Fish Thursday: Shrimp and Spinach Risotto Edition

It’s been chaos around the Nerd’s Eye View HQ lately. I was down with the plague that everyone in Seattle seems to be contracting and oh, yeah, I bought a house. For a while there, it felt like I would never be off the phone again. Mortgage brokers, escrow, long calls to the foreign office …


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Evil Suburbs Round-Up

As I prepare to move to the urban/suburban frontier, the politics of the suburbs have been much on my mind. If you’re interested in the issue, here are a few links. Suburban Nation: Internet book club, anyone? “…their visionary book holds out hope that we can create “places that are as valuable as the nature …


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C&P Coffee, West Seattle

“What is this, Eugene? We’re in Eugene!” I insisted. We weren’t in Eugene, we were in C&P Coffee, the place that is sure to be the new answer to that ever present Seattle question: Where do you want to go for coffee? It looks like Eugene in there, and I don’t mean in a bad …


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From the Archives: Little Boxes

Freecycle is a fine thing if you’re moving. It’s not just a good way to get rid of stuff that no way are you going to sell. (Plus, who has yard sale in Seattle in March?) It’s also a good way to get boxes. I can almost guarantee that someone in your neighborhood has just moved and empty boxes are piling up about the place. The newly moved and exhausted resident knows they ought to recycle those boxes, but they are too busy finding where the power cord to their speakers has gone or buying shelf paper or they’re unable to leave the apartment because for the life of them they can not find the key.


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Not Quite Heaven, Central Virginia

I have heard tell of weddings where the bride and groom call ahead to a local hotel and arrange for a block of rooms at a somewhat discounted rate. I’ve also heard of weddings where they don’t do that, but they do give you a list of local places to stay that are convenient for …


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