I was going to go to Washington DC but on second thought, it's so goddamned uptight, I think I'd either be pissed off all the time or just give in and spend years obsessively focused on goals such as moving up the career ladder, buying a condo, and affording my first Beamer or some shit. All of which I don't actually care about.
So.. how is it? How hard is it to find a decent job? The problem is I'm not as free as I once was because of annoying student loans to pay off on top of everything else. That's the real problem, I can't wait tables or work in a record store and make enough to keep up those loan payments.
― daria g (daria g), Saturday, 16 April 2005 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 16 April 2005 23:17 (nineteen years ago) link
Man, I feel ignored. Where has ILX gone?
― daria g (daria g), Sunday, 17 April 2005 04:49 (nineteen years ago) link
i don't have any seattle advice, sorry.
― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 17 April 2005 04:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 17 April 2005 05:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 17 April 2005 05:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 17 April 2005 05:56 (nineteen years ago) link
i'm sorry that was all stupid and rambling, i had a bit to drink.
― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 17 April 2005 06:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sequim Man, Sunday, 17 April 2005 07:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Sunday, 17 April 2005 08:56 (nineteen years ago) link
in every 'oh shit' scenario i see mentioned as 'likely' - another major stateside al qaeda attack, north korean nuke, peak oil crisis - seattle is usually mentioned as a place that's like to be sol.
Well, given that my other major option is Washington DC, my chances of not getting bombed AGAIN are prob still considerably better out west, right?
― daria g (daria g), Sunday, 17 April 2005 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 17 April 2005 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 17 April 2005 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Volker Schlöndorff (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 17 April 2005 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link
This will help me get started to help answer your questions...
― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 18 April 2005 06:22 (nineteen years ago) link
I think I can deal with the weather. It's the snow and freezing cold up here that really gets me, but the worst of it is that I can't deal with having few/no friends and no comfy places to hang out once I leave the house. Seattle seemed to have those, I really did love the coffee shops. I have a couple of college friends out there who love it, and they can be kinda grumpy and complain a lot, so if they still love it after five years you know there's something good about the place.
And a good arts and music scene is something I care a lot about. As in, I'd like to go see punk rock bands and noise bands and small gallery shows and for people to be mostly chill and friendly. DC hasn't got much of that. Providence does, but I don't know anybody and never felt like I belonged here anyway so I kind of gave up.
― daria g (daria g), Monday, 18 April 2005 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link
As far as finding a place to live, the cost, etc. if what you're stating above is true about Providence rental prices, you'll be pleasantly surprised with Seattle's rental rates, which are -- and we're talking REALLY uber-hip locations in Capitol Hill which is as expensive as they get -- slightly less than that for a one bedroom. I'm paying just under $700 a month for a one bedroom in this micro-neighborhood just between Queen Anne and Fremont. BUYING here is definitely more expensive than renting.. but then again, I guess that's the case with RI too.
With the skills you have, you may find it frustrating to find a job immediately, but I think that's the case almost anywhere. The economy has certainly picked up here, especially office jobs, since about a year ago. Then again, rental rates have just begun to creep up.
The most important thing -- and you stated this -- is that you know people in town who you can hang out with as a starter for a social life here.. and your friends may talk about Seattle's rather high social insularity, which is true to some degree. On the other hand, Seattlites make a sport about bitching about their own city, too.
SO, given what you told me, if you visited and you like it here, and can deal with the weather, then I think it's a great idea for you to move here! I would save up some money though in the interim... worry less about finding a place, as that's not really that difficult, and worry more about biding your time frugally until you find at least a temporary job somewhere. You do have to live here first before you get a job here.
If you have any more questions.. shoot away!
that said, if you haven't visited Portland before, I'd also recommend visiting there as well -- if you can -- and if you have friends there as well. Some people feel more gravitated towards PDX than SEA, and the converse. Portland is definitely cheaper than Seattle, and it also has a strong arts scene, has plenty of cafes, great places to eat, shows, etc., but it's harder to find a job, too (currently).
― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 18 April 2005 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Actor Sizemore fails drug test with fake penis (jingleberries), Monday, 18 April 2005 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― matthew thompson, Monday, 18 April 2005 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link
Except for two months, I love the weather here. You never know until you try it for a full year, really -- but, I think anyone who's dealt with east coast weather can easily deal with Seattle. If my spoiled L.A. sunshine ass can enjoy it here for four years, I'm sure most can.. it's just the fear that keeps people from moving here -- my theory at least. (Then again, 90% of humanity sucks, so that's generally a good thing. I assume daria is in the 10% :) Not to say people don't get genuinely depressed dealing with the weather here, but I find the fear outweighs the ones who actually try it.)
― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 18 April 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― brody the country girl dalle (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 11:05 (nineteen years ago) link
How about NYC, or Baltimore?
Or San Francisco?
― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link
But I am admittedly projecting. And I have no problems with NYC and SF as cities, of course.
― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, while it's fun to get into the coffee/café thing in Seattle, it's totally overpriced and will make a dent into your budget if you indulge in high brow brev´s or lattés everyday. Make your own coffee at home. It's much much cheaper that way, and there's only about, oh, 100 types of coffee beans you can choose from practically any market nearby. Sure, having that leave-pattern latté on the weekend is a great kick, but everyday? nooooo.
― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:25 (nineteen years ago) link
Baltimore is fucking cool, but I always get crazy lost driving there and it's still real sketchy. The major problem with Bmore, NYC, and San Fran is that I don't really know anyone there. I'm not feeling at my most socially adept right now and I don't have the resources, uh, on a personal level, to pick up and completely start over - I left school not long ago and have been fairly miserable (deliberate understatement) and need a real serious change of scene. And I don't want to go back to careerist DC and pretend to be a careerist because before you know it I'll be trying to convince myself I should go to law school.
The two old friends I have in Seattle.. we go back about ten years. And I actually have relatives not too far away. I'm thinking Capitol Hill could be nice.
Oh, fuck, the radio station here in Prov is playing "Smells Like Teen Spirit." There should be a law..
― daria g (daria g), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 03:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 04:00 (nineteen years ago) link
If you have friends that go back 10 years, then that's a good sign.
And I'm sure the Seattle Crüe would cheerfully have a FAP in your honor upon your visit. :)
― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 04:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 04:06 (nineteen years ago) link
There are some non-career-y people in DC though, right? I don't know, my experiences on the West Coast are a bit weird, except for L.A., I tend to feel like I'm really far away from everything, but could just be I'm tied to the East Coast.
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 04:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 04:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Unless you like the idea of being a poor student for another seven years plus, and can be incredibly disciplined and hard-working and unfazed in pursuit of your CLEARLY DEFINED professional goals by the indifference, pettiness, and/or hostility of others, all of whom have a lot more power than you. And by the way, there are almost no jobs. At all. They won't tell you that, because it's not in their interests to cut the pool of cheap graduate labor - who else is going to handle the workload for all those intro level undergrad courses? And did I mention everyone is miserable? And that if you're the one out of every, what, fifteen/twenty or so who actually finishes the PhD and lands the tenure-track job, you get to start all over at the bottom of the barrel and keep your mouth shut and jump through more hoops and tread carefully through vicious departmental politics over the most trivial of matters? Oh, and good luck leaving if you decide you want to, it's kind of like the Mafia that way and will be a lot more painful than you think.
Read this guy's columns in the Chron of Higher Ed. if you're thinking about it, particularly "Is graduate school a cult" and "So you want to go to graduate school."
The trouble is, you go in with this mentality of "yeah, I know it sucks and it's rough, but I CAN BEAT IT, I AM that one person who can come out ahead and land on the tenure track." I don't advise trying, I really don't. There's more to life than this! As for what happened with me personally, I hate writing papers, and I don't deal well with trying to manage a massive and intense workload with few/no guidelines, boundaries, or schedules anywhere. You start to feel like you don't exist after a while. Then I really started to get depressed. To which condition the institution says, meh.
― daria g (daria g), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 06:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link
a) where do you score your weed?b) you work at Tully's, Laddro, or Vivace?c) how many records have you pressed this week?d) what web programming languages do you use?
― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm not sure what support from Microsoft could have done to change the opinion of some fucking Aberdeen-area Democrat fuckhead. (forgive me for being angry right now.)
― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link
However, the passing of this bill would have effectively forced more homophobe-run businesses in rural Washington to abide by the same standards... so this basically means that if you're gay and you live in a small crazily homophobic Washington state town, you'll still be denied a job or lease or house purchase by homophobic owners or employers, if they happen to care about that type of thing. Aside from maybe Hoquiam or Chehalis, I can't think of any town in western Washington that would discriminate against non-straights. Eastern Washington is a whole different bag, but I don't know too many gay friends of mine who would want to move to eastern Washington anyway.And then again, loonies exist in their own creepy oases in the most liberal strongholds, too.
Ah shit, oh well, at least we didn't pass a law that bans gay couples from being able to be foster parents like Texas just did.
― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 21 April 2005 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm seriously thinking of the move. Talked to the family tonight and couldn't quite bring myself to tell them! Perhaps the next step is to snag a cheap ticket from Southwest and scope it out. I also am kind of interested to hear that Cantwell's Senate race looks to be highly competitive in 06, and there's a big Seattle contingent with some fairly shrewd activists over at the Daily Kos (the dKos play by play on the battle over the governor's race was extraordinary - and I read about the Micro$oft thing over there too). So I could volunteer on some political campaigns when I'm not busy obsessing about music.
Til then, uh, stuck inside of RI with the DC blues again..
― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 21 April 2005 23:53 (nineteen years ago) link
But Seattle has tons of lefty organizations, if that's what you feel comfortable doing. It's a potpourri of "commie" groups here. \
FEEL TEH LENIN!
(You can feel the statue, literally, if you visit Fremont)
― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 22 April 2005 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― daria g (daria g), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link
..so perhaps you could come in and kick some ass in a similar group.. maybe in relation to the Cantwell reelection effort in '06. Washington state Democratic politicians really need to wake the fuck up and realize that they can't assume they'll get elected because "Seattle is big enough to elect me, so I don't need to try that hard."
― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link
haha i'm in DC and haven't had a job for six months
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickn (nickn), Friday, 22 April 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link
Donut's right, though, that for a long time there has been a sense of apathy in Seattle, a tendency taking things for granted. Traditionally, it's just not been a very "political" state. But that's changing out of neccesity, so it's an interesting time to be here.
As for the chances of the election getting overturned shrinking, well, the trial starts in May. We'll see what happens, but I'm not sure that time passing is making it any less likely; it just means I worry about it less.
Late to the thread here, but it's 74 and sunny here today, and there is NO BETTER PLACE TO BE.
― Scott CE (Scott CE), Friday, 22 April 2005 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Well, just because some spineless asshat manager at MS caves in to some local freaky preacher man, doesn't make Microsoft more "liberal" than Coors, necessarily. It's The Stranger's M.O. to make really shocking sensational headlines, and then have the story be far more detailed and less shocking than the headline.
I don't know how liberal or not Coors is.. but Microsoft hasn't stopped supporting same-sex/domestic partner benefits for its gay and lesbian full-time employees here. Microsoft basically did what any corporation these days would do when confronted by an angry mob of wacky fundamentalists: "OK, we'll pretend we're giving in to these wackos just to shut them up, even if it makes a few liberal wackos mad... the less trouble, the better". Capitalism has always bred this "neutral to the outside/progressive on the inside" standard in major corporations in western Washington state. It's been the M.O. for years. Had Washington Mutual been the target instead of Microsoft, they would have done the same thing, probably. Just wait a few months, now that the fundies "got their wish" and the gay civils right bill didn't pass, and all of this will be forgotten. Business as usual. :/
― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 22 April 2005 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 22 April 2005 20:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 22 April 2005 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 22 April 2005 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 22 April 2005 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link
Trust me.. I thought it was an especially stupid thing for Smith to do myself -- especially, now that the Stranger has narrowed in on the large carcass to exploit it and give MS shit about it... and MS deserves it.
― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 22 April 2005 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 22 April 2005 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link
(p.s. Donut: I couldn't send you them akwid tracks I promised last night; will do sometime this weekend).
― Scott CE (Scott CE), Friday, 22 April 2005 21:17 (nineteen years ago) link
Grad school in the humanities: DONT GO. SERIOUSLY DONT GO. EVERYONE. IS. MISERABLE. & has Stockholm Syndrome.
Hehehe. I have to say when I left in 1996 I was glad never to have looked back.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 April 2005 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― h0t h0t h0rsey (Carey), Friday, 22 April 2005 21:25 (nineteen years ago) link
In any case, Hutcherson said it wasn't the end of his efforts. Even though the bill failed yesterday, he plans to visit two other companies that endorsed it to express his displeasure. Hutcherson would not name the businesses. Companies that endorsed the bill include Boeing, Nike, Washington Mutual, Vulcan and Hewlett-Packard.
Great.
Another mini-sideshow surrounding the bill involved rumors that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle, which has opposed such bills for years, was neutral this year.
Interesting.
Anyway, sorry for polluting Daria's thread with this gar-bahge.
― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 22 April 2005 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link
i guess what bugs me is that i feel a church should have more class... a converted retail store doesn't really set the right vibe for eternal salvation. some of these big suburban joints are hard to distinguish from targets or wal-marts, at least from a distance
― ronny longjohns (ronny longjohns), Saturday, 23 April 2005 01:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 23 April 2005 01:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 23 April 2005 02:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― ronny longjohns (ronny longjohns), Saturday, 23 April 2005 03:08 (nineteen years ago) link
!!!
I must know who this is
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 25 July 2005 06:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 07:25 (seventeen years ago) link
Also, welcome to Seattle!
― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― nicely (brother loves dub), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link
I wouldn't call anything west of 12th the pit of despair, but you are in highly-overpriced territory. Anything between 13th and 19th is probably a little nicer and cheaper actually.
Also, don't be afraid to go south of Pike St. Some friends of mine are super happy to have found a place around 17th and Union. (They moved from Austin, and apparently they bringing tons of their friends along to move here as well... which isn't surprising, given both are both smallish, centralized, tech-y cities... surely the same is happening with PDX as well.)
If you don't smoke, don't have pets, and don't mind a carpeted pad, your task will be a gazillion times easier to find a one-bedroom rental, speaking from experience.
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link
the advice to walk and look around is the best thing mentioned on this thread. a great apartment next to my house sat open for 6 months because all the (lazy) landlords did was put a sign up on one utility pole.
― jergins (jergins), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link
As for a fap, it'd be fun to have one outside. play ping pong or croquet and drinkdrinkdrink. We must welcome A Lingbert!
― jergins (jergins), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 23:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 13 July 2006 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 13 July 2006 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link
http://mlb.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/pMLB2-109672reg.jpg
― jergins (jergins), Thursday, 13 July 2006 01:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 13 July 2006 01:38 (seventeen years ago) link
We have a croquet set in storage over there, and will gladly contribute food, booze, and cleanup labor.
Can you get those hats from Ebbets Field Flannels? I know they still make the Rainers one. But those Pilots caps are amazing!
Matos - so so otm.
― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 13 July 2006 02:48 (seventeen years ago) link
I used to live in a big old haunted house in Madrona, but it's been years since I've been back. It'll be nice to be back.
― mikef (mfleming), Thursday, 13 July 2006 04:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Lots of great suggestions. I was only in Seattle for about 2 days last month, so I obviously didn't get to see everything, and my impressions of the areas are fairly vague. I decided on Captol Hill as my first choice based on some positive things I'd heard/read about it and the little of it that I saw. What sold me (at the time, anyway), I think, was the neighborhood leading down to Washington Park (I'm pretty sure I have my geography straight here, but maybe not). It looked so pleasant and green, but maybe that's a super-expensive area that I won't be able to afford anyway.
I thought Ballard was a nice area, but maybe a little far from things and maybe a little too tranquil. I liked Fremont a lot, but it seemed like a place to visit rather than live in. Upper Queen Anne seemed generally uninteresting and overpriced (though nice views, of course), but I'll definitely have to give Lower Queen Anne a good look. I don't know if I saw much of Belltown or Wallingford at all.
I'm also thinking I might have to finally break down and get a cell phone. If I'm going to be wandering around most of the time when I get there, I don't want to miss any calls from prospective rentals. 28 years I've avoided having one, but I suppose maybe it's time. Where does someone even shop for cell phones? Malls? My friend says he likes Sprint. I guess they have Sprint stores, don't they?
But yeah, I'd totally be down to FAP should one materialize.
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Thursday, 13 July 2006 06:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 13 July 2006 07:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 13 July 2006 07:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 13 July 2006 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link
I mean, the Funhouse, Seattle Center, Larry's, Easy Street, Pagliacci, Racha, Roti, Blue Water Grill, Mirabeau, Ladro, post office, Bamboo Garden, McMennamins, more thai... all within easy walking distance. I don't think Hollywood allows for this many places to be this walkable from one place -- having grown up in west part of L.A.
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link
Then again, you said you'd rather visit than live there, and that's a very fair assessment of Fremont.. especially now. (I'm just riding out the construction issues)
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 13 July 2006 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 13 July 2006 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link
yeah, a bad example wrt walkability, but it seemed to fit in the sense that it's filled with a fair amount of cool commercial places, but also felt a bit empty. my impression might well be unfair - i only spent a little time in a little stretch of it.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 13 July 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Thursday, 13 July 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Sunday, 23 July 2006 07:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyway, I signed the lease on a place in Lower Queen Anne yesterday. I found looking for a place to be extremely frustrating, and so when I came across this place, I just said fuck it and signed. I was able to talk them down to a 9 month lease, and it's fairly cheap (also small. 300 sq ft studio, and it has a gorgeous sidewalk-level view), and the neighborhood does seem cool. I'm only a few blocks NW of the main area. I figure I'll use the 9 months to get a better feel of the city and find a better place then. No big deal (though I'm kinda bummed because I got a call from a place I liked better later that night, but by then it was too late. Alas).
So yeah, thanks for all the tips everyone. I move in next weekend. Tomorrow I start job hunting. I'm looking for something temporary until I finish my EMT stuff in December, so maybe I'll try and hit up one of the neighborhood places. I'm going to talk with a temp agency tomorrow hopefully, too.
Also, Seattle is confusing as hell to drive in.
Also, the downtown library is the coolest library ever.
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Monday, 24 July 2006 03:03 (seventeen years ago) link
Very true. When I moved there, I wanted to be sure to live in sight of the Space Needle, so I'd have a landmark to find my way home. Also, lower QA is where the differing grids of the two guys who laid out the city meet up in chaos. (Arthur Denny and Doc somebody - read Sons of the Profits for enlightenment; v. funny esp. the rivalry between Tacoma and Seattle.)
― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 24 July 2006 09:49 (seventeen years ago) link
Went to the Japanese Garden today. It's nice, but I really really really really wish it wasn't right next to a busy street (Lake Washington Blvd?). The traffic noise ruins the ambience.
I briefly drove through (and stopped a couple times) the Washington Park Arboretum. It manages to be just far enough away from the busy street that the traffic noise subsides to a dull roar and you can actually hear the animals and the wind. I'm looking forward to going back and spending more time there.
Has anyone been to the Hoh Rain Forest? Once I get settled in, that's at the top of my to do list. Should I be as excited about seeing it as I am?
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 00:24 (seventeen years ago) link
That book was written by the guy who originally started the Underground Tour, whose name has completely escaped me. Bill something or other.
― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 00:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, there's no way to avoid that initial "GAWD I HATING DRIVING IN THIS FUCKING CITY!" breaking-in period... but it does go away once you find ways to maneuver around the streets that don't end prematurely, get collided into 5+-way intersections, or get confused with the whole directional suffix. (i.e. Denny Way, Boren Ave, Westlake Ave., Taylor Ave., Hwy 99/Aurora, etc. -- ok Westlake becomes Nickerson St. just south of Fremont, but the street swerved to become east-west so that makes some sense at least).
The worst thing is trying to get to the other side of Aurora Expressway, and the sad truth is.. you just have to know which streets go underneath or over it, and which streets don't -- the hard way.. since that cement center divider knows no exceptions (south of Winona Ave. that is.)
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 00:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 00:33 (seventeen years ago) link
also, psst... Mt. Rainier
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link
The Hoh is awesome! I drove over that way initially to see what a town named Humptulips would be like, but hiking in the rainforest was the best. Once when we were there in November, a herd of elk were munching away right next to the trail. Also, in the spring I've seen families of river otter playing. Another cool thing to do on the peninsula is the ocean beaches - all kinds of tide pools - and the hot springs at Sol Duc.I'm there, maan.
What is this "Mt. Rainier" you speak of, gabbneb? Is this some obscure local attraction?
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:05 (seventeen years ago) link
And if you haven't noticed, Seattle drivers are.. ur.. bad. But they're very polite and slow bad drivers, so you can see the dumb thing a driver is going to do 5 seconds ahead, allowing you to roll your eyes, and just slow down and/or maneuver around him or her.
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 02:09 (seventeen years ago) link
The one time I was in Seattle was during the grand opening shindig, and it was pretty cool. But man, is that place going to look dated in 20 years.
I'm moving to eastern Washington in a week, so I'm probably going to get to Seattle more often now as it will be the closest "real" city. Spokane is big-ish compared to whare I'm from and where I'll be, but it dosen't quite cut it.
― joygoat (joygoat), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 03:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 10:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― joygoat (joygoat), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link
haha I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the "STOP FOR ME IT'S THE CLAW" sign that someone posted on another thread is right here in Seattle.
The downtown library looks kinda dated now, actually, but it's still cool. Though maybe I'm still in the passionate beginning phase of the relationship where everything is lovey-dovey and wonderful and the sex is fantastic, but soon the novelty will wear off.
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 05:52 (seventeen years ago) link
our library in a scene from battlestar galactica: http://www.kriskrug.com/images/vancouver-library-battlestar-galactica.jpg
i was just in seattle briefly to tour the U-W campus' student union building in advance of a similar project at SFU. how does the university district fit into the city as a whole, culturally? both of vancouver's universities are relatively quite isolated from the city centre.
― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 06:47 (seventeen years ago) link
sorry to derail the thread. i'm just trying to prompt some similar photos of the seattle library.
― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 06:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link
(i assume, minus a dot, that's your email?)
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Thursday, 27 July 2006 01:10 (seventeen years ago) link
The U-district is certainly in a corner of the city that many can easily avoid if they want to, however, it's really easy to bus to from any central neighborhood in Seattle, really. If you have to try and map central Seattle as a square, the U-district would easily be the NE point of that square... it's not "way the fuck out" there, comparatively speaking, i.e. it's NOT like UBC where it's this place hidden and tucked away west of a mini-forest that separates it from Kitsilano.
That said, UBC is a beautiful campus in a beautiful spot.. and the isolation does give it part of its charm.
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Thursday, 27 July 2006 01:13 (seventeen years ago) link
True story: One night about 11:30 p.m.--a weeknight--on Capitol Hill, I was headed to Chop Suey for a show. No traffic, except one car coming from my left. I was about to jay walk and decided, sensibly, to wait for the car to pass. The driver stopped in the middle of the block and waved me across. It's like, "You idiot, I'm waiting for YOU. YOU'RE the one with the 2,000-pound piece of metal that could crush me. GO!"
I really love the U District, one of the places in the city that's retained its funkiness, and especially enjoyable once you're immune to spare-changers, as I've been for a while now. (Though once I did get heckled by a couple spare-changers in Belltown, which was interesting.)
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Thursday, 27 July 2006 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Is it like New York's?
Fugghedaboutit.
It is like Robson St in downtown Vancouver?
Uh, no.
Does it have a lot of cool shops that people gloss over and don't realize exist because people think Capitol Hill is the Soho of Seattle when in fact it's really the fringe art retail neighborhood moreso than anything else?
Definitely.
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Thursday, 27 July 2006 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 28 July 2006 01:03 (seventeen years ago) link
"Boy, I wish Nellie hadn't gathered me those sad looking shoes from the Avenue :( "
― dottie nuttie dach nach dtnt hhhhhhhh (donut), Friday, 28 July 2006 02:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 28 July 2006 02:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link
btw, the U district was a huge part of our life over there - I love the Neptune and the Varsity theaters, the U bookstore, etc etc etc. Also, theater productions at the U, Trader Joe's, Go Center, varied restaurants and other shopping.
― Jaq (Jaq), Saturday, 5 August 2006 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Sunday, 13 August 2006 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link
I even mentioned you there. :)
― wrapped up like a DOUche in the middle of the NUT (donut), Sunday, 13 August 2006 05:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Sunday, 13 August 2006 06:13 (seventeen years ago) link
SEATTLE CROQUET FAP
Jaq and I decided that this coming Sunday (8/20) would work best for both of us. We're calling it 2 p.m. My house. Email me for directions: jergins at gmail dot com. Easy bus access to Phinney ridge.
There will be: food, beer, rum, croquet, music. Who's in? What else?
― jergins (jergins), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Karachi Handshake (jergins), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link
In case ILX suffers a worse shutdown soon, I will then have everyone's contact info in some form or another for tMG Easy Street FAP thing.. as well as the Sunday Croquet thing.
I won't be here often, due to ILX wonkiness... so contact me! I can be reached at macro at either myspace or 43people dot com, and put a "k" between the "c" and "r". Then I'll tell you my email address.
OK!
― wrapped up like a DOUche in the middle of the NUT (donut), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Karachi Handshake (jergins), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Friday, 18 August 2006 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link
Croquet! That's me playing in Madison Park. Sadly I can't make croquet on Sunday but I will see you guys Monday night
― Scott CE (Scott CE), Friday, 18 August 2006 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― wrapped up like a DOUche in the middle of the NUT (donut), Friday, 18 August 2006 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Saturday, 19 August 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 04:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 04:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 05:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Jaq?
― Dreaming of People With Black Eyes,Dressed In Black (jergins), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm taking your mom and stepdad out for all night ravin at Decibel Festival. They won't need to sleep.
PLUR, HEH HEH HEH!
― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link
We're in town to house-hunt that weekend (I start work on 9/25, otherwise I'd join the dow nut for that all night ravin...)
― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dreaming of People With Black Eyes,Dressed In Black (jergins), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Dude, my mom and stepdad are total e-tards!% Everytime I go to their place, it's like "No, Mom, I don't want see how amazing the door mat feels when you're barefoot."
Thanks for the suggestions guys. A fount of Seattle wisdom you are.
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Thursday, 14 September 2006 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link
It wasn't too bad. It was functional. It served its purpose. No bugs or anything. They didn't have any major complaints. You could hear with little effort the guy next door because the rooms have a connecting door, and the walls were pretty thin. Also, the entire perimeter of the connecting door was sealed with masking tape. I can't imagine this was a security measure. Maybe it's to keep out smoke? Either way, it looked classy. Also, no outlet in the bathroom.
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Friday, 29 September 2006 02:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Too bad I could never afford to buy a house there. Holy crap. Who's got that kind of loot?
― joygoat (joygoat), Friday, 29 September 2006 03:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Ned, I'm currently somewhere near your town I believe - working 7 days a week though at the Frank Bowerman landfill in Bee Canyon (Irvine?) so I doubt our paths will cross this trip. Hopefully things will be less frantic when I'm back in late Oct/early Nov.
― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 5 October 2006 01:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Thursday, 5 October 2006 01:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Apocalypse '07: Rodney Strikes Back (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 5 October 2006 01:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 5 October 2006 01:59 (seventeen years ago) link
jaq i love how you post on a seattle thread knowing ned will read it
― NokiyaUp (jergins), Thursday, 5 October 2006 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link
please tell me Bow/Edison, please.
― NokiyaUp (jergins), Thursday, 5 October 2006 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Jaq, the 7 bus runs in Othello 7 days a week I think... maybe not as close as the 48 would. Don't know your exact location though.
I should be up for a Saturday morning/day thing.
So, beer battered waffles?
― 0xDOX0RNUTX0RX0RSDABITFIELDXOR^0xDEADBEEFDEADBEEF00001 (donut), Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Ned is everywhere :) Shelve by color! Shelve by height! Shelve by the third letter of the author's first name! Each set of shelves can have its own theme. There are over 100 banker boxes full of books; plenty to play with. Mr. Jaq is more particular about the records.
― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 6 October 2006 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Woodinville.
― joygoat (joygoat), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:02 (seventeen years ago) link
NOEXCUSES
WAFFLES, BEER, AND UNPACKING *SMACK*
― 0xDOX0RNUTX0RX0RSDABITFIELDXOR^0xDEADBEEFDEADBEEF00001 (donut), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:17 (seventeen years ago) link
the first time i ever heard rem and dead kennedys was in woodinville, skating at my friend's house. so big ups to you and your suburb! now come to a fap!
― Mib Upzz (jergins), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mib Upzz (jergins), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― 0xDOX0RNUTX0RX0RSDABITFIELDXOR^0xDEADBEEFDEADBEEF00001 (donut), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mib Upzz (jergins), Friday, 6 October 2006 05:03 (seventeen years ago) link
i don't think i'd touch his records without expressed written consent:)
― Mib Upzz (jergins), Friday, 6 October 2006 05:24 (seventeen years ago) link
Crunchy?
Beer waffles = completely do-able. Also, waffles with bacon built in for the meativores.
― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Matmos is also playing a free instore at Easy Street records at 3pm on Sunday.
I am still available the morning of the 21st to help with the moving stuff... and for the waffle beers.
Also, we should all take this to e-mail. I'll be off ilx very soon, but I want to keep in touch with you guys.
― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link
eh?
