6 posts tagged “seattle”
by no means a complete list:
The Terrace Garden at the Red Lion Hotel (Downtown)
Dexter & Hayes Public House (Westlake)
Stellar Pizza & Ale (Georgetown)
The Fun House (QA)
Sam's Steakhouse (Eastlake)
Pacific Inn (Fremont/Wallingford)
Marjorie (Belltown)
Luau Polynesian Lounge (Wallingford)
Zig Zag (Downtown)
Thumper's (Cap Hill)
the Scarlet Tree (UDist)
The Virginia Inn (Downtown)
The Islander (Downtown/Waterfront)
Roanoke Tavern (2409 10th Ave E)
El Camino (Fremont)
Greenlake Bar & Grill (Greenlake)
Tia Lou's (Belltown)
Teddy's (Ravenna)
Sambar (Ballard)
Collin's Pub (Pioneer Square)
The Red Door (Fremont)
Mulleady's (Magnolia)
War Room (Cap Hill)
Please respond to this post with Seattle outdoor dining/bar spots with neighborhood or street in parenthesis.
I'll start.
- King's Hardware (Ballard)
- Linda's (Cap Hill)
- Tost (Fremont)
- Elephant & Castle (Downtown)
- La Isla (Ballard)
- Rosebud (Cap Hill)
- Contour (Pioneer Square)
- Old Pequilar (Ballard)
[It only counts if you can drink outside.]
The Ex-Millennial Girl blog is a compelling read. A woman about my age left her small town in Florida in 1999 to strip with her best friend in NYC, and they become addicted to opium. And she's good at remembering all the little details and it's just fascinating reading. Plus she's hilarious. "All of [the Canadian] candy bars are like, violently named. Like ‘Punch in the Face’ or ‘Rip Your Mouth Out’ or something."
I also just read On the Take by a UW sociology professor. It was written in the early 70s and it focuses on the crime syndicates and networks in Seattle, but as the author points out can be generalized to any city in the world. But because it is Seattle it was especially fascinating for me. Before they outlawed "cardrooms" for good, the city had gambling stamps (for permission to gamble on premises) second only to Vegas back then. Also as I had just seen Serpico I had the taste for corrupt cops already.
Seattle sounds a lot more interesting and dangerous back then, but the author's point is that just because the big distribution network of graft was eliminated doesn't mean shit ain't still goin' down. He also describes a conversation another reporter overheard from LBJ back in the day, which demonstrated that Johnson could conceivably have been implicated in something that would have made Watergate look like a cakewalk. Good stuff.
Anyway, it's nearly impossible, thanks to the sheer number of people who think Mercer Island's section of I-90 is actually a parking lot. But as long as you think of it as an ocean tide instead of discrete cars, it's simple enough. Just remember, no one else but you is in complete control of their vehicle. After a while, actually, surrendering to the tide is quite nice.
And of course it helps to have a kickass soundtrack.
Let's make a list. What are 20 things in your life that you're grateful for?
Inspired by wyndslash.vox.com.
- having a job
- that pays over 10/hr
- located a quick bus ride away
- having a nice apartment
- living in Ballard
- having the best boyfriend of my life
- Terry Pratchett's inexhaustible output
- Philip K. Dick's amphetemine dependence
- Timothy Powers' finely chanelled insanity
- the years Heller put into Catch-22
- Seattle Public Library's reserve system
- Book Burro
- Perez Hilton
- Terrence McKenna's copious consumption of shrooms and writing about it
- living in Seattle
- Heather G and MXTX
- Soulseek
- Decibel Festival
- hotcrab
- Grand National
How many places have you lived in your life?
- Labadieville, LA. I was born there and we moved away before I turned two.
- Meaux, LA. We bought the house my mother grew up in from my grandmother, and lived there forever. My two younger brothers were born in that house. It was halfway between Abbeville and Maurice, and 30 minutes from I-10.
- Natchitoches, LA. I went to 11th and 12th grades at LSMSA and lived in Caddo Hall, the girls' dorm, both years.
- Durham, NC. I matriculated in 1995 to Duke University.
- Boone, NC. I taught at summer camp (well, assistant-taught, really) for the TIP kids taking Pascal.
- Seattle, WA. I taught at summer camp for the ACE kids.
- Raleigh, NC. I got a programming job in 1999 and worked there for a little under 2 years.
- Redmond, WA. After I got laid off, I moved in with my college boyfriend, who worked at Microsoft.
- Seattle, WA. I broke up with him and moved in with Steve and Erik to form the Cult of the Red Door. Steve and I broke up the Cult in 2004, and I lived in the basement of the editor of Resonance Magazine till he and his girlfriend broke up and wanted me to contribute more rent. Instead I moved in with Reg in Ballard, at Cult of the Red Door Mark II.
In other news, reading Chuck Klosterman's writing makes me extra-glad I'm not really a Gen-Xer. Especially as I like being happy and dancing on drugs. Also, I hate Rod Stewart.
