SEATTLE

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
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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
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aurora bridge
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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
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motel pack would make grebt postcards

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alien captured on camera:

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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."

will probably cry if/when this goes dark:

http://www.g1sat.com/images/sce/Seattle_PI_globe.jpg

themediaisdying SEATTLE PI has lost 14 from the newsroom (39 employees laid off in total). less than 10 seconds ago from TweetDeck

themediaisdying The SEATTLE-PI has been put up for sale. If it doesn't sell in 60 days, it will become web only or fold. 4 minutes ago from TweetDeck

this link is somewhere upthread but it's worth a repost because whoever does this seems to be constantly uploading photos. page 1 isn't much today but there are a bunch of great alaska-pacific expo pix on page 2
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlemunicipalarchives/

insight into how the story broke at the PI
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/01/10/_please_join_me_in_the_newsroo

from http://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap/outoftown/washington/seattle/safeco/07-04-08/index.htm
love a double exposure
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not my pic
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The University of Washington has taken the drastic step of closing its doors to new students who want to start classes this spring.

The move, which applies only at the main Seattle campus, comes in response to budget cuts and overenrollment -- both driven by an ailing economy.

see u in march!

hey great!

setting up lunch meeting w/ that opera co! weee!

THE TOWER

first, the P-I
The best decoration for a high-rise is built in, not tacked on. It grows out of a bold, intriguing and thoughtfully detailed sculptural form. The Columbia Center still may be Seattle's best skyscraper simply because it's so strong: No other building expresses attitude, ambition and power so nakedly.

and then, the stranger:

Let's remove The Columbia Tower out of the mud of Cheek's doubt by saying this with no hesitation: It is the best skyscraper in Seattle. And this is so not only because of what it expresses ("attitude, ambition and power") but also because it facilitates cognitive mapping over the widest area. The tower can be seen from my mother's grave in the hills above Renton, and from the east side of Vashon Island, and from the Ave in the University District, and from a considerable length of Aurora Avenue. Its orienting power helps make the city readable and your place in it understandable. It connects you to the center of things—a center that radiates from this one and sure point. When you see it from Magnolia Park or Rainier Avenue or on I-5 not long after passing the exit to the airport, you feel as if you are one of many beings and buildings orbiting this core. And that feeling of being a person in an urban system is the same great feeling of being a planet in a solar system.

tehresa what will you do in seattle