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beth: he acted old is why. and he was craggy = old seeming. also: yes, come to our next party! lots of cheese will be served!

lingbert: lololololololllll

― lxy (lxy), Friday, 5 January 2007 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link

So this dude showed up and nobody knows who he was?

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Friday, 5 January 2007 04:02 (seventeen years ago) link

He got there after we left, is all I know.

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 5 January 2007 04:05 (seventeen years ago) link

And Beth! Come out here! My tiny totally sun-free front yard needs an extreme makeover! Also, I signed up for a pea-patch and will desparately need a garden mentor.

Didn't Lingbert have special ringer-istic croquet-winning powers?

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 5 January 2007 04:09 (seventeen years ago) link

If by "croquet-winning" you mean "croquet-losing," then yes, I am quite special.

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

I think all I remember is that you beat me (me! who was doing so well! until the third glass of wine...) at croquet, which counts as winning. It is pretty weird to bring your dad to a party and then abandon him to his text-messaging next to the empty soup bowls :(

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 5 January 2007 05:22 (seventeen years ago) link

i have to say, though, jaq, you have the swankest one-handed croquet shot (so as not to have to put your wineglass down on the grass) i've ever seen. who cares if you don't win when you look so good!

― lxy (lxy), Friday, 5 January 2007 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link

about Pat the Dad:

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

NOW: don't all y'all wish you'd come?!

― lxy (lxy), Friday, 5 January 2007 05:57 (seventeen years ago) link

ps jergins thx for posting the pictures. basement now is officially amazing instead of perpetually annoying.

― lxy (lxy), Friday, 5 January 2007 06:25 (seventeen years ago) link

The main thing about Pat was that at the time i didn't know who he was and i'd been drinking and i couldn't stop looking at him, imagining him having walked in off the street. All this straight-talk about who he was isn't doing him any favors (or making him any younger).

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

hey wtf we're all friends here why not and you get to see more of the soup, too

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/133/346370152_ea6c193f67.jpg?v=0

― jergins (jergins), Friday, 5 January 2007 07:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Seattle! Tell me about your monorail! I'm coming to town for a conference in a week or so, and ended up getting a hotel near the Space Needle. I'll be heading to the Convention Center everyday. Is the monorail the best choice in getting to and 'fro?

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

It's not broken any more! You'd have about a 3 block walk from the end of the monorail (5th & Pine) to the convention center (7th & Pike). Depending on what hotel, it might be more than 3 blocks to get to the start of the monorail. ($4/round trip for monorail)

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

ps. bring umbrella and waterproof shoes :(

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, if yr. going from the Space Needle to the Convention Center you could do a lot worse than the monorail. Runs every 10 minutes or so, from Seattle Center (where you'll usually find the Space Needle) to, like, fifth and something? Three or four blocks from the Convention Center at most.

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

Also, if you like indian food, try to have dinner at Roti on lower Queen Anne. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Ooh, thanks Jaq and Adam! I think the hotel is on 5th and Roy (Hampton Inn). I am not averse to walking (or rain), and the idea of the monorail is quite alluring.

Be prepared: 15,000 librarians will be infiltrating yr city.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Essentially, my goal is to avoid other librarians like the plague, as they're totally irritating en masse. If you see a bunch of sensibly dressed women or men, carrying maps, and imbibing a bit too much booze, they're probably librarians. So, yes, restaurant recommendations are welcome! And, I do love foods of all sorts.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh dear. Not LIBRARIANS!

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

Oh! Excellent! Thank you so much! It's not a conference hotel that I'm staying at, so transportation for me is pretty much a free for all (not like the free buses they provide at the conference hotels). Now I am armed with information!

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, Roti is awful damn good. So's Tup Tim Thai just down Mercer - cheaper, too. And Easy Street is a fine rekkid stoah to kill an hour or two in. If yr. inta that kinda thing, I mean. Not saying that you are...

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

Free plays Monday night at Town Hall! http://www.365seattle.com/

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

My friend goes to UW and I'll be hanging out with him (he lives on Bolyston, I think), but I know he wants to take me to gay bars every night, so other options are appreciated. I love my gays and their bars, but not every night.

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

restaurants - Palace Kitchen or Etta's, Matt's in the Market, Le Pichet, Shiro's Sushi, Sambar/Le Gourmand, Wild Ginger, Shea's Lounge, Cafe Campagne, Restaurant Zoe, The Pink Door, Place Pigalle, The Harvest Vine, Purple Cafe, Earth & Ocean, BOKA Kitchen & Bar, 1200 Bistro & Lounge, Ray's Boathouse, Elliott's Oyster House

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

You guys are the best! Thank you! I'm going to print this out and put it in my travel folder (yes, I have a travel folder).

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 5 January 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

plz print all the party pics

Be prepared: 15,000 librarians will be infiltrating yr city.

nerdy girls from out of town, I LUVV UUUUUU.

― jergins (jergins), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

So that Hampton Inn is in a kinda different part of lower queen anne, but there are some good food options right around there, first and foremost being the sushi train place, SUSHILAND MARINEOPOLIS. There's also a cafe for the morning, Cafe Vita. I used to go there every day but the baristas never said thanks when I tipped and they played the worst slow jams and sang along. the coffee's good though. Also on that street (5th) is a bar I used to go to whose name i can't remember and a couple of trendy restaurants, Crow and Veil, that I cannot vouch for.

― jergins (jergins), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks! What about dive bars in that locale? Or is it all fancy around there?

