Seattle fucked up 2008 already

Oh, and let this be the new all purpose Seattle thread.

works for me. Happy New Year, Seattle ILXors! Oh, and the rest of y'all, too :)

Fuckin' 2008.

That's right, no more wondering how is it should i move there. Now we know where we stand, eh?

makes me glad I got out.

11 years ago.

oh and the hawks are done glitching for the season. In the nfc west there isn't much incentive to play consistently until january.

THE LAND OF A 1000 HOMOSEXUALLY CLAPPING SEAN ALEXANDERS!!!!1

OK, so bets on Packers vs. Seahawks?

seattle defense 31, green bay 28

Seahawks fans are the worst thing about living in Pioneer Square.

go jags

but Jaq! SQUAWK SQWAWK YEAH HASS. ELL. BACK. WOOOOOOO!

I'm still a fan somewhere inside, but I don't want to deal with Seattle fans pretending to be upset about the Hawks not making the playoffs or not winning the Bowl this year.

Hahahaha! Was that you in the alley all day long then Mackro?? :~)

http://i6.tinypic.com/7xo3jns.jpg

but jaq, i can't get enough of the ironic playoff stache mmmmmm

it was the only way thy could beat the our-safety-got-blammed emotion factor. hasselbeck growin a cop stachhhhe and then shaving it off. that was the only way.

http://data1.blog.de/media/943/1992943_b0acb0721f_m.jpeg

HASSELSHOP NOW

http://i4.tinypic.com/6ovgz9t.jpg

ALEXANDER IS FURIOUS

turning to god is so hawte

but god loves favre more

(YAY TO JAQ AND MR. JAQ.. NO MORE HAWKZ NOIZE)

wow, that was rapid sleet

What, here and gone again sleet?

more like hum de hum barely drizzling about to do a little grocery shopping for a few minutes then go outside and WOAH SHIT IT'S RAINING TINY CUBES EVERYWHERE.

Hail, surely.

no, it was freezing rain. It wasn't a thunderhead type thing. These were mostly clear little bits of ice, not big honkin white spheres of pain.

Tiny cubes? Were you caught in a cubic storm?

I had my own interesting storm happening. Driving home this evening, there was a discarded christmas tree right in the middle of the street. I pulled over and dragged it to the sidewalk, wondering how many people had driven around it without doing anything about it.

People have been leaving tableaus? art projects? installations? next to our street-level door for the past few weeks. Parts of a futon assembled like a fence with a fir tree and an office chair within. A crown from one of the many Nutcracker statues and a pile of empties. This last Sunday's (another tree/chair combo) was accompanied by a serious dusting of flour. Maybe someone was coming to set one up your way Rev and it fell off the bicycle.

Will post pics of the beautiful Olympic Mtns I took from the rooftop of my work building this morning.
(brrrr oooh ahhh)

OK, the roof was like an ice-rink, so I couldn't navigate easily, but i was able to snap this. Apparently we got more snow on the ground than the Olympic Peninsula did(?), based on closer inspection. At least it was a clear enough morning, although hazy from the city sublimating.
http://i6.tinypic.com/6oeqj3o.jpg

Adjacent side of roof allows this window for the space needle between all the skyscrapers
http://i10.tinypic.com/6xbjui0.jpg

My fave pic. Top of the Smith.
http://i7.tinypic.com/6stc8k6.jpg

How dare you live in an area of great natural beauty.

All i can say it falling onto the spire of the Smith would really fucking hurt!

Kinnear Park today:
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/alingbert/DSCN0939.jpg
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h89/alingbert/DSCN0942.jpg

why would you do that

"eat shit and dye"? What color dye?

"Oooh, that 'YEMES' art installation on the sidewalk looks runerific!"

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004140976_webgaycaucus23.html

I know this is totally juvenile but
SECOND-LARGEST GAY CAUCUS
SECOND-LARGEST GAY CAUCUS
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ok there

haha actually they spelled it "Seond". Seattle Hard Times indeed.

My dad is old friends with the outgoing rep, Brian Sullivan. He owns a pizza place in Mukilteo that's gone to shit since Brian stopped managing it on a day-to-day basis. The name Liias sounds familiar, I'm thinking I must have gone to school with one of his younger siblings.

At least they aren't trying to be pretentious, like the "artists" who painted "1+1=3" all over the U-District.

Apparently Washington state's Dem caucus, four days after Super Tuesday, might actually matter, since apparently it's impossible to determine a clear winner after Super Tuesday. We have just under a 100 delegates to split. Hat tip to Slog.

Cool, cool, cool.

I nominate the Reverend for preznit.

You can be my Secretary of Sanitation.

CLEANING UP THE STREETS
FOOLS TO BE MULCHED

Do you think a Reverend/Ghostface Killah ticket would take off?

THIS IS MY COUNTRY NOW, BOOTCHES

hahahaha

"I SAID A BANANA NUTRAMENT, MAN! Y'ALL HEARD THE FUCK I SAID! I GAVE YOU -- I WROTE IT ON THE FUCKIN' PAPER, MAN!" [/vp ghost]

shopping mall, but maybe wall is more apropos.

I don't think anybody has anything good to say about Auburn unless they own a house there.

