Comments on: Lukes says ¡No Más! http://brendanmelican.com/2008/02/25/lukes-says-%c2%a1no-mas/ doing stuff since 1976 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:05:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Paulie http://brendanmelican.com/2008/02/25/lukes-says-%c2%a1no-mas/comment-page-1/#comment-4649 Paulie Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:54:54 +0000 http://radioball.net/index.php/2008/02/25/lukes-says-%c2%a1no-mas/#comment-4649 I am having a 1896 Era Cocktail Party (whatever that means)..on Friday from 7-10PM ..house was built in 1896:>)..some local gals are wearing fishnet stockings and stilettoes..I'm offering up a Ed Hyder catered buffet, excellent "rare" Midleton Irish Whiskey, some good local Lebanese & Italian vino & my fave Harpoon Brewery beer as I show about a new flat I have spiffed up in the "hood"!! Feel free to stop by for that beer...Szoback has more information..not sure if he plans to stop by but he has been invited:>) Not at the su casa at Dewey & Austin which is still undergoing a slow and long renovation. I am having a 1896 Era Cocktail Party (whatever that means)..on Friday from 7-10PM ..house was built in 1896:>)..some local gals are wearing fishnet stockings and stilettoes..I’m offering up a Ed Hyder catered buffet, excellent “rare” Midleton Irish Whiskey, some good local Lebanese & Italian vino & my fave Harpoon Brewery beer as I show about a new flat I have spiffed up in the “hood”!!

Feel free to stop by for that beer…Szoback has more information..not sure if he plans to stop by but he has been invited:>) Not at the su casa at Dewey & Austin which is still undergoing a slow and long renovation.

]]> By: Paulie http://brendanmelican.com/2008/02/25/lukes-says-%c2%a1no-mas/comment-page-1/#comment-4648 Paulie Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:20:23 +0000 http://radioball.net/index.php/2008/02/25/lukes-says-%c2%a1no-mas/#comment-4648 I cat like Joe O'Brien has my highest regard...I may not agree with Joe on his policy ideas BUT he lives and breathes Main South and he put his money where his mouth is..he lives there. I cat like Joe O’Brien has my highest regard…I may not agree with Joe on his policy ideas BUT he lives and breathes Main South and he put his money where his mouth is..he lives there.

]]> By: Paulie http://brendanmelican.com/2008/02/25/lukes-says-%c2%a1no-mas/comment-page-1/#comment-4647 Paulie Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:18:14 +0000 http://radioball.net/index.php/2008/02/25/lukes-says-%c2%a1no-mas/#comment-4647 it would be my pleasure Brendan...having no heavy hitters living in "the city" is a major problem..like him or not..Billy Bulger still lives in the same house in Southie and for the past 40 years..Ray Flynn former Mayor of Boston the same..Jimmy Kelly the same(now deceased)..Mo Hennigan has never left...Sam Yoon lives right in Chinatown..The Mayor of Boston drives his bike every morning thru the streets of Hyde Park..Buddy Cianci lived in downtown Providence and still does-every Pol in Somerville and Division head lives in Somerville and in their ole hoods..hard scrabble Pols who lived in their hoods and will till the day they died the way city folks always did and do (or they move to Juniper, Florida:>) Worcester Pols move to the west side or Boston and still want to move the city but haven't been able to for years.. Aint it great to be always calling for more food stamps and Section 8 certs for my hood and then delivering from the top of the highest mountain on the west side..I had lunch with Grace Ross yesterday down at the Vernon Hotel...I told her I voted for her not so much for her policy ideas but for the fact that she lived in my hood and she walked the streets like I do every day.. This city is NEVER going to move forward until those who are making the policy live in the urban core of the city..our Pols are like the King's who lived high up in the castle and when the invaders came to slaughter the Kings left the serf's out side the gate to be slaughtered...how are we to believe that the current crop of Pols and leaders in this city can lead this city to Nirvana if none of them want to live where they propose to fix or have/allow their kids to attend urban schools that they keep telling us are "award winning"?? The City of Worcester can not survive as it is currently constituted..a urban core that is mostly poor, uneducated, and many of their own doing cause of this generational welfare that permeates Worcester and many of the second tier cities in Massachusetts Worcester has so many things going for it that other second tier cities do not..major highway access..these colleges...so close to an incredible rural environment! it would be my pleasure Brendan…having no heavy hitters living in “the city” is a major problem..like him or not..Billy Bulger still lives in the same house in Southie and for the past 40 years..Ray Flynn former Mayor of Boston the same..Jimmy Kelly the same(now deceased)..Mo Hennigan has never left…Sam Yoon lives right in Chinatown..The Mayor of Boston drives his bike every morning thru the streets of Hyde Park..Buddy Cianci lived in downtown Providence and still does-every Pol in Somerville and Division head lives in Somerville and in their ole hoods..hard scrabble Pols who lived in their hoods and will till the day they died the way city folks always did and do (or they move to Juniper, Florida:>) Worcester Pols move to the west side or Boston and still want to move the city but haven’t been able to for years..

