Double Reading

Currently, the Seattle Metro Bus Tunnel is only open on weekdays from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. These hours mean that I rarely use the tunnel. Most of my non-work bus riding is on the weekends or night after 7 p.m.
The good news is that once the tunnel starts having the light rail go to-and-from [...]

I went to the Experience Music Project for the third time yesterday. The first time I loved the exhibit about the history of alternative music (or so I recall that’s what it was about — in particular I remember a special mini-section about the Minnesota music scene which I found awesome and validated my love [...]

Every few months I end up posting a sort of “calendar” of events/things that I am looking forward too (it seems that last fall was good, too). Eventually I do intend to write or find some sort of WordPress plugin that makes this easier and less table/post-ish, but there are just so many things on [...]

I’ve been trying to come up with some sort of an events calendar/database for stuff like upcoming concerts, talks, CD/DVD releases, etc. that are of particular interest to me. So far I haven’t found a solution I like (so I may just write something on my own), so in the meantime I’ll just do a [...]

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has a pretty thorough article on “alternative” (i.e. not just one-passenger cars) transportation in the Seattle area: “A drive toward fewer cars.”
I wouldn’t say that the article has anything terribly profound, but it was an interesting read, nonetheless, especially for someone like me who uses only non-car methods of transportation.
Highlights:

The Pike-Pine neighborhood [...]

On Friday (Jan. 13th), I got to see the Seattle premier of new documentary Zizek! at the Northwest Film Forum. The film is distributed by Zeitgeist Films, a company I became familiar with because they also distributed the somewhat life-changing The Corporation. I’ve know that they were working on a movie about Slavoj Zizek, my [...]

On Thanksgiving I finally moved into a new apartment. I’d been living at my old place for over two years (since I graduated and moved to Seattle in May, 2003), and it felt like time to move.
Funny thing about my family and moving: Notwithstanding the fact I moved from Minnesota to Washington, when people in [...]

My friend from college, Ryan Mello is running for Tacoma Parks Commissioner (position #4). He’s a great guy and I worked with him a lot when he was the ASUPS (our student government) president at my college my sophomore year. Admitedly, I don’t know too much about the Tacoma Parks Board, but I’m sure he’d [...]

I hate to be all gossipy and stuff, but I cannot resist posting this note that is taped to the door on the guy who lives in the apartment next to mine.
It reads:

If I didn’t buzz you in via the front entrance you will not get in this door. I don’t care how loud or [...]

Finally!!! 2046 is opening in Seattle on August 26 and playing at the Harvard Exit Theatre.
I must say, that of all the Landmark Theatres in Seattle, the Harvard Exit is the best for foreign films because the seats are sloped enough so that people’s heads are not in the way and you can actually [...]