Oct 24, 2012

“Check out the park name at 5th Ave. N and Highland” a homeslice just text messaged me. I pulled up Google Maps, and sure enough: Heh. Well, I’ll be damned. It looks like the Seattle City Council strikes again. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m on my way to a certain park in Queen...

Oct 10, 2012

When I was in my teens, I coined a phrase that I’ve been using ever since. “You can be right, or you can be popular, but never both.” While every rule has its exceptions, for the most part, I think the phrase stands up impeccably to the realities of the human animal. I’ve taken a lot of shit from people over the years, and while I have...

Oct 6, 2012

It could be worse. You could live 26 miles south. Beef, Chicken, or...

Oct 6, 2012

“You’ll get sick of it!”, they tell me, “I promise, you’ll get sick of it quick!” I’m in my sixth month of daily ferry commuting, and honestly, I don’t know that I’d have it any other way. Were my company to offer to move across the street from my home, I don’t know that I’d accept. Twice a day,...

Oct 4, 2012

“Do you need your cane?” I wanted to kill myself when my wife posed this question to me. Sometimes, I think Kurt had this one pegged. Maybe it is better to burn out than fade away. On this night, I was seriously wishing that I had. This past Saturday, my back went out again. This made it the third … fourth time this year. I’ve...

Sep 21, 2012

Will it ever end? Seattle is currently in the grips of its worst drought ever. We’re closing in on 70 days without any real, sustained rain. We haven’t broken one tenth of an inch since July. Thanks Lisa Van Cise. Now, people always say to me “Rex, why do you always blame that pale white girl for the weather? She doesn’t control the...

Sep 21, 2012

Sep 17, 2012

It’s so cliche’ to hate tourists, that I really wish I didn’t. I mean, what kind of lame homos take pictures of...

Sep 17, 2012

Sep 9, 2012

Several months ago, my daughter discovered a convention named Sakura-Con, and since that time … she’s been looking forward to its return in April of 2013. That date is a long way off, however, and once she noticed a sign for the PAX convention a couple of weeks ago, her curiosity was piqued. When she went online to read about the event, and learned...

Sep 9, 2012

August 2012 was Seattle’s driest month. Ever. If it stays dry for another two days, this will be the longest stretch Seattle has gone without rain in the history of, well, Seattle. This being the case, surely Lisa Van Cise and all of her colleagues in Seattle meteorology no longer have anything to complain about. Right? Right? Oh, ye of little...

Sep 5, 2012

Dear Internet, If you like what you see … now you know where to go. Enjoy. BFFs...

Aug 27, 2012

I have a very difficult relationship with my blog. I always have. It’s a love/hate relationship if ever there was one. Lately, however, it’s been more hate than love, and a couple of months ago, I seriously considered hitting the almighty ‘delete’ key and putting the Internet out of its misery. It just seemed like the right thing to...

Aug 26, 2012

Download Video: MP4 I’m hanging out at the Crocodile last night, when a band takes the stage and launches into a set of Soundgarden covers, the previous band having just finished up a set of Pearl Jam covers. The night is billed as a Tribute to Layne Staley, and the crowd is an interesting mix of Belltown yuppies, UW fratboys, pretentious...

Aug 25, 2012

You don’t see this kind of graffiti in South Central LA. Can you image a gang running around any other city calling themselves the “Sissies”, and living more than 5 minutes to tell about it? Anyway, now that they’ve eliminated their arch-rivals, the Effervescent Rollin’ Pansies, the Sissies now own the mean streets of Seattle,...

Aug 6, 2012

Have you ever seen a Washington State Ferry collide with a pleasure boat? On Friday, I came close to seeing exactly that. Shortly after 6:30pm on Friday, I felt my boat go into reverse-thrust, and when I looked out the front window to see what was going on .. this is what I saw: Apparently, Seattleites are not just shitty...

Jun 30, 2012

Yesterday, the “Seattle Great Wheel” (shouldn’t it be “Great Seattle Wheel”?) opened, and today, I planned on giving it a go myself. Not just for my own amusement, but to satisfy my civic blogging duty by promoting the neighborhood’s newest attraction. Without support from locals, new endeavors face a precarious future. ...

Jun 24, 2012

I just got back from the Gay Pride Parade. While there, I took these photographs. I’ll be adding more over the next couple of...

Jun 23, 2012

I woke up late this morning. Probably the latest I’ve awakened in the last 5 years. When I finally got out of bed and glanced at the clock, I realized that I needed to get going … and quick. I threw some clothes on, grabbed my jacket and camera, then went into the living room where the rest of the family was already immersed in the latest Nintendo...

Jun 22, 2012

So, this is what it’s come to. This is what the beginning of the end looks like for American technological supremacy. Here we have the “world’s most advanced operating system”, a full decade into development, and backed by the nation’s wealthiest corporation; An operating system with a devoted, almost religious fanbase. What is the...

Jun 18, 2012

“Well, you didn’t get it from me!” “Does this hat make me look gay?” “No, I don’t even like girls!” “All of my shorts are in the wash.” “The molecular weight of Tungsten is 183.84, duh!” So many titles, so little space in the...

Jun 17, 2012

“Father’s Day”. The cruelest of all fake holidays. The day on which men across the nation are reminded that they are, indeed, motherfuckers. Literally. It’s a day on which we are treated as exactly that. Father’s Day is a day on which men are plied with meals, gifts, and token attention … before being presented with the bill...

Jun 9, 2012

Summer has arrived, and you know how I know? Is it the warm weather? Nope, we topped out in the mid 50′s this week. Is it the abundant sunshine? No, it’s rained all week. Have a bunch of naked guys been riding around Downtown Seattle on bikes, wieners flapping in the breeze for all to see? Nope, the Gay Pride parade is two weeks away (and don’t...

Jun 2, 2012

A wife? Ewwww. Kids? No way. A minivan? Not if their lives depended on it. Clothes that fit? Not ’til mom comes by to do laundry. Hula-hooping in Cal Anderson Park? Now that’s something a 35 year-old Seattleite can get up before noon...

May 30, 2012

I took this shot on the ride home this afternoon. Which reminds me … I’m working on a script which detects California IP addresses, and instead of showing them photos like the one above, it instead pulls an alternate image, such as this one. Alas, the geolocation IP databases currently in existence are not very accurate, so I cannot yet implement...