Aint it great to be always calling for more food stamps and Section 8 certs for my hood and then delivering from the top of the highest mountain on the west side..I had lunch with Grace Ross yesterday down at the Vernon Hotel…I told her I voted for her not so much for her policy ideas but for the fact that she lived in my hood and she walked the streets like I do every day..

This city is NEVER going to move forward until those who are making the policy live in the urban core of the city..our Pols are like the King’s who lived high up in the castle and when the invaders came to slaughter the Kings left the serf’s out side the gate to be slaughtered…how are we to believe that the current crop of Pols and leaders in this city can lead this city to Nirvana if none of them want to live where they propose to fix or have/allow their kids to attend urban schools that they keep telling us are “award winning”??

The City of Worcester can not survive as it is currently constituted..a urban core that is mostly poor, uneducated, and many of their own doing cause of this generational welfare that permeates Worcester and many of the second tier cities in Massachusetts

Worcester has so many things going for it that other second tier cities do not..major highway access..these colleges…so close to an incredible rural environment!

]]> By: Brendan http://brendanmelican.com/2008/02/25/lukes-says-%c2%a1no-mas/comment-page-1/#comment-4646 Brendan Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:21:08 +0000 http://radioball.net/index.php/2008/02/25/lukes-says-%c2%a1no-mas/#comment-4646 Maybe what we need to do is to sit down over beer and compile a list of city officials who don't reside in Worcester and start drafting letters requesting they rethink that. Maybe what we need to do is to sit down over beer and compile a list of city officials who don’t reside in Worcester and start drafting letters requesting they rethink that.

]]> By: Paulie http://brendanmelican.com/2008/02/25/lukes-says-%c2%a1no-mas/comment-page-1/#comment-4634 Paulie Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:11:16 +0000 http://radioball.net/index.php/2008/02/25/lukes-says-%c2%a1no-mas/#comment-4634 quote "I don’t have a problem with the people we do have, I have a problem with the people we don’t have" I couldn't have said it bettah..and I wish I had been able to express myself bettah in this exchange..I dig all the nuances of urban living..but the scale is tipped to far to one side in Woostah I am renovating the house on the cornah of Dewey & Austin right now..check it out..moving my business there soon quote “I don’t have a problem with the people we do have, I have a problem with the people we don’t have”

I couldn’t have said it bettah..and I wish I had been able to express myself bettah in this exchange..I dig all the nuances of urban living..but the scale is tipped to far to one side in Woostah

I am renovating the house on the cornah of Dewey & Austin right now..check it out..moving my business there soon

