Free Post Blog Seasons roll on by I chatted with a neighbor today while a city worker took photos of his house for historical documentation. His house and the one next to it (maybe others, too) will be replaced by an 8-story apartment building. He and his wife bought the house
Free Post On the Streets A Fallen Son I caught up with an old friend tonight, and it was fantastic. As the hour approached, I threw up the usual road-blocks. I'm tired. I'm reclusive. Can I reschedule? Grateful
Free Post Blog Never give your parents grief It's a pretty solid rain right now in Seattle. We're very close to the I'm always cold season. It doesn't matter how many layers one wears...always a little cold.
Free Post On the Streets Half of what you see, none of what you hear Today was a good day, yesterday was pretty lousy. Let's start with the lousy. It started off ok. The building manager and the gas meter inspector folks were coming round.
Free Post On the Streets Where are the 24 hour pharmacies? I worry this is turning into the COVID blog. I think I'm in the clear by CDC standards, but I really want to see an actual negative test. I walked up to 15th - the pharmacies at Walgreen's and Safeway were closed. I walked
Free Post On the Streets Vehicular Mysteries Standard warning - this might get a little non-linear. The 10 people who read this weird blog know what they're getting into, but I like to provide a warning so the people in Finland looking to hire a flailing American freelancer aren't put off.
Free Post On the Streets Catching up I hope everyone is enjoying a safe, relaxing weekend. I'd say it's beautiful here in Seattle. For any normal person that would be accurate. A little hot for me. I'm
Free Post On the Streets Happy Birthday! The folks at Corvus celebrated their 5th tonight. It was nice to wander over there for a bit. Explorateur and Smoke Break DJed. Lots of familiar faces. I was very
Free Post On the Streets Limbo Things are as weird as ever. Cue Mr. Byrne - Same as it ever was. I can't make heads or tails of it. I've stopped in at Corvus a couple
Free Post On the Streets How do you know a pandemic is ending? Salivating neocons can gratefully and unabashedly return to the (very distant) sidelines and cheer on the slaughter of Palestinians. Our tax dollars at work. There's probably a box somewhere on
Free Post On the Streets Goodbye Mandy Quinn I realized fairly early on that COVID was coming for the United States. I was in Arizona when I read about the first cases in Seattle. In early February I
Free Post On the Streets Good News Bad News, Chow Hall Eats, Taku, and Adios Privacy Bad news first. Tonight's Chow Hall Eats was something that only an awful cook with a very low bar (it me!) could like. Total fail that I wouldn't serve to
Free Post On the Streets Mid-night in the garden of childhood Does all of Seattle feel like it's under the SEATAC corridor? I feel like 12th Avenue is an approach corridor, but I suspect everyone in the city thinks the planes