― jergins (jergins), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Thursday, 19 October 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Thursday, 19 October 2006 01:49 (seventeen years ago) link
One of the things I woke up the next morning so happy about was thinking of Jaq and Donut and what they brought to the party. Getting to know someone through here, you learn their interests pretty early on: Jaq cooks, Donut spins records. But even if I were writing in 24-point caps, it still wouldn't convey how well Jaq can cook, how great Donut's track-selection was, how fun his 2-3 a.m. slot, in the basement was. ILXors can do stuff! Do it well!
― jergins (jergins), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:50 (seventeen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/160/344929363_6c82692e32.jpg?v=0
― jergins (jergins), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:52 (seventeen years ago) link
boys plus sparks light
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/154/344929354_e4f011c9a6.jpg?v=0
note the repetition
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/152/344929355_a26949e33a.jpg?v=0
dance scene
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/344929358_39c2cdc7fc.jpg?v=0
― jergins (jergins), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 4 January 2007 05:44 (seventeen years ago) link
srsly, thanks jaq and donut and other djs and everyone.
best. party. ever.
― lxy (lxy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 05:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 4 January 2007 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 4 January 2007 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link
btw, any ILXors in town for that needing a place to stay, we've got a room you're welcome to, though we are rather far from Seattle Center.
― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Friday, 5 January 2007 01:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Friday, 5 January 2007 02:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 5 January 2007 02:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Friday, 5 January 2007 03:49 (seventeen years ago) link
lingbert: lololololololllll
― lxy (lxy), Friday, 5 January 2007 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Friday, 5 January 2007 04:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 5 January 2007 04:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Didn't Lingbert have special ringer-istic croquet-winning powers?
― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 5 January 2007 04:09 (seventeen years ago) link
To say that the old guy was "unknown" isn't totally accurate. We know his first name and that he was the father of one of the other partygoers, a partygoer who I think one other person actually knew before the party started. I just thought it was weird that the guy would bring his dad to the party.
― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Friday, 5 January 2007 05:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 5 January 2007 05:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― lxy (lxy), Friday, 5 January 2007 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link
he was brought to the party by an Unknown Party-Goer who was invited by a Known Party-Goer. this person (the Known Party-Goer), who is known at least by reputation to a number of Party-Goers and is, in fact, related to one of the Party Hosts, is responsible for bringing the oddest party guest (Pat the Dad) and, i'm told, the most annoying party guest (The Animator aka The Talker). the Known Party-Goer will be forgiven. at least she did not bring John Tesh, Jr. this time.
― lxy (lxy), Friday, 5 January 2007 05:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― lxy (lxy), Friday, 5 January 2007 05:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― lxy (lxy), Friday, 5 January 2007 06:25 (seventeen years ago) link
Lingbert: please download or cue up The Frogs 'I've Got Drugs (Out of the Mist).' It is officially our song now.
― jergins (jergins), Friday, 5 January 2007 06:57 (seventeen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/133/346370152_ea6c193f67.jpg?v=0
― jergins (jergins), Friday, 5 January 2007 07:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link
If you take the bus, the closest stop is probably at 3rd & Pine. ($2.50/round trip for bus)
― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Bunch of buses will get you there, too, but none quite as close. And welcome to town! Don't get any rain on you. Ha ha. Because we have rain here sometimes.
P.S. Don't read this post if you've already read Jaq's post. That one is better. Oops you already read it. Sucks.
― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link
Be prepared: 15,000 librarians will be infiltrating yr city.
― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link
It's not a terrible walk to the monorail from the Hampton, straight south on 5th toward EMP, veer southwest through Fun Forest.
― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Seattle's wall-to-wall with good food. Kinda depends on what you want.
― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link
The lower QA neighborhood has many yummy restaurants: Roti for indian, Racha for Thai, Sam's Sushi, Floyd's BarBQ (w/dancing cow and pig over door) for carnivorous delights, many others. Also, the Uptown movie theater, Easy Street records. It is a great neighborhood!
― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link
I am very much into carnivorous delights and rekkid shopping! Also, if there are any good shows playing, that'd be exceptionally wonderful.
― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link
cheap eats/takeout/bakeries - Salumi, Racha, Thai Tom, Dahlia Bakery, The Boulangerie, Top Pot, Agua Verde, El Puerco Lloron, Procopio, Piroshky-Piroshky
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 January 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 5 January 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link
nerdy girls from out of town, I LUVV UUUUUU.
― jergins (jergins), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link
for Lingbert: the guy who wrote Everything I Needed To Know I Learned In Kindergarten goes there daily.
― jergins (jergins), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Saturday, 6 January 2007 00:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Saturday, 6 January 2007 00:40 (seventeen years ago) link
also add to cheap eats - Macrina Bakery, Paseo, Gelatiamo, and Turntable at the Experience Music Project
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:22 (seventeen years ago) link
more cheap or semi-cheap eats - Cafe Paloma, Pan Africa Market, Copacabana
I'll stop now
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:35 (seventeen years ago) link
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CROQUET FAP II is on
Saturday June 30th, 4:00 p.m. Lxy's yard, same as last time
Croquet Drinks and food post-game downstairs drunken dance music
Bring food and drinks. There's also a grocery store up the street. Email me if you need directions or information or whatever: jergins at gmail dot com. Lurker, you should come.
Rain or shine.
― jergïns, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 00:45 (sixteen years ago) link
YES! Mallet in one hand, drink in the other. Such a fine time.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 01:23 (sixteen years ago) link
you were the epitome of style last time. we all followed your lead: "oh, that's how you do it...you can drink and play at the same time!"
― jergïns, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 04:30 (sixteen years ago) link
jaq is always the epitome of style.
― lxy, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 05:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey, if anyone's interested, Matos and a bunch of others will be celebrating my birthday with me on Saturday at the Canterbury, starting at 8.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 09:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Is it this Friday for the Sign O' the Times film? I want to see that.
Rrrrricky! Another gemini! See you Saturday!
― Jaq, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 13:36 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^^^^^^^^ e
― Jaq, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 14:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Good God, the Canterbury! I was the bartender there, ages ago. it's haunted. it really is!
― aimurchie, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 14:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Their ghost makes a mean grilled cheese, let me tell you! :)
― Jaq, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Ned, when are you coming to Seattle this summer? It seems like every time we plan a FAP you're arriving three weeks before or three weeks after.
― jergïns, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm going to make that amazing vegan eggplant/mushroom chili experiment for CFAPII - it will make a great dip.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link
― jergïns, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll be plotting my cooking for the next week, at least :)
― Jaq, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 23:44 (sixteen years ago) link
should i move to seattle y/n
― river wolf, Thursday, 7 June 2007 00:53 (sixteen years ago) link
YYY
― jergïns, Thursday, 7 June 2007 00:57 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.shunrize.com/page12/page9/files/greys-anatomy.jpg
― gabbneb, Thursday, 7 June 2007 00:58 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't think i'll get in to UW med school :-/
― river wolf, Thursday, 7 June 2007 01:02 (sixteen years ago) link
but my best pals might be moving there if they got jobs, so maybe if i move i can impress admissions ppl with my earnest desire to live in the NW
― river wolf, Thursday, 7 June 2007 01:03 (sixteen years ago) link
j/k that'll never happen ;_1
― river wolf, Thursday, 7 June 2007 01:04 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.booksamillion.com/bam/covers/0/76/241/255/0762412550.jpg
― lxy, Thursday, 7 June 2007 04:57 (sixteen years ago) link
fellate someone riverwolf
― jergïns, Thursday, 7 June 2007 05:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, what days? I'm in Seattle roughly July 21st - August 4thish this summer, tell me it overlaps!
― lyra, Thursday, 7 June 2007 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't even know who to blowjob!
― river wolf, Thursday, 7 June 2007 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
the croquet course:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/193/535617136_75404608d4_m.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/209/535617124_fd3a298cc2_m.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/239/535617110_79f5b96713_m.jpg
― jergïns, Friday, 8 June 2007 07:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Jaq: hahahahaha on "e"! When's your birthday?
Thanks for the record, too, again (you and Robert). So fine. I played it today. Rock!
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Monday, 11 June 2007 05:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Ha! Mine's the same as Joan Collin's apparently (5/23). So good to see you Saturday!
― Jaq, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Ay, when/where is this?
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 00:23 (sixteen years ago) link
our house, june 30. i'll email you (and note to self, zora)
― jergïns, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 07:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, good. That's three weekends. I have plans for the next two. Excellent, really.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 10:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I should wear my ugly golf shorts. It seems fitting.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 10:32 (sixteen years ago) link
we should all wear ugly golf shorts.
― lxy, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks for thinking of me. My correct email is without the bit about having spam for tea in it, by the way!
I fly out to Seattle on Friday, I'm really looking forward to it!
― Zora, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 17:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Zora I sent you a webmail through ILX. let me know if you didn't get it or drop me a line: jergins at gmail dot com
the Reverened: webmailed Donut: gmailed
who am i forgetting?
― jergïns, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Scott CE - Mr. Jaq saw him last week at the Prince movie. Morley Timmons - maybe Donut can contact, or wait I think she's in that googlegroup thing.
Zora, I webmailed you too. Have a safe trip!
― Jaq, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I got and answered both your emails. Thanks guys! I'll come to croquet FAP as long as the course organisers don't spring anything on us for that Saturday. It'll be great to see a bit more of Seattle than the campus and to meet some ILXors.
― Zora, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:44 (sixteen years ago) link
i wish you didn't have to have a gmail account to join that google groups thing.
― Lingbert, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:47 (sixteen years ago) link
You don't! At least, I don't. I had to make a google account, but not gmail.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Zora, if you end up with a free evening at some other point during your stay, shout out and we'll all convene for a "Zora's in town!" FAP.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link
d00d! You're in there w/o a gmail. wtf!? ur makin mah head hurt.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:53 (sixteen years ago) link
as long as the course organisers don't spring anything on us
i read 'course organizers' as 'croquet course organizers'. haha, it's a wacky course but not a reason not to come!
Hotmail Lingbert plz to enter 21st century.
― jergïns, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
we'll all convene for a "Zora's in town!" FAP
this would be great
― jergïns, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link
IT HAS BEEN CONFIRMED: post game tag-team downstairs DJ action with me and Donut.
― jergïns, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 19:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Hotmail Lingbert plz to enter 21st century. Google does not own me
― Lingbert, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link
d00d! You're in there w/o a gmail. wtf!? ur makin mah head hurt. i don't know what's going on or who i am anymore. what is this "jaq"?
― Lingbert, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link
HURRAY!!! YIPPEE!!!
if anyone can't make it for the afternoon croquet business, please do consider coming for the dance party. these are 2 excellent DJs, and this is going to be such great fun!!
but really you should cancel any other plans and come for all.
― lxy, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link
we need to have an ILX field trip:
http://www.roxycinema.com/Seattle_default.htm
― jergïns, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 19:36 (sixteen years ago) link
oh WOOT!!!
lingbert, you are working too hard I think. Have you been rainforesting yet? We spotted the hostel over there, it is very rainbow tie-dyed granola, but would be an excellent place to stay for trips to beaches and Hoh.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link
(woot wz for djs)
― Jaq, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 19:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Bollywood @ Totem Lake = awesome! I have to find out when Killer of Sheep is at NWFF though, Mr. Jaq wants to see that.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link
bollywood night out in the suburbs how great will that be
awesome lingpix of coast
AER LINGBERT
― jergïns, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
jergins, you know all the best threads :)
― Jaq, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link
CROQUET FAP II is so on, this Saturday
― jergïns, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
my friend j0sh r0b3rts is going to spin some records too, like the last fap
― jergïns, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
and we're going to try to set up a second croquet course, in case there are more than six people who want to play at a time.
you know when you get those great ideas in the middle of the night and then you wake up and they're not so great? well, i'm still with this one: set up the courses side by side, like one wicket next to the other: _ _ / \ / \
― jergïns, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:41 (sixteen years ago) link
HURRAY FOR TWO CROQUET COURSES! HURRAY FOR THREE DJS!
zora, are you here now? how's it going? are you coming to the party?
seattle ILXors, all y'all come, okay? it's going be such good fun!
portlanders? you come, too! vancouverites? why not? west coast: we want you!! the country, the world: all are welcome!
― lxy, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:47 (sixteen years ago) link
lxy otm
haha i knew formatting would mess up my beautiful wicket ascii
― jergïns, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
We could always have a single course but tons of people playing on it, as long as people remember which is their ball and whose turn it is (but well people forget that anyway).
I started cooking last night for this :)
― Jaq, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I am picturing mad croquet like Desktop Tower Defense IRL!
― Jaq, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:55 (sixteen years ago) link
jergins, what would be the advantage of having two courses side by side?
― Lingbert, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Tears before sundown.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 18:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i was just thinking of ways that more people could play at once. we've considered the other side yard but there are all those prickly bushes on that side. we can all get out in the backyard and figure it out. that'll be fun
― jergïns, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link
DANCING before sundown is what i'm saying.
― lxy, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
side by side courses is a dumb idea now that i think about it because what if you hit someone's ball from the other game?
― jergïns, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Riot in the side yard!
― Jaq, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 19:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Croquet FAP II: Riot In The Side Yard
― jergïns, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link
ATTN: rioters will have to play on the thorny side of the yard.
(you guys, don't scare zora!)
― lxy, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link
And if it rains - indoor beer bottle bowling!
― Jaq, Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:03 (sixteen years ago) link
or if it rains, dancing starts early!
― lxy, Thursday, 28 June 2007 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link
or if it rains we play in the rain. who are we if we can't play in the rain? this is our town.
― jergïns, Thursday, 28 June 2007 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
croquet fap II: 40 awesome people, one toilet
― jergïns, Friday, 29 June 2007 06:58 (sixteen years ago) link
(and the yard for the dudes)
Hello!
Don't worry, I am not easily frightened. Did you get my email? If it's ok with you I'll bring a couple of Clarion West buddies, they can drive me and can therefore provide backup and /or an escape vehicle should it turn out there is reason for fear! ;)
I've been in Seattle a week and a half now but hardly managed to venture out of the sorority house we're living in. We have classes here and then we write, critique, write some more... decompression basically involves yacking at each other about narrative arcs, or gender & identity in online gaming, or Paris Hilton, y'know. It turns out SF writers are just people. They are keeping us damn busy though.
I'm liking the changeable weather, it's a lot like home only warmer on the wet days. There seems to be a good selection of restaurants around the university district, we've had a couple of lunches out. Generally though, they feed us, and that is very nice.
I've ventured outside the U district four times; once for the Locus Awards at the Marriott Courtyard, once for Nancy Kress (who tutored us our first week) reading at the SFM, once to go look round the SFM itself, which was kinda pricy for what you get but gave me a story idea I'm writing up at the moment. Finding out where to catch the bus back here took longer than going round the museum but it's all good. Action. Adventure. Last Friday we went to a party in a posh house on 10th. I don't feel like I've even scratched the surface of Seattle yet.
― Zora, Friday, 29 June 2007 07:13 (sixteen years ago) link
OMG NANCY KRESS!!!!! </fangirl>
If you get a chance to eat at Thai Tom, really you should. It's just up the street from Twice-Sold Tales (which is just up the street from the University Bookstore).
Yay Saturday! C'mon Friday, be OVER!
― Jaq, Friday, 29 June 2007 14:30 (sixteen years ago) link
r0z i emailed you.
yes this day needs to be over. except there's still a lot to do
― jergïns, Friday, 29 June 2007 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmm, I should probably show for this.
― clotpoll, Friday, 29 June 2007 17:41 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, come. i sent you an invite by webmail.
― jergïns, Friday, 29 June 2007 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
yes, please do! everyone should come!
― lxy, Friday, 29 June 2007 17:54 (sixteen years ago) link
lingy will u wear short shorts for the croquet
― jergïns, Saturday, 30 June 2007 06:40 (sixteen years ago) link
will you provide sunglasses so that people won't be blinded by my legs
― Lingbert, Saturday, 30 June 2007 06:43 (sixteen years ago) link
oh SHORT shorts.
no.
― Lingbert, Saturday, 30 June 2007 06:44 (sixteen years ago) link
ugly golf shorts?
― lxy, Saturday, 30 June 2007 06:45 (sixteen years ago) link
course preview final chance want to make it fair for everyone
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/209/535617124_fd3a298cc2.jpg?v=0
― jergïns, Saturday, 30 June 2007 06:49 (sixteen years ago) link
hahahaha was that croquet party invitation an ILX meetup? I had no idea who it was from!! Sense is being made now. I work on Saturdays though, so attempt to have fun without me.
― musically, Saturday, 30 June 2007 06:53 (sixteen years ago) link
hihi
― jergïns, Saturday, 30 June 2007 07:08 (sixteen years ago) link
party will go late. come after work.
― lxy, Saturday, 30 June 2007 07:14 (sixteen years ago) link
now that's a Seattle yard
― gabbneb, Saturday, 30 June 2007 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
It makes a wicked croquet course, esp. the front yard which not only has a steep slope to the street, it's on an even steeper street which leads straight down to Green Lake :)
I am all cooked out I think. Spicy eggplant/mushroom/bean dip, not spicy bean dip, midwest tabbouli, double batch of brownies. Mr. Jaq grilled up a couple dozen brats. Hopefully enough fuel to keep us going into the wee dancing hours.
― Jaq, Saturday, 30 June 2007 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link
lxy and jergins, you guys are the best! Thanks for yet another great time, and if you need help cleaning up today, call me and I will be there.
One fave moment: K in the kitchen, mourning "The Mt. Gay is GONE!" Also, that astounding croquet shot by Dave from Zora's posse; the man was in total command!
― Jaq, Sunday, 1 July 2007 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
ps. this thread title should be changed to Seattle! How is it now? Are there parties? Should I FAP there?
― Jaq, Sunday, 1 July 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
you guys, that was awesome! Thanks again for having us (and providing my first croquet experience).
― Morley Timmons, Sunday, 1 July 2007 18:18 (sixteen years ago) link
thanks for coming over, you guys. it WAS really fun. and the house isn't in too bad of shape. you know what i loved? that there were so many ilxors here and you all were the ones that danced, played, hung out, chatted it up. my irl friends didn't really keep up. the ilxor constitution is a hearty one.
― jergïns, Sunday, 1 July 2007 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link
i forgot that socializing with large groups of people can be fun. A+ would go again
What did I miss after I left?
Also, nice meeting everyone I hadn't met yet.
― Lingbert, Sunday, 1 July 2007 19:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Great party, many thanks, but..........
Everyone except for me & J1ll are MAD RONG for not wearing ugly golf shorts! (Although at least a couple people insisted my golf shorts weren't ugly enough, but harrumph to that.)
― The Reverend, Sunday, 1 July 2007 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Who is lxy? Did I meet you?
― The Reverend, Sunday, 1 July 2007 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Jergins, did I hear a song during your set about "going down on a girl who looks like me," or was I just drunk?
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 1 July 2007 23:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks, by the way. We need to get everyone together on Capitol Hill soon.
both drunk and yes, that was r kelly: "I always wanted to go down on a girl who reminds me of me."
capitol hill, yes.
lxy was our hostess, in the red check shirt and black shorts.
thanks for coming, everybody! next time i actually need to play some croquet.
― jergïns, Monday, 2 July 2007 01:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, alright! Lxy and Jergins, thank you so much! A toast to them and to our awesome djs!
― The Reverend, Monday, 2 July 2007 01:54 (sixteen years ago) link
jergins, better you than me @ the croquet. I rather drink and watch the chaos. Also, RAH Reverend, for the plaid shorts and WINNING the 1st round!
― Jaq, Monday, 2 July 2007 03:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Ha! Is that on the new R.? I own it, but often listen to it from the other room, so haven't mastered all the lyrics yet. I loved your set, by the way. Did Brian spin again? I wish I hadn't had to leave.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Monday, 2 July 2007 05:04 (sixteen years ago) link
thanks. yeah, he played for a while longer and our friend josh played, too. at that point i was too drunk to figure out what was going on. i couldn't find my camera or my drink so i passed out. starting early always gets me.
thanks again people we rocked some shit
― jergïns, Monday, 2 July 2007 05:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh damn, that song's on that Ludacris album with my current fave "Slap."
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Monday, 2 July 2007 06:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Does anyone have photographic evidence the fete?
― The Reverend, Monday, 2 July 2007 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I know someone was taking pictures of hot croquet action but I dunno if it was an ILXor.
― clotpoll, Monday, 2 July 2007 23:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey guys!
Thanks so much from me and the 'posse'! You made us so welcome. Dave is very pleased to have become famous for his (fluky) croquet shots.
We had a super time, the food was A+, and it was great to drift from conversation to conversation listening to people's music talk. Very sorry to have missed all the dancing.
They're keeping us pretty busy here still, but it would be cool to see you guys again before I go back to Blighty - will email if it looks at all possible.
Thanks again, you guys rock.
― Zora, Friday, 6 July 2007 02:52 (sixteen years ago) link
it would be cool to see you guys again before I go back to Blighty - will email if it looks at all possible.
let us know
― Lingbert, Saturday, 7 July 2007 04:11 (sixteen years ago) link
and i guess "will email if it looks at all possible." = you will let us know, so yeah
― Lingbert, Saturday, 7 July 2007 04:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Only move here if
1) You aren't planning to drive a car 2) You don't mind taking the bus or biking 3) You will move to a spot near your job rather than commuting 4) You aren't one of those idiots who has a gas guzzling SUV. If so, you deserve to die and I don't care whether you have kids or not. GLOBAL WARMING DUMBASSES.
― Bimble, Saturday, 7 July 2007 04:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Chill dude, sometimes it's just people heading from California/Oregon up to visit Vancouver BC. But may I add:
5) If, when you do drive, you are extremely deferential to pedestrians and bicyclists 6) If you are wont to drive under the speed limit in the fast or commuter lane on the freeway when you do drive 7) If you think it's charming when your vehicle sprouts moss
― Jaq, Saturday, 7 July 2007 13:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I have an interview with Seattle Public Library, but I have to pay my way out there. Pros/cons of living on the Pacific NW versus the East Coast?
― Virginia Plain, Saturday, 7 July 2007 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Bigger mountains Pods of orcas Better local wines More temperate weather
― Jaq, Saturday, 7 July 2007 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
friends,
apparently it has taken me a full week to recover from last saturday's do.
so. thanks to all who came and played and danced and talked and ate, and who brought food and drink and chairs and croquet sets and turntables and records and friends and babies. what a lovely crowd!
jaq and mr. jaq, thank you for co-hosting. you guys are awesome.
and especial thanks to our fine DJs, donut, j0sh, and jergins. basement dance party = yes.
zora, we would love to see you -- and your posse -- again. i hope things have settled down over there at melrose place, and that you are enjoying your busy time and doing good work.
there are pictures from the event somewhere; we'll get them up before long.
virginia plain: this is pro.
― lxy, Saturday, 7 July 2007 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
virginia plain: this is pro
true, an especially fun group is pre-assembled here!
Additional bonus plus: no state income tax
― Jaq, Saturday, 7 July 2007 16:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, VP I sent you a webmail as my connection was crashing, let me know if it showed up.
― Jaq, Saturday, 7 July 2007 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah! Hurray for regressive tax schemes that place greater burden on the poor!
― The Reverend, Sunday, 8 July 2007 22:28 (sixteen years ago) link
you know how sometimes weird stuff gets left behind at a party? the next day we found
LUSH silky underwear dusting powder :)
(yes, with a smiley face)
i dare whoever left it to post on this thread and fess up.
― jergïns, Monday, 9 July 2007 01:26 (sixteen years ago) link
also found: an earring. in the toilet. we know who that belongs to, though. a non-ILXor who doesn't hold the liquor as well as us tough ones all up here in the boards.
― lxy, Monday, 9 July 2007 04:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Ouch. Did you rescue the toilet earing?
― Laurel, Monday, 9 July 2007 04:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Uh. This is really embarrassing but... I think the body powder is mine.
― Laurel, Monday, 9 July 2007 04:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Sorry, dudes.
will mail it. pm your address
― jergïns, Monday, 9 July 2007 04:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Pls address to Jon Williams, McKitten lofts, the Lyn of Brook.
― Laurel, Monday, 9 July 2007 05:05 (sixteen years ago) link
sent
― jergïns, Monday, 9 July 2007 05:15 (sixteen years ago) link
body powder lol
― lxy, Monday, 9 July 2007 05:17 (sixteen years ago) link
yes i did! plunged my hand right in there. on account of it was apparently just gonna sit there till someone did something. and on account of she was a nice girl who was just a little bit out of her element. i'm nice like that.
― lxy, Monday, 9 July 2007 05:19 (sixteen years ago) link
lxy, you are too good to all your guests!
Hey all you Seattle people who loved Housekeeping and Gilead, Marilynne Robinson is giving a free public lecture at 7 pm on 8/15 at the Henry. Mark your calendars now!
― Jaq, Monday, 9 July 2007 15:17 (sixteen years ago) link
y'all will be happy to know that the owner of the panty powder has revealed himself to me by telephone.
sorry, laurel :( you'll have to buy your own.
― lxy, Monday, 9 July 2007 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
xp thanx jaq. you are v sweet.
― lxy, Monday, 9 July 2007 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Marilynne Robinson is giving a free public lecture at 7 pm on 8/15 at the Henry
this whole series is pretty amazing. they're bringing in writers who have written about the northwest or used it as a setting. the writer comes into a UW class (that my stepdad's teaching, which is why I know about it) and then give a public lecture later in the afternoon or evening. Lx link?
― jergïns, Monday, 9 July 2007 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Somehow I will stagger onward into my powder-less future. Thanks for trying!
― Laurel, Monday, 9 July 2007 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
haha i just couldn't hold the secret in any longer. you have no idea hard it was to keep a straight face when you first showed it to me!!
― Lingbert, Monday, 9 July 2007 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link
article about the awesome class and lecture series mentioned above
― lxy, Monday, 9 July 2007 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link
lolbert
He was my first guess, actually :D
― Jaq, Monday, 9 July 2007 19:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Lxy, which girl was that?
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 05:20 (sixteen years ago) link
himself!
not an ILXor.
― lxy, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 05:33 (sixteen years ago) link
the same guy who got his lube taken away by the TSA
― jergïns, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 05:53 (sixteen years ago) link
hay guise musical guest Minnie Driver at Freeway Park FAP??
― Lingbert, Monday, 16 July 2007 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link
ooh, twist my arm! That's right by my house, too!
― Morley Timmons, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 03:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Freeway Park is a neat little place. I really like the canyon.
― Lingbert, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 04:18 (sixteen years ago) link
also, there are several movies being shown outdoors this summer:
Movies
Center City Cinema Outdoor Movies in the Park. All movies begin at sunset. July 21: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Occidental Square August 4: Jet Li's Fearless - Hing Hay Park August 11: In the Mood for Love - Hing Hay Park August 18: Monsoon Wedding - Hing Hay Park August 25: SteamBoy - Hing Hay Park Sept. 6: Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Occidental Square Sept. 13: Lord of the Rings: The Twin Towers - Occidental Square Sept. 20: Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Occidental Square
The only two I can and/or want to see are In The Mood For Love and Monsoon Wedding.
― Lingbert, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 04:27 (sixteen years ago) link
we are totally going to In The Mood For Love
― jergïns, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 04:28 (sixteen years ago) link
also c/d heckling minnie driver?
wtf is steam boy? (i know, imdb, but lingy u are so much more interesting than a database)
― jergïns, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 04:30 (sixteen years ago) link
it's anime. i had never heard of it. had to look at imdb. it doesn't look interesting, but maybe someone has seen it and can tell me otherwise.
― Lingbert, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 17:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Dud. But FAP at noon on a weekday? ClassiC! (--jill btw)
― the higgs, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 19:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I feel a Friday off coming up. Haha, the higgs! - I thought you were gonna make us all guess when you jumped in here :)
― Jaq, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
btw, Monsoon Wedding - not yr typical bollywood (not enough musical numbers, only 2 hrs long), but quite fun.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link
lingbert u are my database. may i never overwrite u
― jergïns, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link
hai guyz I have been trying to listen to Minnie Driver today and that is some Sarah McLachlan-esk stuff, over and over and over and over and over. The Chemical Brothers are routing it out of my brane now.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 21:13 (sixteen years ago) link
the heckling begins!
― lxy, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/generationwhy/do_something/campaigns/maketradefair/celebrities/minnie_driver/header/header.jpg "Did me voice do that?" http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/04/30/0430webstory_bridge2.jpg
― jergïns, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 22:20 (sixteen years ago) link
FREEWAY PARK FAP: minnie driver kills us all
btw i was joking about the minnie driver fap at first, but now that i think about it, it could actually be fun. i have to work that day though.
also, i think i'll probably go see jet li's fearless too
― Lingbert, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 14:26 (sixteen years ago) link
"joking"
― jergïns, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I tried to convince Mr. Jaq with the "she's hawt!" argument, but he wasn't swayed.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe you could try:
"But Mr. Jaq, there will be heckling!"
― lxy, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Forgive my ignorance, but who is Minnie Driver? (Not that it matters, as I'll be in SF that weekend.)
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Where to begin. She was in Grosse Point Blank and Good Will Hunting.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link
and where it will end we already know
― jergïns, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 20:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I watch almost zero movies.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 22:11 (sixteen years ago) link
More outdoor movie fun: Havana is one of my favorit bars in town, mostly for the secretive entrance and nice dance floor. But now they're going to do movies outside, on Wednesdays, and you can drink out there too. The list (oh yeah now with added DJs):
Wednesday, July 25 — SCARFACE (1983) with Soul One
Wednesday, August 1 — DOGTOWN AND Z BOYS (2001) with Sean Cee
Wednesday, August 8 — XANADU (1980) with El Toro
Wednesday, August 15 — BLOWUP (1966) with DJs of the Emerald City Soul Club
Wednesday, August 22 — GOODFELLAS (1990) with Cherry Canoe and very special guests
― jergïns, Thursday, 19 July 2007 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link
BLOW UP is my pick of the bunch, if i don't see it at the Varsity next week.
