Double Reading

Jobie shared with me a post on the Seattle Transit Blog about lighted crosswalks. I love these and wish we had them everywhere. There is one crosswalk near my work, for example, that’s very dangerous especially at night. As a pedestrian I always assume that cars are out to kill you. This would make me [...]

I’m proud to say that Dan Savage is a Seattle-ite and editor of our weekly paper (The Stranger). I love how he gets Colbert to laugh!!

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 [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]