It's been busy days around chez scarlettina. Planning for this past weekend actually started months ago when garyomaha told me that he and elusivem were going to be in Seattle for a visit. We made some plans--and then suddenly davidlevine was available for a visit the self same weekend. And so began the social whirlwind that this weekend became ( Read more... )

Yesterday while I was at work, I took a break and turned to the SeattleTimes.com website to discover the news about the shootings at Seattle Pacific University. (TheStranger.com has the story without requiring sign-in or subscription. More at The New York Times.) SPU, a lovely, quiet campus, a Christian university, is a one-block walk from my house ( Read more... )

I've been doing this commute for a little over a year now, and I've gotten familiar with the people patterns of my walk from 9th and Stewart to 3rd and Pine. On these walks, I'll typically see the following ( Read more... )

September 9 was my tenth anniversary on LiveJournal. I intend to write about these last ten years at some point very soon ( Read more... )

I've been out and about with the camera a bit lately, and fairly pleased with some of the results. Both last weekend and this weekend, I took mini-trips with friends to take pictures.

Last weekend, I spent some time with CS at the Volunteer Park Conservatory and the Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery (Seattle's Civil War-era cemetery), the former ( Read more... )

One of the things I have long enjoyed about my neighborhood is that I often am reminded that I live near a lake in the middle of the city. Despite the occasional inconvenience of living on the side of the lake farthest from the freeway, it still gives me a great deal of pleasure. And though it's scenic, it's also a busy lake with a great deal of ( Read more... )

This morning on the Queen Anne neighborhood blog, they're asking "What makes Queen Anne special?" And honestly, my answer was: not much. The main drag, Queen Anne Ave, is undergoing the same kind of neighborhood homogenization that so many other Seattle neighborhoods are going through--look-alike apartment buildings and townhome construction ( Read more... )

Movie critic A.O. Scott sends memos to Hollywood to try to spork it out of its collective stupor. Funny and true.

An examination of President Obama as college professor in context of the Supreme Court nominations to come.

Maureen Dowd on the Republican party's floundering and the Professor in ChiefYeah, I'm a whore for The New York Times. You can ( Read more... )

I have to thank dianora2 for her delightful post tonight, which was filled with linky goodness and much pop culture squeeage. If you don't feel like clicking over there, here are a couple of the bits she shared most pleasing to me:

Milky Way galaxy 'tastes of raspberries': Raspberries and rum, apparently. See? If the religious right wanted to prove there' ( Read more... )

..."plowed streets" in Seattle actually means "snow-packed," as in there's snow and ice left on major arterials by design.Apparently, one of the reasons this spate of severe weather in Seattle is so debilitating is that the city has decided that it's environmentally unsound to use salt to melt ice. The city's plows have been equipped with only ( Read more... )