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

sorta up-and-coming fancy. instead, walk west on Roy, toward the other part of LQA, and Jabu's will be on your right. A fine dive. Also, if you get over to Queen Anne Ave N, one of the diviest dives in the whole city, the Mecca (you could still smoke there a few months ago, laws be damned), is a must-visit.

― jergins (jergins), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Cafe Vita

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

Ahh! My friend E (who goes to UW) was telling me of a great dive bar (perhaps Mecca?) that's being torn down and being replaced by giant condo complex.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link

bus stop. not so divey though really, with less than 15 years in business.

― jergins (jergins), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:21 (seventeen years ago) link

What happened to that divey place that was next to Kidd Valley? Sorry Charlie's?? It looked awfully cleaned up the last time I walked past.

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Bought and redone as a tony meatmarket called the Mirabeau Room. A damn shame, of course, but it's hardly the worst such join in Lower Queen Anne (Peso's, anyone?). For a while at least, they did continue to employ Howard Bulson at the piano. Dunno whether or not he's still there, but if so, it's worth dropping by just on the off chance...

― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link

adam beales who are you

― jergins (jergins), Saturday, 6 January 2007 00:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Ummm, two hints...

― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Saturday, 6 January 2007 00:40 (seventeen years ago) link

add to my restaurant list above - Boat Street Cafe & Kitchen, Bambuza Bistro, Tango, La Carta de Oaxaca, Kingfish, Anthony's Pier 66 and La Vita e Bella (and maybe take off Purple Cafe and 1200 Bistro). Note that these places are generally not cheap and some are fairly pricey.

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

Anthony's is okay for a chain, but go to Etta's if you want really good seafood.

― Jaq (Jaq), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:22 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, I picked it for the view, but Etta's is probably the ultimate Seattle restaurant

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

Seattle people! This 365 Plays/365 Days is great! One play, every day, somewhere (see http://www.365Seattle.com for details), then once a month a marathon of all the past month's plays. Tonight's was at Town Hall, the February marathon is at the Rep. Thought-provoking, cynical, angrifying, uproarious, short. Each week's plays are produced by a different theater troupe. And it's all free!

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 06:15 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

Movies I've wanted to see forever and never have are coming to Seattle this week and next and I'm going to be home. Earrings of Madame de... 3/1 only as part of SIFF and Rules of the Game this coming week at the Varsity. Anyone else going?

― Jaq, Sunday, 25 February 2007 02:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh No! Sorry Charlie's got closed/bought!? And by someone I used to know- from the music industry days of yore!
I used to croon tunes at Sorry Charlie's on a weekly basis (after the DogHouse, with Dick Dickerson at the piano, closed.)
The cocktail waitress was a "little person" and the bartender was about 6 foot seven - it was very surreal, like David Lynch had planned it all.
This was 10 years ago, but I like reading this thread just to see if anything is familiar.
Had my share of parties with weird semi strangers lingering.
I may be there for a trip this summer - a friends play is being produced at the Rep, and I owe Seattle a visit...would you all meet me at the Comet for beers?

― aimurchie, Sunday, 25 February 2007 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link

yes yes yes. what play at the rep? (i used to work next door at the intiman and looked over the rep's schedule longlingly).

i will be back at some point this summer, probably june. we must croquet again.

― jergincito, Sunday, 25 February 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

"The Singing Forest" by Craig Lucas. He was on the board of directors at...the Rep. His boyfriend is one of my best friends and is designing the show.
I went to the opening, at the Long Wharf, in New Haven - it's a really brilliant play. Seeing it two years later will be fun, as they have been "tweaking" it, and some elements have changed.
I used to have formal Sunday gatherings at Volunteer Park for croquet. And imbibing. Like Jaq, I was a master at playing one-handed croquet as I did not want to stop clutching my mimosa. It was pretty hilarious - we would all REALLLY dress for the occasion,(party dresses, knickers, hats) and nobody cared when they got knocked into the out of bounds, or whatever.
That's what I miss about Seattle - there's a general feeling that it is quite OK to have a little party in the park, on a sunny summer Sunday. it's a very free city - you obey certain rules, and break all of the other rules. It's tolerant.
I lived on the corner of 16th and Thomas, on Capitol Hill, and we used to slide down the big metal sculpture (gigantic slide for immature, drunk grownups), behind Swedish(?) Medical,and nobody would complain...as long as we didn't cause any REAL trouble.
I love when this thread gets revived, because I know there are so many cool people keeping my lovely (adopted) city alive!

― aimurchie, Sunday, 25 February 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...

SeattlXors, SAM is open all weekend for free, 35 hours straight, from 10 am Saturday til 9 pm Sunday. You do have to reserve a ticket (from the website). Mr. Jaq and I are thinking about the wee hours of Sunday morning.

― Jaq, Friday, 4 May 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Oops, nope, you get the tickets once you're there.

― Jaq, Friday, 4 May 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

i was just thinking about this thread! sounds fun.

so, it looks like i'll be back at the end of the month. i'm calling June Croquet FAP II if all of you regulars are up for it.

― jergïns, Friday, 4 May 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

(jaq really can i borrow that book about the japanese guy living on the street?)

― jergïns, Friday, 4 May 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

This month!!! Like, May? Fantastic! Let me know if you need a ride from Seatac. Absolutely yes to the book borrowing, I will find it and set aside for you.

― Jaq, Friday, 4 May 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

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