― jergïns, Thursday, 19 July 2007 20:15 (sixteen years ago) link
och!--this is looking much better can walk there, drink outside, not miss work to see mr. jaq-hated minnie driver AND ECSC on possibly/probably decent sound system
― the higgs, Thursday, 19 July 2007 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Free music/spoken word marathon tomorrow: http://gschapel.blogspot.com
― Jaq, Friday, 20 July 2007 17:09 (sixteen years ago) link
i think i want to go to some of this. Free is important
― jergïns, Friday, 20 July 2007 17:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, me too - Stewart Dempster, Amy Denio, and the group w/ Joshua Roman (23 y.o. principle cellist from the symphony - he has great hair) esp.
― Jaq, Friday, 20 July 2007 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
who is going to see daft punk
― Lingbert, Sunday, 22 July 2007 02:49 (sixteen years ago) link
YEP :D
― jergïns, Sunday, 22 July 2007 02:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Jaq, we went to some of the festival of wayward music today. what a great room the chapel performance space is. we stayed for about an hour and soaked in the ambient and avant garde tones. you'll never guess who was there. A BUNCH OF OLD PEOPLE. it was kind of awesome, some guy messing with a Moog or hunched over a laptop and the blue hairs sat there and looked on. EXPANDING MINDS ONE AT A TIME. that was probably my favorite part. we saw one good guy though, Yann Novak, who played last year's Decibel Festival.
― jergïns, Sunday, 22 July 2007 02:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Hi guys!
Just a quick wave from me - there have been no noticeable breaks in the schedule here at the Clarion West bootcamp, but I thought I'd let you know about tomorrow night's reading at the SF museum. It's the last of the summer's CW readings as this is our last week (sob, wail). The reader this week is Samuel R. Delaney.
The readings are free and start at 7:30 p.m.
― Zora, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 06:41 (sixteen years ago) link
DAFT PUNK ROLL CALL
― jergïns, Friday, 27 July 2007 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not from Seattle, but I'm here for the week, and I'm going!
And Capitol Hill Block Party later today!
― Jill, Friday, 27 July 2007 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Cool! Hope you're having fun here. The Block Party should be great this weekend.
― jergïns, Friday, 27 July 2007 18:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm going to Daft Punk. I'm also headed to the Cap Hill Block Party soon.
― Matos W.K., Saturday, 28 July 2007 00:16 (sixteen years ago) link
this is 100% unrelated to daft punk and the capitol hill block party, but you guys should go to the theo chocolate factory in fremont and take the tour. totally worth the $5. it's really interesting, and you (i did, anyway) end up eating a ton of awesome chocolate by the time you leave. and as an added bonus, the tour guide (nicole, maybe?) was cute.
― Lingbert, Saturday, 28 July 2007 02:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone for the Pogues, Lily Allen or UB40? I've got tickets!
Psychic TV were supposedly on the way, not sure now, though...
― Bimble, Saturday, 28 July 2007 02:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll try to make it down to Cap Hill tomorrow.
― The Reverend, Saturday, 28 July 2007 10:31 (sixteen years ago) link
For some reason I was under the impression this was Sat-Sun, rather than Fri-Sat.
― The Reverend, Saturday, 28 July 2007 10:32 (sixteen years ago) link
So, Mr. Jaq and I aren't going to the Daft Punk show, but Donut Bitch got in touch and is suggesting a pre-show meal, 3:30/4ish at Tamarind Tree (near 12th and Jackson in the International District). For some reason, DB is banned from posting to ILX, so that's why I'm posting this. Also, any excuse to eat at Tamarind Tree is a good one. Anyone needing directions/more info - get in touch. Let me or DB know you'll be there and we'll grab a big enough table.
― Jaq, Sunday, 29 July 2007 03:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i think we might be up for this. as you say, any excuse to eat at the tamarind tree.
we also found an amazing chinese place a block away: 7 Star Schezuan Pepper. i have no idea how to spell schezuan. it's at 12th and jackson, hidden in the upstairs of a run-down 2 story, and has to be the best chinese food i've had since i was in china. so great.
― jergïns, Sunday, 29 July 2007 03:52 (sixteen years ago) link
i need to talk to lingy and lxy, but we might come, around 5? 3:30 seems too early with the show at 8.
donut shouldn't be banned. that's just weird.
― jergïns, Sunday, 29 July 2007 03:55 (sixteen years ago) link
if you like electronic music, check out october:
oct 1 - ulrich schnauss @ crocodile oct 2 - mt. eerie @ vera (k, not electronic, but still) oct 8 - trentmoller @ neumo's oct 12 - justice @ neumo's oct 29 - caribou @ neumo's
― jergïns, Sunday, 29 July 2007 03:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh! I've heard of 7 Star Pepper, but haven't been there. Must go soon.
we'll drink mojitos 'til you and lxy get there :) The place gets crowded, maybe that's why donut was thinking so early. I tried the okra last time and it was nom nom nom.
― Jaq, Sunday, 29 July 2007 04:01 (sixteen years ago) link
okay i just talked to DB and 4 pm makes a lot more sense now. plan on seeing me and lingbert and lxy (though i still gotta confirm with them haha my presumptuousness) at the tamarind tree.
― jergïns, Sunday, 29 July 2007 04:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I will go to Tamarind Tree.
― Lingbert, Sunday, 29 July 2007 04:14 (sixteen years ago) link
though i don't quite understand the 4pm meet up time. but i'm sure all will be revealed tomorrow.
― Lingbert, Sunday, 29 July 2007 04:15 (sixteen years ago) link
db says it looks like djs at 630, rapture at 8, daft punk at 930. moves everything up some. he wants to get in there as soon as doors open. i want to drink between dinner and the rapture. that was a fun sentence.
― jergïns, Sunday, 29 July 2007 04:19 (sixteen years ago) link
This whole having a job thing is really messing with my ability to go to anything cool in this city.
― clotpoll, Sunday, 29 July 2007 04:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Donut is banned? Woah. That explains why he disappeared then. Still, that is really weird.
― Bimble, Sunday, 29 July 2007 05:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I should probably go see Justice. I didn't know they were playing here.
― Bimble, Sunday, 29 July 2007 05:13 (sixteen years ago) link
jill i webmailed you
― jergïns, Sunday, 29 July 2007 05:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm pretty sure donut's ban is self-imposed for the purpose of more efficient usage of time.
― Lingbert, Sunday, 29 July 2007 06:58 (sixteen years ago) link
The Donut's not banned in real life, for sure. I saw him just the other night!
Anyone else going to Rufus Wainwright?
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 29 July 2007 09:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Lingbert OTM re: donut's absence. It sounds more like he hasn't been able to get registered, rather than being banned.
Anyone else going to Richard Thompson? Also, Nick Lowe is supposed to be playing in Bothell sometime soon.
― Jaq, Sunday, 29 July 2007 14:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I will try to make this supper/luncheon/I'm-not-sure thing today. Hope to see you all there.
― The Reverend, Sunday, 29 July 2007 15:42 (sixteen years ago) link
It was nice meeting you all.
I had so much fun tonight. I haven't danced that much for a very long time.
― Jill, Monday, 30 July 2007 10:05 (sixteen years ago) link
holy shit you guys was that show so awesome? o my god.
jill it was nice meeting you too. how was the afterparty?
― lxy, Monday, 30 July 2007 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link
i see why everyone likes tamarind tree so much now.
was nice meeting you jill. have fun up north.
― Lingbert, Monday, 30 July 2007 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
down payment on a 2 bedroom house in Seattle? also, cost of house, please. googling that stuff is dangerous. thanks.
― youn, Monday, 30 July 2007 23:05 (sixteen years ago) link
What part of Seattle? Things vary widely. It's generally expensive.
Jill, so great to meet you and glad to hear the show was so amazing!
― Jaq, Monday, 30 July 2007 23:39 (sixteen years ago) link
thanks everybody that was really fun! and wow the venue didn't suck like i thought it would
― jergïns, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 02:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm going to be out in the woods near Gold Bar this weekend.
― Kerm, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 02:12 (sixteen years ago) link
camping? tell us how it is. I have yet to make it up to that part of hwy 2.
― Lingbert, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 16:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmmm. For some reason all my camping occurs up around Granite Falls/Darrington and not along Highway 2.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Or across the mountains.
hey Jill it was cool to meet you. Too bad we didn't know you before--you could have stayed at our house. Come back down from Vancouver if you get bored of the family and want to go out.
(Rev, good to see you too, sorry it was so short)
― jergïns, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 23:04 (sixteen years ago) link
4x4ing
― Kerm, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 23:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, definitely. Great meeting you, Jill! I hope the rest of your trip goes well.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 23:30 (sixteen years ago) link
So long and thanks for all the... croquet
I am no longer in Seattle, so I suppose I had better take my leave of this thread. Thank you guys SO MUCH for having me and my little gang over for croquet and fun. I'm really sad I didn't get to see you again but things got seriously crazy in the last couple of weeks of Clarion and I pretty well couldn't see my hand in front of my face...
I loved Seattle & I hope to come back and sample more of its delights in future. I have loads of friends there now, yay!
love Z.
― Zora, Thursday, 2 August 2007 00:43 (sixteen years ago) link
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1274/1025000960_010e6393b0.jpg
It were nice.
― Kerm, Monday, 6 August 2007 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
glad we got to meet you, zora. and your cool friends, too. come back anytime!
― jergïns, Monday, 6 August 2007 20:01 (sixteen years ago) link
cheers zora
hey kerm were you the one driving?
― Lingbert, Monday, 6 August 2007 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link
No that's my roommate. I was in the passenger seat when he got it sideways though.
― Kerm, Monday, 6 August 2007 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone going to see Devin the Dude on Friday? Concert's at 8, I get off work at 9:15, so I should be good, right? Considering that I missed/will miss Daft Punk, the Block Party, Bumbershoot, Mekons, life, etc., I should really try to make this one.
― clotpoll, Thursday, 9 August 2007 09:05 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, you should be fine. showbox does seem to start a little early though so i'd hustle. i bet the reverend will be there. when i played 'what a job' at the party he went crazy
― jergïns, Friday, 10 August 2007 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not there. (Did I? I don't even like "What a Job" that much. Maybe it was just the right song at the right moment.)
― The Reverend, Saturday, 11 August 2007 05:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Show was good, the Parker Brothaz and Dyme Def were fun openers, and Showbox security people gave up trying to stop people smoking once Devin came on. He played most of the expected stuff, though I wish he'd done more than sing the chorus of "Lacville 79." Not so fun was coming out of the show to find that a couple of people had been shot near the Market.
― clotpoll, Saturday, 11 August 2007 09:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I flew into Seatac on Monday and yesterday at the most perfectly mountainous time (6 pm ish). Mt. Rainier, I <3 U! U 2, Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Adams!
Also, the Safeway parking lot by us got the nod for the most dangerous place in Seattle last week. Still waiting to hear if we will be moving to Pioneer Square.
― Jaq, Saturday, 11 August 2007 13:29 (sixteen years ago) link
AUGUST 10--A Washington man's karaoke performance of a Coldplay song apparently triggered a female bar patron to attack him early yesterday at a Seattle bar. According to a Seattle Police Department report, a copy of which you can find below, Lindsey Lawrence, 21, assaulted the unnamed victim while he was performing with "two other subjects" at Changes Tavern, where patrons sing karaoke Wednesday and Thursday night from 9 PM until 1 AM. When the assault victim launched into Coldplay's "Yellow," Lawrence allegedly told the man that his "singing sucked" and that the song "fucking sucked." She then grabbed at the man's microphone and "pushed him and punched him in order to get him to stop singing," cops reported. When employees escorted Lawrence from the bar, she "became very violent" and struck several other people (and was hostile towards police and fire department medics who responded to the scene). Lawrence was booked into the Seattle Correctional Facility, where she is currently being held on an investigation of assault rap. It is unclear why Coldplay's music apparently made Lawrence snap, though a famous June 2005 New York Times appraisal by Jon Pareles may offer an insight. The critic called the British group "the most insufferable band of the decade," adding that, "the lyrics can make me wish I didn't understand English."
― gershy, Saturday, 11 August 2007 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
clotpoll, saw the story about the shooting this morning - it looked like it was the parking lot adjacent to the Showbox? Yikes.
― Jaq, Saturday, 11 August 2007 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
donut, and LA people on some thread, were talking about the yogurt craze __________ berry. i walked past crazy berry last night on broadway and will try it today and report back.
Blow Up at Havana outside this wednesday, 5 bux. i think this would be the ideal outdoor movie: looks nice, not much plot, doesn't matter if you go to the bathroom or talk to friends.
― jergïns, Saturday, 11 August 2007 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link
also i can't believe this isn't the I-5 lane closure commiseration thread. thanks everybody for that!
― jergïns, Saturday, 11 August 2007 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Ugh. I have to get to SeaTac on Weds. I'm going to make it very clear to the driver that FOUROHFIVE.
― The Reverend, Saturday, 11 August 2007 19:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Rev, it's only the northbound lanes that are closed. You should be okay getting to Seatac on the 5.
― Jaq, Saturday, 11 August 2007 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm drunk and I'm playing Joy Division and I'm in Seattle. Where do I fit into this thread? Finally we got some sun last night. Today is not bad either. Tony Wilson is dead did you know that? Tony Wilson is dead. Get used to it. Get your head around it. Try.
FACTORY RECORDS WILL NEVER DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― Bimble, Saturday, 11 August 2007 20:29 (sixteen years ago) link
bumble
― jergïns, Saturday, 11 August 2007 23:08 (sixteen years ago) link
this is kinda great
http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/M_IMAGE.11432118fbd.93.88.fa.d0.2dfc0d74.jpg
Downtown Seattle skyscraper turned into giant movie screen
― jergïns, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link
And they do yoga on the roof too! see, that's cool
Rainier Square City Nights Aug 16 North by Northwest Aug 23 Best in Show Aug 30 Shaun of the Dead
― jergïns, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link
BumberFAP?
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Let's get drunk and go to Stella.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 23:26 (sixteen years ago) link
That is perfectly acceptable.
― Morley Timmons, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 04:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Saturday? They're @ 7:30 all three days
― the higgs, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 04:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm all in favor of getting drunk, but I'm not planning on Bumbering and I don't know from Stella. Would certainly enjoy seeing y'all outside of the Center, though. Two Bells is always good for a break from the madness.
― lxy, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 04:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Bumber should have an FAP, after all, they ain't got no headliners this year.
― Bimble, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 04:29 (sixteen years ago) link
That is patently false. The Wu-Tang clan > any other headliner they could come up with except for Prince and maybe Daft Punk. (Did you see them, Bimble?)
Anyway, Saturday works just fine by me. A word of warning, though: to get into the comedy stages, you must wait in line for hours beforehand. My attempts to get into the Trapped in the Closet panel were in vain all three days last year.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
(hours that could be spent getting drunk, you know)
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone have suggestion for a Indian grocery somewhere in metro Seattle? All other Asian foodstuffs are covered, but I figure there's got a big Indian grocer somewhere.
Also, any good Filipino restaurants? I've never eaten at one and Seattle apparently has a pretty big Filipino population, right?
― joygoat, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
There's a point-point place on Beacon next to El Quetzal, something Kitchen. The best Indian grocer is supposedly over on the eastside by Crossroads Mall, haven't been there but several friends swear by it. I'll get the name from them.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 19:13 (sixteen years ago) link
i knew jaq would have this in hand :)
― jergïns, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 19:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay, the Philipino place is Kusina Filipina, 3201 Beacon Avenue S. (El Quetzal, next door, is also really good for atypical mexican fare - I think it might be the only place in Seattle that does huaraches.) And the indian grocery is Apna Bazaar, 2245 148th Ave NE in Bellevue.
hahaha jergins!!! :D
― Jaq, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey, big favor: is there anyone closer to the festivities who could possibly accommodate me Sat. night? If not, it's not a huge deal, just a convenience thing.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 30 August 2007 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Rev, are you allergic to cats? If you don't mind being way the hell south (at the end of the 48 bus route, basically - Rainier Beach area), you're welcome to stop with us.
― Jaq, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Hullo, SeattILX!
― Laurel, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
:D
― Jaq, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link
No problem with cats. And you are less way the hell south than I am way the hell north, so good enough for me. Thanks for the hospitality. Would you please send me an email with all the specifics, like address and phone and such? Will you be Bumbering at all?
xp: Hullo, Laurel!
― The Reverend, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't think I've thanked you guys properly for feeding and entertaining me? THANK YOU. You are all treats, all.
― Laurel, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Laurel, I always thought that where ever you were would be a party, and now I have proof :)
Rev, we'll be there all 3 days, staying to the end on Sat for Gogol Bordello, and getting there early enough on Sun for Fergie wristbands and maybe to see The Trucks. check yr ILX mail for details shortly.
― Jaq, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't have computer access that week but I texted Jon at one point that SeattILX GAVE GOOD FAP and asked him to pass it on, but he prob didn't, unless you are noise bored readers...so I thought I would pop over and say so.
― Laurel, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
SeattILX FAPs like a rockstar.
Jaq: Alright, I'll meet you there tomorrow. : D
― The Reverend, Friday, 31 August 2007 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link
hey, thankx laurel. it was great to have you over. hope you come back!
― jergïns, Friday, 31 August 2007 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link
FAP on Saturday at 4? 4.30?
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Saturday, 1 September 2007 00:48 (sixteen years ago) link
We want to see the Saturday Knights - they're over at 5, would that work? The only other thing we're definite about seeing Saturday night is Gogol Bordello, and they don't start until 9. Where to FAP?
― Jaq, Saturday, 1 September 2007 01:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Someone above said Two Bells. There's also the McMenamin's nearby.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Saturday, 1 September 2007 01:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Jaq, Jill wanted your e-mail address. Could you send it to me?
jaq at jaq dot com
― jergïns, Saturday, 1 September 2007 01:57 (sixteen years ago) link
hahahaha :) NOT!
Check yr ILX mail Timi Yuro
― Jaq, Saturday, 1 September 2007 02:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Got it, thanks.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Saturday, 1 September 2007 02:14 (sixteen years ago) link
4/4:30/5 works for me. Only thing I'm steadfast on is Rodrigo y Gabriela, but I may be dissuaded if someone can convince me Gogol Bordello is more worth seeing. I think I'm gonna get a wristband for Panic! at the Disco, just to see an emo cry when he can't get in. Actually, I like them. I might check them out.
Senor Rickey, would you email me your phone number?
― The Reverend, Saturday, 1 September 2007 02:50 (sixteen years ago) link
So around 4:30/5. Apparently need to leave time to stand (tipsily) in line for Stella. Two Bells or the McMenamin's on Roy or?
― the higgs, Saturday, 1 September 2007 03:19 (sixteen years ago) link
who is stella?
― jergïns, Saturday, 1 September 2007 03:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I have been wondering this, too. Where is 2 Bells?
― Jaq, Saturday, 1 September 2007 04:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Just not that faux-scottish place, it is annoying.
― Jaq, Saturday, 1 September 2007 04:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, HELLO! I am practicing w/ the gin tonight.
― Jaq, Saturday, 1 September 2007 04:09 (sixteen years ago) link
2nd and bell! xpost
― jergïns, Saturday, 1 September 2007 04:21 (sixteen years ago) link
oic! it was code!
― Jaq, Saturday, 1 September 2007 04:27 (sixteen years ago) link
tru confessions
13. don't know OIC
-- jergïns, Wednesday, May 30, 2007 7:35 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Link
― jergïns, Saturday, 1 September 2007 04:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmmm...this puts a bump in the rug
*We regret to announce Stella will not perform at Bumbershoot 2007 as previously listed; Michael Ian Black will perform instead with Special Guests.
― the higgs, Saturday, 1 September 2007 05:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I noticed that on the schedule. He's a third of Stella.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Saturday, 1 September 2007 06:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Bumbershoot really doesn't interest me this year, I'm afraid. Not that that really disappoints me cause I've had plenty of good fun the past three years there. The only thing that might push me to go is seeing Roky Erikson but that really doesn't make me want to pay the full price to get in, either. Of course it's possible that by Monday I'll change my mind.
I still don't understand where this FAP is supposed to be. There's plenty of stuff at 2nd and Bell isn't there? Or are we talking about this place called Two Bells at 2313 Fourth Ave?
― Bimble, Saturday, 1 September 2007 08:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay, 2 Bells @ 5 unless changes are made prior, in which case txt plz kthxbye!
I'm considering wearing my lavender crocs w/smartwool sox - if you are going to hate on me, plz be creative about it :D
― Jaq, Saturday, 1 September 2007 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey Seattle people, we have a bunch of stuff to get rid of. If you want any of the following, drop me a note:
3 CD shelves (IKEA - blue and cream, hold approx. 75 CDs each. 4' high x 1' wide x 8" deep) upright vacuum cleaner (w/ cyclonic action! bagless, works fine) 2 tables that make great desks (approx. 3'x 5') Sony Vaio desktop PC w/ 17" flatpanel 3 short bookshelves (cheap, from Target)
― Jaq, Saturday, 15 September 2007 13:15 (sixteen years ago) link
jaq,
so excited for you!
― lxy, Saturday, 15 September 2007 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link
seattlites,
this sounds awesome:
motel #1
The Bridge Motel (3650 Bridge Way N, off Aurora, in Fremont) will host a one-night only event to kick off the MOTEL series on 15 September 2007, 5 PM - midnight. Built in 1952 by a retired policeman, the motel has anchored the north end of the infamous Aurora Bridge for decades in welcoming glory. Originally a place frequented by tourists and traveling salesmen, the Bridge Motel has over time become more a place for those living from paycheck to paycheck, and whose lives involve drug use, prostitution, and the like. In the popular imagination, the place embodies and realizes that underbelly, shady side of life's toiling. There has been murders here, and numerous drug busts, its decaying artifice contains the stories of a full lifetime of drama, and the day by day passing through of souls... For one night, its last night of existence, the Bridge Motel will be dressed up and called to shine and dance ... Numerous installation/performance artists have been given full rein the week prior, to transform each dilapidated pocket into whatever they could imagine. The opening evening will reveal the Bridge's final blossom before its inevitable razing. And to top it off, every inch of the motel will be crawling with performance artists, injecting the animation and energy of truly ephemeral art. The stellar roster of artists involved is sure to create a cacophony of sights and sounds to inspire the mind and heart, and give the aging motel a proper dress-up before it's demise ... This night is not to be missed.
― lxy, Saturday, 15 September 2007 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
gah, we are so wiped out from packing/sorting/cleaning.
There is also one of those rolling tilting bookstand/laptop desks up for grabs. The computer has been earmarked.
― Jaq, Sunday, 16 September 2007 03:35 (sixteen years ago) link
The computer has been earmarked.
big ups jaq
the motel thing was kind of really great. i took a bunch of pictures. i'll throw a few up here and start a thread on net art and link it.
i can't believe we aren't all at the ballet's Opening Gala.
― jergïns, Sunday, 16 September 2007 03:41 (sixteen years ago) link
oh yeah the motel rooms in that thing STUNK something crazy. whoa
Mr. Jaq has been wanting to do a feature-length story about all the motels up and down Aurora, but hasn't got beyond thinking it would be a cool thing to do. I can imagine the smell. Also, the texture of the carpet. blergh
Parties w/ you and your co-workers is the closest I've ever come to attending the ballet, btw. Maybe this is my year to see the Nutcracker.
― Jaq, Sunday, 16 September 2007 03:49 (sixteen years ago) link
see the Nutcracker FREE
there's an amazing photo essay waiting to be done on those motels. also, 85th-125th has some great ones. or at least great signs.
― jergïns, Sunday, 16 September 2007 03:50 (sixteen years ago) link
(written essay too but i can picture the pictures easy)
― jergïns, Sunday, 16 September 2007 03:51 (sixteen years ago) link
jaq - You should come to see my studio's ultra-lo-budget, kiddified Nutcracker! You might even get to see me moving the curtains around if I can't wriggle my way out of any involvement.
― The Reverend, Sunday, 16 September 2007 12:12 (sixteen years ago) link
So are those motels on Aurora actually, like motels where you can spend the night, or just old disreputable drug-and-hooker joints? It's weird that there are so many seedy-ish but vintage looking old places there.
I've been up Aurora as far as 130th, when I needed a hotel and everything closer to downtown was booked solid or super expensive. It feels very weird and un-Seattle up there, and our weird hotel had dozens of old RVs parked around it, packed with stuff. I assumed it was some sort of weird homeless camp or something.
― joygoat, Monday, 17 September 2007 05:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Bridge Motel
― jergïns, Monday, 17 September 2007 06:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey guys, come have a drink at the Canterbury Saturday around 7 to help celebrate Mr. Jaq's (1/4 bicentenary) birthday.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link
he's going to be 25?!?
― jergïns, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 23:49 (sixteen years ago) link
No, wait! 100!
Never forget, math is our FRIEND!
Also, RUM! Rum is our friend too!
― Jaq, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 23:53 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm out of town. happy 25th mr. jaq!
― Lingbert, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 23:55 (sixteen years ago) link
i will be there
― jergïns, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 23:55 (sixteen years ago) link
(They have very good grilled cheese sandwiches, btw.)
― Jaq, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 23:57 (sixteen years ago) link
i will be there too, and i will order grilled cheese. can't wait!
lingbert plz come home soon we miss you.
― lxy, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link
how weird (but kind of awesome) would it be if a straight-up lurker came to this?
― jergïns, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
HI DERE
― Laurel, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Laurel, you should totally fly over this way again!
― Jaq, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 18:27 (sixteen years ago) link
hi laurel you seemed like a neat gal
― Lingbert, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
hi Lingbert you seemed like a "interesting" dude
― jergïns, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 19:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, the relationship abides but sadly the planned September re-trip to Stl did not. I'm still paying off the other airline ticket, I dunno when I'll be back...but you'll hear from me when I am! I hope for fabulous parties chez lxy and chatter chatter all night on the porch.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 19:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Or until I/we are too drunk and no longer make any sense/have attention spans.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link
laurel,
i'm glad things are going well with the boy, and sorry your september trip didn't / won't happen. maybe you'll come in october instead. for fabulous parties. (no fear, we continue chattering even after we've stopped making sense.)
― lxy, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link
there but for the grace of god. where is a northwest job (fuck the seahawks though)
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Come on out. Something will turn up, certainly.
btw, where we live now is about 4 blocks from the stadiums. Seahawks fans: turn up at 9 am for a 1 pm game, because that's when the bars open. General rowdiness, tire squealing, and yelling from 9 am until noon, when apparently they all pass out in their seats at the game. Mariners fans: turn up at 6 pm for a 7 pm game (because parking is free after 6), apparently do their drinking in the stadium (or maybe they were all crying in their beers at the country bar down the block), then drive meekly home to the eastside.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
fuck the seahawks
otm
― jergïns, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link
next time I go to seattle I climb mt wau
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay, Mr. Mariners' Fan who was pretending to fuck the pig statue across from the stadium by Pyramid Ale - was that necessary? I think perhaps you are a Seahawks' fan in disguise and are looking to give the baseball fans a bad name.
― Jaq, Thursday, 27 September 2007 03:17 (sixteen years ago) link
i hate those pigs (and am not a fan of the guy)
― jergïns, Thursday, 27 September 2007 03:53 (sixteen years ago) link
this pig, by my work http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1392/532896684_04d0106abd.jpgsings opera and then oinks, every 20 minutes or so. fuck
― jergïns, Thursday, 27 September 2007 03:54 (sixteen years ago) link
That pig looks like it's already been roasted. I did not know they made noise - that's horrible.
― Jaq, Thursday, 27 September 2007 04:24 (sixteen years ago) link
i would cook and eat that thing with u
― jergïns, Thursday, 27 September 2007 04:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Not exactly an animal sacrifice, but I'm having 150 lbs of meat delivered to my office today.
-- Jaq, Thursday, 21 June 2007 20:09
― lxy, Thursday, 27 September 2007 04:31 (sixteen years ago) link
:D Hahahahahaha lxy!
Mmmmm, roasted opera-singing fake pig!
In other news, there is some really awful karaoke with a live band going on somewhere close to us RIGHT NOW. (Plz dude stop trying to sing Talkin' 'Bout My Generation - yr v. bad at it! Also, wtf sort of awful cover band can't play Chuck Berry for shit???)
― Jaq, Thursday, 27 September 2007 04:36 (sixteen years ago) link
i like to try to believe we're in the same city at the same time but it can be hard
― jergïns, Thursday, 27 September 2007 04:39 (sixteen years ago) link
(so fucking quiet here, we're the loudest for blocks)
(also, if you cooked a rusted iron pig i bet it'd be good)
― jergïns, Thursday, 27 September 2007 04:40 (sixteen years ago) link
rusted vitamins and minerals
― lxy, Thursday, 27 September 2007 04:43 (sixteen years ago) link
how long does it oink for? does it sound like a realistic oink?
― Lingbert, Thursday, 27 September 2007 08:21 (sixteen years ago) link
T, he OiNK joke T, he
― Oink Administrator, Thursday, 27 September 2007 08:23 (sixteen years ago) link
lb, it doesn't oink, it sings opera. annoying. you would love it.
― lxy, Thursday, 27 September 2007 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
it snorts at the end of the song people and it is annoying!
― jergïns, Thursday, 27 September 2007 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
it snorgs
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 27 September 2007 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link
that pig is crazy!
