My new neighbor
This is my new neighbor, Rusty. I have serious dog envy.
Seattle
Seattle goings on
Sound and fury
Last night on my new favorite PBS show, About Us, we watched 30 Frames a Second, a documentary about the WTO riots in Seattle. There wasn’t really much of a takeaway from that for me because, after all, I was here for it. Watching this film did bring it all back, it totally encapsulated the …
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Do not, under any circumstances, go to Agua Verde on the first sunny night of the season. You will be last to be seated, you won’t get the agua fresca you want or maybe you will, you’ll be lectured for standing on the pier where the kayaks are. You will wonder if all of a …
Water songs
Friday night, Quoc Te: Karaoke singer through the fish tank Sunday morning, Alki beach: kid with guitar and coffee. I like to think they’re both singing “Beyond the Sea.”
Sunday Morning
The city doesn’t really start moving until pretty late in the day on Sunday so that’s a good time to go for a walk.
Dream a Little Dream
Last night I dreamt I was having dinner with Ronald Reagan. We were having a big row about the President’s plan to overhaul – I mean privatize – social security. Reagan was saying that we would “create responsible citizens” blah blah blah. You know the line. But I was insistent that the only thing we’d …