SEATTLE

0:27 saw Nirvana in that crappy building
0:58 they painted it grey/brown. weak

did i ever tell you guys about when i was 15 and i went to seattle and i wanted to see kurt cobain's house and so my dad dropped my sister and i off to walk around and look for it but we never found it and so we left. then later, there was a shot of it on 'unsolved mysteries' and my dad said 'oh hey! that's the driveway we turned around in when you guys were walking around!'

good news today from the stb

Seattle’s City Council approved a streetcar expansion plan in a 4 to 2 vote today by the council’s transportation committee. Four lines in total were approved, the First Hill Line, the Central Line, a Ballard line and a University District Line. The two streetcar lines fast-tracked are the First Hill Line, which has had $120 million in funding approved as part of ST2 that passed last month, and the Central Line, which is meant to be a part of viaduct construction mitigation. The Central Line will replace the defunct Waterfront Streetcar line, which will be finally removed during viaduct construction.

The First Hill line would run from the Pioneer Square or ID tunnel station up Jackson to around Broadway, turn north and follow Broadway up to either John or Aloha. The Central Line would follow First Ave from the Pioneer Square station to about Mercer street. Neither alignment is fixed, and there are groups pushing to change both plans. Some in First Hill want that line moved further west, since it was meant as a replacement for a First Hill subway station, and some along First Avenue don’t like that alignment for the Central Line, believing it would worsen traffic and remove parking along the street.

The vote also approved an extension of the SLU line on Eastlake to the University District, and a line to Ballard either on 15th Avenue or along Westlake through Fremont. Those two lines are not fast tracked. It’s worth noting that there is no funding for either of these lines, and that funding for the Central Line as part of the viaduct replacement is not definite.

Since these routes can be built pretty quickly, both the Central Line and the First Hill line could open by 2012 or possibly sooner. Many in the city want the First Hill line to open much sooner than the funding is scheduled to come on line from ST2 - which allocates funding for the line around 2016 -since construction on the Capitol Hill station is going to disrupt life on Broadway, and bringing the streetcar there could make life a little easier. Final engineering for the First Hill line should be done by February 2009.

crosscut has a good rundown of how the viaduct might play out:

http://crosscut.com/2008/12/11/alaskan-way-viaduct/18703/

looks like surface/transit + maybe a tunnel and tolls. seems like an ok way to go.

rat city roller derby is skating at the key arena next season i'm gonna hook us up with tickets

lol @ fashion here at the theater:

flowy white dress + leather jacket
utilikilt (to show off the tats?)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3131/3108447021_0d0eccbab1.jpg

those colors!

jergins are you going to go to city console next week and ask why wasn't the snow not plowed

city hall. would this building make you more or less likely to go in?
http://buildllc.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/city-hall_05.jpg

where is the fountain that is a wall that you walk through? i went there once. maybe i will find the lol15yearold picture when i am home for christmastime.

i wouldn't want to go in that building even though i am a fan of ugly buildings. what's that penis building in the background?

The Seattle Municipal Tower is a 62-story skyscraper located at 700 5th Avenue at the corner of 5th Avenue and Columbia Street in downtown Seattle. Rising to a height of 220 meters (722 feet)[1], it is the fourth tallest high-rise building in Seattle.

along interbay
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/IMG_0029.jpg

i would totally go into that city hall and also i would go to that baby bar on interbay.

coupla inches fucking with commutes today! so pretty though.

look who walked four miles to work.

got good pix though

articulated bus at 63rd and woodlawn
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/1229641394.jpg

aurora bridge
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/1229651983.jpg

nice work (both walking and pix).

i bussed both ways with no trouble, just a long wait for the 44 both ways.

better pictures to come

i drove around today. drove up to mountlake terrace in the morning. it was truly fun. some of the xmas songs i had playing sounded perfect. i listened to "if we make it through december" 3 times. i was later listening to a bollywood comp, and Asha Bhosle - In Aankhon Ki Masti meshed so well with the snow and snowfall. it was a pleasing moment.

the only shitty part is parking. parking on hills is a ball sack.

i love these pictures

thanks!
aurora motel assortment pack
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3247/3119321405_8ef1d1bf39_m.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3095/3119320757_fd68a045e2_m.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3284/3119320361_2c58246a19_m.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3024/3119319685_f1ddd85993_m.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3235/3120161404_7195df52c1.jpg

motel pack would make grebt postcards

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3103/3119340657_d90bb200bc.jpg

alien captured on camera:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3283/3120901948_8dc50054d1.jpg?v=0

22.1 on the porch guys

it's on the other thread but we gotta catalogue it here
over i 5, the main highway
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/i5bus.png

http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_121908WXB_bus_hangs_over_I-5_TP.7ba7cab9.html

http://i41.tinypic.com/2lu5jdl.jpg

giant headline this morning:

IT'S TIME TO START PRAYING!

i was all WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY PREDICTING ARMAGEDDON NOW?! but then i realized it was a quote from one of the people on that bus.

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/spaceneedlenewyears.jpg

http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/seattle.jpg

is that our young tza downtown?

1997!

nice. that was the fountain i was thinking of.

lingbert did u hit the town for new year's?

went to a dinner with a friend at her friend's place. it was crabs and steak and salad. i remembered why i never eat crab. what a fucking huge hassle for the smallest of payoffs. then went back to her place and hung out with her bro and his gf. then we walked up to a party another friend of hers was throwing in some tea bar kinda near chop suey. i went to bed late. i thought i set my alarm but apparently not because my supervisor woke me up 30 min after my shift was supposed to start and wanted to know if i was still coming in. oops.

oh the party at the tea room was a masquerade ball theme and had techno djs playing. i didn't know about the theme before going out though. so i just masqueraded as a someone.

i approve of your crab policy, it's identical to mine.

did people guess who you were?
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the majority of the people there didn't acknowledge my existence, but they were probably thinking hmm i wonder who that special someone is

the P-I is likely to shut in the next few months

:-(

i hate their dance critic-dude is a straightup dick-but that's small consolation.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/facts/

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is the oldest morning newspaper in the state of Washington and has a following throughout the Northwest. It has been "The Voice of the Northwest since 1863."