― jergïns, Thursday, 27 September 2007 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link
laurel there is a RAGING bud select argument over on time for a drinks thread and I can't help but think you'd have something to say
― jergïns, Thursday, 27 September 2007 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmmm! Do I care about Bud Select?
― Laurel, Thursday, 27 September 2007 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
i dunno do you??? that's the big question!
― jergïns, Thursday, 27 September 2007 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Pretty sure I've never had it!! I might be going over to the dark side, though, since I had a Modelo Especial the other night and it was pretty good (they were out of Bud).
― Laurel, Thursday, 27 September 2007 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Does the pig sing the same aria every single time, or does it do random selections?
― Jaq, Thursday, 27 September 2007 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Mmmmm, dark dark beers mmmmmm.
― Jaq, Thursday, 27 September 2007 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
same "aria"
― jergïns, Thursday, 27 September 2007 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link
oh, that's bad.
Once I've found all the tools again, let's dismantle it.
― Jaq, Thursday, 27 September 2007 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
http://seattlest.com/attachments/seattle_dan/Prosciuttoandmelon.JPG
― lxy, Thursday, 27 September 2007 22:34 (sixteen years ago) link
And reassemble it in front of Jergins' house, because I know he would appreciate that.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 27 September 2007 23:06 (sixteen years ago) link
thx jaq got that on the porch
― jergïns, Friday, 28 September 2007 05:23 (sixteen years ago) link
lol @ upthread:
Drinking and croquet!!! Where can we do this?!? Because, that would be excellent!
-- Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, July 12, 2006 4:40 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link
― jergïns, Friday, 28 September 2007 05:26 (sixteen years ago) link
These 100 pigs, sponsored by 100 generous piganthropists, will celebrate the Market’s 100th anniversary from June to September
― Lingbert, Friday, 28 September 2007 07:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Swine Finder
― Lingbert, Friday, 28 September 2007 07:18 (sixteen years ago) link
thank fuck september's almost over
― jergïns, Friday, 28 September 2007 07:22 (sixteen years ago) link
http://sarsaparillablog.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/pig%20in%20Seattle.jpg
― Lingbert, Friday, 28 September 2007 07:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I may or may no1t make it to Mr. Jaq's b-day extravaganza, but, either way, happy birthday to him!
― The Reverend, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
no1t = not
got that on the porch
:D enjoy!
Co-worker came and picked up the worm bin this morning - bye li'l guys, you're the best!
Rev, hope to see you, but if not, I'll pass on yr good wishes.
― Jaq, Friday, 28 September 2007 17:17 (sixteen years ago) link
i heard the opera pig snort DO NOT LIKE
― lxy, Saturday, 29 September 2007 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
SAY BYE BYE!!!11!! http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1336/1459017325_ae73a28cdb.jpg
― jergïns, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
NOOOO IT ARE MY BIRTHDAY
― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link
HURRAY!!!! (for pig leaving AND for birthday)
― lxy, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
looking fwd to tonight's Mr. Jaq party. (too bad you guys missed yesterday night's shindig, tres fun)
― Matos W.K., Saturday, 29 September 2007 21:01 (sixteen years ago) link
No 26 minutes, no crediblity.
― The Reverend, Saturday, 29 September 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
any chance this is going to go later than 10:30? i'm guessing not, starting at 7. well, have fun everybody. and HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. JAQ
― jergïns, Saturday, 29 September 2007 22:17 (sixteen years ago) link
jergins, I'll text you if it looks like we are going to be able to stay awake after 10:30. We almost got the old place cleaned and finished off today, but not quite.
Matos, v. sad we did not come last night, but there was still SO MUCH crap to move out of the old place.
― Jaq, Saturday, 29 September 2007 23:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey, bring back that pig, you moving guys! I found my needle nose pliers and sidecuts!
― Jaq, Saturday, 29 September 2007 23:08 (sixteen years ago) link
lxy's going to meet you, and then picking me up at work. i'm sure she'll have a handle on whether you guys are sticking around. (and if she wants to go home. and if i'm just shot after another 12 hour day. house managing YAAAAAAY but man am i tired)
― jergïns, Saturday, 29 September 2007 23:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks all y'all that hung out w/ us last night! We didn't get home 'til after 1 am, and there was a massive brawl w/ cops and all happening in front of the J&M and Central, so yay! new urban existence!
― Jaq, Sunday, 30 September 2007 15:39 (sixteen years ago) link
that was fun, jaq. what a bunch of cool people. thanks for having us.
― jergïns, Sunday, 30 September 2007 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
btw, that undone white collar w/ loosen red power tie look? HAWT!
― Jaq, Monday, 1 October 2007 01:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Jaq, please install Jaq/mr. jaq aka pioneer sq cam so the rest of us can thrill to your new urban existence (at 1am)!
― the higgs, Monday, 1 October 2007 05:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, bring on the Jaq & Mr. Jaq realiTV.
― The Reverend, Monday, 1 October 2007 05:35 (sixteen years ago) link
(And the cats, of course.)
― The Reverend, Monday, 1 October 2007 05:36 (sixteen years ago) link
my coworker just called the impending storm 'windstock' uhhh
― jergïns, Thursday, 18 October 2007 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.red-gold-green.com/prod_clsups/windsock.jpg
i miss the windsock store on the hillclimb
― gabbneb, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
this strom's crap. knock out the power! rain like hell! do something to justify the bloviating on the local news last night!
― jergïns, Thursday, 18 October 2007 22:03 (sixteen years ago) link
this strom's wild! crazy! uncensored!
http://www.glennbeck.com/picoftheday/06-27-03-pod.jpg
― jergïns, Thursday, 18 October 2007 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Doesn't look cheap enough to be real.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 18 October 2007 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link
it is the most boring storm ever
― lxy, Thursday, 18 October 2007 23:14 (sixteen years ago) link
hello seattle 48 deg and damp october morning, i kiss you.
Also, Harry Shearer is at Elliott Bay Books tonight at 7:30. Any ILXors attending, plz come to our new place for a drink afters?
― Jaq, Saturday, 20 October 2007 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
jaq: nice to see you around. was thinking about you the other day. (we are pumpkin carving this evening??? so yeah) i still want to go to the indian movie theater. and more importantly, see your place.
ilxors of seattle: if you ever want to come to the ballet, email me. seriously. there's a great show going nov 1-11.
― jergïns, Saturday, 20 October 2007 18:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Harry Shearer was interesting and the questions following were pretty good. The Writer's Guild is going on strike in 2 weeks or so; the fate of the Simpsons is uncertain; the crowd was aghast. Something tells me the audiobook would be funnier than the text version of his novel Not Enough Indians, but I got a copy anyway.
Bollywood would be awesome. I think I'll be back home in December sometime? <sigh>
― Jaq, Sunday, 21 October 2007 06:09 (sixteen years ago) link
in berlin i listened to his v v partisan only occasionally funny npr broadcast. it made me love him more and hate him more. the voice soothed though, every week. and he'd do a shout out to 'mighty 104.1 berlin' which gave me :)
people still care about the simpsons?
i just want to think of him as derek smalls because it's unlikely that any person could be more perfect.
― jergïns, Sunday, 21 October 2007 08:07 (sixteen years ago) link
He played a bunch of stuff like "Marley Purt Drive" on that show when Maurice Gibb died, so big points for that.
I'm also down for Bollywood.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 21 October 2007 10:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I am now back on Capitol Hill. Some of you partied at my house after EMP. Lower Queen Anne was great but it's good to be close to my friends and stuff again. (Stuff = belongings.) Anyway, haul me in on Bollywood as well.
― Matos W.K., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 00:19 (sixteen years ago) link
What with the fires in California, it looks like I'm here until at least 11/5. (going to see Art Brut and the Hold Steady on 11/4 - anyone else?) Does Bollywood this weekend work for people? Shows at 9 Friday, 5 and 9 Saturday, 3 and 7 Sunday (g00gle for Totem Lake Cinemas).
― Jaq, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
hello all. i miss posting on this thread.
mainly because the slog has a fucking hilarious great piece on the hillary protest yesterday. it broke double digits!
http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/the_hillary_benaroya_protest_a_2008_odys
― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I don’t know exactly what they were trying to convey, but the results of my informal poll of people trying to catch their busses home yielded a tally of one person whose opinion of Hillary was lowered, three people whose opinions were raised, and one person who called me a “fucking bitch.”
― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 19:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Is that you, Donut?
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link
do who?
― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Mackro! Are you back from the north country?
― Jaq, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:06 (sixteen years ago) link
sunday evening yes!
northing lights: still totally ossum.
― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:26 (sixteen years ago) link
9 friday works for me but i'm not sure about anyone else
― jergïns, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:26 (sixteen years ago) link
the theater's website, straight outta 1998 netscape
― jergïns, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link
o. m. g. that website.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:30 (sixteen years ago) link
i wish craigslist looked like this site
― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:46 (sixteen years ago) link
does anyone know anything about any of those movies?
― Oink Administrator, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:47 (sixteen years ago) link
they are bollywood? romance. adventure. lush musical numbers. fully clothed women dancing in the rain.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link
something for everyone, really.
oink admin run from the law and come to seattle
― jergïns, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
are they all bollywood musical types of things though? i guess i'm just wondering if anyone has heard about any of the films (or even heard of just an actor or director or whatever), or would we just being going in blind?
― Lingbert, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link
re: Bhool Bhulaiyaa
Highly Recommended...!!!, 12 October 2007 9/10 Author: raj_apart from India
Got a wasted day..?? This movie's gotta everything to make it all right. Well cooked story, nice and gripping presentation, power-packed performances.. and a humor different than the conventional slapstick humor that we get in movies these days (well, at least it was presented differently).
Priyadarshan is really a come-back in this one. Though I liked this fella always, but his movies had been following a routine kinda trail and all his experiments like Bhagam Bhaag have been failing miserably. But this movie was really a welcome break from his side.
Akshay Kumar, as he has already proved several time, has got a great comic timing. He brings twists to the movie's plot as well as inside your belly as you go laughing all the way. Vidhya Balan looks very sweet except for once, but I'll talk no further to ruin your suspense if you haven't seen the movie yet. Paresh Rawal & Rajpal Yadav are once again a treat to watch.
Go see this movie. Its an ultimate stress buster. Go with the guys, and you will have even more fun. :-)
I vote, "Highly Recommended". Was the above comment useful to you?
― Lingbert, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:06 (sixteen years ago) link
about Jab We Met, from Wikipedia:
"Aditya (Shahid Kapoor), a defeated industrialist, is even more broken as the girl he loves is getting married. Unable to muster up the courage to return home, he drifts out of the gathering and aimlessly boards a train, bounding away into the night.
As destiny would have it, on the train he meets Geet (Kareena Kapoor) - a beautiful but annoyingly talkative girl who is leaving Mumbai to go her hometown - Bhatinda (Punjab). Later, she has plans of eloping with her boyfriend.
Geet irritates Aditya to the point of getting him to leave the train. As she tries to get him back on the train, she ends up missing it and the two find themselves stranded on a desolate station with no luggage or money.
Begins the idyllic journey through the exuberant North Indian heartland in which this odd couple will make their way through buses and taxis and camel-carts, crossing Highways and deserts and lakes, meeting all kinds of people, to reach her house in Punjab ....... On arrival, Geet's family mistakes the two for lovers. Before this misconception can be cleared, Geet escapes to her boyfriend in Manali. Aditya leaves with her, confirming the suspicion that they are lovers. In Manali, Aditya feels empowered to return to Mumbai and resurrect his ailing business.
Life takes a positive turn and Aditya begins to do well. One day Geet's family who think that she is with him confronts Aditya. He is shocked to learn that Geet has not returned home. He takes it upon himself to find her. He finally tracks her down in a Himalayan town and begins another journey to reach Bhatinda and flow into the colors and conceptions of a loud and happy North Indian family."
― Jaq, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link
mismatched couples meeting on trains where one is annoying is a common Bollywood theme.
JABB!
We met.
― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:17 (sixteen years ago) link
The wiki also lists all 11 musical numbers (average length: 5 minutes) - the same guy did the music for Bhool Bhulaiyaa
― Jaq, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:20 (sixteen years ago) link
This one is less typical, for sure:
Bhool Bhulaiyaa is a psychological suspense / horror movie with moderate Bollywood song and dance and touches of humor. The Hindi language release is the offical remake of the critically acclaimed 1993 Malayalam psycho-thriller, Manichitrathazhu (translation - The Ornate Lock) which was also remade in Kannada (Aaptamitra) starring Vishnuvardhan in 2004, and in Tamil and Telugu (Chandramukhi) starring Rajnikanth in 2005.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Washington State Patrol wins award for Best Dressed Patrol in the country
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 18:18 (sixteen years ago) link
How can they have an article like that with NO PICTURE?
― Jaq, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.trafton-group.com/images/confer7.jpg
orthogonal rim + deep mauve 70s stove top range knobs for hats = rowr
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/images/washingtonphoto3.jpg
Excuse me, sir. You are the passenger of the car and I need you to sign right here to acknowledge the hawtness of my threads.
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/NR/rdonlyres/E8723EB7-2B29-4721-ABA7-6141186FFBCD/0/HOTlaneenforcement.jpg
Fashion conscious patrol installs green lazers to monitor the SAWD (Slovenly Attired While Driving)
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
oh dear. I hope I'm never stopped by one, I would burst out laughing at the bowtie.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.ulrs.org/photos/2004/KaseyK/KK_2_15.jpg
Bothell Class President honors local state patrol officer for keeping the roads blue and sexy.
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 18:24 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.workingpitbull.com/images/brei300w.jpg
<i>Nightstick</i> magazine celebrates award.
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
i need to know that man
― jergïns, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
the bowties are horrible
― Lingbert, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
the bowties are horrible adorable
― jergïns, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link
the bowties lend such an air of Barney Fife-ness, I want to check the shirt pockets for bullets. There is also a sort of '50s gas station attendant vibe in that Bothell photo.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link
award is otm. you know who bothell class president is, rite?
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 19:39 (sixteen years ago) link
no
― Jaq, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
enumclaw's (and now budweiser's) own, driver of the #9 car, kasey kahne
http://www.ci.enumclaw.wa.us/images/PhotoTour/Kasey_Kahne_1.jpg
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
did they name a street in honor of the Enumclaw horse?
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link
neigh
― Jaq, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link
oof!
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Reasons 1-9 Why Not to Ride the Ferry in a Storm
― jergïns, Friday, 26 October 2007 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link
urf!
― Mackro Mackro, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
WAU
― gabbneb, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm happy that windstorms are the form of the NW's most common natural weather disaster and not anything else (hurricanes, tornadoes, freezing rain, etc. Yes we get earthquakes but not regularly, at least yet.) because you just gotta know to keep batteries, water, some preserved foods, and sleep in a room away from a crotchety old evergreen outside your window. STILL, everyone knows to not do much of jackshit when a windstorm's sting hits. Fuck riding a ferry. Get a room somewhere instead. It's cheaper than sustaining up to a grand in car damages because of megaswells that knock it around.
Although as a passenger, that must be awesome in a vertigo-addict rickety roller coaster kinda way!
― Mackro Mackro, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Riding a ferry is like washing a hat.
― The Reverend, Saturday, 27 October 2007 02:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I offered these photos to the WS Ferry System, but they told me these kinds of shots don't promote ridership. I couldn't argue that one.
― The Reverend, Saturday, 27 October 2007 02:13 (sixteen years ago) link
The SLUT gets a test ride
― Mackro Mackro, Monday, 29 October 2007 22:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Oooo, shiny
― Jaq, Monday, 29 October 2007 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
No 50 ft. waves, no credibility.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 02:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Fremont Peak Park
― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 22:59 (sixteen years ago) link
that's a great little spot. the 5 bus that goes to my house stops right there.
― jergïns, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 17:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Le bien, le mal.
The same day I finally get a new car, I find out that the reason my dog's been breathing funny is that he has a tumor in his nose and needs to be put down.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link
:(
There's no way it can be removed safely? It's not a benign tumor?
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 23:56 (sixteen years ago) link
There's no way to pay to have that done. He wouldn't have lasted another week anyways without taking any action, he can barely breathe right now. He's lived well enough. He's a large breed and almost twelve years old. But, all the same...
― The Reverend, Thursday, 1 November 2007 01:32 (sixteen years ago) link
i am sorry for you, reverend.
― lxy, Thursday, 1 November 2007 02:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh Rev :( He's such a great dog, from all you were telling us about him. I'm so sorry.
― Jaq, Thursday, 1 November 2007 03:48 (sixteen years ago) link
man i'm sorry to hear that
― Libble Admin, Thursday, 1 November 2007 05:38 (sixteen years ago) link
oops
― Lingbert, Thursday, 1 November 2007 05:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i am very sorry reverend.
― jergïns, Thursday, 1 November 2007 05:56 (sixteen years ago) link
i will change the subject if that isn't too gauche (still, thinking of u):
there is an AMAZING ballet on, one of the 4 'contemporary classics' pieces. i mean like holy shit good, each and every one of you should see it. it's called caught, it's about 8 minutes long, and it's about the best dance i've ever seen. and i've seen a good amount at this point. i can't recommend it highly enough. seriously people, come down and see it. i'll get you in, just let me know the day. SOOOOOOOOO worth your time.
― jergïns, Thursday, 1 November 2007 05:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey Rev. You got my number right? Let me know if you want to chat.
― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 1 November 2007 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
in the meantime, step back into history about a week or so and pretend you never lived here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=la+center,+wa&ie=UTF8&ll=45.764649,-122.308044&spn=0.500085,1.266174&z=10&iwloc=addr&om=1
When you see a picture of this man:
http://i13.tinypic.com/5xt83l2.jpg
What do you imagine this man is doing with his life? Who is he with?
― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 1 November 2007 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh never mind. I just found this guy made NATIONAL NEWS. This won't work. fuck it.
― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 1 November 2007 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks for all the sympathy, people. Attila's gone now. His ashes will be spread around an orchard near Sultan.
Mackro: I don't think I do, email me.
― The Reverend, Friday, 2 November 2007 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Fucking hell, I just got laid off, and I have no money, cause I just spent it all on this damn car. I have $32. Fucking fucking fuck.
― The Reverend, Friday, 2 November 2007 13:47 (sixteen years ago) link
(It's a nice car, I'll look quite stylish as I drive around to job interviews on E.)
― The Reverend, Friday, 2 November 2007 14:02 (sixteen years ago) link
(Uh, E for "empty". I'm not in the habit of popping pills before meeting a potential employer.)
― The Reverend, Friday, 2 November 2007 14:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I still can't fucking believe this. Not my fucking week.
― The Reverend, Friday, 2 November 2007 14:07 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fAr0FEefPU
― The Reverend, Friday, 2 November 2007 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Rev, I sent you email via here. If that doesn't work, let me know and i'll get it via Jaq or jergins who whoever else might have it.
― Mackro Mackro, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
reverend. oh my goodness. at least this most horrible week is almost over, yeah?
― lxy, Friday, 2 November 2007 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh man, Rev :(
― Jaq, Friday, 2 November 2007 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
there is an AMAZING ballet on
YES THERE IS!
seattlists, seriously, you should take this opportunity to see some of the best contemporary ballet possible. cannot recommend highly enough.
― lxy, Saturday, 3 November 2007 07:38 (sixteen years ago) link
truly truly - first ballet I've ever seen and now I'm probably ruined for all others. Really stunning and affecting - esp. Kiss and Caught. I'm no fan of Philip Glass who scored the final one (In the Upper Room), but it was fun, full of tai chi and park joggers and fit shirtless guys and cheerleaders. Bits and pieces keep replaying in my head today.
I never thought about people knowing a ballet as well as I might know a symphony or someone else an opera - the idea never occurred - but so many of the audience obviously knew and were thrilled by the first piece (Agon), that the puzzle piece dropped into place in my understanding.
― Jaq, Saturday, 3 November 2007 20:15 (sixteen years ago) link
fuck this town
― jergïns, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 06:56 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^This.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 07:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Why are we fucking this town?
fuck this state the town was lame though. and i don't want to talk about it until next week. I don't want to become sick again.
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR REMINDING ME WHY I NEED TO LEAVE
― jergïns, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/transportation/338623_transpo07.html?
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link
;_;
― lxy, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't think anyone is going to vote for light rail until they see it happen in 2009. Then people will start supporting it.
I'm more upset about i-960 passing even if barely. hopefully it will be ruled unconstitutional like much of other Eyman's initiatives.
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link
vote for MORE light rail, I meant to say
i think you're right, that once people see it working, and well, they'll (ahem) get on board. that's human nature, i get it, but it doesn't make me hate their lack of vision any less
― jergïns, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 19:35 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm on a campaign right now to make the people I work with see riding the bus as hip and cool and smart and OMG THE BEST THING EVER. Public transit needs cheerleaders and bus mentors to take the "oooo ick scary and inconvenient" factor out of people's minds. I am bummed b/c I didn't get my address change in (from when we moved from Richland) and so couldn't vote (even absentee - Benton County knew I'd moved) yesterday.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
someone also brought up a really good point. People got stung badly by the Monorail finance disaster so I think no one is going to vote for any big transit project here until they see a prototype or smaller version there already. As much as I don't see eye to eye with their sense of version, jergins, I can't blame them for being distrustful.
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link
vision not version
vision not (version)
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 20:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I know where Tim Eyman lives. Would buying some kerosene and matches be the correct thing to do?
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 22:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Just don't burn down the rest of Mukilteo, especially Rane! I need to get my mixer fixed, I think.
I'm already over the election shittiness. That felt really bad for a while though. Fuck.
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 22:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey, Seattle, I LOVE the bus bike racks, WTG dudes. I would like the bus a whole bunch more, though, without the OBVIOUSLY TWEAKING drug addicts everywhere trying to talk to you/each other by which I mean "yelling across three seats" and talking about who has the best "programs" or how hard it is to sit still when you've been riding the bus all day.
Thx, NYC out
― Laurel, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Also the South/Latin American dude who felt up my knees on my way to the airport and then mocked me in Spanish when I objected, and who REEKED like a broken distillery...it would be cool if the driver hadn't let him on in the first place.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I mean it's less "inconvenient" than walking in the rain, that's for shure. ;)
― Laurel, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:04 (sixteen years ago) link
haha Laurel there's been a fight about this on Slog the other day. Except someone there asked it in very bad wording "Would you ride the bus if you knew you didn't have to be next to someone homeless or smelly on the way to work?" Doh. Righteous bullshit maelstrom megastorm ensued.
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:04 (sixteen years ago) link
But it does seem a LOT of people want to get rid of the Ride Free Zone. I see its advantages, but the disadvantages are really getting annoying now.
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Sure, everyone needs transportation, even in NYC you can't kick someone off for being homeless. Like, dude, just give them some room, your life STILL wouldn't be as bad as his if your dog died and your heart broke on the same day your office was attacked by Godzilla. But there's a lot more TOTAL room on the train than there is on a bus so you can afford to maneuver around people. And the tweakers have just GOT to go.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:09 (sixteen years ago) link
the single lamest thing about Seattle is the lag in rail. I love it here, but it is a glaring downside to the city. Light rail is (knocking on wood) coming in 2009 between the airport and the city... that's not going to get rid of traffic forever obviously, and unfortunately people here are doubting thomases when it comes to funding public transit. But if it means they will get excited about more light rails later, then so be it. I wish Microsoft would just kick down a Microsoft light rail line between Seattle and Redmond, and not just for workers.
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Still though, it's not hard to get around the city if you don't have a car. Seattle is maybe as big as Brooklyn? It's not a big city, and once you figure out the buses, you can get around most of the day. You can call for cabs, and they're not total rip-offs. I can't complain.
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:14 (sixteen years ago) link
BIKES
― Laurel, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll defer to the bikers here. I can't ride a bike without nearly killing myself. bad balance, too fat, whine whine.
There definitely are biker posses here, and they get mean when scorned.
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:17 (sixteen years ago) link
dude if my office got attacked by Godzilla that would be an AWESOME day.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I should have taken more cabs there, actually -- I was v v v late for something which turned out to be a biiiig problem, because I couldn't find an ATM for cash for the bus, then couldn't find a bus stop for the right line, and then when it came it was only going part way, etc. But here I NEVER take cabs because it STARTS at $15 to go anywhere I'd be going. It WAS cool for the ride to the Comet to be like $6.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Godzilla has already invaded Seattle. It's a must see if you're into old video games:
http://www.boardgamenews.com/gamepreviews/pinkgodzilladevkit/large/godzilla.jpg
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:23 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.8bitjoystick.com/archives/photos/PinkGodzillagames.jpg
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:24 (sixteen years ago) link
DON'T TAKE MY FREE RIDE ZONE AWAY!
I mean seriously all those freakin' cruise boat people need something to do for 3 freakin' hours, DO YOU WANT THEM ALL IN FRONT OF YOU TRYING TO FIND THEIR CHANGE?????
― Jaq, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:32 (sixteen years ago) link
HAHA YOU LIVE DOWNTOWN
― Laurel, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe we should do what Vancouver did with their tweakers and ship them to the capitol. Olympia needs more tweaker rock anyway. *dodges facial hair*
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 23:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Send them to Granite Falls. They'll be welcome there.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 8 November 2007 03:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Cabs in Seattle: it really helps if you know where you're going and can help 'em out.
― the higgs, Thursday, 8 November 2007 05:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Shortest cab ride: 4 blocks. Driver driving on wrong side of road, eating fried chicken with two hands and congratulating/berating oncoming traffic for driving around him/ refusing to drive around him. Wheeee.
― the higgs, Thursday, 8 November 2007 05:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah higgs OTM. I'm never drunk enough to elaborate on what specific corner of Fremont/Queen Anne I'm at.
Cabbies in Seattle listen to one of two things:
a) NPR, and then they vent to you about how fucked the U.S. is, you nod and assure them that you agree with (I usually do) and then we get into an awesome political conversation that I rarely have with my friends. (No offense guys)
b) KUBE "but i HATE KUBE!" Me: "OK, but this song playing right now is pretty jammin'" "Yeah, it's great. But it's the SAME FIFTEEN EXCELLENT JAMS REPEATED OVER AND OVER!" Me: (um, change the station then?)
― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 8 November 2007 05:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I am totally guilty of KUBE "but I HATE KUBE!".
― The Reverend, Thursday, 8 November 2007 06:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I accidentally picked up a bhangra show coming in from Canada on, like, 93.1 or something. That made me happy.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 8 November 2007 06:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Aha, it must have been this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKYE-FM
― The Reverend, Thursday, 8 November 2007 06:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Mackro, don't forget:
c) smooth jazz
Also, I voted against the transportation package 'cause I don't own a car, and yeah, show me some rail in a package without all that extra lane shit that the area can work around if it isn't there.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 8 November 2007 06:44 (sixteen years ago) link
And Jaq is A-1 OTM on riding the bus as cool thing.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 8 November 2007 06:46 (sixteen years ago) link
In Everett, riding the bus is a totally depressing experience, because no one who can afford not to does. I suspect this is due to the fact that the people who run Everett's buses are total choads who do everything within in their power to make said buses shitty, but I digress. Also, they clean them maybe once every three decades, so they smell like the filth of ages. I have never been on a bus outside of Everett with that particular dirt-devil scent.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 8 November 2007 07:03 (sixteen years ago) link
GREAT LET'S WAIT TEN MORE FUCKING YEARS
― jergïns, Thursday, 8 November 2007 07:04 (sixteen years ago) link
the combo of roads and light rail in the same prop is retarded. I was bummed to hear that people think this is still the only way to make this happen. Um, guys, why not separate the initiatives for road and transit, and not politicize them as opposites, perhaps?
jergins, I love you man, but you're overreacting.
― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 8 November 2007 17:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I mean, I'm impatient too, but it always takes forever to build anything in Seattle that isn't already flat. I'll wait for the 2009 rail and hope people really dig it.
― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 8 November 2007 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link
jergins is not overreacting.
really the problem is that most people are not acting, never mind reacting, at all! that's why nothing ever happens.
― lxy, Thursday, 8 November 2007 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I was just referring to the all caps thing against rickey, lxy. I totally agree with you and jergins on the issue.
Thing is, many people who wanted light rail voted against Prop 1 because they didn't like the other half. I've talked to many people who wanted light rail but voted against Prop 1 because they all said "oh this going to be like the Monorail again". I'm hoping the prop drafters learn a lesson from this, and will try to do this through legislative means.
WA has an aggressively centrist Democratic presence that follows along the same line as OR and CA: "we want stuff, but they should pay for it". It would be nice if there was a way to break that mentality, but how?
― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 8 November 2007 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Import more east coasters and you'll get more transit-firendliness. Tho I remember I was all 'my bus had a bike on its front!' and my sister was all UH, yeah, welcome to Cascadia.
Alternate way to sea-tac - Gray Line airporter.
― gabbneb, Thursday, 8 November 2007 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link
gabb, we have a lot of east coasters and folks from Europe and Australia and NZ moving here, but I don't think they're moving here to necessarily dedicate themselves to improving public transit... they're probably moving here in spite of that but to enjoy the other amenities of Cascadia or what have you.
― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 8 November 2007 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
And some good news if you can't stand Eyman (although it took long enough):
Eyman initiative ruled unconstitutional
The State Supreme Court today found Initiative 747, the tax-limiting measure passed by voters in 2001, unconstitutional.
In a narrow, 5-4 decision, the high court found voters were deceived when they voted on the measure sponsored by anti-tax activist Tim Eyman.
The ruling upholds a lower King County court decision last year in which Judge Mary Roberts found the initiative was unconstitutionally deceptive.
...
