Back at it.

Well, I haven't written for I bit, so I'm committing right here and now in a public forum to start blogging on a really basis, for my own sanity if for nothing else.

Things have re-configured quite a bit since we last saw Our Hero, the setting has changed to a nicer apartment, there's new neighbors to plot nefarious collaborations with. The Boardwalk is hitting the height of tourist season. I have new rollerblades, with blinking LEDs in the wheels. I'm lighting up the town. I've set up my living space as an art studio and have been diligently designing sculptures of dolphins and elephants and rhinoceroses, as well as a feather headdresses and collage tables and other sundry items. Also there's a comic book in the works, and a theater piece about aliens.

In local politics, the city council is clueless as usual, serving up the same tired old policies, only now EVEN MORE SO, because it worked so well last time (biting sarcasm). Now the Feds are in town and more time, energy and resources is going into criminalizing the underclass instead of revitalizing the economy. Like everything else the current council does to try to social engineer the downtown area, this will only backfire on them in slow motion. Like how they tried to discourage street people from hanging out on the levee by suing Anna Richardson and Miguel Deleon, and now there's more street people on the levee than ever before. Good plan. This sort of counter=productive, ineffectual behavior from the Council will only continue if the voters continue to elect the usual gang of cronies. Voting for Steve Pleich or Ron Pomerantz instead of Lynn Robinson this year would be a change for the better. And I'm going to be saying this a lot until the idea catches on: The Council needs more members, 8 is not enough because it's too easy for one voting bloc (currently the unholy cabal of Mike-Cynthia-Ryan-Lynn) to sway votes and control the entire city. With twice as many or more members on the Council be more representative of the diversity of cultures and opinions that exist in the populace and would shift the tone of decision-making away from it's current state (one faction imposing it's narrow policy ideas onto everybody) to one based in compromise and consensus-building amongst multiple factions. It would simply be more necessary to get enough votes.

That oil spill is getting awfully close to the Atlantic Ocean.