfriend understanding about spending hours walking around a cold city while you snap photos? BTW, I love this shot - love all the layers, all the depth - draws you in:

Oh they know about it. Definitely. They just have a a hard time creating it :] Yeah, Paavo Jarvi can hardly pay the bills. And don't forget all those starving artists in the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Say, I hear Zaha Hadid has a hard time putting food on the table. It's a shame after all Bob Dylan's given to the world that he still has to drive a cab between tours to make ends meet. And didn't Gustav Mahler split his time between conducting orchestras and blacksmithing? It's too bad Mick Jagger's parents couldn't afford to send him to Dartford Grammar School when he was a boy...and just imagine what Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir could have accomplished if their days hadn't been filled with 12-hour shifts at the garment factory. In fact, the whole history of philosophy is pretty much entirely peopled by folks who worked back-breaking jobs from sunrise to sunset... I'm not saying poor folks don't create art as well - I'm saying that it's people who create great art and great culture, no matter what their circumstances. And that pretending some group of which one disapproves is incapable creating it is ignorant and bigoted, no matter which group it is you're excluding.

Yeah, the Cincinnati insult thread...where one Cincinnatian ripped on espn in one post, and the Clevelanders proceeded to fill up five pages with insults and laughing at Cincinnati...meanwhile, we Cincinnatians were discussing the intricacies of early Ohio history and blowing the rest of it off...and still, Clevelanders would fill up the thread, and then ask why we're so sensitive. Sheesh.

Depends entirely on you, and on what you do in those suburbs. My mom seems to know just about everyone in Hinckley. After four years in Walnut Hills, I only know my nearby neighbors. I knew nobody at my apartment building in Clifton, but knew most of my neighbors at the house we rented there. I'll bet you can't find anyone in Indian Hill who doesn't know everyone else living there. I work in Blue Ash, and every time I go to the Blue Ash Library over lunch I see people running into people they know. It has absolutely nothing to do with how fake or unreal the suburbs are - it has everything to do with meeting people, talking with them, and being involved in your community. You can know nobody in a city or everyone in a suburb - it's entirely up to you.

If I walked into a bar, and suddenly everyone started hailing my presence, offering to buy me drinks if only I sat down next to them, then talking about whose bathroom graffiti was oldest, I'd probably find a way to sneak out while they were distracted...

Yeah, Robert Dafford did the Paducah murals as well - in fact, he started the Portsmouth murals in 1992 (here's Pigboy's thread on those), and the Paducah murals in 1995, so we're coming into the game a little late (he started the Covington murals in 2002)... The Covington and Portsmouth murals seem to be more about presenting historical scenes, telling a story, where the Paducah murals have more panels with general scenes: Of course, Paducah's have some fantastic historical scenes as well, like this one: "Lewis and Clark Expedition Passes in the fog": Yeah, I was thinking it would be extremely cool to have seen him working, but I never would have interrupted him either, or bothered him on a break, so I guess it wouldn't matter much whether I saw him or not!

Yeah, the rich, they don't know nothin' about communities. Or about culture, or love. Or music. They probably judge people without knowing them too. Man, they ain't even human.

Well, out of 11.4MM+ people in the state, only 62K of them are in Washington County, and 77K of them in Scioto County...with only 108 votes from Oheesians so far, you'd only expect about one person total from both counties combined...so I guess it's not really all that surprising not seeing anyone from those areas...

That waterworks is astonishing...very cool...

EDIT: Sorry, it's not worth it...deleting my post...