The measure, passed by voters in 2001, limited increases in state and local property-tax collections to 1 percent a year, unless voters approved more. When it was argued before the high court last May, the state estimated that in the six years since it passed, the measure blocked an estimated $1.6 billion in property-tax increases.
In tossing out the initiative, Roberts found that voters had been told they would be reducing the tax-increase cap to 1 percent from 2 percent, although the initiative actually was reducing the cap from 6 percent to 1 percent.
― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 8 November 2007 22:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay I know everything's crappy w/r/t transit, but dudes! The symphony is doing a whole night of video game music on Jan 24. Tix go on sale 11/10 at 1 pm.
― Jaq, Friday, 9 November 2007 00:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Kosher ham soda
― Mackro Mackro, Friday, 9 November 2007 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Last year's seasonal pack was Thanksgiving-themed, with Green Pea, Sweet Potato, Dinner Roll, Turkey and Gravy, and Antacid sodas.
― The Reverend, Saturday, 10 November 2007 01:06 (sixteen years ago) link
See, that read really funny at first, but then all those testosterone caffeine "energy" drinks all kinda taste like antacid, don't they?
― Mackro Mackro, Saturday, 10 November 2007 01:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't know, I've avoided one and never needed the other.
― The Reverend, Saturday, 10 November 2007 01:45 (sixteen years ago) link
god, the cabbie stories I could go into here
― Matos W.K., Saturday, 10 November 2007 01:56 (sixteen years ago) link
start a cabbie stories thread!
― Lingbert, Saturday, 10 November 2007 05:15 (sixteen years ago) link
if there isn't one already, i guess
you could revive it though!
― Lingbert, Saturday, 10 November 2007 05:16 (sixteen years ago) link
My most recent cabbie stories is stops. The driver looked kinda like Roy Orbison. He was playing this song that was at least 15 minutes long, and it sounded somewhere between late 70s Iggy Pop and Richard Hell. It was a great song, and I was hesitant to ask until I was about to be dropped off, so I asked who it was, mentioning the Iggy and Richard Hell notes. The cabbie pulls aside by my appt complex, turns around and tells me "That's me" and smiles. He introduces himself to me as Ted Narcotic (yes, TED NARCOTIC!) and that this was his group.
He's nowhere to be found on google aside from sites mentioning him doing a public access show in the area. But nothing on Ted Narcotic's band. I have no clue when the song was recorded but it doesn't matter when.
― Mackro Mackro, Sunday, 11 November 2007 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link
hey guys i have two pairs of nutcracker dress rehearsal tickets to give. the timing is a little weird: wednesday nov 21 (day before thanksgiving) at 5 pm. but yeah, if anybody wants 'em, let me know. ilxor mail works fine.
― jergïns, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link
"UNSEEN PEANUTS" Revealed This Friday!
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery, in association with the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center, is pleased to present "Unseen Peanuts." This collection of full size, rarely seen Peanuts strips opens with a daylong preview on Friday, November 23 from 11:30 until 8:00 PM, highlighted by an "Unseen Peanuts" slide presentation by Fantagraphics Books co-publisher Kim Thompson at 6:00 PM. The public of all ages is invited to this free event.
Perhaps no American artist is more closely associated with the holidays than Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz. Kim Thompson, co- editor of the Complete Peanuts series, points out that even though Peanuts is the most-reprinted comic strip in history, several thousand strips had never been collected until The Complete Peanuts project began in 2004. The show includes a companion 32-page "Unseen Peanuts" comic book catalogue featuring over 150 more of these "lost" strips. This fully annotated publication is available for free with any purchase exclusively at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery.
Get an early start on your holiday shopping at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery, located at 1201 S. Vale St. (at Airport way S.) in the heart of Seattle's lively Georgetown business district. Throughout the month of November all comic strip reprints, including The Complete Peanuts, are offered at 20 % off, and pick up our free "Comic Strip Masterpieces" tabloid.
"Unseen Peanuts" remains on view through December 31. Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is open daily 11:30 - 8:00 PM, Sundays until 5:00 PM. 206.658.0110.
― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link
two inches deep, a few hours ago, but receding
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2153/2085434467_393962d46d.jpg
― jergïns, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 07:24 (sixteen years ago) link
oh man, that's awful. I'm really sorry. I hadn't even considered water damage with the heavy rains, which is weird because the Xmas blizzard of '96 did the same w/my shag-carpeted basement bedroom, ugh.
― Matos W.K., Tuesday, 4 December 2007 09:41 (sixteen years ago) link
are the streets paved with slugs?
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 13:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I have about half an inch just sitting under the carpet and not going anywhere. The wet vac isn't even putting a dent in it.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Fun today tearing out said carpet. We lost our internet access, too. : (
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 05:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Aw man. Sorry jergins, reverend.
I have another friend whose basement studio was flooded as well. I have close to a dozen friends total with flooding, one of whom lives between Olympia and Chehalis and I still can't contact him. :(
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 07:38 (sixteen years ago) link
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/343084_homeless12.html
Harassing homeless now a crime in Seattle P-I STAFF
In a unanimous vote, the Seattle City Council on Monday passed a measure that makes harassing a homeless person a hate crime.
Under a law sponsored by council president Nick Licata, homeless people are now among those protected by the city's hate crime law prohibiting malicious harassment. The law already bars malicious harassment based upon gender identity, marital status, political ideology, age and parental status.
The law also makes it illegal to damage the belongings of a homeless person.
The move was considered largely symbolic because the city rarely charges people with malicious harassment. If a case is serious enough, it is typically forwarded to the King County Prosecutor's Office for possible charges under the state's law on malicious harassment.
Still, the proposal enjoyed the support of the full council, City Attorney Tom Carr, Mayor Greg Nickels and advocates for the homeless.
OK, I'm totally for this bill, but have we really reached such a stalement in the council here that we can only pass bans on Inhuman Actions Caused By Sociopathic Assholes Once Every Two Years?
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Sorry, "stalemate", not "stalement".
Although, someone should properly define and use "stalement". It has many useful, ur, uses.
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 19:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I accidentally left a couple slices of bread in the toaster and when I found them two days later they were in a stalement.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 13 December 2007 08:59 (sixteen years ago) link
http://oddmart.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/capitol_hill_octopus_map.png
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 10:26 (fifteen years ago) link
http://oddmart.com/2007/05/16/seattle-subways/
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 10:27 (fifteen years ago) link
You should move there, I've known someone from Seattle and I'd highly recommend it. (Too subtle?)
― VeronaInTheClub, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
i can't believe i missed the opera-singing pig!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 04:31 (fifteen years ago) link
?
― Matos W.K., Tuesday, 21 April 2009 06:40 (fifteen years ago) link
from upthread:
this pig, by my workhttp://farm2.static.flickr.com/1392/532896684_04d0106abd.jpg sings opera and then oinks, every 20 minutes or so. fuck― jergïns, Wednesday, September 26, 2007 11:54 PM
― jergïns, Wednesday, September 26, 2007 11:54 PM
― tehresa, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 13:55 (fifteen years ago) link
tell me about 'wallingford, a few blocks from 45th'
― tehresa, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 03:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Nice older neighborhood - esp. the southern area between 45th and the lake, but up to 50th is also nice. Narrow side streets keeps traffic slower, lots of small round-abouts. I think the 26 goes through there from downtown.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 04:01 (fifteen years ago) link
We used to buy local eggs from a farmer who doled them out from 10 - noon on Saturdays in a parking lot behind the Dick's (burgers + fries) on 45th. The Wallingford center (also on 45th), used to be a school, now shops/restaurants/apartments. Guild 45th movie theater just down the street too.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 04:06 (fifteen years ago) link
It suddenly occured to me the other day that I hadn't been to Wallingford in a really long time. That's kindof sad, because I think it's quite nice from what I remember.
― Smart, Long, Lifephones (Bimble), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 04:16 (fifteen years ago) link
are bus lines 16 and 44 useful?
― tehresa, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 04:19 (fifteen years ago) link
i know that's subjective... i'm not sure where i'll be going quite yet, so maybe the question should be, do they get you to main/important places/transfers?
― tehresa, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 04:20 (fifteen years ago) link
16 goes up north to Northgate (cartscalator Target, mall, park and ride, good for transferring), past the east side of Seattle Center (by the EMP) and all the way south to the ferry terminal, through downtown, so very useful for catching other routes.
44 goes east-west to Ballard and over to the U-district.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 04:31 (fifteen years ago) link
(44 will take you to the Ballard market and to Trader Joes...)
― Jaq, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 04:33 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks, that is useful!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 04:38 (fifteen years ago) link
44 is a motherfucker but it will get u there
― jergins, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 05:07 (fifteen years ago) link
bussuxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
lol
― tehresa, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 05:09 (fifteen years ago) link
lol looking at the nba playoffs coverage today led me to look at the regular season standings and imagine my surprise to see oklahoma city - i had no idea about the supersonics (haven't followed the nba in about 5 years). man, wtf seattle?
― velko, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 06:01 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/itscomplicated_large.gif
― jergins, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 06:34 (fifteen years ago) link
r.i.p.
― velko, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 06:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I see like 10 times the number of Sonics shirts and jerseys on students now than I ever did when they were still in Seattle.
― joygoat, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link
lol @ 'ironic' sonics fans
― tehresa, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
or maybe there was just lot of merch left over and they donated it to goodwill
Hi, guys. Just dropping in.
― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 15:02 (fifteen years ago) link
tell me about 'wallingford'
When I lived in Seattle in the early 90s I lived in Wallingford. LOOOOOOVED it! Lived just off 40th, worked in an office on 45th, so I could walk to work, Guild theater as mentioned above, some great little restaurants and pubs. A quick bike ride to U District and Fremont areas, easy bus ride downtown. When I moved back to Minneapolis, my prerequisite was that my quality of life be as good as it was in Wallingford.
― Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, and Gasworks Park! (Sorry, I suck at linking photos...)
http://www.seattlephotographs.com/photos/gasworks_park/Gasworks_Park_photo_gallery.htm
― Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i went to gasworks! neat! couldn't figure out the sun dial lol!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link
argh so after promising emails, i haven't heard back from that girl.
tell me about:
― tehresa, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
23rd and madison - ehhhhnorth fremont isn't really a term, but this is up towards me, totally fine and nicebeacon hill will be awesome once light rail opens july 18th
― jergins, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link
23rd Ave East near Madison - scary at night, can be sketchy during the day. I lived near here for 2 years, my closest grocery was the Red Apple at 23rd and Cherry. There's a new Safeway/apartment complex at 23rd and Madison and some other new townhouse-type devel, but not the greatest area. Because of new devel, I thought the rents were higher than they should be for what you got - this was a year ago though, haven't been looking at it recently.
no clue about "North Fremont". A codeword for "on Aurora" (which, hm, no thanks)?
I like Beacon Hill, there's some vibrant pockets w/good places to eat and drink, not as much redevel as south Seattle so still some great single family bungalows and stuff, light rail will start running later this year. Down the hill to the north (Rainier/MLK) can be rough, but leads toward Columbia City/Hillman City/Seward Park.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
she said NW 48th, so no
― jergins, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link
not really crazy bout these people... they all have weird things. need own place. maybe pay more :(
― tehresa, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link
esp never having met them, getting that vibe in advance? yikes
― jergins, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Never heard of "North Fremont" either; wouldn't that actually be Greenwood? Phinney Ridge?
― Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
right?xpost
sigh.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
good thing i have NOTHING to do at work cause this shit is time consuming!!!!!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
"Unfortunately, I am technologically challenged and do not have pictures I can post."
― tehresa, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link
tza, my step-daughter is giving up her studio apt on Cap Hill, don't know if it's available right away or what $, but could find out if you want more details.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I am directionally challenged by this NW designator. Also, it should be illegal to have an intersection that is 148th & 148th (Totem Lake I am looking at you).
― Jaq, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link
would love details, jaq!i'm interested in mid-june/july 1.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 20:09 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha
email 1: we are in greenlakereply: cool, where?email 2: "n. 95th st, about 2 miles from the greenlake/wallingford area"
― tehresa, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
i nix that one before you can even ask about it.
― lxy, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link
it should be illegal to have an intersection that is 148th & 148th
i was the MOST confused child by that, friends living at 112th and 124th, only it was 112th ave and 124th st and not vice versa. god i get confused even writing it out and i've got a great sense of direction damnit
― jergins, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 20:15 (fifteen years ago) link
lol obviously that is way too north for my tastes and also street view was not v v pretty, btw.xpost
― tehresa, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link
haha no it's kinda yucky up there.
48 NW would be fine. what's the cross street?
― lxy, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
btw 2nd and 3rd NW
― tehresa, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
ps lxy do you have uw clout? bc my resume for one job for which i think i am perfectly suited has made it past initial hr review and been sent to the department but lol that could mean anything.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 20:18 (fifteen years ago) link
48 NW between 2nd and 3rd is near the zoo, and just off Greenwood Ave., which has restaurants, antique shops and such. Nice.
― Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Erm, well, not exactly. It's a few more blocks from that stuff.
― Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link
*SIGh*
― tehresa, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
This is a very bohemian, creative place, small room, cozy.
"bohemian" and "creative place" make me want to run away but it's fremont and cheap!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Tehresa, are you looking up any of these places on Google maps? Just plug in, say, 202 NW 48th Street and check out the neighborhood. Awesome!
― Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, street view is my bff!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
but you know, no substitute for actually knowing an area.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 21:07 (fifteen years ago) link
clout LOL no, no clout, sorry! i am fully and officially clout-free.
that neighborhood is nice, close to the bus, close to me!
― lxy, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 21:21 (fifteen years ago) link
i am fully and officially clout-free
girl can run a porch like nobody's business tho
― jergins, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
amen
― tehresa, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link
haha thanks guys!
― lxy, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
3rd Ave N and Boston in Upper Queen Anne. Good?
― tehresa, Thursday, 7 May 2009 20:22 (fifteen years ago) link
They seem nice... could be an easy sublet!
neighborhood's nice, close-in enough
― do u hear just a beat ― Thursday, 7 June 2009 06:33 (jergins), Thursday, 7 May 2009 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link
house + yard + possibility of buying chick's CSA share at a reduced price!
― tehresa, Thursday, 7 May 2009 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
welcome future greenbean grower
― do u hear just a beat ― Thursday, 7 June 2009 06:33 (jergins), Thursday, 7 May 2009 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
roommates are two (2) environmental preservationists and one (1) naturopathic medical student so yeah
― tehresa, Thursday, 7 May 2009 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
That one sounds pretty good, house + CSA.
Step-daughter is moving out of her place at the end of the month, says there are several empty in the building and rents have been dropping on the hill. http://www.nwapt.com/harvardcrest.html I think she was paying around $750 for a huge studio (that had a closet big enough for her queen bed, so was more like a 1 bedroom).
― Jaq, Thursday, 7 May 2009 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link
is she moving because of any major deficit in the building, or other reasons?
― tehresa, Thursday, 7 May 2009 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Other reasons - sharing a house with friends in the Central District. I think the only issue she's had in this place is the electric baseboard heaters are crappy (though they work).
― Jaq, Thursday, 7 May 2009 23:07 (fifteen years ago) link
good to know! i will keep this in mind as a backup, should cheaper things fall through. capitol hill isn't really my #1 choice, but it could be a contender in the event of desperation.
― tehresa, Friday, 8 May 2009 03:13 (fifteen years ago) link
ummm anyone feel like vetting a place on queen anne ave n for me on sunday at 5pm? will pay you in drinks or cook you dinner or something!
― tehresa, Friday, 8 May 2009 04:31 (fifteen years ago) link
capitol hill isn't really my #1 choice
why not?
― do u hear just a beat ― Thursday, 7 June 2009 06:33 (jergins), Friday, 8 May 2009 05:39 (fifteen years ago) link
ya rly. is it seattle center accessibility?
― gabbneb being gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 8 May 2009 05:49 (fifteen years ago) link
center is just as accessible from cap hill as from most other areas talked about
― magna cum lord (The Reverend), Friday, 8 May 2009 06:19 (fifteen years ago) link
From the Hill. Getting to Seattle Center is a matter of going to Denny Way and then heading down. Since I take the bus it's a little convoluted, but not horribly so. If you're taking the bus it's an No. 8.
― Matos W.K., Friday, 8 May 2009 08:35 (fifteen years ago) link
vetting a place on queen anne ave n for me on sunday at 5pm
Mr. Jaq and I can do this thing
― Jaq, Friday, 8 May 2009 13:36 (fifteen years ago) link
omg are you serious? <3 <3 <3 forever, really! email me and i will send details.
the cap hill thing isn't related to seattle center. it's just that i felt other neighborhoods (queen anne, fremont, etc.) were prettier and i felt more 'at home' in them. i liked the area up closer to volunteer park though - near cornish? v pretty. but the more 'main drag' areas seemed like fewer trees, more people, and more of a destination than place to live.
― tehresa, Friday, 8 May 2009 14:06 (fifteen years ago) link
that's definitely true of the main drag. but i think the more residential parts are some of the prettier parts of seattle.
― gabbneb being gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 8 May 2009 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm thinking specifically of the area just east of vol park - may be expensive and mostly family homes i guess. madison valley, which is supposed to be relatively cheaper, seems like a nice area.
― gabbneb being gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 8 May 2009 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link
tza, have webmailed you.
My favorite neighborhoods for prettiness are Montlake, Mt. Baker, Madrona/Denny Blaine. Spendy and sort of less transit accessible though, esp. Madrona.
― Jaq, Friday, 8 May 2009 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link
just wrote you back! <3
― tehresa, Friday, 8 May 2009 16:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I understand completely about Cap Hill, and I'm no chamber of commerce, but I will say that I really like my area of it on 15th--great neighborhood, very unlike the rest of the Hill in feel. But I adore Lower Queen Anne and Wallingford and I hope to eventually move to one of those neighborhoods.
― Matos W.K., Friday, 8 May 2009 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
and yeah, my place on 15th is about three blocks from Volunteer Park. not that the weather this week has been especially conductive to visiting it (or leaving the house).
― Matos W.K., Friday, 8 May 2009 18:35 (fifteen years ago) link
wait does that mean you're not moving?
someone just emailed me about a place at 13th/pine. i checked street maps and it's right by the gay bar where my friends and i somehow ended up in someone's picture. also, the next day, we saw lots of people decked out for leather fest or something.
― tehresa, Friday, 8 May 2009 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I take the 8 sometimes too, on Denny. Last time I went down Broadway I was shocked at all the buildings that were down, whole blocks of nothing but rubble, even near the community college. Just shocking to see all that. I guess it's true I never go there anymore so this all probably happened ages ago.
I would love to live at 13th & Pine, btw. I'm not planning on moving anytime soon, though. I'm comfortable here in N. Seattle.
― Tupperware Honey and Asshole Weeks (Bimble), Saturday, 9 May 2009 04:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I HAS AN APARTMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!
― ricardos montalban (tehresa), Monday, 18 May 2009 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
OOOH! Where?
― The-Reverend (rev), Monday, 18 May 2009 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
awesomely awesome. what neighborhood?
― friend (jergins), Monday, 18 May 2009 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
xp
middle queen anne!(thankig u, jaq!)
― ricardos montalban (tehresa), Monday, 18 May 2009 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Hooray! Rah the tza.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 May 2009 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Fantastic!
― Jaq, Monday, 18 May 2009 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
halfway between our lingbert and trader joe's. i'd say ideal
― friend (jergins), Monday, 18 May 2009 18:22 (fourteen years ago) link
that hill is gonna be so great for my ass.
― ricardos montalban (tehresa), Monday, 18 May 2009 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
FINALLY!! Congrats, TZA!!!
― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Monday, 18 May 2009 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Ummm xp! xp!
ha
― friend (jergins), Monday, 18 May 2009 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
― ricardos montalban (tehresa), Monday, 18 May 2009 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
ILOLX at its finest
― lxy, Monday, 18 May 2009 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
gree hee hee
― The-Reverend (rev), Monday, 18 May 2009 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
guys, i already love seattle apartments! my lease came with like 20 pages of tenants rights info :) ny landlords can suck it.
― ricardos montalban (tehresa), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 03:12 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't get the paying for water/sewer thing though.
Utilities are strange here - some places we've lived had W/S/G paid, one had W/S and gas (for the stove) paid. Others have paid for no utilities whatsoever. One place paid for gas (had a gas fireplace, no gas stove), nothing else. This current place pays for water/sewer/garbage and steam heat. It's all over the place.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 03:29 (fourteen years ago) link
weird. in ny state landlords pay for all the water/sewer/trash. if you live in a building with more than 3 units, they are required to pay heat/electric/gas as well.
ah well.
― ricardos montalban (tehresa), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 03:45 (fourteen years ago) link
one of my coworkers gave me this fun fact on my last day:
the names of the twelve streets in the heart of the central business district are paired by their first letters. from south to north, they are: jefferson, james, cherry, colombia, marion, madison, spring, seneca, university, union, pike, pine. one way to remember the order of the street pairs is with the mnemonic "jesus christ made seattle under protest" (JCMSUP).
― ricardos montalban (tehresa), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 03:47 (fourteen years ago) link
:)
or "jesus christ man, 'sup?!"
― Jaq, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 03:53 (fourteen years ago) link
jc made shit UP
― friend (jergins), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 04:07 (fourteen years ago) link
― ricardos montalban (tehresa), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 04:08 (fourteen years ago) link
ok, see u june 17!
― ricardos montalban (tehresa), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, I've lived here for ten years and even though I've made mental groupings in my head of those streets, it never occured to me that so many of them start with the same letters like that.
― "some fucking dumb indie reason you refuse to admit" (Bimble), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
what is the best san juan for a day trip?
― tehresa, Monday, 29 June 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
orcas is nice, but the people can be grumpy.
― remy bean, Monday, 29 June 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
go see the alpacas if you're there, and consider staying overnight at juniper lane guest house. juniper is very nice and it is quite inexpensive.
― remy bean, Monday, 29 June 2009 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
certainly i will do an overnight at some point, but not this time as my visiting friend is only here a few days and we have much to do.
― tehresa, Monday, 29 June 2009 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Victoria is nice!
― kate78, Monday, 29 June 2009 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
lol i just saw a bunch of alpacas in peru. i got so tired of people trying to sell me ugly sweaters. so cholo! so ethnic!
why are orcas people crabby?
― tehresa, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
lean like a cholo (in an ugly sweater)
― thousands of bears are distraught (The Reverend), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 03:35 (fourteen years ago) link
the ppl there are just kind of territorial and not tremendously fond of mainlanders, I guess? I dunno, it's been a while since I've been there
― thousands of bears are distraught (The Reverend), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
as far as accessibility/first time visit i would rate them:san juan islandorcaslopezshaw
shaw would rate higher if the nuns still ran the ferry terminal there
SJI is pretty easy. make a loop from friday harbor: roche harbor, english camp, lime kiln, american camp. that western side of the island facing victoria is one of my favorite places
― lol@&w/u (jergins), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 04:04 (fourteen years ago) link
on a nice weekday the twists and turns remind me of the drive south of big sur. it's that pretty
― lol@&w/u (jergins), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 04:05 (fourteen years ago) link
haven't been to lopez or shaw. obv I am only a mid-lvl sj tourist
― thousands of bears are distraught (The Reverend), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 04:39 (fourteen years ago) link
gAh i probably haven't been to either of those in like15 years.
tbh i bet i rep for san juan island cuz i go there every couple months and never go to the other islands
― lol@&w/u (jergins), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 04:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I guess blake is like the FINAL_BOSS of sj tourism
― thousands of bears are distraught (The Reverend), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 04:52 (fourteen years ago) link
oh shit, blake island is off vashon and most definitely not what I'm thinking of lemme get back to you
― thousands of bears are distraught (The Reverend), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 04:53 (fourteen years ago) link
blakeLY island
thpse islands where you have to hire a private boat to get to them, those are something serious. tehresa youd impress the hell out of your friend if you got to those.
my dad claims richard dreyfus owns one of them but i have my suspicions as i'm pretty sure my dad doesn't know who richard dreyfus is
― lol@&w/u (jergins), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 05:00 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't really care about impressing her like that. but. if i meet a cuet boy some day.maybe!!! thanks for the tip, plAya ;)
― tehresa, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 05:02 (fourteen years ago) link
you know who'd vote san juan island? steve fucking miller. that's right. i said it. the gangster of love...maurice...he's got a silly ostentatious house with a waaaaaay too big lawn, just south of friday harbor
― lol@&w/u (jergins), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 05:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd love to get a boat to take me to Patos Island. Very small state park there and also a lighthouse. I can see it from my house at night.
― kate78, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 05:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I've only been out to the islands a few times, but found them pretty darn boring. Then again, I spent most of my life out in the boonies...I prefer the city!
― I wonder who his history bitches are and if they approve (Bimble), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 05:55 (fourteen years ago) link
she is coming from nyc so you know, nature is novel, etc.
seattle today = v v pretty btw:http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/IMG00652.jpg
― tehresa, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 06:20 (fourteen years ago) link
hey jergs, approx how long would you recommend for the around the island tour?
― tehresa, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe three hours? the aforementioned spots take maybe a half hour each to get to know. tough question! four hours if you want to meander?
― lol@&w/u (jergins), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
cool that sounds do-able. was trying to work out ferry schedule with timing.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
best reasonably priced sushi?
― tehresa, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 00:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I like Maneki a lot - excellent quality, good-sized portions, very little ambience. But it's down in my neighborhood. Sam's Sushi isn't bad (lower QA). Marinopolis Sushiland was very meh the one time I tried it, so haven't been back. Blue C is fun and fast, but not especially reasonable.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 01:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I think Marinopolis is the only place I've gotten sushi in the city. u_u
― trayce ongz (The Reverend), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 01:46 (fourteen years ago) link
would anyone like to sushifap this weekend?
― tehresa, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 02:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Sure!
― Jaq, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 02:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Blue C is where we ate when I was there, right?
― Beanbag the Gardener (WmC), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 02:20 (fourteen years ago) link
i go by there all the time but it doesn't speak to me for some reason.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 02:22 (fourteen years ago) link
lol "all the time" = like 3 times
Yes! The tragically hip kai-ten place in Fremont with the different color plates named for the various Tokyo subway lines. They've opened two other branches at malls (U-Village and Southcenter), but the one in Fremont is still the best.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 02:25 (fourteen years ago) link
There's a place on 2nd Ave in Belltown that is supposed to be outstanding - don't know the name or how prices are, but will ask the person who recommended it. Sushi Kyo is on 1st near Broad which is pretty standard fare and nothing special on price, and Wasabi Bistro is like at 2nd and Bell which is more non-trad rolls and stuff and has been really accommodating for large ILX groups in the past.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 02:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Sounds like a plan.
― trayce ongz (The Reverend), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 02:32 (fourteen years ago) link
it doesn't have to be hueg.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 03:06 (fourteen years ago) link
just want some sushi.
I want to be in Seattle for sushi ;_;
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 03:08 (fourteen years ago) link
just drive up!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 03:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Wasabi, though it can be pricey, is my fave sushi place in Seattle.
― Matos W.K., Tuesday, 14 July 2009 05:01 (fourteen years ago) link
The light rail opens this weekend - free rides both Sat and Sun.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I like Maneki a lot - excellent quality, good-sized portions, very little ambience.
My sources second the rec for Maneki and add: call a day ahead, and if you're taking more than 4 people, ask about a tatami room.
― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Also on the list: Saitos on 1st, Mushashis, Aoki on Broadway.
― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Saito is the one on 2nd that came highly recommended - still no clue on how their prices run though.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
So this weekend I was the token black guy in a photoshoot for mayoral candidate J0e M4llahan. I may be coming to a political pamphlet near you.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 23:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Awesome! I can't wait to see u in my mailbox.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 23:58 (fourteen years ago) link
i will be in seattle for sushi next week.
― Turkoglu & Love Affair (Clay), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link
dope imo
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 00:09 (fourteen years ago) link
imo also
― tehresa, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Well crap, Saito closed this past week.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link
rip
― tehresa, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 02:18 (fourteen years ago) link
pour one cup of sake out
― the people's prince, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 02:59 (fourteen years ago) link
so...
whoever wants to eat sushi this weekend... let's say saturday? email me!then i will coordinate.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 03:14 (fourteen years ago) link
oh if you change your mind to sunday then i can kick it imo.
― Clay, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 03:17 (fourteen years ago) link
ok sunday it is!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
oh rad i will call you on my way up on sunday tza!
― Clay, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 03:20 (fourteen years ago) link
I sent u a vv short email.
― shows you bobs (The Reverend), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 03:46 (fourteen years ago) link
should we all go on a light rail ride after?
― tehresa, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
sounds like a good thing tbh
― blap goin ham (The Reverend), Thursday, 16 July 2009 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Looks like I'll potentially be busy until 4, so 5 o' clock?
― blap goin ham (The Reverend), Thursday, 16 July 2009 03:16 (fourteen years ago) link
hey. thinking about applying to the university of washington law school. i'm an african american. will i stand out like a sore thumb? i'm not bothered with being the only black student in my class; i'm just trying to get a sense of what the demographic is like.
also---is it super rare to see interracial couples?
again, just trying to get a sense. this isn't an issue that will likely make/break my decision to apply, just curious.
― b0dylanguage, Thursday, 16 July 2009 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know about the law school but my brother did his undergrad there and I can't say I thought he stuck out at all. (Then again, the context from which I came from was "suburban MN where we were one of 2 black families" so seeing 20 black ppl in one area who weren't my relatives was rare for me; I have no idea how the school would come across to me now.)
