And Don't forget to remind people that their is a lot of love in the "Haight".

And thus the name was EARNED.


I do truly despise the self christened especially when it hasn't even been close to earned. Especially if the name is "Crystal Awareness" or "Savage Dick Ng" or something equally luidcirous.


sharing the joy,
groucho fucking suave

Good name, then. (Could have been "Puddles.")

The problems with changing street names is that people have to live there, and are already living there. Businesses have invested in name recognition and location familiarity. I have friends who live on Failing, and the name has never slowed them down. I think the only people who live in Wankers Corners are the monks in the Thai monastery. There are people who live in Boring, but no one knows why. Philomath hosts a nice Renfaire but is otherwise unnecessary. The locals hardly ever notice, and when they do they see no reason to identify or assume any significance.

Look at the fuss over naming MLK in Portland. And the recent fuss over Chavez. The locals hated it, the Mexican community would not believe that people wouldn't accept it if the just snuck it through City Hall. And then the naming became an ego thing when the City Council suggested that selecting another, smaller street might work better. Now the whole subject is so loaded with political freight that no one wants to touch it.

Your own suggestions are to my ear, cutesy, politically correct, and politically trivial. They have no depth, no substance. And each one reminds us of the name that you want to change. They are obviously joke names. (Yeah. Let's legally change your name to Puddles. And no, I don't care what you think about it: that's what your driver's license will say.)

It's like criticizing someone's taste in genre fiction, or popular art -- it can't be done without stepping on toes. And besides, in the end, it's really none of your business, is it? Or mine.

I think I'm getting way too involved here. Call me Eric the Much Too Intense.