i've spent the last three and a half hours looking for a copy of the last issue of the P-I. sure enough, everywhere i've been, all the copies were bought by one person. the shoreline and lake forest park libraries both had their copies stolen quickly after they opened, so i couldn't even look at the damn thing ( Read more... )

Seattle has been a two-newspaper town.

The Seattle Times was, until the late 80s, the paper of Seattle's working class, what Emmett Watson once dubbed "Lesser Seattle", people who cared more about food on their plate than what people in other cities thought of us. (Ironically, Watson wrote for the Times from 1983 to his death in 2001, often ( Read more... )

...as i so often am, and i look at the beautiful snow and the clear blue sky and this big honking volcano that looms near our city and downright *over* Tacoma and Olympia, and i wonder how on earth Bobby Jindal is calling volcano monitoring spending "pork ( Read more... )

heinousbitca should be working on her law school applications like a good little bitca. mostly, she has been.

heinousbitca instead spent the last 30 minutes doing this, which she would be really happy to see you spread the link for far and wide, especially to whedonesque...

http://www. ( Read more... )

never you mind the fact that years of mismanagement, public and private, have pushed the economy down the rabbit hole. never you mind that people are starving and the food bank i volunteer at keeps running out of food, that the number of homeless people is spiking, or that people are getting robbed for their food stamp cards in Missouri (oh wait ( Read more... )

so i'm sitting here on the Sounder waiting to begin the journey southward from (n)Everett, and i'm watching my Berocca fizz in my water bottle. a gentleman walking by notices that there is a fizzy bright nuclear orange liquid in my water bottle and asks me if it's Berocca ( Read more... )

Emily and i are listening to some idiot whine about, omg onoz, getting pulled over while talking on his cell phone without using a legally mandatory hands-free communication device. Eventually he cans his over-loud whinefest direected at a number of coffee shop employees who don't give a shit and leaves.

Emily: "What's Latin for 'motherfucker'?"
heinousbitca ( Read more... )

i got rejected from the university of washington. quickly. via e-mail. it's the text message breakup of law admissions.

no, i'm not really okay with this, as the choice is now staying here or law school, and that makes me kind of emo, as moving is scary, expensive, and means having to start everything all over again right as i face this big bad ( Read more... )

i think 2009 is going to be the year of difficult decisions all around ( Read more... )

i know MassMutual is generally not that evil as big multinational investment houses go. they don't underwrite reverse mortgages, they don't back risky paper, and they don't hide behind their bank charter for free money from the government ( Read more... )