― suddenly, everything was dark and smelly (HI DERE), Thursday, 16 July 2009 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
No, not at all. Here's a factbook with some demographic info on UW, latest is from 2007 though: http://www.washington.edu/admin/factbook/
― Jaq, Thursday, 16 July 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
charles johnson's take on moving to seattle and to the UWhttp://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/mytown-seattle-200809.htmlI mentioned to my friend and mentor, the novelist John Gardner, that my wife, newborn son and I were moving to the Pacific Northwest. I remember he paused, pushed his vanilla-colored Prince Valiant hair back from his eyes and looked as if a pleasant image had flickered suddenly through his mind. Then he said, "If my daughter ever married a black man, the first thing I'd do is ask her to move to Seattle."
Now I knew how fiercely Gardner loved his children, but at the time I was unable to unlock his meaning. The first day I set foot in this city, however, I began to glimpse what he meant. It was peopled with every sort of American I could imagine: Native Americans, whites who sprang from old Scandinavian and German stock, Chinese and Japanese, Senegalese and Eritrean, Hindu and Sikh and Jewish, gay and lesbian, and blacks whose families settled in the territory in the late 19th century. It was a liberal city remarkably similar in texture and temperament to San Francisco (both are built on seven hills, have steep streets and have burned to the ground).
― avuenjo, Thursday, 16 July 2009 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
My parents are an interracial couple and, as far as I know, have never encountered anyone here who had a problem with that,
― trill ent. dudes get wiped down, totally (The Reverend), Thursday, 16 July 2009 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
i feel like i see lots of interracial couples here but maybe i just notice more because there are so many white people?
― tehresa, Thursday, 16 July 2009 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I once talked to a girl, a young white woman, who said she'd never really understood or experienced racism firsthand until she travelled with her black boyfriend to his native South Carolina and was immediately struck by how people, white and black alike, would just stare at them as if they were some sort of freaks, whereas here they were accepted just as much as any other couple.
― trill ent. dudes get wiped down, totally (The Reverend), Thursday, 16 July 2009 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Seattle is the most laid-back you-are-who-you-are place I have ever lived, and that suits me just fine. Visiting Indiana recently fully reinforced that feeling.
― Jaq, Thursday, 16 July 2009 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I swear I just read something recently that said Seattle has the highest per-capita number of interracial marriages of any major US city.
― joygoat, Thursday, 16 July 2009 22:05 (fourteen years ago) link
i feel like i've heard that too
― avuenjo, Thursday, 16 July 2009 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Good old friend of mine attended UW for law and v v much enjoyed her experience and has started what appears to be a very promising law career. The first three year she (ethnically, she is chinese) had an african-american boyfriend and never expressed any problems about acceptance of the couple in the community at large. So there's that.
― Clay, Thursday, 16 July 2009 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
tza, I got another recommendation for a sushi place today: Koji, at the Harbor Steps (across 1st Ave from the art museum).
― Jaq, Friday, 17 July 2009 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
that looks really reasonable!
― tehresa, Friday, 17 July 2009 00:37 (fourteen years ago) link
google maps knows important landmarks
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/8163/suship.jpg
― tehresa, Friday, 17 July 2009 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
loool
― trill ent. dudes get wiped down, totally (The Reverend), Friday, 17 July 2009 00:43 (fourteen years ago) link
heh - Hammering Man's shadow looks like it is enjoying the view too!
― Jaq, Friday, 17 July 2009 02:16 (fourteen years ago) link
aha--it's not just my imagination re: multiracial coupling
― Matos W.K., Saturday, 18 July 2009 06:23 (fourteen years ago) link
It occurred to me that every last one of my cousins on the black side of my family is in or has recently broken up from an interracial couple. I think my sister and aunt are the only two on that side who mostly have relationships with black partners.
― Como el Gran Houdini (The Reverend), Saturday, 18 July 2009 06:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Nick Hornby is reading at the main library on Oct 9.
I'm going to the NW Tea Festival at Seattle Center on Saturday morning, if anyone is interested in a lower QA lunch fap.
― Jaq, Thursday, 1 October 2009 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Hai guys, I want to come to your town. Tickets not bought yet, but it will be for a long weekend in the first half of November. I am going to shamelessly fish for places to stay, although that circumstance may need to be flexible and TZA has already offered, but you know, worst case scenario, just to spread the burden around a little bit....
― that stupid-ass cannibal pen-pal of yours (Laurel), Thursday, 1 October 2009 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
You're always welcome at ours! Indoor cats though, and a non-smoking bldg :(
― Jaq, Thursday, 1 October 2009 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Thank you, I appreciate it! Also will not forget that you offered to pick me up all the way at the airport last time, during major highway construction. You are Seattle's Angel of Mercy.
― that stupid-ass cannibal pen-pal of yours (Laurel), Thursday, 1 October 2009 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Tickets are like $230 right now!! That's unreal.
― that stupid-ass cannibal pen-pal of yours (Laurel), Thursday, 1 October 2009 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
For roundtrip? That's so cheap!
― Jaq, Thursday, 1 October 2009 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes! It's like a trip to the grocery store plus one monthly metrocard. How could I not go??
― that stupid-ass cannibal pen-pal of yours (Laurel), Thursday, 1 October 2009 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Also my cousin & his girlfriend have a new baby I've never met. Her name is Lucy.
yeah my place is still open. also: just bought a love seat and will be better at entertaining. maybe i would even host a HI LAUREL!/really belated housewarming if i get my shit together enough?
jaq, i would be up for saturday lunchfap maybe - my love seat is being delivered during some unknown time window on sat and i won't know what that window is til sat am :(
― tehresa, Friday, 2 October 2009 00:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I would be in for a brunchfap...I need to be back in B'ham by 2.
― kate78, Friday, 2 October 2009 00:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Ooooo I like the idea of brunch if we could make that work - what time would you have to hit the road, kate?
― Jaq, Friday, 2 October 2009 03:49 (fourteen years ago) link
By 12:15-:20 or so.
― kate78, Friday, 2 October 2009 04:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Want to meet up at the 5-Spot on the top of Queen Anne around 10:30ish? I haven't been there in ages, but the food is usually excellent.
― Jaq, Friday, 2 October 2009 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Let's do it! I'll message you my number so you can call if something comes up.
tehresa, you should come, too!
― kate78, Saturday, 3 October 2009 00:00 (fourteen years ago) link
yes, if i can!i will not know til the morning what time my couch is being delivered but i'll text jaq or something once i do!
― tehresa, Saturday, 3 October 2009 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
webmailing me from ILX doesn't work - kate I sent you my contact info. Maybe the_higgs and Morley Timmons are around too. Or even Lingbert?
― Jaq, Saturday, 3 October 2009 01:12 (fourteen years ago) link
tza, we could all run fast down the hill to let the delivery guys in :)
― Jaq, Saturday, 3 October 2009 01:13 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha it's really only like 3 or 4 blocks... you may have something there!
― tehresa, Saturday, 3 October 2009 02:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Totally doable, tehresa!
― kate78, Saturday, 3 October 2009 02:34 (fourteen years ago) link
alternate option: buzz them in from my phone and tell them to leave it with my butler. by the time they realize i don't have one, i'll be there.
― tehresa, Saturday, 3 October 2009 02:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay my dates are confirmed as Nov 11-16th!!
Ticket not yet purchased but soon, soooooooon, my pretties.
― that stupid-ass cannibal pen-pal of yours (Laurel), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Ooo, you'll be here for a Sunday night - would love to throw a dinner 4 u, if that would work? Tell me what you want on the menu.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know! I don't know anything yet. Schedule is totally unresolved, plus I'm just now telling various family members that I want to visit them on the fly. That is really lovely of you, though, and I'll try to start firming up plans.
― that stupid-ass cannibal pen-pal of yours (Laurel), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
omg exciting!!!!! :D :D
― tehresa, Thursday, 8 October 2009 05:07 (fourteen years ago) link
hey all these other cities are fapping. should seattle?
― tehresa, Friday, 16 October 2009 05:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Probably!
― kate78, Friday, 16 October 2009 06:02 (fourteen years ago) link
OKAY IT'S OFFICIAL!! Ticket bought, I am westwardbound...in about a month. Let's plan!
― I would feel confident if I dated her because I am older than (Laurel), Friday, 16 October 2009 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
yessssss! awesome!
there is no one left here! but i was thinking maybe trivia next week.
and of course we will plan a laurelfap in november :)
― tehresa, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I can do quiz on monday night. It's downtown at the Blarney Stone at 8pm. Perhaps Jaq is over the oink by now and can join us?
― kate78, Friday, 16 October 2009 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Almost oink-free, though still hacking away. Monday might work!
― Jaq, Friday, 16 October 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh hey my temp job is over as of today! I can go out EVERY NIGHT.
― tehresa, Friday, 16 October 2009 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
miss u seattILXorz!
― nex protect (The Reverend), Saturday, 17 October 2009 04:38 (fourteen years ago) link
<3
― tehresa, Saturday, 17 October 2009 04:52 (fourteen years ago) link
hey let's do trivia monday! i'm gonna email some ppl.
― tehresa, Sunday, 18 October 2009 06:38 (fourteen years ago) link
in the few days I was in town I saw ACT's production of Tom Stoppard's Rock'n'Roll, which I would heartily recommend to all.
― clotpoll, Sunday, 18 October 2009 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
oh, i saw a poster for that and was thinking about it! thanks for the tip.
i also saw that they are hiring a marketing person but apps are closed. of all my searching how did i miss the job appropriate to my experience/education/interests!?
― tehresa, Sunday, 18 October 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Phone them up anyway for a chat - your experience entitles you to do things like that.
― Yo! GOP Raps (suzy), Sunday, 18 October 2009 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm in for trivia tomorrow night!
― kate78, Sunday, 18 October 2009 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm still too unwell ;_; Better, but still coughing/shaky and needing lots of sleep. Maybe next week.
― Jaq, Sunday, 18 October 2009 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Poor Jaq!
― kate78, Sunday, 18 October 2009 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm so glad I didn't infect you guys, this has been no fun at all.
― Jaq, Sunday, 18 October 2009 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
awww, hope you shake this soon! <3 feel better!
― tehresa, Sunday, 18 October 2009 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
HEEEEY everyone. So I was about 70% going to Seattle to see a boy, and that plan has been smothered with a pillow in its sleep. So my schedule is wide open. Anyone want to go to the Saturday night installation of the Em City Soul Club?
― I would feel confident if I dated her because I am older than (Laurel), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
oh no!!!
how much is it? i am poor. but i would like soul, and going places, because i go nowhere these days.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link
If people are looking for something fun and free tonight, i'm going to be mixing up a bunch of great music at Grey Gallery on 11th between Pike and Pine. Music starts at 8:30 or 9pm. Variety of genre's, great art, comfy seats.
I highly recommend Emerald City Soul Club.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
hmmmmm
― tehresa, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I think it's $10 -- T, I'll be delighted to cover you, cos you are putting me up and I owe you a few! You know I'm a bad conversationalist when there's dancing, though -- somebody else better come for T to talk to.
So yeah, anyway, my schedule is now wide open. ECSC at least on Saturday, possibly Fri if anyone wants to (it's their weekender: 3 days in a row). I'm not letting some jerk put me off Northern Soul.
― I would feel confident if I dated her because I am older than (Laurel), Monday, 2 November 2009 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I am going to need some back-up, though. :/
― I would feel confident if I dated her because I am older than (Laurel), Monday, 2 November 2009 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link
the_higgs and Morley Timmons have been known to frequent ECSC, as did the rev before he left the state.
― Jaq, Monday, 2 November 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
i want to go to that, laurel! not be tehresa's back-up, though, i'm gonna dance
― lxy, Monday, 2 November 2009 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
did i say i wouldn't dance?
― tehresa, Monday, 2 November 2009 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
and yes, you should meet the higgs and morley, esp the higgs as she has also been known to frequent football (soccer) bars for early saturday morning overseas matches!
― tehresa, Monday, 2 November 2009 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
you can dance if you want to
― lxy, Monday, 2 November 2009 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
haha tehresa, i just sent you an email saying ecsc is great but you have to dance.
i would like to know what other dates brotherlovesdub is at Grey
― the higgs, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 02:17 (fourteen years ago) link
oh also i have a new friend who is britishes and likes to watch soccer, maybe he'd be up for something but i don't know if releasing 3000 ilxors on him at once would be too scary!
― ms. thighs (tehresa), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 02:22 (fourteen years ago) link
you might mean 3 ilxors, still may be too much though
ECSC: Can do Friday (or Thursday)
― the higgs, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 02:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Thursday ECSC is a meet-and-greet for the DJs and scenesters, as it turns out, and I'm not rly inclined. Could do Fri or Sat. I don't care, I don't have to work!
Don't think there's any Britishes soccers that weekend, they must be on break for something else. Was a good idea, though!
― I would feel confident if I dated her because I am older than (Laurel), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 02:50 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm at Grey Gallery on the last Wednesday of every month.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, October 28, 2009 4:33 PM Bookmark
^^^^
― 51 sent (The Reverend), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay, so if we soul club on Friday so that t_higgs can make it, when do we DRINK and goss and stuff? And what's on for Saturday pm?
― I would feel confident if I dated her because I am older than (Laurel), Friday, 6 November 2009 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Dinner at ours on Sunday okay still?
― Jaq, Friday, 6 November 2009 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I wouldn't miss it for anything. My Sunday is yours!
― I would feel confident if I dated her because I am older than (Laurel), Friday, 6 November 2009 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Excellent - I just web-mailed you btw
― Jaq, Friday, 6 November 2009 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay Seattlexors, come to my place for soup and hanging out w/ Laurel on Sunday 11/15 starting around 5ish. 4 kinds of soup (2 veg, 2 not) and I'll do loaves of fresh baked bread and a pan or two of corn bread. Beerz and wine provided. Bring any other comestibles you'd like to contribute. Email me at isthatpie-wp @ yahoo . com (ILX webmail doesn't work for me) for directions - Pioneer Square area, no games that day and street parking is free, 3 blocks from lt rail stops and all major bus lines end up down here.
― Jaq, Monday, 9 November 2009 04:16 (fourteen years ago) link
awwdamn. hi seattle ilx, from fiji
― r.k. the price fighter (jergins), Monday, 9 November 2009 07:00 (fourteen years ago) link
awwww ;_; We're practicing for your welcome back party.
― Jaq, Monday, 9 November 2009 07:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd like to second his awwdamn. :(
― The Reverend, Monday, 9 November 2009 10:20 (fourteen years ago) link
awwww
― tehresa, Monday, 9 November 2009 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I'M HERE, I'M GOING TO MEET THERESA SOME TIME THIS AFTERNOON. WHAT'S GOING ON????
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Have been very busy playing w 8-mo-old baby all day. And brunching. What's next?
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i have run and am clean now i sent you a text :)
i recruited britishes for soul dancing tomorrow! also he is bringing an add'l friend who also has a friend in town. we are going to take that party by storm!
tonight? no idea!
― tehresa, Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i want to go to jaq's shindig.
― estela, Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:17 (fourteen years ago) link
there's still time, get thee to an airport
― lxy, Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I wish you could be here, estela!
The non-veg soups planned are posole (pork-hominy-sweet onion-chipotle) and shallot-bacon-potato. The veg soups will probably be sweet corn chowder and pumpkin-carrot-ginger.
― Jaq, Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Dear god potatoes and bacon.
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link
i love soup!!!
― tehresa, Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link
we are going to take that party by storm!
damn, do I need to cop a train ticket or
― becky & robbie's bogus journalism (The Reverend), Friday, 13 November 2009 08:02 (fourteen years ago) link
y
higgs, morley, lxy? who's in?
― tehresa, Friday, 13 November 2009 08:06 (fourteen years ago) link
unfortunately the choice is between that or paying my utilites or I would
― becky & robbie's bogus journalism (The Reverend), Friday, 13 November 2009 10:03 (fourteen years ago) link
hmmm maybe if I get creative
― becky & robbie's bogus journalism (The Reverend), Friday, 13 November 2009 10:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Ugh, just realized I have to be in Hillsboro at 11:00 Saturday morning. No way am I hanging out in Seattle Friday night.
― becky & robbie's bogus journalism (The Reverend), Friday, 13 November 2009 10:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I am going to Bellingham on Sat AM but first...we party.
So, plans to meet up beforehand? Guess I should get moving on my personal upkeep for day, incl hair bleach and new stockings without holes in.
-Laurel
― tehresa, Friday, 13 November 2009 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
going to tacoma for the better part of today, maybe meet up with you all later on? if it seems like that'll work i'll be in touch. otherwise, see you at jaq's on sunday. probably that.
― lxy, Friday, 13 November 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Awwww lix! Okay, hope we see you.
― tehresa, Friday, 13 November 2009 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Um, -Laurel
― tehresa, Friday, 13 November 2009 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
So, wait, who's going to be in Bellingham Sat. AM? Wanna brunch it?
― kate78, Friday, 13 November 2009 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
i think it will just be laurel, but with family?
― tehresa, Saturday, 14 November 2009 01:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Hi, kate! This is Laurel. I'd actually like to meet, but I'm kind of at my family's mercy because they're hosting me for the day and I haven't seen any of them in two years. Not sure what time I'm coming back, either getting a ride or by bus. Any evening plans that I should try to rearrange around?
― tehresa, Saturday, 14 November 2009 02:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey Laurel! Unfortunately, I work evenings, but enjoy B'ham and Seattle!
― kate78, Saturday, 14 November 2009 02:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Holiday party @ Jaq's December 12 starting at 7:30 pm. Pioneer Square area (free street parking and no games that day). Stop by for drinks + nibbles. Email isthatpie-wp @ yahoo (dot) com for the address if you don't have it.
― Jaq, Friday, 20 November 2009 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Dude, if the airfare were always $250 r/t, I'd come over more often!!
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Friday, 20 November 2009 19:14 (fourteen years ago) link
hooray!
talcum @ chop suey on 11/28, btw.
― tehresa, Friday, 20 November 2009 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
tbrr w/u
― lyrically launched salvo on a plethora of esteemed artist (The Reverend), Friday, 20 November 2009 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
dear seattle,
bon jovi is playing key arena february 19. who wants to buy me tix?
lol.
― tehresa, Sunday, 22 November 2009 08:03 (fourteen years ago) link
my first concert was bon jovi at key arena (the coliseum)
― sam (jergins), Sunday, 22 November 2009 08:29 (fourteen years ago) link
will cinderella open this time too
― sam (jergins), Sunday, 22 November 2009 08:30 (fourteen years ago) link
come backrelive itwith love
― tehresa, Sunday, 22 November 2009 08:40 (fourteen years ago) link
oh hell no
― sam (jergins), Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
shot through the heart
― tehresa, Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link
is brother loves dub doing his thing this week?
― tehresa, Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes! This Wednesday night at Grey Gallery 9-1am.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 23 November 2009 00:34 (fourteen years ago) link
grey gallery is good cuz they have anniversario rum
― sam (jergins), Monday, 23 November 2009 07:06 (fourteen years ago) link
It would be great if some peeps decided to come down and chill while we provided the vibes. I take requests!
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 23 November 2009 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
hmmm, I'll arrive back in town some time that evening, might drop by
― lyrically launched salvo on a plethora of esteemed artist (The Reverend), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 07:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Rev, i'll play some cuts from the new Lindstrom for you. They've just rotated the artwork too, great stuff up right now. I just went over to check it out.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 00:39 (fourteen years ago) link
not sure I'll make it tbh, would if I had a good way of getting to Everett other than my ride from Portland
― lyrically launched salvo on a plethora of esteemed artist (The Reverend), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 06:15 (fourteen years ago) link
when i am back in Jan we'll have to fap on brotherlovesdub's night
― sam (jergins), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 06:17 (fourteen years ago) link
speaking of which, can anyone in Seattle possibly host me on friday and/or saturday nights? still trying to work out plans, but I don't have access to a car right now and I'm hoping to do stuff in Seattle on those nights
― lyrically launched salvo on a plethora of esteemed artist (The Reverend), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 06:19 (fourteen years ago) link
xp to myself
i can not come this week bc i am bed ridden by flu and will be out of town in december, but january sounds good!
rev i would offer to host you but i am v v germy :( i am guessing i probably do not have saturday dancing in me, but who knows, maybe i will have some amazing recovery.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
aww, get well! I have somehow managed to avoid getting even a cold for a few years, but don't want to press my luck
― i and iiiijjjj (The Reverend), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i47.tinypic.com/2u5rg4g.jpg
yo mayo elect in the forum. just wanna check on yous to make sure yall FED and yall FEELIN BETTER. 2010 the next frontier. happy to be the captain. peace.
― Sock Puppet Queso Con Concentrate, Saturday, 28 November 2009 23:22 (fourteen years ago) link
lollll best sock ever
― tehresa, Saturday, 28 November 2009 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
hi mr mayor i am a fan of u. fix my potholes
― sam (jergins), Monday, 30 November 2009 04:51 (fourteen years ago) link
ecsc on the 12th, too if anyone wants to hit that after jaq's!
― tehresa, Monday, 30 November 2009 05:07 (fourteen years ago) link
y'all are going to hate but I love this Nice Winter Day In Denver Or Somewhere In The Midwest weather we're having. Crystal clear views that we beg to see all year 'round in mid December. What's ta hate?
Oh yeah, snotsicles.
North Seattle was literally in the teens this morning.
― Sock Puppet Pizza Delivers To The Forest (Sock Puppet Queso Con Concentrate), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 04:25 (fourteen years ago) link
And so were the temperatures.
BADUHM. (sorry, Theo Chocolate + Dulce De Leche coma)
― Sock Puppet Pizza Delivers To The Forest (Sock Puppet Queso Con Concentrate), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 04:27 (fourteen years ago) link
the skies have been gorgeous lately! love it!
i just hate that every time i step outside my nose starts running like crazy.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 04:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Note the last time this happened this time of year, Ned had visited to see both The Squirrels and Kiki & Herb live.
And then right after Ned took off back to OC, we had almost 90 consecutive days of rain and drizzle. Ned is the soul thief of weather.
― Sock Puppet Pizza Delivers To The Forest (Sock Puppet Queso Con Concentrate), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 04:34 (fourteen years ago) link
12 deg F in Redmond this morning. Ridiculous!
Also bumping to remind:Holiday party @ Jaq's December 12 starting at 7:30 pm. Pioneer Square area (free street parking and no games that day). Stop by for drinks + nibbles. Email isthatpie-wp @ yahoo (dot) com for the address if you don't have it.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
12º!! my goodness!!! 24º here now.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link
so dark today!i missed my running window oops.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh man this is too late but many many thx to Jaq and Mr Jaq for the lively foodierific party this past Saturday.
― Sock Puppet Pizza Delivers To The Forest (Sock Puppet Queso Con Concentrate), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 03:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey, 2 evenings for the price of one.
It's kinda hard to know when to start saying "evening" these days... lunchtime?
― Sock Puppet Pizza Delivers To The Forest (Sock Puppet Queso Con Concentrate), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 03:15 (fourteen years ago) link
srsly i feel like 3 o'clock feels like 7 now!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 03:22 (fourteen years ago) link
this is really bad considering I woke up circa that time :/
but don't worry tza, days start getting longer again next week!
― LA CANCION MAS PRETENCIOSA DEL MUNDO... (The Reverend), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 04:17 (fourteen years ago) link
rev are you coming home for xmas? if yes, when?
― tehresa, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 04:18 (fourteen years ago) link
yes; dunno
― LA CANCION MAS PRETENCIOSA DEL MUNDO... (The Reverend), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 04:21 (fourteen years ago) link
please come before i leave!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 04:40 (fourteen years ago) link
when are you leaving?
― LA CANCION MAS PRETENCIOSA DEL MUNDO... (The Reverend), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 04:52 (fourteen years ago) link
21
― tehresa, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 05:07 (fourteen years ago) link
hmmm maybe
― LA CANCION MAS PRETENCIOSA DEL MUNDO... (The Reverend), Wednesday, 16 December 2009 05:15 (fourteen years ago) link
still haven't decided when I'll leave/come back. depends on job/housing situations
Hey Rev - do you have your seattle dates hammered out yet? Will you still be around on the 26th?
― the higgs, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 01:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I will be around for the most part. Will be seeing Talbot Tagora at the Vera Wednesday night, and maybe again on the night of the 26th.
I need to give nstop, fnerg, Jaq & Msr. Jaq their holiday gifts, as they hosted a lot of us the past few months, in honor of their hard work and hospitality.
― Sock Puppet Pizza Delivers To The Forest (Sock Puppet Queso Con Concentrate), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link
mr. sock puppet - if you guys want in on Christmas brunch at seven stars, let me know.
― the higgs, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 02:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey, we'd be up for that possibly! Our family get-together stuff is the night before, so we're at loose ends on the 25th.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 02:42 (fourteen years ago) link
How veggie friendly is Seven Stars?
― Sock Puppet Pizza Delivers To The Forest (Sock Puppet Queso Con Concentrate), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 02:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Fairly good! They have a large menu and lots of veggie dishes.
― the higgs, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 04:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Sweet.. this is a place in the same corner as Tamarind Tree? Or a different 12th and Jackson?
― Sock Puppet Pizza Delivers To The Forest (Sock Puppet Queso Con Concentrate), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 06:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Jill: I'm here now. Planning on going to a friend's party that night but should be otherwise free.
― otm da hoosmarker (The Reverend), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 09:06 (fourteen years ago) link
It's diagonally across 12th & Jackson from where Tamarind Tree is - southeast corner of the intersection, in the Ding How building.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 14:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Going for a drink tonight with Morley at a yet to be decided location. Otherwise, if you want to watch a match with me @ noon on Saturday come to Fremont! I'll buy you a sandwich! XP
― the higgs, Wednesday, 23 December 2009 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll be in Lower QA waiting to see a band at the Vera Project tnite. Are you guys willing to pubwalk on Roy or Mercer St?
― Sock Puppet Pizza Delivers To The Forest (Sock Puppet Queso Con Concentrate), Wednesday, 23 December 2009 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Can't turn down a sandwich.
― otm da hoosmarker (The Reverend), Thursday, 24 December 2009 01:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Mackro: When?
― otm da hoosmarker (The Reverend), Thursday, 24 December 2009 01:50 (fourteen years ago) link
We're going to Grey now. But what's good lower QA?
― the higgs, Thursday, 24 December 2009 04:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Bah, I just saw this now. I'm already at Vera Project.
― Sock Puppet Pizza Delivers To The Forest (Sock Puppet Queso Con Concentrate), Thursday, 24 December 2009 06:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm at Grey Gallery again tomorrow night (Dec. 30th) from 9pm - 1am. Going to be playing some of my favs from 2009 along with the usual nordic space jams and kingston vibes. Come by and say hi.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 02:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Pls remind me about this in jan! Still out of town for the dec installment.
― yo gabba gabbneb (tehresa), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
trivia anyone?i have the $25 bar tab me and kate78 won.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 05:01 (fourteen years ago) link
yes! (i think...) where & when, please?
― the higgs, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 08:53 (fourteen years ago) link
it is on wednesdays at ozzie's at 7pm. i am not sure which week works best.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Ugh. No one signed up for my classes and now I don't even have part time work. Combine that with the fact that I have 5 days to find a place and no one's returning my emails and I'm almost out of money, and I'm just about ready to give up and head home.
― swag the dog (The Reverend), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
aw, good luck, rodney.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I work every Wednesday this month! Maybe I can switch with someone...
― kate78, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 07:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I can do Monday quiz at the Blarney Stone, tho!
― kate78, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 07:15 (fourteen years ago) link
that guy at the blarney stone was so dull and not fun, though!could wait til feb...
― s1ocki seconds (tehresa), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
anyone wanna go to my clown show w/ me on fri or sat?
― tehresa, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 05:27 (fourteen years ago) link
BUMPhttp://tinyurl.com/ye3t2y4anyone up for it?
talcum on 31st, too.
― tehresa, Friday, 15 January 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
uhhhh bump again:
where to sell/consign clothing? i have lots i need to get rid of.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 03:56 (fourteen years ago) link
To sell, maybe Buffalo Exchange or Crossroads Trading. Funky Jane's in West Seattle for consignment is supposed to be good. I've had excellent luck with Two Big Blondes in the Central District, but the smallest size they take is 14.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 06:26 (fourteen years ago) link
thank you, jaqipedia!!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 06:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Buffalo Exchange can be really picky, though. An old buddy of mine works at the one in Ballard.
― kate78, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 09:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Take 2 on 15th. It's fairly small, but stuff moves and they're nice.
― the higgs, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Tonight is out night at Grey Gallery. Got plenty of new music ready to play and a bunch of classics that need an airing as well. Music starts at 9 and rolls until 1am.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
out = our, anyway, i'll be wearing a hat and lurching over a laptop. say hello if you come through.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link
The Day of the Accordion is only a month away!
― Jaq, Thursday, 28 January 2010 01:10 (fourteen years ago) link
XP Will probably be there as long as the state political enthusiasts have cleared out by a reasonable hour.
― the higgs, Thursday, 28 January 2010 01:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm going to open with New Order - State of The Nation 12" Mix. That should clear them out pretty quickly.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 28 January 2010 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link
2 incredibly kind ilxors just said hello! Shit, should have asked if they had any requests.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 28 January 2010 06:07 (fourteen years ago) link
the post was coming from INSIDE THE BAR!nice to meet you!
― tehresa, Thursday, 28 January 2010 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
i heard there was a stabbing outside the peso's/shopfront area on qa last week but i can't find anything about it. yikes!
