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DUI celebrating his birthday.

http://bit.ly/2fa8ORX Guy Phillips leaving 'Y98' mornings for KTRS afternoons, taking over Frank O. Pinion slot

My gossiping media buds are saying that, after years and years at KY jelly, Gus is moving over to the Big 550. We'll see.

Wait, what? The censor won't accept the proper spelling of what's pronounced "doosh"? Bloody Puritanical, says I!

Every time I hear the title it reminds me of one of the great misheard lyrics of the '70s: Bruce's (and Manfred Mann's) "Blinded by the Light," in which "revved up like a Deuce" was misinterpreted as "wrapped up like a ******." Carry on.

Submitted without comment. (Well, OK, I guess submitting it without comment is a commentary. Or a metacommentary. Or something like that.) Man fires at Sunset Hills police in chase ending with crash at Carondelet Park in St. Louis http://bit.ly/2yhw1tT

This is cool. (I started a new thread rather than putting this in the STL Good News thread because, well, you know... SLU aims to double research budget as it transforms under new leaders http://bit.ly/2x6uGIq

Here are a bunch of the protesters that shut down West County Mall this afternoon. Clearly a bunch of "thugs" who have never done anything for the City and simply want to convict people regardless of the evidence.

A small subset does not define the entire set. (AAARGH! Set Theory. Math PTSD. Trigger alert.) Anyway, where was I? Oh, yeah. This was on my Facebook feed. It bears some thought.

https://www.stlmag.com/dining/owners-comment-on-iron-barleys-closure-and-relocation-to-high-ridge/

This is accurate. But the RIP is appropriate for the loss of a long-time City institution and a neighborhood anchor.

Anything that Thomas Crone is directly associated with is by definition trendy. There were some prior businesses down there (the costume shop comes to mind) that drew a reasonable amount of traffic and, given Iron Barley, the Jesuit-trained Dr. Skosky's dental practice and a few other things I need to strain out of my failing memory, I would have cited the street as at least pre-trendy. In any case, Mr. Smith, our discussions and even our disagreements have led me to conclude that we should meet sometime at, say, Sump and then do a major driving tour of the City. I can tell you ancient tales (like, just for one example, how I believe that this is the Second Age of Trendy for Cherokee) and you can provide me with a relative young'un's perspective. I'll drop you a PM sometime.

Net, yes. Neighborhoods rise and fall. Some get, as you say, "trendy." But frequently they lack traction and fall back into a negative trajectory. The Wedge, or whatever that place at 55 and Bates was called. That whole stretch of Virginia was one of those rising-trendy mini-neighborhoods 10-15 years ago that I'd argue reversed its trajectory. Again, all that said, my entire premise has been that the current upward trends in terms of Millennials choosing the middle of the country over the coasts (the 3_Star assertion that drew my comment) isn't very different than what was going on 40 years ago, and off and on ever since. And Escape from New York was filmed here in 1981 -- at the Fox, in front of one of those Masonic-looking buildings across from (and probably now part of) SLU, at Union Station and in large part what was then a fire-devastated set of blocks around what's now Schlafly.

Well, of course it is (a matter of degree). But that degree also affects ebbs and flows. During the most recent crash, housing prices in St. Louis fell at a much less precipitous rate than prices in SF. The differential between STL and SF will similarly tighten during the impending crash. Also, if we're going to compare Apple to Apple, my parents' home sold last year for north of $500K. Yeah, there are factors that have priced SF out of the many people's reach in the past few years. At the same time, even though an increasing number of young talent has been choosing the midwest recently, if SF's home prices and rents moderate (as they will probably have to), Millennials will again have a net positive inflow, assuming they don't already.

And I don't know exactly how old you are, but I didn't say that neighborhoods hadn't changed dramatically. The CWE was just an example I was using. Soulard is an interesting case study, because I'd argue that, back in ancient times (~1980), Soulard and Hyde Park were on the same trajectory. However, one of them is north of Delmar. Also, Soulard back then still had a reasonable mix of lower middle class and Yuppies, which has since then been tilted heavily toward the middle middle to upper middle class. Also in the '80s: We used to go frequently to a place we called "All Night Barbecue." I think it was still around through the '90s -- the VFW Post did bbq on weekends late into the night. I'd pretty much argue that the area roughly southwest of Broadway and Gasconade really disintegrated since then. I do think that's an example of a part of South City that went from working class to bad. As far as the North Side, I dated a girl in the early '80s who lived just off of the corner of Goodfellow and McLaran, and I had a large number of friends up there at the time. From my perspective, I might replace "bleed" with "hemorrhage." BPW/Cherokee? Jefferson Avenue Boarding House. Anyway, I'm streaming-of-consciousness, and I hope you now understand that CWE was simply an example, and one that I used because I lived through a lot of that. (I had actually put a deposit down on a place in Soulard prior to moving to the CWE.) But I stand by my conclusion: It ain't a helluva lot different now than it was then.

