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Crane City

I’ve been around the block a few times, but I can say without exaggeration, that I have never in my life seen as much construction as I have seen in Seattle, Washington in 2014. Look left, there are...

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Pollution Makes The Nicest Sunsets

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Better Late Than Never

The 2nd Avenue Bike Lanes arrived last week, and so far, from what I’ve seen, they’re getting decent usage.  Especially for being so new. It’s just too bad another cyclist had to die before they...

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The Strongest Swimmer Takes a Spin

I could start, author, and maintain an entire blog about shitty Seattle-tourist drivers, and have enough material for multiple articles daily. Hell, sometimes it feels like that’s exactly what I’m...

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A Day at the Fashion Show

They’re mad as hell and they’re not, well, okay, they’ll keep taking it, but they’re soo gonna make some more signs. Ah, climate change. Single-most fashionable cause of the last decade. It’s still...

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Nuclear Sunset

“What the fuck is that?” is not my usual refrain when I look out the window during sunset, but on this day it made sense. At first, I thought Bainbridge Island had been nuked, but then I realized that...

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The Passive-Aggressive Vandal

Ahhh, young newcomer love.  Our vandal here is so new to the city, that he/she has yet to realize that, once she feels inclined to do something else, Laura has no intention of “saying” anything....

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Amazon Moves Up

Dominating the view down Westlake Avenue, Amazon’s new tower looks like it’s going to be quite a beast. What a difference a year makes (September 2013):

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How You Gonna Be Mad on Vacation?

I just finished my first 2 week vacation in roughly 10 years, and like pretty much all of my “vacations”, I spent the duration of it in my hometown. You see, I never really understood the notion of...

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Planet Hollywood Comes to Seattle

Hilton’s latest property has been illuminated on the corner of 8th & Pine. I don’t want to say that it looks out of place, but, well, judge for yourself.  Keep in mind that this is the bottom few...

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Monorail Shots

I took a few monorail shots this weekend.  Some of them are on this page.  Some of them aren’t.  Here are the ones that are. Trains are buses for white people. Monorails are trains for tourists....

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Six People Who Wish They Read Seattle Rex

So, like, the HOV motorcycle cop is there every morning now, and every morning, he catches a metric assload of HOV violators. He nabbed six at one time this morning (pictured above). “But how could...

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That Quirky Portland

Portland.   A place so pretentious, that people come to Seattle for authenticity. Portland used to be cool.  Then, as the wage gap widened over the past decade, the offspring of the wealthy moved in,...

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Same Difference

Doggie Daycare. Kiddie Daycare. Same street, same day, one block apart, one blink and you can’t tell which is which. The fate of kids and canines look remarkably similar these days.  Both species...

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Proud to Be an Amarican

Meet Pike Street’s newest grill.  And bar. Masala Grill & Bar will soon open at Pike & 9th, and they promise to offer a cuisine few people have sampled. I was going to speculate about how...

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Everybody Reads Seattle Rex

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Seattle’s Ferguson Social Parade

They’re bored as hell, and they’re not going to take it any more! Believe it or not, I had to work today. Yes, yes, I know, I know, working is sooooo proletariat, and therefore so un-nuevo-Seattle, but...

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A Cowardly Christmas Spawns a Wake-up Call

Child Bullying, minority displacing, priapism curing, emotionally-stunted, psychopathic, pathetic cowards on the lookout for grown-ups or anyone who might be able to fight back. You know, I’ve taken on...

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The 2014 Westlake Center Christmas Tree

  Westlake Center is to Seattle what Rockefeller Center is to New York City, and as you might imagine, the Westlake Tree is our version of the Rock Center Tree. Of course, ours is far nicer, given...

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Seattle Protestors Finally Confess: We Don’t Care About Anyone But Ourselves

Figgy Pudding in Westlake Center It could not have possibly been more clear. Lest anyone have a shred of doubt about the sincerity of Seattle’s Ferguson Protestors, that doubt no longer exists.  The...

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