― tehresa, Friday, 29 January 2010 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe this one: http://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2010/01/19/assaultrobbery-in-queen-anne/
― Jaq, Friday, 29 January 2010 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
anyone want to do trivia this or next week? i still have that $10 we won last time and should at least hand it off to someone before i leave.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I can do tomorrow, but I might be a touch late. Will you be coming back or are you gone for good?
― kate78, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe i can visit someday? i am not ruling out moving back some day, but for now it's a permanent move ;_; (but also ^_^ why because job)
― tehresa, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
It's alright, I'll be gone in May for NFLD anyway.
I wish that quiz started am hour later...
― kate78, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
is next week better or not an option?
― tehresa, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't this week, but could next week!
― Jaq, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I could do Monday night quiz next week.
― kate78, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
hmm the monday night place was so icky though! also the tab is for ozzie's...i am interested in doing non-quiz things, too, if anyone wants to just go somewhere for food and or drinks whenever.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh hello, I will be in Seattle this weekend. *_*
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 04:37 (fourteen years ago) link
You any good at quiz?
― kate78, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 04:46 (fourteen years ago) link
When I used to go to quiz night with my fam, we would invariably take 2nd place. Then again, everyone other than my dad and I were useless.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 04:56 (fourteen years ago) link
So yes, I know lots of random shit.
rodney, holla!
fap 4/2 or 4/3 maybe?
there's a ballard trivia night on tues... i just don't know if i really care to revisit blarney stone (ew).
― tehresa, Thursday, 25 March 2010 06:36 (fourteen years ago) link
this weekend, not next!
btw, anyone willing to put me up friday or saturday night? I don't want to spend the whole weekend tethered to my folks.
― the real dangers horses in black neighborhoods face (The Reverend), Thursday, 25 March 2010 06:38 (fourteen years ago) link
i know you are this weekend but i was saying next bc higgs is out of town this weekend.i think i am going to talcum sat night - you could probably sleep on air mattress if you go to that.
― tehresa, Thursday, 25 March 2010 06:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm booked through the end of the month now...will know more about April tomorrow, and would love to fap on 2nd or 3rd if I can.
― kate78, Thursday, 25 March 2010 07:15 (fourteen years ago) link
sure! i'm flexible really. just figured those would be good days since they're weekend dates.
i have been meaning to go to the hoh rain forest for ages and so i think i will do that next week. anyone have protips?
― tehresa, Thursday, 25 March 2010 07:21 (fourteen years ago) link
talcum sat. night is a maybe
― the real dangers horses in black neighborhoods face (The Reverend), Thursday, 25 March 2010 07:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry to miss rodney visit! I'll be in LA (so far I've pulled my suitcase down on top of my head and packed my swimsuit) until Tuesday PM - you're going back Sunday?Theresa -I've heard the Lake Quinault Lodge is nice. I stayed in a snooty B&B in Port Angeles when I did the loop, don't do that.
― the higgs, Thursday, 25 March 2010 07:47 (fourteen years ago) link
oh i was just thinking of a day trip - is that too ambitious?
― tehresa, Thursday, 25 March 2010 07:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, I really think so. It's not a quick drive and you need to plan for the time that you'll actually be there, you know, enjoying the moss and whatnot.
― the higgs, Thursday, 25 March 2010 07:59 (fourteen years ago) link
especially the whatnot.
― kate78, Thursday, 25 March 2010 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
stoked about the moss tho
― tehresa, Thursday, 25 March 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I've stayed at the Rainforest Village (near the Quinault Lodge, less $$) twice and in the cabins at Kalaloch (usually all booked up months and months in advance, but sometimes there's a cancellation). There's a hostel fairly close to the Hoh that friends have stayed at that is not bad. There are no doubt a ton of B&B options in Forks - I rented a house there for a weekend in the off-season a few years ago, though prices have probably gone up now that Twilight has taken over the town. I'd definitely stay at least one night - there's so much to see. If you can get to Ruby beach at low tide, the tidepools are amazing. I've seen sea otters there more than once too, romping around the seastacks. Definitely do the Hall of Mosses trail in the Hoh - it's under 1 mile but has some amazing stuff in that short distance.
― Jaq, Thursday, 25 March 2010 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
don't u mean:
stoked for the moss :D:D:D:D:D
― stephen juaquin (The Reverend), Friday, 26 March 2010 04:07 (fourteen years ago) link
stoked for the mossness iirc
― tehresa, Friday, 26 March 2010 06:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Missed my train. :(
― stephen juaquin (The Reverend), Saturday, 27 March 2010 03:16 (fourteen years ago) link
hey guys let's fap - fri or sat?
― tehresa, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 00:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I can do Friday!
― kate78, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link
yay! i was thinking of the hideout because i like it and i have not been there since i was here last march! it's big and could fit people, i think. or we could go someplace less 'nice' (though i think they have some cheap drink specials).
― tehresa, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 01:04 (fourteen years ago) link
just tell me when and where to show up! Everybody else, jump in!
― kate78, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 01:05 (fourteen years ago) link
hey seattle what is a bar i could go hang out at for happy hour with free wifi so i can plan my rain forest excursion?
― tehresa, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
The Spectator on lower QA? Or Buckley's maybe (west of Key Arena - on Harrison?)
― Jaq, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
hmmm maybe nicer. does the sitting room or solo have wifi? i wonder if bricco does...
anyway... next request: moving companies? i need labor only... the ppl i wanted now can not come at the time i need them :(
― tehresa, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 22:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I've used Nice Moves for our last 3 moves, highly recommended.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Where do you have to set the pod? b/c I would not want to be carrying stuff up or down that hill! I guess you can't block the sidewalk or the street there though.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
ooh dude on phone was v v nice. thanks, jaq! you are always the best source of info!the pod will go in my driveway. with dolly i think it would be fine. or they can go out the basement steps.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 30 March 2010 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
y'allllll
in case you didn't get my email or something: 7ish at the hideout tonight. come at your leisure.
― tehresa, Friday, 2 April 2010 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll be there by 7:30 or so. Maybe try for the big sofa thingy?
― the higgs, Friday, 2 April 2010 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Mr Jaq and I will be there, probably 7:30ish though.
― Jaq, Saturday, 3 April 2010 00:20 (fourteen years ago) link
the nation's most diverse zip code is right the fuck here yall
― est 2010 (rahni), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I've been focusing in that zip code as our next potential place to live (July eta).
― Jaq, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Jaq, you FOOL, you're going to leave your KITCHEN?
― Ask foreigners and they will tell you the gospel comes from America. (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
If "yes", please ysi.
― Ask foreigners and they will tell you the gospel comes from America. (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Beacon Hill is not a livable neighborhood. Rainier valley isn't any better. Houses are as cheap as they get in Seattle, but you're stuck driving everywhere and crime stats are way up in those areas. I'd never move south of Cherry. Diversity doesn't mean shit when there are no good grocery stores, cafes, record shops, book stores etc.etc.etc.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
damn u sound hell of snobbish plz stay north of cherry
― est 2010 (rahni), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link
and stuck driving everywhere? what are you talking about, light rail runs right through and there are lots of buses. beacon hill and rainier valley are far MORE accessible than other neighborhoods.
― est 2010 (rahni), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
no shit. After living in New Holly through all that light rail construction on MLK, I want to move back down there and actually ride the thing on the regular. It adds less than 15 minutes to my commute to Redmond from the Othello station. It's also a simple commute for Mr. Jaq to Sodo/near west Seattle via train/bike (or bus).
I will say that the area immediately around the Mt. Baker station is not a good neighborhood, but has the unparalleled Water Wizard 2.0 car wash and Mutual Fish and Remo Borrachini's bakery. The neighborhood around the Beacon Hill station is fantastic though - so much good food and the library etc etc etc.
Laurel will ysi or transporter it asap.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Georgetown is also a strong possibility btw.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
If I want inaccessible and have to drive everywhere lifestyle, I will move to Magnolia.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
The neighborhood around the Beacon Hill station is fantastic though
srsly. we are looking there again. a combination mexican/chinese grocery store? multiple philipino restaurants? the fruit market on 15th ave s? light rail and library. a couple miles from downtown, close to little saigon and the ID, and a 20 minute train ride to the airport. not much else i care about. i'm not a whole foods guy. i buy my books online (;_; if u must). maybe capitol hill and downtown and u-dist have more of everything nearby, but i can't afford the first two and fuck that last one. beacon hill is great. and don't get me started on my love of georgetown.
― est 2010 (rahni), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link
There's a great mexican place next to the philipino place that is <something> Kitchen - it has huaraches, which you just don't get at the typical Seattle mexican place. Also, Willie's Taste of Soul BBQ is so so good, is now down the hill on the Rainier side somewhere, used to be more down toward New Holly.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Not trying to be 'hell of snobbish', just stating my preference to pay rent somewhere livable vs. buy property in a neighborhood i've lived in before and absolutely hated.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ pic of g. willow wilson
― velko, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Of all the neighborhoods I've lived in here (QA, madrona, denny-blaine, cap hill, belltown, new holly, cd, psquare), the only one I would never move back to is Belltown fwiw.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know why anyone would ever live in belltown cept for the views!
God I miss seattle a ton already u_u
― tehresa, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 22:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, tehresa and Jaq, you missed a hell of a night!
― kate78, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 23:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Hi everyone. Back in town tomorrow.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 23:58 (fourteen years ago) link
hope I get to meet you, Ned!
― kate78, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Just say hi as we're all milling around EMP!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:04 (fourteen years ago) link
oh man, I was so pissed to be puking last night - missing quizzes and possible last chance to see kate78 before expat ;_;
I won't be at EMP/POPConf opening night but will be Friday and most of Sat. Going to The Fair on Sunday for Shepherds Extravaganza, aren't you all jealous.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
awww so sad i missed that :(
― tehresa, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 01:29 (fourteen years ago) link
may or may not make it there for emp :/
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 03:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Annnnnd I'm here.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
http://twitpic.com/1tp21t
― 156, Friday, 4 June 2010 07:40 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/media/news/2010/6/4/gHq5gdlqOQ7zGZWwwhbIegeXjQs-large.jpg
― 156, Friday, 4 June 2010 07:41 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP ;_;
― what it feels like for a goon (The Reverend), Friday, 4 June 2010 08:39 (thirteen years ago) link
missing u
― tehresa, Friday, 4 June 2010 12:53 (thirteen years ago) link
^^realest talk
― suge ♞ (The Reverend), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.8bitseattle.com/
― 156, Saturday, 17 July 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
awesome
― tehresa, Friday, 23 July 2010 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
the sunny jim plant on airport way south burned down today. http://www.blogginggeorgetown.com/2010/09/old-sunny-jim-building-up-in-smoke.html
i got interested in it a while back, it being one of the few abandoned but architecturally interesting buildings in town.
graffiti types would break in put stuff up. the slog did a thing on it: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/death-and-graffiti/Content?oid=3899212 http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/04/22/our-graffiti-is-better-than-your-graffiti
here it is from back in february, i never went inside:
― sam acre, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i51.tinypic.com/28i5dlj.jpghttp://i56.tinypic.com/okc3rr.jpghttp://i53.tinypic.com/280qm3t.jpghttp://i54.tinypic.com/105sgvn.jpg
some pictures of the fire: http://westseattleblog.com/2010/09/big-fire-youre-seeing-to-the-east
― sam acre, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Not very far from my house and seriously messed up the commute home. Really hoping no one was inside - it was an inferno.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:33 (thirteen years ago) link
thx for the links, btw. I hadn't connected the slog posts with that building.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:34 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, they didn't want to say what building it was (understandably) but i figured it out from the similarites--inside and out--of one of the artist's work
― sam acre, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
there had been talk of making the site the permanent home of Nickelsville...
― sam acre, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link
They still could, the building was going to be demo'd anyway. When they close Airport Way S in January (for over a year, to take out and replace that bridge over the railyard), the bus routes will loop on Industrial Way.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 04:09 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 when thjs thread is active
― sam acre, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 04:41 (thirteen years ago) link
― flaccid house (The Reverend), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 11:04 (thirteen years ago) link
miss y'all
― tehresa, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
hey tehresa, me and liz decided you are moving to portland. see u soon.
― flaccid house (The Reverend), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I miss those "Notice Of Proposed Land Use Action" signs from when I used to live in Seattle. In Minneapolis/St. Paul buildings get bulldozed and new stuff gets planned in secret, unless you go to lots of city council meetings.
― Overblown 80's Gated Snore (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i drove by this evening and expected a pile of bricks. look who's still standing!http://i52.tinypic.com/153qhq9.jpg
― con suelo, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 01:58 (thirteen years ago) link
wow, history:
La Dele Sines, chairwoman of the Friends of Georgetown, said the building started as an independent beer brewery in the late 1800s. It was owned by a couple of men, including one who died in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. Continental Can, which made cans for the fishing industry, then owned the building, she said.
Germanus Wilhelm Firnstahl founded Pacific Standard Foods, maker of the Sunny Jim brand, in 1921 after he moved to Seattle from Wisconsin and bought a peanut roaster. He bought the Airport Way South plant during the Depression.
The company became the supplier of a third of all peanut butter in the Seattle area during the 1950s, before it eventually was sold in 1979 to the Bristol Bay Native Corp.
The city of Seattle purchased the building in 1991 and still owns the structure, according to property records.
― con suelo, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link
the city chose james corner field operations(http://www.fieldoperations.net/)for the waterfront redesign. i went to the public presentations last week and they seemed like the most forward thinking designers. the big concern is that it's just going to be a street and a cold windswept plaza most of the year. i'm not sure just prettfying and reconnecting is going to draw people down there on a december night. but is that even possible? i'm still hoping for a restaurant/food cart/retail/housing portion, something to get more people down there at more hours, even though city council people have explicitly said it'll be a park w/o "condominiums and high rises." what about low-rises? some kind of sliver w/life, alley like, more like pioneer square. as far as art, connecting to the water, using the water, i totally have faith in james corner. i keep thinking "well they did the high line project, they'll come up with something propulsive and engaging here." i still want them to keep a piece of the viaduct up,something to climb up on, provide a different viewpoint. a little high line-esque, that. and a counterpoint to gas works, in a way.
stranger rundown: http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/09/21/james-corner-field-operations-will-develop-our-waterfront
― con suelo, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link
lol that link isn't going to work http://www.fieldoperations.net/
I sent an email to Mayor McGinn today supporting the KEXP/Open Platform proposal for the old Fun Forest space. I'm so dismayed at the committee recommending that fucking Chihuly museum. And of course, the Chihuly group is all organized and shit, getting people to call and email in support. It does crack me up that the "Tiger Breeding" operation made the cut :)
― Jaq, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 03:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh cool, that's the walking on water guy! I'd love for them to work in a chunk of the viaduct, but yeah - something has got to keep the area vital in the off-season. Covered, water/snowproof sheltered areas where you can watch the ferries come and go.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 04:03 (thirteen years ago) link
― flaccid house (The Reverend), Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:48 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
wkiw
― Clay, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 04:08 (thirteen years ago) link
what crap that chihuly museum is, what wasted space
― sam acre, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 04:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I love and miss Seattle but the idea of a Chihuly museum in Seattle Center is exactly the kind of silliness that makes me shake my head at the place. That, and the Market Optical TV spots, maybe the worst ads I've ever seen.
― slow a cat sample down 800 percent (Matos W.K.), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
But Decibel Fest starts this weekend and I can't go (sadface) so EVEN MORE ENVY than usual at those of you still around.
― slow a cat sample down 800 percent (Matos W.K.), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link
The smoke pouring over I-5 from the Sunny Jim plant smelled like peanuts, as did my car all day yesterday.
― the higgs, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
the worst thing about the chihuly museum is that there are underused parking lots on all sides of seattle center. really, you're so into ugly glass art you need a museum for it? great, buy one of those lots and expand seattle center *out* instead of taking public space. dicks. as someone somewhere else said, "we're taking ideas from tacoma?!?"
― con suelo, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
who is liz?portland made me sad.hi jill!
― tehresa, Thursday, 23 September 2010 01:12 (thirteen years ago) link
the blue is where locals took pictures. the red is where tourists took pictures
― con suelo, Thursday, 23 September 2010 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link
jobs should be banned, make everything free, it's my new economic theory
― mittens reduxeo, Thursday, 23 September 2010 02:27 (thirteen years ago) link
portland made me sad.
this is actually our city's motto, so.
― Clay, Thursday, 23 September 2010 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i assume by liz, rev is talking about my girlfriend btw.
― Clay, Thursday, 23 September 2010 02:30 (thirteen years ago) link
portland>>>seattle
― buzza, Thursday, 23 September 2010 02:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I get most of the landmarks in that picture above, but what are all the locals taking pictures of around the fremont bridge? It can't all be the troll.
― joygoat, Thursday, 23 September 2010 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Lenin, missile, center of the universe, waiting for the interurban probably
― Jaq, Thursday, 23 September 2010 03:56 (thirteen years ago) link
bar-hopping too?
― con suelo, Thursday, 23 September 2010 04:08 (thirteen years ago) link
<3<3<3 airport way s getting so much attention
― con suelo, Thursday, 23 September 2010 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
moving here in november
― buzza, Thursday, 23 September 2010 04:45 (thirteen years ago) link
― Clay, Wednesday, September 22, 2010 7:30 PM Bookmark
yes
― The Reverend, Thursday, 23 September 2010 12:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey Rev, you heading up this way anytime soon? (like maybe nov 6th would be nice).
― the higgs, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Buzza, where are you moving to Seattle from?
maybe. what's going on nov 6?
― The Reverend, Thursday, 23 September 2010 14:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Listening club
― Jaq, Thursday, 23 September 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Sunny Jim fire caused by a squatter's camp stove: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/427280_fire24.html
― Jaq, Friday, 24 September 2010 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Maps Show Racial Makeup of Major Cities, Including Seattle
here's the big-size seattle one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4981415821/sizes/l/in/set-72157624812674967/
(White is pink; Black is blue; Hispanic is orange, and Asian is green.)
― the 'special' one (con suelo), Friday, 24 September 2010 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
WHO LIVES IN SODO that's all i wanna know. need to do some census investigation
http://i55.tinypic.com/2yosh1z.jpg
― the 'special' one (con suelo), Friday, 24 September 2010 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
mmatos lived somewhere along the tracks in Sodo ages ago, but he is the only person I know of who has. Must be all loft type spaces?
― Jaq, Friday, 24 September 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
buzza you are moving to seattle??
― the 'special' one (con suelo), Friday, 24 September 2010 19:05 (thirteen years ago) link
NW Tea Festival next weekend at Seattle Center. I went last year - $5 gets you a teacup and a big bag of freebies and all the tea you can sample.
― Jaq, Friday, 24 September 2010 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
The people-watching potential (bathroom lines + caffeine jitters) must be A+++.
― If you want me to "get there," pay attention to my angina (WmC), Friday, 24 September 2010 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
As festivals go, it's pretty small scale - maybe 2 dozen vendors. This is such a coffee town, tea caffeine doesn't touch us.
― Jaq, Friday, 24 September 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
aww, last year tea festival was the day we had brunch and i met kate and my couch came! trying to plan a hike for this weekend and options are not good :( miss seattle so much right now!
― tehresa, Thursday, 30 September 2010 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
srsly these hikes are like the same elevation gain as my daily walks up qa hill :(
― tehresa, Thursday, 30 September 2010 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
tehresa is trying to make me cry.
― kate78, Thursday, 30 September 2010 00:27 (thirteen years ago) link
and me too - miss you both!
― Jaq, Thursday, 30 September 2010 00:39 (thirteen years ago) link
miss seattle
― mod future admin gang ban them all (The Reverend), Thursday, 30 September 2010 00:43 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 u all
― tehresa, Thursday, 30 September 2010 01:33 (thirteen years ago) link
seattilxor diaspora
― mod future admin gang ban them all (The Reverend), Thursday, 30 September 2010 02:25 (thirteen years ago) link
it was v v pretty here today
― con suelo, Thursday, 30 September 2010 02:30 (thirteen years ago) link
it's been v v pretty in portland, too
― mod future admin gang ban them all (The Reverend), Thursday, 30 September 2010 02:39 (thirteen years ago) link
wish i could plan a trip for soul weekender in november :(
― tehresa, Thursday, 30 September 2010 02:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I haven't been to seattle in over two years now but am going to be soon - where should I eat?
― joygoat, Thursday, 30 September 2010 05:07 (thirteen years ago) link
my 2 new favorite breakfast places, both south of downtown:
http://www.thesalvadoreanbakery.com/
http://www.yelp.com/biz/pasteleria-y-panaderia-la-ideal-seattle
the latter isn't a sit-down place, but you can take pastries and go over to where they're tearing down the south park bridge and sit and eat and look at the river.
― con suelo, Thursday, 30 September 2010 05:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha! Jen and Jill have been staying with Kate Silver and myself! Seattle diaspora unite for real!
― slow a cat sample down 800 percent (Matos W.K.), Saturday, 2 October 2010 04:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Joygoat: If you're in the mood for great soup at a good bar go to the Hopvine Pub, on 15th and Mercer.
Sandwiches: between noon and 4 only and only Tue-Fri, is Salumi, in Pioneer Square. Arrive early if you plan to eat early, but if you want to just wing it show up around 3. They'll be out of a lot of stuff but there won't be a line, and their leftovers are still good.
Chinese: Hing Loon on Weller and Maynard (near King St.) in the I.D. No atmosphere, great food.
― slow a cat sample down 800 percent (Matos W.K.), Saturday, 2 October 2010 04:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I went to the Chef Bar and Restaurant on 23rd and Jackson the other night, got $9 of real fine Ethiopian food, me and the lady friend couldn't finish it. Katenga = amazing.
― clotpoll, Saturday, 2 October 2010 05:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i had the lamb the other night there. maybe the best lamb i've ever had? of any cuisine? wow @ that much subtlety and complexity, and i ate leftovers twice more off it. what a place
― con suelo, Saturday, 2 October 2010 05:59 (thirteen years ago) link
― tehresa, Saturday, 2 October 2010 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd been thinking about Ethiopian anyway so that pretty much seals that.
And I'm hoping to get into town in time to hit Salumi, which I've only done once before. I want to pick up some guanciale and other stuff even if I don't eat there.
― joygoat, Sunday, 3 October 2010 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
If you know what you want, call it in in the morning - they'll have it wrapped and waiting for you and you don't have to wait in the line. Just plow on past everyone and yell that you're there to pick up.
― Jaq, Sunday, 3 October 2010 01:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Life is good right now. Just saw bill orcutt at the Josephine. Sir Richard bishop is up next. Team North Seattle!
― Sock Puppet Pizza Delivers To The Forest (Sock Puppet Queso Con Concentrate), Sunday, 3 October 2010 05:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey, I was there too!
― clotpoll, Sunday, 3 October 2010 08:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Missed Orcutt down here last night. Didnt hear abt it til today/bummed
― bear, bear, bear, Sunday, 3 October 2010 10:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i went to seattle for the first time last week, i was only there 2 days, but I managed to eat 3 sandwiches from salumi
― sonderborg, Monday, 4 October 2010 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link
^ doing it right
― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Monday, 4 October 2010 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
hah, it took me 2 days to eat 1 sandwich from salumi!
― tehresa, Monday, 4 October 2010 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link
it took me two hours to get one sandwich from salumi
― joygoat, Monday, 4 October 2010 05:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Mad cravings for maneki today!
― tehresa, Monday, 4 October 2010 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
haven't ever had salumi. :(
― mod future admin gang ban them all (The Reverend), Monday, 4 October 2010 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
There are some other places around town that serve their meats - Grand Central Bakery for one. And DeLaurenti's in the market sells Salumi salami and finocciona in the deli. Really though, the seasonal sandwiches Salumi puts together are almost always excellent - goat cheese, fig spread, and proscuitto; the special harvest time only sausage with provolone and baked spiced apples; etc.
― Jaq, Monday, 4 October 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Rev - I'd swear you were at one of our parties where I had giant piles of 3 different meats from Salumi, when we were in the small loft on 1st Ave.
― Jaq, Monday, 4 October 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe? i think i only went to one party there. if i did, i don't remember, or at least you didn't hype your coldcuts that much.
― ayo for dayo (The Reverend), Monday, 4 October 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
We only had one party in that space - and were too shattered after that one to have another for over a year.
― Jaq, Monday, 4 October 2010 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
You can get salumi's mole one @ metropolitan market!
― tehresa, Monday, 4 October 2010 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link
you can even get Salumi in Bellingham at the Old World Deli.
― kate78, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link
plus several other flavors. reliably the salumi salami and finocchiona. mole salami is the best, though, so i never get anything else.
haven't been to maneki in SO DAMN LONG. god, i love that place. usually for sushi these day i go to umi, cuz it's decent and just across the street. and i like the spicy ginger tofu. so lazy i.
― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 09:57 (thirteen years ago) link
People wanting to fap while plax(ico) is in town - this may occur on Friday evening.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 13:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I will be back in about 12 hours or so. This is not really what I want.
― markers' make (The Reverend), Monday, 11 October 2010 10:52 (thirteen years ago) link
i saw off the pres @ boeing field yesterday, then headed up airport way to the liquor store. sdot was knocking down the sunny jim plant
http://i51.tinypic.com/aw58g3.jpg
― 156, Friday, 22 October 2010 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Went past it last week - looked completely gutted. Sad.
― Jaq, Friday, 22 October 2010 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
i had a paseo sandwich when my band played in seattle, it was dooooope
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Friday, 22 October 2010 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Did you end up playing at one of the markets?
― Jaq, Friday, 22 October 2010 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
happy birthday, troll
― tehresa, Saturday, 27 November 2010 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
what up seattle goons
― The Reverend, Sunday, 28 November 2010 05:31 (thirteen years ago) link
What up Rev
Hot chocolate/mulled wine party at the Jaqs house tomorrow starting around 7. Y'all come. Email isthatpie-wp @ yahoo.com for address/directions if needed. Non-perishable food items will be collected for local food banks if anyone wants to bring anything.
― Jaq, Friday, 3 December 2010 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Jaq took me to see the troll! You dears.
― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Friday, 3 December 2010 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Gravel Puzzleworth climbed into a cow suit at the troll too, so very long ago. Miss you, plz come visit us.
― Jaq, Friday, 3 December 2010 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, i got the facebook invite!
― The Reverend, Friday, 3 December 2010 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
(I was just what upping back to your what up there - rest of message is for other potential seattlxors who didn't get the memo)
― Jaq, Friday, 3 December 2010 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
aw, miss y'all <3
― tehresa, Saturday, 4 December 2010 00:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Have fun tonight, Jaq! Tell people I said hello.
― kate78, Saturday, 4 December 2010 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
me too!
just stumbled accidentally on a blog by a locavore couple based in seattle w/ some pretty beautiful pics of local produce and *sigh*. last year's chard*, never forget:http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs022.snc3/10940_162044606588_506836588_2931808_4092146_n.jpg*literally the best chard i've ever eaten.
― tehresa, Saturday, 4 December 2010 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Tomorrow will be my first post-bigfreeze trip to the farmers market - hoping for best/expecting the worst. An early freeze in '07 wiped out my favorite kale.
― the higgs, Saturday, 4 December 2010 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry I couldn't make it, jaq. Was at rock show with pissed jeans, wolf eyes, etc. Had bought ticket a while ago.
― Sock Puppet Pizza Delivers To The Forest (Sock Puppet Queso Con Concentrate), Sunday, 5 December 2010 07:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Was thinking about all y'all recently -- not being there in April for EMP is going to be a little weird! Might see if I can swing a separate trip up there and to Portland next year if feasible.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 December 2010 08:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm sorry I missed you guys last night! My new work schedule is killing me. Higgs made a valiant effort but I managed to sleep all day. And all of the night!
― Morley Timmons, Sunday, 5 December 2010 14:13 (thirteen years ago) link
hi, seattle. http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg151/kawaiimaus999/love/missing-you.gif
― tehresa, Sunday, 30 January 2011 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
miss u boo
― smanging pumpkins (The Reverend), Sunday, 30 January 2011 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
ok lol somebody switched pike and pinehttp://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2011/04/01/1301680512-scaled.picture_9.png
― harlan, Friday, 1 April 2011 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
a+
― tehresa, Friday, 1 April 2011 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Seattle people (or those wanting to move here, though I don't think moving expenses are covered) - I need to hire two software testers (possibly SDET but not necessarily). Agile familiarity a plus; a+++ if familiar with the power industry (generation/transmission/distribution) or pipeline distribution or other large scale scada type stuff. My ilxmail doesn't work, send to isthatpie✧✧✧@ya✧✧✧.c✧✧ instead.
― Jaq, Monday, 12 March 2012 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
oh, right
isthatpie-wp @ yahoo. com
― Jaq, Monday, 12 March 2012 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
there ARE jobs :)
i liked this: http://citytank.org/2012/03/21/seattles-got-the-transformational-moves-like-jagger/
a lot going on. the north lot development will be a wonderful addition, more housing in that neighborhood
― toandos, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
can i have one? (i think amazon is kind of evil, tho)
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
Living in Pioneer Square was weird, but I loved being so close to King Street Station. So simple to catch bus/lt rail to anywhere.
― Jaq, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.bohonus.com/panos/getvr.php?vr=spaceNeedle2
― toandos, Friday, 30 March 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
beautiful
― lxy, Saturday, 31 March 2012 01:42 (twelve years ago) link
oh my, i can see my old place in that picture. i miss seattle so much :(
― tehresa, Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:48 (twelve years ago) link
what happened to daisy, is she still there?
― estela, Sunday, 1 April 2012 01:52 (twelve years ago) link
she was thriving when i was in seattle in september. i can't believe it was so long ago!
― tehresa, Sunday, 1 April 2012 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
Ms. Ivy is doing great btw! She has been living behind the winter lettuce in the rays of the grow light.