]]> By: Brendan http://brendanmelican.com/2008/02/25/lukes-says-%c2%a1no-mas/comment-page-1/#comment-4633 Brendan Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:54:44 +0000 http://radioball.net/index.php/2008/02/25/lukes-says-%c2%a1no-mas/#comment-4633 Funny you mention the Chandler and Piedmont project, I actually lived across the street at Austin and Piedmont before buying my place in Tatnuck. I miss it. I liked the craziness. The local dealers? I didn't have a problem with them leaning against my car all day, it meant that if I didn't give them a hard time it wouldn't get broken into. I could sit on my stoop on my days off to read, drink a beer and be mostly entertained. I can do the same thing now in Tatnuck, but it's not very entertaining and the neighbors look at you funny when you always have a drink in your hand. I don't have a problem with the people we do have, I have a problem with the people we don't have. When we decide to get serious about competition in Worcester for jobs, for housing for a seat at the damn bar, anything. Then we'll start seeing things change. Funny you mention the Chandler and Piedmont project, I actually lived across the street at Austin and Piedmont before buying my place in Tatnuck. I miss it. I liked the craziness.
The local dealers? I didn’t have a problem with them leaning against my car all day, it meant that if I didn’t give them a hard time it wouldn’t get broken into. I could sit on my stoop on my days off to read, drink a beer and be mostly entertained. I can do the same thing now in Tatnuck, but it’s not very entertaining and the neighbors look at you funny when you always have a drink in your hand.

I don’t have a problem with the people we do have, I have a problem with the people we don’t have. When we decide to get serious about competition in Worcester for jobs, for housing for a seat at the damn bar, anything. Then we’ll start seeing things change.

]]> By: Paulie http://brendanmelican.com/2008/02/25/lukes-says-%c2%a1no-mas/comment-page-1/#comment-4637 Paulie Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:20:30 +0000 http://radioball.net/index.php/2008/02/25/lukes-says-%c2%a1no-mas/#comment-4637 so what do you think it is gonna take to get the urban core of this city more liveable and attractive to folks that have jobs, also want a attractive urban lifestyle and will be part of the community? Right now all I hear coming out of our Pols is more low income housing-see today's T&G & more food stamps-see Congressman McGovern speaking to Fed Chief Bernanke. We need folks with jobs, educations and desires to be honest to goodness citizens living in these "lots" that our city Pols call neighborhoods not just out of towners coming in for a hamburger and cold beer and then going home to Grafton afterwards... Worcester Common Ground did a nice job on the brick building at the corner of Chandler & Piedmont butt...sit across the street sometime..you will never see folks exiting at 7AM on the way to work each day..you will never see folks exiting after coming home from work to walk down to Suney's for a bite to eat with mates or to Living Earth to shop...it's a low income dead zone and we got em' everywhere in the urban core of the city! I hear alot of moaning and groaning in this city but I rarely hear anyone talk most particularly from our leaders about the real problem we have in this city and that is that we haver a HIGH % of folks in this city who are useless by choice and by that I mean they contribute NOTHING..and this does not include the elderly, mentally retarded, children or disabled that we as a society should be protecting..I am talking about a high level of abled body men and women who are creating only havoc and are offering nothing else and at the due diligence of our leaders who are creating this nonsense by continually offering safety nets instead of a boot in the arse. More Section 8 housing/low income housing in this city will only continue to drive black,white,brown,red,yellow middle class America elsewhere. so what do you think it is gonna take to get the urban core of this city more liveable and attractive to folks that have jobs, also want a attractive urban lifestyle and will be part of the community?

Right now all I hear coming out of our Pols is more low income housing-see today’s T&G & more food stamps-see Congressman McGovern speaking to Fed Chief Bernanke.

We need folks with jobs, educations and desires to be honest to goodness citizens living in these “lots” that our city Pols call neighborhoods not just out of towners coming in for a hamburger and cold beer and then going home to Grafton afterwards…

Worcester Common Ground did a nice job on the brick building at the corner of Chandler & Piedmont butt…sit across the street sometime..you will never see folks exiting at 7AM on the way to work each day..you will never see folks exiting after coming home from work to walk down to Suney’s for a bite to eat with mates or to Living Earth to shop…it’s a low income dead zone and we got em’ everywhere in the urban core of the city!

I hear alot of moaning and groaning in this city but I rarely hear anyone talk most particularly from our leaders about the real problem we have in this city and that is that we haver a HIGH % of folks in this city who are useless by choice and by that I mean they contribute NOTHING..and this does not include the elderly, mentally retarded, children or disabled that we as a society should be protecting..I am talking about a high level of abled body men and women who are creating only havoc and are offering nothing else and at the due diligence of our leaders who are creating this nonsense by continually offering safety nets instead of a boot in the arse.

