hello i am coming to visit u lxyjerginsjaq

one possible route: 101 to florence and then over and up i-5
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I did that very route! I loved the total rainforest feeling on the road between from Florence to Eugene, giant drippy ferns etc.

I lived in Madrona, just north and above the part of Leschi that is down on the lake. Have eaten down there (Bluewater bistro, Daniel's broiler mostly) and shopped in the Leschi market, but haven't really explored it. I think the part that is up the ridge and south of the Madrona fault has a different feel, more CD than shishi.

Definitely go see art - if you are here for second Saturday, the whole of Georgetown throws open its doors. Also - Fantagraphics.

thanks for all these hospitality offers but as i explained to jaq: i get really weird about staying at ppl's houses, idk why but it gives me major anxiety. so we'll just stay at motel or something.

jordan is PSYCHED for fantagraphics!

and i am PSYCHED for lxyjergzjaq!

tomorrow i'm gonna try making hokey pokey biscuits with this lyle's golden syrup BUT i read somewhere that it doesn't taste the same as nz's chelsea GS. if successful i will bring a batch with me! also: chocolate afghans and anzac biscuits.

this is off topic but smoove i just ordered some books from chance press and now i'm so excited.

It is no worry smoove! Let us know if you want hotel/motel recs.

estela, those chance press books are put together with so much <3! I'm excited for you to get them.

they are! when i saw j&j in sf last year they gave me a beautiful book, and also showed me other things they were working on.

i mean the year before last.

thanks for ordering <3stela! i will throw a little something extra for you!

<3

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ruby, please will you send me your mailing address?

yes! <3 also you should be getting your envelope of books v v soon - i think we mailed it a week ago??

i emailed it to your yahoo address

<3 got it.

counting down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK HERE IT IS:

we get into seattle sometime in the afternoon on thurs may 26th, and we are staying at the maxwell hotel, 300 Roy Street
Seattle, WA 98109,
and we leave early sunday morning for vancouver.

we don't really have any plans for seattle at this stage, apart from a visit to fantagraphics, so we are totally open to hanging with all you guys whenever.

i will try not to eat all the ANZAC biscuits before we get there!!

OMG this is really going to happen!!!

fantagraphics is in our neighborhood (and jaq's) so is convenient for combining with faps.

i want to cook for you, and last weekend i got all kinds of funny vegan 'meat' from the adventist market in walla walla so, can i cook 2x for you? because i also want to make for you my specialty tacos.

unless you eat the ANZAC biscuits in which case, well, i just don't know if we'll be available. ;)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that is so nice of you to buy weird vegan meats!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

you can def cook for us, we would love that! i was thinking that maybe we could go pick rodney up on one of the days and force him to be our tour guide and then bring him to a fap?? i need to actually let him know i am planning to kidnap him, first.

Do you like China Mieville? because he is doing a reading at a bar on 5/28 and it will be awesome.

My house is so not vegan, but I would like to offer our yard/grill for pitch-in bbq fapness with all and sundry.

oh i would have bought them anyway. y'all are just lucky with your timing!

sure sure, the rev is welcome too.

i can't wait to see you! though i guess technically i should say 'meet' you, but that seems weird cuz how is it possible we've never met before?

xp (lol THAT doesn't happen very often over here, does it?)

so, why don't we do an all-included fap at jaq's on the kidnap night (and i can contribute weird vegan meat for grilling), and then we'll have a smaller J&J&J&L dinner where we talk about art and stuff at my house on the other night?

or something. i guess there's a 3rd night to consider, too.

sounds good to me!

may I claim Friday 5/27 evening for bbq then, b/c I am going to that Mieville reading on 5/28.

oh i forgot to say - i've heard the name but never read the books

p.s. i am bringing anzacs instead of hokey pokey as mentioned earlier up thread because 1. anzac biscuits are better 2. my hokey pokey biscuits were a huge FAIL 3. and if you like brownies i will also bring a pan of my AMMMMMMMMMMMMAAAAAZING VEGAN BROWNIES. yes.

should i bring trivial pursuit?!?!?!?

rodney is only free thurs or saturday :/

ok rodney can make it friday but he's busy till 5pm, so we'll see if we can plan to be doing something where he is, pick him and bring down

and email me your addresses so i can start googlemapping that shit

oh you are staying in my old hood! please to say hi to queen anne for me <3
jealous of seafapping!

ps ruby, bring all the baked goods you can manage and why not also bring trivial pursuit!

so excited!!!

i'm counting down!!!!!!!!!!!

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i'm so wistful.

it's not too late to buy a ticket and meet us there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

do you really want to miss out on my amazing fudgey super chocolatey brownies and awesome sugary buttery anzac biscuits???????

now i'm even wistfuller.

how i wish i could be there, crunching on an anzac biscuit and towering over you in my stockinged feet.

ruby. is it time yet?

sooooooooooooon!

now?

really really soon!

p.s. i'm worried about the baked goodies getting stale - the latest i can bake them is saturday, and we won't be in seattle till thursday... will they be gross by then?? i don't have much experience in this area, bc baked treats usuallly only last 2 days max in our house

anzac biscuits were purposely designed to not go stale, during WWII women in nz and australia used to bake them and mail them to the troops in europe who sometimes wouldn't get them until months later.

i can't vouch for the brownies though.

so ruby, if you can't resist digging in during the trip, go for the brownies first, since they're an unknown.

and since i've never had an anzac biscuit.

i am, as estela would say, chuffed.

jergins asked this weekend did i have harbl's phone number. he was going to text to ask what kind of food does harbl like.

i said i think she likes halal meats.

oh i like all kinds of food but i do not like pork. so yeah halal. i don't really eat beef either. anything!

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our house is going to have all its windows out, but maybe they will be back in in time for your visit harbl!

i don't need windows, just wine

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5 days :)

XD

2 days!

i wish i could meet ole harbly.

have fun, harbl!!

i didn't leave myself enough time to do all the things before i go! i'm getting off the computer i promise

omg today yay!

i will be greeting our harbl in the transit tunnel (international district/chinatown station) in 5 hours

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4 hours to go!

3!!

yay! jealous!

2! TWO! II!

she's on the ground and headed to the ID!!!

oh my

i am at the meeting point. next train arr in 2 minutes!!!!

saw an old guy w a big white beard & a suitcase lurking at the meeting point, and kinda freaked for a sec.

train now arriving!!!

Hooray! Jarbl masterclass time!

hi i'm harbly posting on lxy's computer

haha i saw the thread had been updated -- by me! -- and i couldn't remember posting this morning loll.

harbl, how is your visit going? how do you like seattle?!

harbl sez: my visit is going well. i like seattle.

we desperately needed a jarbl set up at dinner tonight :( I don't know where all those rotters came from, but suddenly they were everywhere.

my visit was so fun and lxyjergins are so nice
but i love baltimore :D

aww harbly. i miss you! thanks for coming to visit, it was super fun!! <3<3<3

harbl what was your favorite part of seattle?
where did you go?

we went everywhere you can go in two days, i think. i liked georgetown! i also liked the beach. most of all i loved the produce market though! i was thinking about it just now. we also went to kubota garden which was great. and tacky flea market, we got a sambusa from a somali lady and it was delicious. also the best public library. i did go to mine yesterday and did not lament its lack of things, i like them both.

also jaq's shower is awesome :)

<3 kubota!