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Saturday, March 29, 2008

Boho Rhapsody

Adam’s daily NYTimes’ scour turned up this link for rakkity. Though similar themes rak’s pictures are better.

posted by michael at 8:02 am  

13 Comments »

  1. Interesting, the NYTimes missed the great bumper stickers, and Rakkity missed the nature-loving Rabbis. Thanks to everyone. BTW, what does the Ho mean in BoHo? Or is it like the Gate in IranGate, KatrinaGate (or FEMA-Gate)? Speaking of which — where was it I saw an amusing skit on WatergateGate? (The premise was, Watergate was a scandal, scandals are “-Gate”s, it should be WatergateGate.) If so, and if Houston gets a SoHo-like district as Northampton and Boulder have, will Texas get a HoHos? Or will that word be reserved for something else? Language is so curious.

    Comment by jennifer — March 29, 2008 @ 3:21 pm

  2. I believe Boho is short for bohemian.

    I have no idea why your comments went straight to the spam folder, but they did.

    Comment by michael — March 29, 2008 @ 5:23 pm

  3. Let’s see if this goes to spam. (I’ve been on the receiving end of that problem lately too, btw — I’m trying to mediate a family-farm-community situation, and I asked the four people involved to respond to some questions, and didn’t hear for a while from some of the participants, asked again, and waited another week during which time I still didn’t hear from one holdout person. It turned out her thoughts had gone to my spam. FYI, it’s not the best thing, when you’re trying to mediate a tricky thing, to have considered someone’s input to be Spam.)

    Back to BoHo — trendy Northampton is sometimes called NoHo as a take-off on SoHo which was for SOuth of HOuston Street in NYC … which then became trendy. So I think Bo was for Boulder.

    Comment by jennifer — March 29, 2008 @ 6:04 pm

  4. Nature-loving rabbis, bike-riding holistic healers, extreme unicyclists, free-rappeling naturists,…How could I ever tell about everything?

    Speaking of Boho latte lovers, that NYT article showed me a “new” espresso place here that somehow I’ve missed, bringing me up to 28 shots (cafe photos) for my latte album, coming soon to a nearby blog.

    PS: Anybody turning off their lights and computers tonight at 8? I’m going outside to take pictures in Boulder’s darkness.

    Comment by rakkity — March 29, 2008 @ 6:19 pm

  5. Rakk, if you hadn’t lofted that apparent non-sequitur, I’d’ve missed this event entirely — first I’ve heard of the notion. Count me in (though the difference in my own house will only be about 2 lights and one television … ). Taking pictures could be a tad on the tough side, though … Your darkness will be post ours by a few hours, but we’ll be thinkin’ of ya … !

    Comment by adam — March 29, 2008 @ 6:37 pm

  6. Bit of a bust here, though it was a beautiful night. I walked the whole hour but saw only maybe 6 or 7 houses with NO lights (one had waning solar walklights that couldn’t be turned off … ). A couple houses with so little on there might have been only a nightlight (or candles?), and two with nothing on but a television. Many blazing away, though, and all streetlights on, with mucho skyglow from the surrounding cities. And I never saw another soul other than passing cars. But a beautiful night with Orion in full display, anyway. Wonder what it was like elsewhere … ?

    Comment by adam — March 29, 2008 @ 10:29 pm

  7. I’ve got a theory about the spam thing. Let’s see if this works (without Michael’s helping push, which all my other recent posts have needed. I’m beginning to get a complex about it — the filter KNOWS my comments are worthless.)

    Comment by jennifer — March 30, 2008 @ 8:56 am

  8. They are far from worthless but what we want is a page or two describing this family mediation thing.

    Jennifer, just between you, the expert punctuator, and me, is it ever proper to capitalize the “r” in rakkity?

    Comment by michael — March 30, 2008 @ 12:49 pm

  9. I’ll argue separately about whether I’m an expert punctuator — but capitalization is not punctuation, and capitalization is definitely not my forte.

    The family mediation thing … the thing is, I’ve promised to not share anyone’s writings with anyone else they might possibly know, and la Chica reads the blog. I suppose I could say a bit about the purpose, though. It’s not exactly what you might think of as mediation; it’s not to settle a past dispute. The purpose is to enable a long-discussed plan to work. The plan being changing my father’s home and land into a sustainable farm (permaculture)/family/community. So I’m asking questions and trying to notice if people’s responses include the types of really nasty/hurtful assumptions that so often derail joint family plans. My thought is that more communication needs to happen directly among the participants, but it needs to be less “loaded”. I thought I could do this because I don’t care too much how it comes out (whether they decide to do this together or not) … but it turns out I do care.

    Adam, rakkity … I’m so sorry, I forgot all about it again at 8PM. Btw, who called it; what was the purpose/goal?

    Oh, and now I do have an opinion about the original question. If “rakkity” is the first word in a sentence, you have to capitalize it. Otherwise, it gives it too much attention. Not that we shouldn’t give rakkity attention.

    Comment by jennifer — March 30, 2008 @ 3:27 pm

  10. Thank you, Jennifer!

    Comment by rakkity — March 30, 2008 @ 4:09 pm

  11. Our home lights were off while we ate at an uptown (NoBo) organic restaurant. They dimmed the lights at 8, but didn’t turn them off altogether. Boulder’s lights were definitely not all off. Most glaringly, the nearby BMW dealer’s lights were still blazing. I wonder if the local Prius company turned theirs off.

    As to the purpose: to demonstrate to the world that a several percent cut in our carbon footprint wouldn’t be too hard. (Parenthetically, I wonder if the dimming of lights was observable from space?)

    Comment by rakkity — March 30, 2008 @ 4:17 pm

  12. You read my mind rakk … I hope some space station type did too and had the presence of mind to fulfill our wish!

    Comment by el Kib — March 30, 2008 @ 4:46 pm

  13. oh man….i will be living just out side of here for the summer. I can not wait

    Comment by goose — March 31, 2008 @ 10:45 am

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