Jan 31, 2012

Last night, I found myself in West Seattle, where I took the following photographs. In order to take them, I sat in the freezing cold for 3 hours, waiting for the rain to stop, at which point I had a 5 minute window to fire off as many shots as I could. As soon as I got the last frame, the rain moved back in and it hasn’ t stopped pouring since. God, I...

Jan 30, 2012

On Aurora Avenue, at 43rd Street, just north of the cut, lies Seattle’s most opulent accomodations … the Thunderbird Motel. In 2010, the Seattle Police Department declared the Thunderbird a “nuisance property”, and shortly thereafter, it was foreclosed upon. In the fall of 2012, this fine property will be demolished to make way for 71...

Jan 30, 2012

Taken January 30, 2012 at 10:34am

Jan 29, 2012

Jan 26, 2012

As I was making my way through the streets of South Lake Union this evening, I looked up to find a half moon, crescent moon, or whatever it’s called … moving slowly past the Space Needle. I took a couple of photographs, then just stood and watched until it disappeared behind the observation deck. Sometimes, a brief moment of zen is all it takes to...

Jan 25, 2012

I made a short video tonight. I call it Corduroy. No particular reason. Download Video: MP4

Jan 24, 2012

For a few months in 2011, I had a regular customer named Chris. Chris was an interesting guy, an unusual guy, and a sometimes pathetic guy. A veteran of the first Iraq war, Chris reminded me of that character on The Simpsons. You know the one, the surly Army Surplus store owner with a missing arm. Chris had all of his limbs, but in all other respects, they...

Jan 21, 2012

As I sat here three days ago and watched anti-SOPA protests proliferate across the Internet, a nagging thought kept running through my head. “How”, I wondered, “is any of this hurting big media?” I mean, let’s say that, because of these online protests, SOPA and PIPA are both defeated. It’s plausible. After all, people are riled...

Jan 21, 2012

Well, my acquiescence to my powerlessness over the Weather Channel has drawn a rousing chorus of “Booo!”s amongst my own small circle of morons. I’ve been called everything from a pussy, to an enabler, to an enabling pussy, to a … well, really those are the only two things I’ve been called, but they hurt. Of course, I am, if...

Jan 21, 2012

Jan 21, 2012

Jan 20, 2012

Remaining snow …

Jan 19, 2012

A few hours ago, the above video was posted on YouTube by buzzfeed. It shows Meg Coyle in an uncomfortable confrontation with a local woman who was upset that King 5 had attracted the Seattle Police Department, who in turn ruined a sledding tradition on Queen Anne Hill (Capitol Hill has a similar tradition). Instead of apologizing to the community when the...

Jan 19, 2012

Update 2:00pm: It has begun snowing again. More photos of the Seattle Snow:...

Jan 19, 2012

Alright stop, collaborate and listen, Rex is back with my brand new invention. Something grabs a hold of me tightly, then I flow like a harpoon daily and nightly. Will it ever stop? Yo, I don’t know … Seattle meteorologists, don’t know snow. I’m not lying, either. Thursday has greeted the metro area with a thick layer of ice and slush,...

Jan 18, 2012

We’re almost 24 hours into the anti-SOPA protests, and I’ve got to tell you … I’m getting burned out. Google’s black banner, countless blog after blog with their black banners, Wikipedia’s complete blackout of their site — I’m starting to lose sympathy for my own cause. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still...

Jan 18, 2012

Yes, the blizzard. Look, if uber-legitimate, accountable corporate media is allowed to sensationalize, then why can’t I? I just headed over to Westlake Park to see how accurate my snow prediction was, and low and behold, I wasn’t far off. Yesterday, I put my hypothetical money on 1.89″ of snow, and when I measured at 2:15 this afternoon (just...

Jan 18, 2012

On Monday, I waited for snow. Every two hours, they promised that it was only a couple of hours away, and because of that, I called it an early day. That snow never arrived. On Tuesday, I waited for snow. We were supposed to get 2″ – 7″, but by mid-day, I was staring up at the sun. Today, Wednesday, the broken clock that is Seattle...

Jan 17, 2012

Remember the shooting referenced in this post? Well, as it turns out, the man who was shot by a Federal Way police officer last week did not have a weapon. Supposedly, unidentified “drug paraphernalia” was found in the car, but no actual drugs or weapons. Another civilian has died because an officer supposedly “feared for her life” in...

Jan 17, 2012

I am a hammer, you are a nail. I am Rosie O’Donnel, you are a ham sandwich. I am Yoko Ono, you are the Beatles. When you see something like this bearing down on you, you imagine it saying a lot of things. Looking at the banding, I’m sticking with my 5″ maximum Downtown … if not significantly lower. I think we are going to get much more...

Jan 17, 2012

Well, the local meteorologists are one for two so far. The dusting of snow that was promised for Sunday turned out to be an inch or two, and the few inches of snow that were supposed to fall beginning yesterday afternoon never materialized. At least not here in Central Seattle. This has messed up my schedule a bit. I took yesterday evening off to avoid getting...

Jan 15, 2012

More photos of the Seattle Snow: http://www.seattlerex.com/live-seattle-snow-photos-january-19-2012/ Since it only happens once or twice each year, snow in Seattle is a big deal. Twenty minutes ago (about 11am on Sunday, January 15th), it started snowing pretty hard in Downtown Seattle, and it’s been forecast to c ontinue off and on for the better part of...

Jan 13, 2012

Jan 13, 2012

First King County, and now The Feds. Federal prosecutors said Friday that they will not prosecute a Seattle Police Department officer who was involved in the August 30, 2010, fatal shooting of a Native American woodcarver in downtown. The woodcarver, John T. Williams, was carrying a knife and a piece of wood in Seattle. He was ordered to put the knife down by...

Jan 13, 2012

The sun just set 25 minutes ago. This is what it looked like: Usual disclaimers: Rains all the time, traffic sucks, cost of living too high, overrun with Californians, don’t move here,...