I cannot properly describe how happy I feel after this election. One thing I will say is that I am extra happy to be living in a vibrant neighborhood throughout all of this. Seattle was unabashedly Obama territory and the happiness felt here is overwhelming.

Here is what Seattle looked like after Obama's victory speech. Horns were honking and people ( Read more... )

So, yesterday Breanne and I were walking around Capitol Hill, running some errands, when we walked by The Egyptian Theater. The Egyptian does the “midnight movie” thing, where they show cult classic movies at midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. Earlier in the day, I passed by it and saw that the midnight movie for this weekend was THE HOLY RAIL. I ( Read more... )

Having parts of you ripped out and thrown away is a funny thing. It's been a long time coming - I really should have done it much earlier - but I just had my wisdom teeth extracted yesterday. I was really supposed to have them yanked out back in Boston about five years ago (and probably earlier than that), but then I decided to go back to school, ( Read more... )

Like any self-respecting nerd, I'm interested in video games and gadgets. Oddly enough, I've never really owned a video game console. I've always played my games on computers, going way back to my first Commodore 64. Never owned a Nintendo NES, or Super Nintendo, or Sega Genesis, or PlayStation, or Xbox. None of them. Just my series of computers. I ( Read more... )

If there's anything classier than drinking champagne while eating miniature white-powdered donuts in the middle of the day... I don't want to know about it. I just might be the first person ever to do that. Pretty good for a non-alcoholic with a job and a reason to live.

You know, I've always been a bit disappointed that I never once looked out my window and saw a naked woman in an opposite window across the street. It's sort of expected of a young man. How many movies and television shows have I seen where some lad looks through his window, maybe through a telescope, and sees an attractive woman taking off her ( Read more... )

As I walk out of my house this morning to go to work, just across the street I see that someone has written LABIAS! on the sidewalk in chalk. Just as I look up from that I see this man who looks like Super Mario, except that he's wearing a Superman t-shirt and a full-length red cape, but the rest of his outfit consisted of jeans, work boots, and a ( Read more... )

Fremont just started up their season of outdoor movies a week ago. Breanne and I attended last nights showing of Airplane. Oddly enough, Breanne likes Airplane-style humor but had never seen the actual movie ( Read more... )

So, Breanne and I are deciding on something to do. I suggest that we go out to eat somewhere. Suddenly, I notice a bug crawling around the ceiling. I grab a tissue and get the bug. Sorry critter, no catch and release program here. I squish it. Then my nose starts running. I'd been a little sniffly while recovering from a summer cold. So without ( Read more... )

I'd never heard of the Convergence festival before this year. It's an annual goth convention that has a different theme each year. This year's (the thirteenth Convergence) theme was “A dark Victorian dream”, which is right up my alley. It was the Victorian element that attracted me more than the gothic part of it; although I have never considered ( Read more... )