Monthly Archives: June 2007

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Taller Than The Space Needle, And Cheaper

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Um, why doesn’t everyone just do this? No, believe it or not, I’m not talking about my roof, although I think that is just as good as the Space Needle…

I wish I had known about it when everyone else was here too…

The Columbia Center is the tallest building in Seattle, 12th in the US. FYI, it was 5$. The Space Needle is 16$. Seriously. The view was incredible.

Also of note, they contend there are more lawyers in this building than in the whole of Japan. It’s just what I heard.


www.officespace.com

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The First Floor Is Below You

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Bill Speidel’s Underground Tour is mostly worthless. No, wait, I got a 2$ beer out of the deal. And well, we were in places you can’t get to without the wristband. And I learned a little history. I guess it was fine…
DID YOU KNOW that UPS started as laudanum drug runners for prostitutes? Me neither. Juicy.

Basically, Seattle – the original downtown, Pioneer Square – burnt down in 1889 or something (wiki it). They were in a hurry to rebuild, because at high tide they were getting wet. They wanted to raise the ground, but it was taking too long. People rebuilt their buildings, then along comes the city and raises the streets. Really. You had to use LADDERS to get from the street to the store front. It was muddy and yucky and unsafe and lots of drunk guys died falling off the street. Really. Finally they filled in the sidewalks, and made the second floor the first. THEREFORE there’s stuff underground. Still with me?

We took the 90 minute tour yesterday and had a great guide. He made it fun, and told the stories in order to help you imagine you were looking at amazing things. Unfortunately, after the ensuing Klondike Gold Rush and WWII plundering, you’re left looking at very little. I respect that they kept things the way they were, but wouldn’t mind a little help; pictures or drawings or little recreations to help me visualize what on earth that could have been like.

There was an old toilet:

underground tour

There, I just saved you 20$. You’re not going to make me go again, are you???

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Lincoln Park

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I know, I know, I started singing silly songs too…but it’s beautiful, a park in west Seattle on the water with at least 50 tables and cookout spots.

lincoln park
www.cityofseattle.net

That’s what we did today. I would live in West Seattle forever, if I could. The neighborhood is so…neighborhood-y, in a good way. I would need a dog, of course, or two.

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Summer Can’t Start Without It

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As I mentioned here, Fremont is the Center of the Universe. So it should come as no surprise that this is the tag line for their Annual 5k Fun Run. We went down there yesterday to observe the 40-some-odd teams of five that ran the “Briefcase Relay”. You must be in business attire from the waist up, and hilarious as possible at all times. Your briefcase must contain the Yellow Pages, with which you run 1k, and pass off like a heavy, useless baton. I know it’s not that far, but the relay clearly confused a couple peeps. We were duly entertained.

fremont sign

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Snoqualmie Falls

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Also we did this. Snoqualmie, it’s just fun to say, isn’t it? Snow-quaaaal-mieee.

About 30 minutes out of Seattle, Snoqualmie is a quaint little town that has falls. That’s about it. And a power plant, attached to the falls. But it was lovely, even as we enjoyed the views with the school bus load of kids – my height, whatever age. This also may or may not be the falls that chick took the most recent ‘Bachelor’ to, I can’t remember.

snoqualmie falls
www.snoqualmiefalls.com

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Sasquatch By Numbers

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The thing that is so hard about Sasquatch, you see, is that it was awesome. I want to brag and brag. But I’ve been kept from that, because I can not tell a blog lie. There were also things that made me want to fire whoever was in charge. Here are some facts:

Five Good Things

  1. Camping at Wildhorse, not the event space
  2. Sleeping the drive out there
  3. A highly entertaining kite with a string full of empty beer cans
  4. Ghostland Observatory, Bjork, Spoon, Interpol
  5. The hot sun and happy smiling faces

Five Bad Things

  1. Day Two – waiting in line
  2. Day Two – waiting in wind for music
  3. Aziz Ansari
  4. 10$ beers, and hamburger diet (good thing – nippers)
  5. Nearly fainting (good thing – KD saving my life)

It really was split down the middle for me. We were constantly comparing to ACL (we’re so spoiled) – it wasn’t as hot – good, there was a line – bad. There’s more. Our group had the only members of the “no shirt club” that weren’t gross. There were crazies everywhere. We drank Sparks, version 2.0, which I didn’t know existed. The boys got in the zero degree water. I slept like a log. On the ground. MK had SB’s Sasquatch shirt on. It was windy. Oh, I mentioned that. We snuck in beers, and vodka. We danced, we partied til the break of dawn. Come on party people, is that so wrong?

Get it?…

The venue was beautiful, but difficult to get good sound. There was Luca Libre wrestling (where you could find MK at any given moment). Sarah Silverman also sucked. AC and I did the worm and the pencil roll on the hill.

Here’s the list of bands I saw: Two Gallants, Ghostland Observatory, Grizzly Bear, Tokyo Police Club, The Blow, The Hold Steady, Neko Case, Bad Brains, The Long Winters, Spoon, Manu Chao, The Arcade Fire, Interpol, Bjork, Beastie Boys.

That is to the best of my recollection, those with me may disagree.
I am missing so much. It was a crazy weekend. And a good weekend. And I can’t complain.

And if you CLICK HERE – you can see the pictures!!

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Pioneer Square

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We just did this. It was lovely. I want to be an artist. The only thing that was missing was the free liquor, but then we found out that there was some, we just missed it. Figures. The whole square was full of vendors and the day cleared up well.

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May Tally

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Well, readers, the time has come. Despite this being my worst “working out” month in forever, I may have managed to walk off all the bad food and beverages. I have reached my all time fitness goal – measured not by weight, which has been going up – lb. of muscle being heavier and smaller than lb. of fat and all that – but simply by pants. I am a real deal, not too tight, size! 2! pants!. Well, size 2 everything. Which has come recently from the size!3!pants! post. I’m bikini ready. No longer worried about weight issues, about changing.
Final count on the Calendar of Progress:

  1. The letter W (for weights) appeared a total of 4 times.
  2. The letter C (for cardio) appeared a total of 13 times.
  3. The letter D (for drinking) appeared a total of 500-ish times.

I hurt my knee pretty badly at the beginning of the month, and then have been hanging out with company, but I’m satisfied. So satisfied, in fact, that my monthly posts will no longer focus on counted days. I’m going to try and share the new things I’ve started doing, picking a month and targeting a core area in addition to the required cardio. I’m now in maintenance mode.

mouse determined
www.mis-minich.de

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Oh Hai, Rly – In Ur Blog

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Three months ago or so, I noticed that I can has cheezburger was, and has remained, the top blog on WordPress. Then I saw this cute little article in the Houston Chronicle, entitled “I’M IN UR NEWSPAPER WRITIN MAH COLUM” that made me laugh some more. It’s not the pictures, it’s the 1337 speak text associated, (you might call it typos…) that has me encouraging the site by stopping by every so often and going through way too many pictures. Now I’m encouraging you. Take a peek, pleez. LOLcats. So silly.

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