The Internet has facilitated a major change in storytelling, one where the comment boards are sometimes more interesting than the story itself.
That doesn’t surprise me. People offer much meatier quotes when they don’t put their face and their name behind it. And although I think that amounts to cowardice, I can’t help but read comments sections when issues really get peoples’ blood boiling.
The latest over at the Statesman-Journal, Salem’s Gannett Corp.-owned daily, is that the city is mulling a change to current parking restrictions to keep state workers from engaging in the “two-hour shuffle.” Apparently there are people who, for lack of a real, paid parking spot, move their car every two hours to avoid getting a ticket.
They park in one of the city’s cutest historical neighborhoods on Chemeketa Street NE and Court Street NE. New rules would require two hour shufflers to move their cars every 90 minutes to a different neighborhood.
Angry commuters! Makes me glad I’m part of Tina Brown’s “Gig Economy” and work at home.
The pic is of the Court-Chemekta historical district, in happier times (the weekend). Photo courtesy of the Salem Heritage Network.
Nothing has generated more interest on our refrigerator — not pictures of us, our friends’ babies, our magnetic poetry, our well-traveled postcards — than our tickets to 
When I get the Oregonian on Tuesday I sit down in our IKEA poing chiar next to the fire stove and lay the Food Day section gingerly on my lap like a blanket.
“EMILY ANGRY!!!”
