Harium is Doing Weight-Watchers

I only tell you that because Phyllis Fletcher, the former ed reporter for KUOW (we miss her!), revealed it on Weekday.  She said that she saw Director Martin-Morris at a 4th of July event but wasn't sure it was him because he was so thin.  But he came up to her and said hello.

He told her many people were concerned he was ill but he told her that he was on Weight Watchers and has lost 35 lbs.  Good for him and good to hear because I had been asked by several people about his weight loss and I didn't have a clue.

Also, the panel that does the news roundup was having a discussion over the new basketball arena.  One listener wrote in and said couldn't they rebuild schools and create jobs that way?  Eli Sanders of The Stranger opined that maybe if we spent some of the time on considering schools  that we do on sports, we might be better off as a city.

No kidding.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Wasn't it Crosscut that posted the best reason not to vote for the new arena: they are gifts to the rich and never give anything back to the community except for a good time at an expensive cost. But we citizens pay for it mightily in the end.

I suppose if charter schools ever do take over, we'll all vote to tear down, remodel, build higher each facility and it will come out of our taxes. That's how it works when you're in business for a profit.

n...
Anonymous said…
in '95 I was talking about the mariner's welfare stadium with someone who had been a teacher for over 20 years -

she said we should take all the money and have huge intra-mural leagues of every sport and activity imaginable so kids could get outside after school and burn off energy ... and have something to do ... and stay out of trouble ... and ...

of course, that would cost money to hire people to maintain the fields and parks we have, and it would cost money to hire adults to coordinate the kids, and ... all those people coordinating the kids and taking care of the fields would spend their money on ... apartments and cars and vacations and grocery stores and restaurants and clothes for their kids ... which would support LOTS of small businesses all over the region --

oh well, she was a SPED teacher - WHAT do they know?

It feels much better spending $400 for nice seats, a few hot dogs, parking, a few suds, and a hat to watch millionaires make billionaires richer ... instead of watching a few of tens of thousands of the community's kids out getting exercise.

GrovellingSlime
Anonymous said…
Okay...give me a break! So tired of lack luster opinions that pro sports don't have any cultural value. The two things I want are 1) a decent neighborhood public school and 2) The Sonics back in Seattle. Let's not pit schools and sports against each other.

-genius athlete
Genius, when we have few dollars, we prioritize. As I have said elsewhere to the Mayor, the City Council and Dow Constantine:

roads good? poor people taken care of? sidewalks for all in our city? schools good?

If not, then diverting time to talk about the Sonics is nonsense. We have professional sports, good enough.

Priorities.
Anonymous said…
"Genius" typifies the sort of illiteracy talked about by Paul Stoller when he says Given the impoverished state of American literacy, is it any wonder that negative political ads, so filled with half-truths, misleading statements and boldface lies, have had such an impact on millions of adults who vote for propositions and candidates whose ideas and agendas are bound to make their lives more difficult, if not painful."

The article reflects the findings of a broad survey on American Adult Literacy conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics.

"Genius" typifies a simple-minded approach to solving problems and conducting business in a very complex society.

n...
Anonymous said…
Genius: why just this are 1) a decent neighborhood public school ?

Why just decent? Why not a great neighborhood school? Why should parents and kids have to settle for decent? So we can have enough money leftover for overpaid athletes and team owners? Sorry, but after we get great neighborhood schools, then we can consider funding the wealthy.

Solvay Girl
Anonymous said…
Priorities...yep. These are my priorities. A decent neighborhood school, and a Sonics game. I don't need a great neighborhood school, I need a decent one. So after a somewhat enriching day at Arbor Heights Elementary I can go with my boys to a Sonics game. And a hockey game. And a Mariners game, and a Seahawks game. And a Sounders match. And a Storm game. But really, just looking forward to more Sonics games with my public school "genius athlete" sons.

n.....huh? Is that simple minded and illiterate enough?

-genius athlete
Ed said…
While I usually figure the private lives of public people should stay private.

However, I have to add that the weight I would choose Harium to lose first would be the millet stone that Frank Greer and the Chamber of Commerce have around his neck.

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