I hear this expressed a lot, and as a late Boomer I'm finally going to weigh in and say that nothing has changed all that much in 40 years. My senior year ('77-'78), a friend and I went out to see Stanford, he for the Ph.D. program in physics and me for the program in economics, and of course to eat and visit wineries. We stayed with his cousin's family in a three-bedroom ranch home in a nice middle-class neighborhood somewhere between SF proper and what's now Silicon Valley. That house cost more than twice as much as my parents' all-brick two-story four-bedroom (with a garage, no less!) house in U. City. LA wasn't quite as bad, but its rents, for example, were still a reasonably high multiple of St. Louis'. A friend of mine (this is early '80s now) went from living alone in refurbished one-bedroom up high in the Parc Frontenac to a fairly dumpy two-bedroom in North Hollywood that he shared with two other guys and still paid higher rent than when he was by himself in STL. As far as city turnarounds, the CWE pretty rapidly went from rooming houses on the blocks up above Balaban's and elements of bombed-outedness between SLU and Euclid to a really vibrant rehab community. You know what it's evolved into today. Kids like me took fabulous, shabby-chic seven-room apartments for less than our less adventurous peers were paying for the soul-sucking apartment hells off of Page and Olive west of 270. I think you get the picture. I had one opportunity to take a job in NYC, about which my father, who grew up there, screamed long and hard about filth and crime and traffic and general lack of decent living conditions combined with being expensive. I turned it down. I had another job offer in Chicago that would have crimped my ability to eat at nice restaurants, but in that case I've regretted to this day not taking it. What did happen, however, was that I was able to rise quickly in the local creative community and then take a marketing job at a software company with worldwide reach that eventually went public. (One of the big problems with STL, which it still hasn't fully resolved, was that companies like mine flew way under the radar, in large part because that radar only picked up very large objects like Monsanto, Famous-Barr, Sigma, etc.) Long story, short conclusion: Aside from continual deterioration of the poorer parts of the City proper and continual shifts of the population center west, not a whole lot has changed between when I was a "kid" and when Millennials are "kids," at least in terms of STL revival and opportunities.

Well, given his Top 144 prediction, clearly he should put them in the Final Four.

Thank you, Cowboy, for providing my son-in-law with a perfect new name for his band. (Banter Inane.) Following up on my initial question about a midnight madness, can someone remind me what if anything Ford did towards the beginning of practice last year? I seem to remember a one-hour open practice or something like that, but all of my memories are jumbled during our Crews withdrawal period.

Agreement reached out of (the) court. Case dismissed.

As of two hours after this post. Perhaps we should start talking about something tangible. Especially with Ford leading the charge, has SLU decided to do a midnight madness or some other gimmick to jump-start enthusiasm?

NCAA rulebook (this is actually the instructions for the restricted area, but it notes that the configuration is congruent to the 3-point line): "At the diameter points of the semi-circle (the plane parallel to the backboard) the line straightens...." I'm pretty sure the fact that it's not a perfect circle at the points parallel to and behind the basket is that such a configuration would simply look...weird. Plus an arc is by definition part of a curve, and a line is by definition not a curve, so I think that the arc part of the three-point line is clearly part of a perfect circle. Your witness, counselor.

The three-point line is the arc of a perfect circle. The Arch is a weighted inverted catenary curve. My father-in-law has always maintained that there should be 3-, 4- and 5-point lines. Overlaying the Arch as the 4-point line for exhibition games would get us international recognition.

So you're suggesting he's inherently biased towards Tulane?

Yeah, but we continue to pump out the journalists. Jezoid = fundy = fundamentalist Christian. At least some scientific-research companies have bypassed our state out of fear that their work would be deemed illegal, if it wasn't already.