More Section 8 housing/low income housing in this city will only continue to drive black,white,brown,red,yellow middle class America elsewhere.

]]> By: Brendan http://brendanmelican.com/2008/02/25/lukes-says-%c2%a1no-mas/comment-page-1/#comment-4636 Brendan Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:03:43 +0000 http://radioball.net/index.php/2008/02/25/lukes-says-%c2%a1no-mas/#comment-4636 I don’t disagre Paulie. However, as I’ve said here plenty of times, Worcester has the very population it deserves to have simply because we do a wonderful job of encouraging bad behavior. The EL sits where they sit because they make money there. If the city finds a creative way to shut them down, we still will have accomplished nothing in terms of creating an environment where good business succeeds and bad business fails, organically. What we need to be asking ourselves is not ‘how do we get rid of the roach coach?’ but ‘how do we make Worcester consumers value the excellent but fragile local business we have over the crap that actually succeeds?’ I don’t disagre Paulie. However, as I’ve said here plenty of times, Worcester has the very population it deserves to have simply because we do a wonderful job of encouraging bad behavior. The EL sits where they sit because they make money there. If the city finds a creative way to shut them down, we still will have accomplished nothing in terms of creating an environment where good business succeeds and bad business fails, organically.
What we need to be asking ourselves is not ‘how do we get rid of the roach coach?’ but ‘how do we make Worcester consumers value the excellent but fragile local business we have over the crap that actually succeeds?’

]]> By: Paulie http://brendanmelican.com/2008/02/25/lukes-says-%c2%a1no-mas/comment-page-1/#comment-4635 Paulie Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:08:51 +0000 http://radioball.net/index.php/2008/02/25/lukes-says-%c2%a1no-mas/#comment-4635 Barbara lives on the edge of Castle Hill Park..owns the building that One Love and the Artichoke are located in..I dare say that Barbara is looking for the same type of vibrant urban nightlife we all are..minus the swill that currently sits at a standstill over there..some Friday night pop into the One Love Cafe for dinner..while you are munching on yer jerk pork chops you can watch the whores,pimps,drugs,thugs, bugs,sad mugs & lugs! I am a huge fan of One Love Cafe and Gilreins and those are the urban pluses I am seeking and I think if you spoke with both owners you may find that they will tell you that the particular business we are speaking about has no value on Main South...and is causing good folks to stay away There is such an experience in other urban communities with less of the drugs,thugs,sad mugs and lugs that Worcester has currently..to settle on them cause we live in the urban core of the city is bogus..living in an urban community today does not mean one has to live amoungst ever loser on the face of the earth..if Worcester continues to feel like this then every other urban community on the move out there and they are out there will continue to send theirs to us:>) Barbara lives on the edge of Castle Hill Park..owns the building that One Love and the Artichoke are located in..I dare say that Barbara is looking for the same type of vibrant urban nightlife we all are..minus the swill that currently sits at a standstill over there..some Friday night pop into the One Love Cafe for dinner..while you are munching on yer jerk pork chops you can watch the whores,pimps,drugs,thugs, bugs,sad mugs & lugs! I am a huge fan of One Love Cafe and Gilreins and those are the urban pluses I am seeking and I think if you spoke with both owners you may find that they will tell you that the particular business we are speaking about has no value on Main South…and is causing good folks to stay away

There is such an experience in other urban communities with less of the drugs,thugs,sad mugs and lugs that Worcester has currently..to settle on them cause we live in the urban core of the city is bogus..living in an urban community today does not mean one has to live amoungst ever loser on the face of the earth..if Worcester continues to feel like this then every other urban community on the move out there and they are out there will continue to send theirs to us:>)

]]> By: Paulie http://brendanmelican.com/2008/02/25/lukes-says-%c2%a1no-mas/comment-page-1/#comment-4645 Paulie Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:18:41 +0000 http://radioball.net/index.php/2008/02/25/lukes-says-%c2%a1no-mas/#comment-4645 BTW..Anthony B would not be caught eating at the street vendor's establishment:>) I agree about the show..my favorite after Seinfeld BTW..Anthony B would not be caught eating at the street vendor’s establishment:>) I agree about the show..my favorite after Seinfeld

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