Ah, neighborhood listserves, the sometime home of useful news, when they aren’t besieged with spam or anti-immigrant rants (see the South CH list for that.)
Recently, listserve mainstay and former ANC commish William Jordan got into it with Jeff Zeeman, head of the North Columbia Heights Community Association (NCHCA) on both the Columbia Heights listserve and the NCHCA listserve. In about 30 messages. Including videos.
Basically, Jordan was complaining about sidewalks not being plowed, saying the worst example was outside the dog park at 11th and Park, and that NCHCA was supposed to be stewards of that park plus the North Columbia Heights Green. He added “If NCHCA is going to lead us in community service and represent this community they need to step up beyond neighborhood and political showing offl.”
Zeeman stridently disagreed, posting a long reply saying that was never the case, that NCHCA was never asked or offered the be the steward, saying both of those spaces were unused and a mess before, and now they were a lot better. Other folks jumped in, agreeing with Zeeman. Jordan then replied with “Clearly, there is a river in Egypt that now flows through North Columbia Heights called De Nile (denial)…. ” More back and forth, with Jordan offering no evidence, then over on the Columbia Heights listserve (this argument taking place on both the NCHCA list and the CH list), Zeeman then posted this gem from Billy Madison as a response to Jordan:
And Jordan replied with:
There was more some back and forth and finally some other people got sick of the argument and said they’d shovel the sidewalk themselves, and then went and did just that. Then it seemed to trail off and Zeeman banned Jordan from the NCHCA listserve placed Jordan on moderated status on the NCHCA listserve, which he runs, and apparently deleted a couple of his posts, which he claimed were false.
All seemed quiet, until somehow the topic got onto the farmers market, with some folks arguing that it was bad for the neighborhood because it doesn’t bring any money to local businesses — see this thread.
Good times.
