Events

May Day 2013

Posted by on May 4, 2013

Last Monday, I was speaking with someone about the upcoming May Day festivities. “Seattle doesn’t have riots”, I told him, “we have hissy...

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Weather

Seattle’s New Climate?

Posted by on May 11, 2013

December 2011, late-July 2012, August 2012, and September 2012 broke records for dry stretches. Downtown Seattle went roughly 100 days without seeing so much as a drop of rain. ...

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Reviews

Fuck California and Anyone From There

Posted by on May 19, 2013

Are they man? Are they astro-man? The venerable group from Sector 7G (or Auburn, Alabama, depending on who you believe). The sarcastic question never got old last night. Or rather,...

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Entertainment

McCready & Friends

Posted by on May 13, 2013

Mike McCready once ruined a friendship of mine. This was a shame, because the friend in question was an interesting guy. He wrote a book about his experiences teaching in...

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Recent Posts

Green Lake

Green Lake

Aug 14, 2011

When you look at this photograph, it’s hard to imagine that you are looking into the middle of a major city of 600,000 people, but that’s why we’re called the Emerald City. PIctured above is Green Lake, the geographic center of Seattle’s northern half. It looks like Olympia, feels like the Pacific Northwest of yesterday, and seems like a...

No More Free Ride

No More Free Ride

Aug 13, 2011

You know, being a Seattle taxpayer can feel a lot like being a crack whore. You get fucked, fucked, and fucked again, and when you are laying there, orifice bleeding — your pimp slaps you across the face because you didn’t get fucked enough. Hell, I would go so far as to say that being a Seattle taxpayer is worse than being a crack whore, because we...

The World’s Best Hamburger

The World’s Best Hamburger

Aug 12, 2011

Olympia, Washington. Without a doubt, home to the best burgers in the USA. Big Tom’s, Eagan’s … if you like hamburgers, this is where you should be. Almost. In Thurston County, south of Olympia, literally in the middle of nowhere … sits a small shack that serves the best hamburgers in the world. Not the best hamburgers in the county. Not...

Red Mill Burgers

Red Mill Burgers

Aug 12, 2011

For some bizarre reason, Western Washington has the greatest hamburgers in the USA. The best hamburger I have ever eaten in my life was in Thurston County (which reminds me, I need to write a post about that place), and when it comes to decent burgers, this area of the country is about as good as it gets. Why this is, I do not know. You would think that a...

The Truth About Seattle Rain

The Truth About Seattle Rain

Aug 12, 2011

I am the biggest weather junkie I know. Back in elementary school, I had to enter the Science Fair, so I built a gadget that was supposed to predict the weather. It took temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure readings, and using those three variables, it used an analog wheel with 0-100% drawn on the sides to point to the percentage of rain. Being a...

Photo of the Night: Pine Street

Photo of the Night: Pine Street

Aug 11, 2011

Seattle Stadium

Seattle Stadium

Aug 11, 2011

Now that Qwest Field (which was bad enough) has turned into Century Link Field, the media is trying their best to make “The Link” happen. “There’s a big game tonight at The Link.” “The Seahawks kick off their season at The Link next month.” Personally, I’m not having any of that shit. The majority of this stadium...

The Tip of the Dick

The Tip of the Dick

Aug 11, 2011

Today, my travels through the canyons of bureaucracy took me to a building I like to call “The Big Dick”. The Big Dick is in actuality the Seattle Municipal Tower at 700 5th Avenue, and if you look at this building and tell me that it doesn’t look like a big penis (especially the tip, wtf?), then I submit th at you are a nun. Not one of the hot nuns that...

Photo of the Day: Seahawks Stadium

Photo of the Day: Seahawks Stadium

Aug 11, 2011

Fuck the corporate advertising monikers, call it what you want to.

Sailing

Sailing

Aug 9, 2011

Takes me away to where I’ve always heard it could be. At least that’s what I told Christopher (Mr. Cross if you’re nasty). I just looked out toward Lake Union about half an hour ago (8:30pm), and I noticed sailboats. Lots and lots of sailboats. I’m exceptionally busy this week, and I haven’t had time to look at the calendar of...

The McGinn vs. Seattle Weekly Holy War

The McGinn vs. Seattle Weekly Holy War

Aug 9, 2011

Well, if I’m going to put on knee pads and publicly service Mayor Mike McGinn every time he’s right, I suppose it would be intellectually dishonest of me to completely ignore him when he’s wrong. For those who are not aware, Mike has been embroiled in a controversy with Village Voice Media — the company behind such “alternative” publications as...

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