Seattle! How is it now? Are there jobs? Should I move there?

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.

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.

Sounds like a plan.

it doesn't have to be hueg.

just want some sushi.

I want to be in Seattle for sushi ;_;

just drive up!

Wasabi, though it can be pricey, is my fave sushi place in Seattle.

The light rail opens this weekend - free rides both Sat and Sun.

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.

Also on the list: Saitos on 1st, Mushashis, Aoki on Broadway.

Saito is the one on 2nd that came highly recommended - still no clue on how their prices run though.

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.

Awesome! I can't wait to see u in my mailbox.

I want to be in Seattle for sushi ;_;

i will be in seattle for sushi next week.

dope imo

imo also

Well crap, Saito closed this past week.

rip

pour one cup of sake out

so...

whoever wants to eat sushi this weekend... let's say saturday? email me!
then i will coordinate.

oh if you change your mind to sunday then i can kick it imo.

ok sunday it is!

oh rad i will call you on my way up on sunday tza!

I sent u a vv short email.

should we all go on a light rail ride after?

sounds like a good thing tbh

Looks like I'll potentially be busy until 4, so 5 o' clock?

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.

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.)

also---is it super rare to see interracial couples?

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/

charles johnson's take on moving to seattle and to the UW
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/mytown-seattle-200809.html
I 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).

My parents are an interracial couple and, as far as I know, have never encountered anyone here who had a problem with that,

i feel like i see lots of interracial couples here but maybe i just notice more because there are so many white people?

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.

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.

I swear I just read something recently that said Seattle has the highest per-capita number of interracial marriages of any major US city.

i feel like i've heard that too

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.

tza, I got another recommendation for a sushi place today: Koji, at the Harbor Steps (across 1st Ave from the art museum).

that looks really reasonable!

google maps knows important landmarks

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/8163/suship.jpg

loool

heh - Hammering Man's shadow looks like it is enjoying the view too!

aha--it's not just my imagination re: multiracial coupling

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.

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.

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....

You're always welcome at ours! Indoor cats though, and a non-smoking bldg :(

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.