Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Not This Yr. You Don't

It's officially off.
The fate of the festival has been a cliffhanger for much of the month, with city officials voicing dismay that, in the middle of a municipal budget crisis, event organizers still owe $260,000 from last year's festival to the city. Meanwhile, backers of the event described critics of the festival as “haters” and implored the board to change course.
Well, once you're reduced to screeching "haters" at critics, it should be over.

FURTHER DETAILS (Looks as if laist did some reporting here, rather than their usual aggregatingstealing):
Board member Jerilyn López Mendoza was the first to address McKinley and the room, and she expressed concerns echoed by members of the Silver Lake community who were afraid the organizers would do little to improve upon the safety, noise, and access to the festival for locals, who in recent years became incensed at being required to pay admission to cross the street to get to their own homes.
You are invited to imagine what may have resulted if, when we lived in the Swish Alps, a festival volunteer had requested us to pay US$25.00 to get back to our dump.

2 comments:

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

...locals, who in recent years became incensed at being required to pay admission to cross the street to get to their own homes.

Our future, once all the roads are 'privatized'.
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M. Bouffant said...

Joke Editor:

Why did the capitalist cross the private road?

To flee the angry mob.

Wait. Not a joke.