Hooverville at old Skinner and Eddy Shipyard, Seattle
July 20, 1932
90.2.0515 Seattle-King County Public Health Department Photograph Files
Box 1 (112-275), King County Archives
I’m a nerd. So even when doing a 400 word story about a local bar, I do research. I love to do research. I should have been a librarian. There are so many cool […]

I have a lovable scamp of a backyard. Kinda disheveled, mostly wild, but filled with some pretty neat…stuff. Like the bitchinest buttermint ever, a very fruitful Italian plum tree, basil, Greek oregano, lemon thyme, and other stuff to be ate in September. What else could I need? Whatever it is, I’ll just steal from […]

Bill Gates finally got Warren Buffet’s money. I always thought Mr. Buffet was a Scrooge, but I guess he’s making up for it big time. I think my opinion of Buffet stems from one of his employees. Funny story, kinda related, that illustrates the exasperation that can be the rich:
I used to sell wine to […]

Roslyn, Washington was the quasi-inspiration for Twin Peaks, and I would move there in a heartbeat. If I didn’t have to, you know, work for a living.
When you’re coming back from wine country, it’s a most excellent pit stop. It’s a queer pocket of low pressure, rural Washington combining equal parts hippie, weirdo, redneck, […]

Gorging on tortas at the local El Salvadorian bakery, noticed this label and had to try it. It’s weird, non-alcoholic, and I have no frame of reference for its taste.
Think along the lines of a winter ale, brewed with lots of malt. Cross breed it with unsugared root beer, and you come pretty close. It […]

DISCLAIMER: I don’t like Cristal, will never be able to afford Cristal, have never gotten Cristal, and laugh at the big deal made over Cristal. Boozily, as I drink my Camille Savès vintage bubbles that cost 80% less.
Frederic Rouzaud, the managing director of Louis Roederer (makers of Cristal), really, truly, royally fucked up […]

Love Pixar, hate Disney. Love Pixar, hate Disney. But I think this movie is going to be so freakin’ cute. How’d they pitch this one? “Gastrorat in France?” “It’s like Sideways, but with vermin?” Imagine Frank Bruni, redrawn as a rodent with Grover-like coloring?
See mini trailer for Pixar’s Ratatouille.
My one beef (and I know it […]

“…Where’s the Nazi gold, you donkey shagger!?”
Seriously, have you seen the BBC’s The Thick of It yet? The comedy is so dry, it makes The Office seem soggy.
Now come on, did you really think I wouldn’t post about this?
Frontline’s got nothing on Al Gore. An Inconvenient Truth isn’t a left-wing movie or […]