― Jaq, Sunday, 1 April 2012 03:14 (twelve years ago) link
i have missed reading about those tarts.
― estela, Sunday, 1 April 2012 06:55 (twelve years ago) link
I can't believe this, but I confused ivy and daisy in my previous post! Clearly ivy is in better, more responsible hands with jaq , bless her.
― tehresa, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
poor daisy :(
― tehresa, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
r.i.p. daisy. you gave her some of the best days of her short life.
― lxy, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 01:10 (twelve years ago) link
i'll say, before tehresa took her in she had awful thin drizzly hair and she had to live on a stoop.
― estela, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
She just couldn't resist that leaf miner, led her right down the primrose path.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
tsk.
― estela, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
saint tehersa, savior
― lxy, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41D4rVbSo6L._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― estela, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 02:27 (twelve years ago) link
did you know: she is actually my namesake?
― tehresa, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 03:55 (twelve years ago) link
aw<3 no i did not. but i always liked her.
― estela, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 10:40 (twelve years ago) link
two people killed, three wounded at my beloved Cafe Racer, another killing downtown about an hour later. what the fuck is going on here?
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/05/30/another-shooting-police-warn-seattleites-to-stay-out-of-active-scene-on-roosevelt-way
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
wtf is going on, idgi
― toandos, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
Somebody shot at Folklife over the weekend too
― Jaq, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
at least there's a new 24 hr diner. that evens things out
― toandos, Thursday, 31 May 2012 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
― Jaq, Thursday, 31 May 2012 00:20 (eleven years ago) link
― toandos, Thursday, 31 May 2012 00:25 (eleven years ago) link
― tehresa, Thursday, 31 May 2012 00:26 (eleven years ago) link
downtown shooting a few blocks from my place and on my walk to/from work
― kate78, Thursday, 31 May 2012 02:00 (eleven years ago) link
Another (allegedly) mentally ill murder-suicide involved in all of it today. The Kyle huff thing from 6 years ago came to mind.Hope there is a benefit for the family & friends of the victims. Too numb to say more.
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Thursday, 31 May 2012 03:36 (eleven years ago) link
there's a motion to get as many people on Friday to attend music shows as possible, given that some of the victims were local performing musicians. I like this idea a lot for many obvious reasons.Also, you'll be able to buy vodka at midnight at certain supermarkets. yay?
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Friday, 1 June 2012 06:24 (eleven years ago) link
woman shot downtown apparently the wife of someone a close friend works with (not an officemate, but a frequent consultant)
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Friday, 1 June 2012 07:58 (eleven years ago) link
so, i spent the past week in seattle and faced heavy pressure from my extended family to move there. i kind of want to. it was beautiful weather. i went to the park every day. the lake glittered! but i hate driving! and traffic! should i do it??? i'm in an active job search, so maybe i should just look for jobs in seattle? i'm very torn. pros, cons, etc?
― rayuela, Monday, 30 July 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
Take public transit, esp if you live/work where you can take the light rail. Or, live where you can walk to work.
― Jaq, Monday, 30 July 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
We need an FAQ for the thread title question. In brief: the weather is more often cooler, grey, and drizzly but that doesn't detract from the beauty. Summer is a perfectly deceptive time to visit. Still, I love it here year-round except for November. If you live & work in Seattle proper, public transit is easy. (there's a major King County Metro change coming in September, including RapidTransit & removing downtown Ride Free Zone. Hopefully it will be awesome) If you live or work outside Seattle, public transit can be trickier. It just depends.
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Monday, 30 July 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i'll look over the rest of the thread in a more leisurely fashion later. thanks for the responses!
― rayuela, Monday, 30 July 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
I live a mile from my job and walk every day, it's not hard to do.
― kate78, Monday, 30 July 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
pros: it's a great city all the way around. some of it's world-class already, the rest is under construction. (the five or so of us that still post are all serious SEA boosters, so ask away as your questions become more specific)cons: weather blah blah blah boring blah blah
lots of neighborhoods you can live in and not need a car. coincidentally they're the best neighborhoods in town (capitol hill, lower queen anne, belltown, fremont, wallingford, columbia city and 5ish more).
― toandos, Monday, 30 July 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
As an area native, I have to give the obligatory "Boooooo, you aren't wanted here. Go back to California. Damn outlanders ruining everything." *goes back to my hut made of moss and flannel*
― The Reverend, Monday, 30 July 2012 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
pros: not many weather extremes, rarely humid, few mosquitoes/fleas, things like to grow here, moss is awesomecons: really rotten when it snows/icespros: Seattle public library/King county public library, lots of independent bookstores still, Fantagraphics is here, SIFF and SIFF Cinema and NWFF show cool obscure movies, still lots of old classic movie theaters around that retain some original decor from the 20s, farmers markets all over the placecons: .... parking maybe?pros: casual dress pretty much everywherecons: if you dress up a little for work, people think you are going on an interview
― Jaq, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 04:56 (eleven years ago) link
the parking is really atrocious, you have to admit.
― Clay, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 05:51 (eleven years ago) link
Parking in Seattle is a breeze compared to parking in San Francisco or New York -- or any part of Los Angeles where you have to street-park, for that matter.
That said, I've been without a car for my 9 out of the 11 years I've been here. I can count on one hand the number of times per year I really wish I had a car... like pick up furniture, go to a friend's house in a remote suburb, or do a quick drive to Snoqualmie Falls and back. And that was it. And there are Zipcar options in case any of the above come up.
(Reading back at the thread, the election of 2007 was a pretty contentious one for Seattlexors. Holy shit. I would just read backwards until 2008 or so. So much has changed since then anyway.)
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 06:02 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, part of what is contributing to my indecision is that whenever i've gone to seattle, i've stayed with my family in the burbs, so i actually have no idea what it's like to be in seattle itself, except for quick day trips. but i'm in kind of a transitional stage right now and it was so pretty when i was there that when my grandma tells me for the 10 millionth time to move to seattle, i want to say yes! i'm coming! even though i don't really know anyone there cept for family.
(parking won't be a problem since i plan to rely on public transport if i move here/there)
but thanks everyone for the pros/cons!!
― rayuela, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
(my family moved there after i left home, so even though it is now where i go when i go "home", i never lived there)
― rayuela, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
rayuela, have you been here during the autumn or winter? if yes and you're not daunted, then move here! if no, do that first and then decide.
move to the city, though, not the suburbs.
― lxy, Saturday, 4 August 2012 01:51 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i would have to, esp if i don't plan on driving. btw what time does public transport shut down there?
i've been there around thanksgiving and xmas time. but only for like a week or so, so i don't know if that is enough for me to assess whether i can deal with the non-summertime weather. i did live through 4 years of boston winters, though, so maybe it won't be that bad.
― rayuela, Saturday, 4 August 2012 02:48 (eleven years ago) link
in terms of cold the winters are nothing compared to boston.
light rail runs til 1. buses til 2ish. there are a few night buses.
next time you visit let us know. it's always a help (and fun) to meet and ask questions of locals before moving. i know the next time i move i will TRACK DOWN the one ilxor that lives there.
― toandos, Saturday, 4 August 2012 03:13 (eleven years ago) link
free trees btw http://www.seattle.gov/trees/treesforneighborhoods.htm
― toandos, Saturday, 4 August 2012 03:26 (eleven years ago) link
jaq u should plant like 10 in that side yard
― toandos, Saturday, 4 August 2012 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
I was going for italian plums last year, but missed the window. I so like the idea of a tree with tiny but persistent fruit.
― Jaq, Saturday, 4 August 2012 04:28 (eleven years ago) link
Seattle! It was cool when I was there a couple of weeks ago. There's a job for me, apparently. In a month, I will move there.
― Infamous dickbiscuits (silby), Thursday, 1 November 2012 06:05 (eleven years ago) link
If you can enjoy a December/January in Seattle, then you will be just fine.
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Thursday, 1 November 2012 06:14 (eleven years ago) link
silby, that's great! Can we throw you a welcome fap?
― Jaq, Thursday, 1 November 2012 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
hey man, welcome. it's been decided, there ARE jobs
― ou th (anky), Thursday, 1 November 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
Wah
http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/02/easy-street-records-to-close-queen-anne-store-jan-18
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
damn.
― hemioblock (The Reverend), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
okay the chase bank thing is just an added layer of fuck this.
― hemioblock (The Reverend), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah exactly.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
General manager of the place will have their office space on the stage or something.
Ned, when are you comin' back here?
― kate78, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
Hopefully sometime this year!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
Yay, Ned.
― kate78, Thursday, 3 January 2013 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
fuck the fucking seattle times, seattle will continue to pretend to be a world-class city while not giving a shit about public transportation or the working class in general.
― JoeStork, Thursday, 24 April 2014 02:37 (ten years ago) link
In the meantime, Constantine says he'll be sending the County Council a proposal to cut 550,000 hours of bus service annually.
― brimstead, Thursday, 24 April 2014 03:00 (ten years ago) link
72 routes gone. Goodbye, short bus to my workplace. Hello, 3 mile walk.
― Jaq, Thursday, 24 April 2014 13:08 (ten years ago) link
ugh sorry, that's terrible.
― estela, Thursday, 24 April 2014 13:10 (ten years ago) link
what's biking like in seattle?
― clouds, Thursday, 24 April 2014 13:15 (ten years ago) link
I bike 22miles round trip to work nearly every day. If you chose the right path, it's actually extremely enjoyable. Once you get used to the hills, the whole city becomes accessible. The hills are daunting at first but you'll get used to them after a couple weeks of frequent riding. There are great paved trails, popular biking streets with bike lanes and lots of other bikers out to reinforce your decision to bike. As you can tell, I love biking. My work bag has gloves, rain gear and essential repair tools mixed in with the laptop and pens. The time it takes me to bike to Pioneer Sq from NE Seattle is about 5-10 mins longer than the bus and I go 3 miles out of my way to avoid the traffic and bike on quiet streets and through Interlaken. Biking to and from work is easily the best part of my day.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 24 April 2014 14:27 (ten years ago) link
thanks!
the reason i ask is that i'm considering u of wash. for my grad studies, but never want to own a car/live in a car-only city
― clouds, Thursday, 24 April 2014 14:32 (ten years ago) link
I haven't had a car in Seattle for 16 years.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 24 April 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link
nice!
― clouds, Friday, 25 April 2014 12:23 (ten years ago) link
So this Gilbert and Sullivan Mikado production thing.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 02:38 (nine years ago) link
are there jobs?
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 02:39 (nine years ago) link
one of the actors in The Mikado is formerly a popular liberal radio host who gave up his show to run for congress on the wealthy Eastside as a democrat and lost
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 03:21 (nine years ago) link
^Seattle, in a nutshell
Oh joy.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 03:28 (nine years ago) link
don't know anything abt it other than Seattle Rep issuing a "clarifying statement" that they have nothing to do with it
― Forks I'd Clove to Fu (silby), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 05:36 (nine years ago) link
feel like my life will be improved if I keep it that way
― Forks I'd Clove to Fu (silby), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 05:40 (nine years ago) link
RIP Paseo. Apparently there were some wage theft issues - http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/11/11/paseo-is-closing-and-now-the-best-sandwich-in-seattle-is-gone
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 20:53 (nine years ago) link
Gonna be in Seattle during Thanksgiving week. I need to find a list of restaurants that are going to be open Thanksgiving Day, among my other research for the trip.
― Pict in a blanket (WilliamC), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 21:01 (nine years ago) link
FAP in Georgetown on Monday 11/24?
― Jaq, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
very in
― alomar lines (anky), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
Had to explain the nonsexual usage of FAP to my daughter last night – for a minute or so she thought I was coming to Seattle for...I dunno, privacy I guess.
― Pict in a blanket (WilliamC), Thursday, 13 November 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
looool
― sleeve, Thursday, 13 November 2014 17:57 (nine years ago) link
could you explain the sexual usage to me?
I would move to seattle if i knew i could get a job.
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 November 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link
Paseo noooooo
― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 13 November 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
i didn't even make it there when i was in town last year
― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 13 November 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link
onomatopoeic slang for jerking off -- "fap fap fap"xp to Morbs
― Pict in a blanket (WilliamC), Thursday, 13 November 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link
eww, what kinda lube makes that noise?
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 November 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
apparently I was the one person in Seattle who had never heard of Paseo also the reason they shut down was cause of some really gross, exploitative, racist labor law violations and they can go fuck themselves
― I Love Makonnen: New Answers (The Reverend), Thursday, 13 November 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
There's a labor suit pending against Paseo's owner, but we don't know why they closed. Whenever a cash-only business closes, tax issues are a pretty safe bet.
― kate78, Thursday, 13 November 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
Looks like they just filed for bankruptcy: http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2014/11/paseo-files-for-bankruptcy-may-have-tax-problems/
― kate78, Thursday, 13 November 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
Just posed to Slog: http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/11/13/nine-employees-speak-out-in-defense-of-paseo-owners-as-restaurant-files-for-bankruptcy
― kate78, Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
Paseo's always seemed like a case study in how to make an end to end miserable dining experience. Insane lines, long waits, rude staff, botched orders, cash only, minimal seating, and food so sloppy you end up with a lapful of caramelized onions and mayonnaise by the time you're two bites into your sandwich.
The Stranger is getting really bad about posting their poorly researched, overly emotional snap takes on every local news situation.
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Thursday, 13 November 2014 22:08 (nine years ago) link
crazy turnover at the stranger lately. buncha favorites gone
― alomar lines (anky), Friday, 14 November 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
Gotta get me some dungeness crab next week, gotta gotta gotta.
― Pict in a blanket (WilliamC), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 04:15 (nine years ago) link
Impromptu Seattle FAP with WmC tonight at the 9 Lb Hammer in Georgetown, starting around 6:30 pm!
― Jaq, Monday, 24 November 2014 23:58 (nine years ago) link
sorry we can't make it. we'll try to connect with wmc this weekend.
have fun!!
― lxy, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 02:58 (nine years ago) link
Georgetown this weekend:
We're celebrating the legacy of Seattle's early music and comix on Saturday, November 29 as Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery hosts the book launch party for Sub Pop USA: The Subterranean Music Anthology, 1980 -1988. The book documents the formative years of Bruce Pavitt's fiercely independent fanzine, cassette label and music column. Fantagraphics curator Larry Reid was a contributor to the fanzine (under the pseudonym Lewy Louie). Bookstore staffer Russ Battaglia contributed graphics and photos to the zine, which were graced with covers by Lynda Barry and Charles Burns. It was amazing to see the almost immediate infleunce Pavitt's modest enterprise had on pop music. To those close to him, it came as no surprise that within a decade, Sub Pop would impact popular culture on a global scale. The book includes essays by Reid, Charles R. Cross, Ann Powers, Gerard Cosley, and Calvin Johnson, founder of K Records and early Sub Pop fanzine collaborator. Johnson will perform music at the party, which is the first time he'll play Fantagraphics since Beat Happening rocked our wild warehouse party in 1994 (attended by newly anointed princes of punk, Nirvana). Many contributors to the old zine and new book will be at the November 29 reception from 6:00 to 8:00 PM - a great way to end Small Business Saturday.
― the incredible string gland (sic), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 03:22 (nine years ago) link
Good morning Seattle! When is the get-together today?
― WmC, Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:11 (nine years ago) link
3pm-ish.
― the incredible string gland (sic), Thursday, 27 November 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
answers dude in australia!
― kate78, Friday, 28 November 2014 07:30 (nine years ago) link
I forgot to say so as I was leaving last night, but everything was absolutely delicious. Thanks everybody for a great evening, so good to meet/see everyone.
― WmC, Friday, 28 November 2014 17:34 (nine years ago) link
Sub Pop book launch was a lot of fun. Always a pleasure to see Calvin Johnson.
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Monday, 1 December 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link
hey wait a bunch of us were there! wmc lxy k78 mee
― anky, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 00:59 (nine years ago) link
WHO R U, RYAN?
― kate78, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 04:40 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJpKSL3dlAk
― anky, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 05:28 (nine years ago) link
I was the mysterious man with the Fucked Up tote bag filled with records I found on the side of the road (Yes-Big Generator, Robbie Nevil-C'est La Vie, Genesis-Invisible Touch) earlier that day.
I'll try and link up with you guys next time there's a thing!
Also, RIP Harvard Exit and Varsity Theater. Pretty bummed about Harvard Exit; didn't get to see too many films there, but it was always such a pleasant experience, and what a venue! Guessing it will become an upscale cocktail bar by March.
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
Hello west side of the state -
I'm going to seattle in a couple of weeks, first time with a four month old baby. Any recommendations for places to eat or get beers that are kid-friendly? Washington seems to go by the the presence of the seemingly arbitrary railing near the bar that determines if minors can be in the establishment or not.
Feel free to suggest places that you might hate for the very reason that asshole yuppie parents bring their kids there, that kind of thing. Staying on Capitol Hill but am open to anywhere location wise.
― joygoat, Sunday, 8 March 2015 19:42 (nine years ago) link
Lost Lake is a diner / cafe / pub and should be workable for the kid, beers aren't necessarily great. Elysian's brewpub does have great beers and is open and clean and full of light, and mostly a table-service restaurant.
For daytime beer sampling without food (food trucks turn up after office hours), Chuck's Hop Shop a stroll away in the Central District is (in interior design) a combo beer supermarket and school lunchroom, with about 50 rotating taps and a wooden balcony to sip in the sun.
If the kid was 4 years, you could go to the Comet Tavern and play skee-ball or Doctor Who pinball. You probably still could, obv.
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Sunday, 8 March 2015 20:18 (nine years ago) link
The Canterbury, Madrona, and Montlake Ale Houses are all ages before 9 pm. Haven't been to any in awhile though so can't vouch for them. The Madrona one used to be absolutely packed with families when we lived by it. Decent enough food. The German beer hall on 12th that used by called VonTrapp's but now is called Rhein Haus (due to dodging the litigation bullet from the Sound of Music Von Trapp family) is totally family friendly, massive and loud. Has bocce courts and okay food.
― Jaq, Monday, 9 March 2015 01:37 (nine years ago) link
Chuck's Hop Shop Central and Fremont Brewing are kid friendly beer/foodish spots.
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Monday, 9 March 2015 02:34 (nine years ago) link
Those of us in the neighborhood call ReinHaus the Rape Bar. Really fratty vibe on weekends, but could be good if you go early enough. Elysian on Pike is probably your safest bet.
― kate78, Monday, 9 March 2015 02:52 (nine years ago) link
Populuxe Brewing in Fremont/Ballard is kid friendly and mostly outdoors, it's great when the weather's like this.
― JoeStork, Monday, 9 March 2015 03:30 (nine years ago) link
If you go to the Rhein Haus and the kid falls asleep, lock it in the car with the window cracked and have a couple of cocktails next door at Canon, ranked as sixth best bar in the world last year.
(one ahead of the Baxter Inn in Sydney. we got four on the list of fifty, though)
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Monday, 9 March 2015 03:43 (nine years ago) link
outdoors in Fremont/Ballard in nice weather also sounds good, and probably v accessible by bus for tipsy travel back. if you like burgers line your stomach at Uneeda Burger first?
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Monday, 9 March 2015 03:45 (nine years ago) link
Thanks everyone - I've been to Elysian and the Canterbury but it's been ages, and I thought Canon looked familiar on street view and realized it's where Lark used to be which I'd been to a couple times. I've heard other people mention the Hop Shop and it isn't too far from where we're staying, though we'll probably end up roaming Ballard at some point.
Anybody know if the Pine Box lets kids in? I ate at Kedai Makan and then had beers there last time I was in Seattle and would like to repeat that.
― joygoat, Thursday, 12 March 2015 00:39 (nine years ago) link
Canon is next door to where Lark used to be. Canterbury has closed and reopened yuppier.
Pine Box might let kids in in the afternoon, or early on a weekday.
― kate78, Thursday, 12 March 2015 01:44 (nine years ago) link
Kedai is next door to all-vinyl-playing bar Revolver that ilx0rs or ex-ilx0rs might be hanging in iirc, stick your head in on the way past and shout about hen fap
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Thursday, 12 March 2015 04:29 (nine years ago) link
as sic was typing that post, ilx0rs were literally in Revolver.
― kate78, Thursday, 12 March 2015 14:38 (nine years ago) link
https://sherrlock.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/pike-4th-traffic-control-then-mr.jpg
― alomar lines, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 20:36 (nine years ago) link
http://komonews.com/live/event
― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 17:53 (eight years ago) link
#treeman
It's #manintree actually
― petulant dick master (silby), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 18:30 (eight years ago) link
oh doh
― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 18:33 (eight years ago) link
Yo how's the light rail??
― lute bro (brimstead), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 20:29 (eight years ago) link
#manintree no longer in tree
― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 20:32 (eight years ago) link
― lute bro (brimstead), Wednesday, March 23, 2016 1:29 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
fuckin sweet
― petulant dick master (silby), Thursday, 24 March 2016 00:36 (eight years ago) link
superdope
― portumnes (alomar lines), Thursday, 24 March 2016 03:54 (eight years ago) link
i got obsessed with manintree at 1:30 am and saw on periscope a drone, drunk people yelling at him, and a dude show up with a bb gun and get arrested
― portumnes (alomar lines), Thursday, 24 March 2016 03:57 (eight years ago) link
Light rail has been around for, like, 6 years! We just got another 5 miles and 2 stops added. Another 100 miles of track and we'll be on par with...every other major city, half a century ago.
― kate78, Friday, 25 March 2016 03:01 (eight years ago) link
how about this weather
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Friday, 14 October 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
Pretty common to have strong storms like these in November and December. October is a bit early, but not unheard of. It's just nasty when you lose power and there are fallen trees all over, but it's not like these are hurricanes or anything.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 14 October 2016 18:11 (seven years ago) link
hellof leaves on trees still gives this another dimensioncame into seatac today. buumpy! 3/4 of outgoing flights were delayed, never see that. and yeah not hurricane but 50+ winds is no minor thing. love a storm prep when it's not too cold and the weekend get flashlights get blazed get hunkered
― alomar lines, Saturday, 15 October 2016 05:13 (seven years ago) link
Lakes everywhere
― (rocketcat) 🚀🐱 👑🐟 (kingfish), Saturday, 15 October 2016 06:08 (seven years ago) link
Cafe Racer is up for sale. This city can be real depressing sometimes.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 23:42 (seven years ago) link
not sure why i started thinking about this last night but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRqteDXb3Yk
― tha frash prance (alomar lines), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 00:23 (seven years ago) link
bonus: giant Marlboro ad
― lxy, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 17:07 (seven years ago) link
Welp
― softie (silby), Thursday, 6 April 2017 22:53 (seven years ago) link
right?
― tha frash prance (alomar lines), Friday, 7 April 2017 04:52 (seven years ago) link
ugh
― lxy, Friday, 7 April 2017 15:36 (seven years ago) link
https://thecisforcrank.com/2017/04/07/morning-crank-i-have-four-kids-and-a-wife/
― tha frash prance (alomar lines), Saturday, 8 April 2017 04:28 (seven years ago) link
ok then
http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/04/11/25069906/doctors-report-shows-mayor-ed-murray-does-not-have-a-mole-on-his-genitalia-as-accuser-claims
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 01:00 (seven years ago) link
Every time I see a picture of Ed Murray I think of the meme of the dog who was terrified of cupcakes:https://media1.fdncms.com/stranger/imager/u/original/25069910/1491952854-1491517862-1465827512-o-3825.jpghttp://i.ytimg.com/vi/4-6Gb4AzgUk/hqdefault.jpg
― joygoat, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 03:33 (seven years ago) link
Why are there always 20,000 people who are willing to vote for Goodspaceguy?
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/09/opinion/smoke-heat-seattle-climate.html
This shit will leave tomorrow maybe? Walked out of the library this evening and felt my eyes burning. Really don't enjoy the sense that I'm endangering my health by biking to work.
― JoeStork, Friday, 11 August 2017 02:14 (six years ago) link
My partner who is from San Diego assures me it could be much worse
― softie (silby), Friday, 11 August 2017 04:44 (six years ago) link
It does suck majorly though, and I assume it will only get worse in years to come.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 11 August 2017 05:08 (six years ago) link
Lived in eastern WA for a decade until this summer, didn't know "fire season" was a thing and absolutely don't miss it.
― joygoat, Friday, 11 August 2017 11:58 (six years ago) link
a couple of years ago the smoke in vancouver was so bad for a few days in the summer that you could look directly at the sun in the sky at noon and the entire town smelled like a (gross) campfire. there also was a silty film all over the ground from where the ashes were lightly falling.
with climate change i really think that it will cease to be pleasant to live here soon enough
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 11 August 2017 17:25 (six years ago) link
It's just ugly, it hasn't affected me physically. I bike 16-25 miles commuting to and from work every day and it hasn't been an issue. It's just ruining the joy I get from seeing those perfect blue skies and the mountains in the disatance.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 11 August 2017 22:44 (six years ago) link
Cafe Racer closing for good on Wednesday.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 02:09 (six years ago) link
Racer was the place I told visitors and recent transplants to go to in Seattle, because it would unfailingly give you good vibes about the city. Whether or not the Seattle Freeze exists, people would talk to you there. And the people there endured one of the more horrifying events in recent local history, and had the strength to come back and reopen the place, and it's a real punch in the gut that it won't be around anymore.
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 02:32 (six years ago) link
fuuuuuuck Tim Eyman.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
Washington State voters are like Sideshow Bob stepping on Tim's cunningly laid rakes.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:47 (four years ago) link
hope this one goes down in the courts as well.
Kshama's gonna pull it out with late ballots though I feel it in my guts
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
Washington State voters are why I want the USA to reorganize into city-states
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
Wife and I got in one last Washington absentee vote before moving to AZ this month where our blue votes will count for so much more.
― Yelploaf, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
Given the deteriorating streets/roads around here, sad that people would be short-sighted on this one. Not to mention the dozen repeal/maintain advisory votes on the ballot that are also Eyman-related.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
Seattle died last night.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
shitty election
― alomar lines, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
the local stuff gets a bit lost in the shuffle of the virus threads, but Tom Douglas just closed all his restaurants for the next couple months and laid off 800 employees with no severance pay.
― JoeStork, Thursday, 12 March 2020 05:36 (four years ago) link
Inslee has reached the Not Fucking Around stage, reportedly public schools in King, Pierce, and Snoho will be ordered closed until at least April 24
― silby, Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:40 (four years ago) link
Closing the libraries for a month.
― JoeStork, Friday, 13 March 2020 01:09 (four years ago) link
Now that there’s less ambiguity than there was a week ago on what the response here would be like, I’m fairly sanguine about how this will all go here in the next few months, at least healthwise. Wrenching for performance groups, will be fatal for an unknown number of restaurants.
― silby, Friday, 13 March 2020 01:25 (four years ago) link
Anyway to check in on the questions in the thread title, Seattle is fine tho anyone who has lived here even a little bit longer than I have could justifiably say it sucks now; there’s jobs of certain kinds and low unemployment but as a loathsome computer person my perspective on jobs is irrelevant; and you should move here bc the weather is perfect 400 days a year.
― silby, Friday, 13 March 2020 01:30 (four years ago) link
Your weather is crap
― El Tomboto, Friday, 13 March 2020 03:31 (four years ago) link
The whole west coast needs to grow a couple of seasons like a real biome
― El Tomboto, Friday, 13 March 2020 03:33 (four years ago) link
We have two seasons! Wet and dry.
― silby, Friday, 13 March 2020 04:29 (four years ago) link
Both are good.
― silby, Friday, 13 March 2020 04:30 (four years ago) link
The Stranger just laid off a bunch of staff, pausing print distribution.
― JoeStork, Saturday, 14 March 2020 01:45 (four years ago) link
literally every good reporter who worked there in my 7 years here is long gone at this point and transphobic asswipe K***e H****g is among the laid off and T*m K**k is a big ol piece of shit in general and I shed no tears for this institution
― silby, Saturday, 14 March 2020 01:48 (four years ago) link
genuinely pleased K H is unemployed
JoeStork and I have a good friend who just got laid off by the Stranger today (not KH, obvs), so maybe cool it with the schadenfreude?
― The fillyjonk who believed in pandemics (Lily Dale), Saturday, 14 March 2020 02:02 (four years ago) link
:/ I’m of course sorry for your friend’s circumstances in this troubled time.
Very hard not to take pleasure in KH’s tbh, I’m p vindictive on this score. Though of course she’ll probably end up coming out ahead on the terf lecture circuit. Assuming that’s a thing.
― silby, Saturday, 14 March 2020 02:14 (four years ago) link
I’m sure she’ll score a gig at Quillette or the Atlantic or something. The Stranger still had some good arts writers and if it goes completely under a big source of promotion for local music/film/art disappears.
― JoeStork, Saturday, 14 March 2020 02:25 (four years ago) link
anyway sorry, really, for being so blasé about people who are not KH losing their jobs, obviously justice would've been better served by her being fired for being bad
― silby, Saturday, 14 March 2020 04:45 (four years ago) link
not sure if there’s a more active all-purpose thread about Seattle (there’s about 20,000 user-specific FAP threads in the archives and i didn’t want to create another one) so sorry if this isn’t the best place to ask this BUT:i will be coming up to Seattle in a couple weeks (the 20th through the 24th). it is my second time visiting, but my first time was for a conference and i didn’t get to do much exploring then. anything fun/cool going on around that time? shows, events, exhibitions, etc? any particular restaurants/food that i absolutely must try? good record stores? ftr i am staying downtown and will not have access to a car.
― donna rouge, Monday, 4 April 2022 20:35 (two years ago) link