There is a good italian place in downtown Renton called Armondo's.

http://www.armondos.com/

I said I was going to see Radiohead if they played somewhere in the NW and they called my bluff. I would have preferred the Gorge (closer, and I've never been there) but alas.

I highly recommend Omar Al Khayam in dwntwn Renton.

where is the best mongolian bbq? (fuck yelp, i trust you guys more)

also, what are some good seafood places in ballard?

out by shilshole there's ray's boathouse if you want some upscale action

i keep reading shilshole as shithole

it wouldn't surprise me if there was a place somewhere in washington called shithole bay

my family stayed in a little house in Ballard right on the water by the locks, and there was a little restaurant near there (pretty sure it had "lock" in the name -- maybe "The Lock Spot"?) that I remember having pretty good clam chowder. it was pretty cold and rainy the day we went there, though, so any soup probably would've tasted good. also, our waiter was overly friendly and gave everybody nicknames. my mom was "slowpoke" because she couldn't decide what she wanted to order. I think my little sister was "sport". despite this, the meal was still enjoyable.

wtf??? motherfuckers killed the tuba guy... I hope they rot in jail forever

RIP

this is so fucked

I know.:( and it was right by the big QFC and Silver Platters, too. 5th and Mercer. Fuckin EMP is there!

I can't remember the number of times I've walked that corner.

Seattle in the NY Times, again!

also in the NY Times, Seattle sports today 'worst ever' shocker

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/sports/21washington.html?ref=us

“I like the Redskins because Jim Zorn is their coach,” Sir Mix-A-Lot said. “If you stopped in Seattle and had a cup of coffee, I’ll root for you. That’s how desperate I am.”

“This is the worst sports scene in the history of sports scenes,” said Brian Robinson, a real-estate investor who co-founded the group Save our Sonics makes a lot of money.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/389051_mallshooting23.html

wtf

Second shooting at Southcenter this year, though the other was not in the mall but the parking lot.

As a hopeful close to this thread, looks like David Schmader is going to be riffing on bad movies throughout December -- as he did on the Showgirls DVD. Here's the full link.

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2008/12/03/starting_next_monday_night_at

It happens at the Central Cinema, and here's the movie schedule

MON DEC 8: Battlefield Earth
MON DEC 15: Leonard Part 6
MON DEC 22: Can't Stop the Music
MON DEC 29: Road House
MON JAN 5: Rhinestone
MON JAN 12: Gigli

You can probably count me in for Can't Stop The Music on 12/22

Schmader's commentaries are fun; I hope to catch at least one of these (maybe Road House, though Leonard Part 6 would also be great).

Seattle folks, we are planning a holiday open house at our new flat, either for the 20th or the 27th. Cast your votes now, and hope to see you all there.

the 20th!

Also re: Schmader. Food and booze will apparently be provided to your seat. Tickets look to be $8 each, via Brown Paper.

There's a series pass for all 6 for $30! That might be too much badness all together.

hey open house! that will be fun. whatever day works for others, it'll work for me, though i might get there late.

I'll try not to put a time limit on this one :)

:)

20th please!

I never know what I am doing that far in advance, so I'll just try to make it, whichever date you call.

20th

Peter Buck can open strip club across from Safeco Field. Mariners, Inc. complain it's immoral. Seattle Department of Planning and Development is all nelson.laf

different peter buck btw

i know, but only if

if the new four seasons and SAM can coexist next to a strip club the safeco field can stfu

I love the fact that there's a strip club accross the street from SAM.

erm...just for the juxtopositional value, of course

Not bragging, but I had a friend who danced there. I never went in, but used to get a rise out of her by threatening to.

"get a rise"

my ex used to dance at one in san diego
this was long after i went out with her though. i was still friends with her brother, who threatened to go watch her dance. wtf dude

whenever we had fields trips to SAM, while we were waiting to get on and off the bus we would heckle everyone walking into the lusty lady. nothing's better a bunch of 5th graders yelling at you while you're walking into a strip club.

my mom still lols about the time the hammering man fell down and the lusty lady sign said 'LET US ERECT THE HAMMERING MAN'

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/lusty_lady.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Lusty_Lady_marquee.jpg

Weather this coming Monday, December 15th, for Seattle via Yahoo:

Sunny
High: 26F (-3C)
Low: 11F (-12C)

"yeah? well, that's SUMMER in MINNEAPOLIS!"

"Seattle folks, we are planning a holiday open house at our new flat, either for the 20th or the 27th. Cast your votes now, and hope to see you all there.

― Jaq, Thursday, December 4, 2008 12:00 AM (1 week ago)"

this still happening jaq?

also, that is pretty cold

yeah, the weather peeps are all talking about "oooh we're going to go down to the teens", but hell that's PRE-teen wtf?

Oh yeah, Ya Ho Wa 13 are playing at the Nectar Lounge monday night. Those poor dudes are going to die! (they're from l.a. u c)

Here is Ya Ho Wa in their earlier days

http://www.furious.com/perfect/graphics/fatheryod1.jpg

Father Yod, the middle guy, died in an accident in 1975 icydk, so needless to say, he won't be touring with the band.

this still happening jaq?

No, I can't face it just now. Sorry.

aw jaq. i <3 you and thanks for lunch this week.