The Stranger gets stranger
Jul 11, 2017, 4:44 PM | Updated: Aug 14, 2017, 1:51 pm
I like Stranger writer Charles Mudede. He鈥檚 normally a frustratingly good writer, which is why I was perplexed after reading posted today.
The article is entitled
The second paragraph makes clear that Sound Transit鈥檚 Link ridership is growing. Mudede laments the fact that construction on a new station is not happening anytime soon. I get that. Ok.
But, and Jason and I spent聽some time trying to figure this out, it鈥檚 the first paragraph that has left me baffled.
“Go to the Capitol Hill Station or University of Washington Station at any time, and you will find urban minds that are really with it. But Westlake Station has nothing like the geist of these stations, save in the morning, when people are heading to work. By 11 a.m., a powerful denseness falls on the station like a thick fog on a forest. Couples display their flat and vapid feelings of love by holding hands, side-by-side, on the escalator; luggage is accorded the same status as a person or a lover; and there are just a bunch of individuals bouncing around and not making much progress.鈥
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
Luggage is valued equally with people?
Holding hands is bad or something?
Not making what kind of progress?
It reads like it was written during a fever dream. I asked Charles about it.
What are you saying in the first paragraph? What exactly is wrong with the people at Westlake? It reads like a fever dream.
鈥 Zak Burns (@ZakBurns成人X站FM)
Then leave it a fevered dream. Not a bad thing sometimes.
鈥 Charles Mudede (@mudede)