If you don’t have evening plans, well, the Flip Flops – that’s me and a buncha guys – are the opening entertainment at Gay Bingo tonight at the West Seattle Senior Center – it’s a fund raiser for the center. We’re a real combo, we have a drummer and a bass player and everything. I’m …
I had to make dinner early because tonight was dress rehearsal for our “gig.” It’s important to go to “band” practice well fueled, you need a meal in your belly to absorb the illicit drugs and free flowing alcohol and the groupies, who can be expected to provide – um – gratification, may not show …
On one side of the locks salmon are hurling themselves out of the water into broad daylight just to get up one six inch step in the fish ladder. Their tailfins flail furiously, one breaches the surface of the sound in a perfect arc and plunges back in again. We cheer for them as they …
Disclaimer: Angela Shen, the owner of Savor Seattle, invited me to attend her tour – and kindly allowed me to bring my house guest. I never get tired of the market. When I’m feeling down on Seattle, when it’s February and I wonder what the hell I was thinking moving to this rainy awful place, …
The highway is alive tonight But nobody’s kiddin’ nobody about where it goes I’m sittin’ downhere in the campfire light With the ghost of old Tom Joad. –Bruce Springsteen, The Ghost of Tom Joad In the photo: Banjo player Charlie Beck from The Tallboys. Or, Tom Joad. You decide. [tags]buskers, Pike Place Market[/tags]
I never think twice about the fact that I fuss a bit over my food, push things out of the way in the background, hover over my plate with the lens coated in steam… none of this behavior is cause for second thought. So the fact that the house guest seemed to think this was …