Sure, Kimm. Snide is good enough.
He didn't "put the community through turmoil" that I could see. The
community (specifically the community around 40th & Pine, not your
community or mine) was faced with a stark choice between Tom Lussenhop's
mediocre highrise hotel and your ugly, crumbling derelict building. Tom
came up with one way to deal with this problem property; you preferred
that it stay as it is. You won. Decay now rules that block and will do
so for the indefinite future.
So maybe it's time for the pro-decay forces to quit making snide
comments about the guy's hotel, which apparently will now go up on
another site, about four blocks away.You got your decay. Show a little
graciousness now! He wants off this listserve. Who can blame him? Many
other persons have requested help in escaping Purple. It's not like he's
being weird, to want to quit reading Purple.
-- Tony West
On 4/1/2010 8:45 PM, Kimm Tynan wrote:
Tony,
Wow -- you think what I said was nasty? Snide, maybe, but in that
case I'd better stay over here. Given the turmoil he put this
community through, I think it was pretty mild. There's a difference
between "conflict and confrontation" and "nastiness and incivility."
But those distinctions get lost on a lot of people. And just for the
record: (1) I said nothing about Tom Lussenhop, only about his hotel,
and (2) I went to a fair amount of trouble to actually give him an
answer to his question. One private commenter thought I was too generous.
Kimm
