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

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― 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

yep, end of may. mixed feelings, for sure.

i'm coming back memorial day, i think. want to come over that week?

omg i'm making plans to be back. i guess that means i'll be back. there are no jobs here.

― jergïns, Friday, 4 May 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

We're gone to the rainforest Sat - Mon afternoon, but yes that week! And we should have a welcome back FAP before I have to leave town again. I'm torn that you have to leave because I would like to visit you there, but that Poland project looks a year away (if ever) and I am glad you will be back in Seattle because we have found this really good Vietnamese place and we should all eat there.

― Jaq, Friday, 4 May 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

ooooh yeah i bet it's cheap too. if not that week then the week after. the whole summer stretches out in front of us.

fyi seattle ilxors http://www.ilxor.com:8090/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=156&threadid=3#unread

― jergïns, Friday, 4 May 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, shiny!!!

― Jaq, Friday, 4 May 2007 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

okay, i'm definitely going to the museum tomorrow sometime (the wee hours thing won't work for me because i have to be at work sunday am). thanks for the heads up.

also, jaq when you go to the hoh (or are you going to one of the other rain forests?), are you going to camp or stay at a hotel/motel/hostel/somewhere else? I'm thinking of going on my next 4-day-off, and I have zero camping gear, so I'll probably just try to find a cheap hotel or something (or I might just go for a day).

i'm down for a welcome back fap.

― Lingbert, Friday, 4 May 2007 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Hoh hotel (rainforest resort w/ jacuzzi and fireplace, because it's for my birthday and I'm all about decadent). There's lots of B&Bs and small places over there and the summer season rates don't seem to start until June. Or maybe a cheap rate at one of the casinos, just as a jumping off point. The beaches are all kinds of amazing over there - incredible tide pools and sea otters scampering etc.

― Jaq, Friday, 4 May 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

must go soon

― Lingbert, Friday, 4 May 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.visitkalaloch.com/
http://www.quileuteoceanside.com/

― gabbneb, Friday, 4 May 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

This lists accommodations in the "cheap" range: http://forkswa.com/22.html

Hostel for $8.50/night, etc.

― Jaq, Friday, 4 May 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

For future travel options, what's the Vietnamese place?

― joygoat, Saturday, 5 May 2007 01:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Tamarind Tree, in the International district west of 12th on Jackson. You drive up around the back of the Viet-Wah grocery, and it's in the north east corner of the sketchy looking strip mall. Amazing variety of food, inexpensive, full bar. The interior is 1000% more classy than the exterior, and it's always packed.

joygoat, you should let us know when you're next over! Seattle krewe is a friendly bunch of folxers. How are you guys liking Pullman? Several of my colleagues offspring attend school over that way.

― Jaq, Saturday, 5 May 2007 02:17 (seventeen years ago) link

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