
Well, Los Alamos isn't exactly Waikiki, the source of inspiration that led to Joni Mitchell's song "Big Yellow Taxi" about paving Paradise. I got to see that too, and finally fled Oahu when the bulldozers followed me all the way to the Ka Iwi channel overlooking Maui. Well, we had to move yet farther East, and here we are.
I'm probably not the only person in Bombtown that has slowly realized that the high point of land on the West side of the Mesa where we once walked out of such lofty offices as Council Chambers (or as I remember it, leaving our Bike Committee meetings in the Stoudt Room) will now proudly grace the County Hoosegow. Is it just poor planning, post 9-11 symbolism, or a lack of good taste that has led us to pave one of the most prominent points of land in Downtown Bombtown---for a jailhouse?
"...Don’t it always seem to goAcknowledgements to Joni Mitchell and to artists.letssingit.com for the lyrics, and to Carol Clark for the pic above and the accompanying story.
That you don't know what you’ve got
‘Til it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a jailhouse lot..."
