SEATTLE

the bank of america tower is the 51st tallest building in the world

oh bummer for not making the top 50

tallest west of the mississippi when built. once one of the 20 tallest buildings in the world

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...a world with a disco ball that spun lights throughout the huge performance hall. When we came out of the hall into the rain, I felt I was almost staggering, drunk with beauty. And then I heard the sound of a tuba. A man in a sodden, red and white Cat-in-the-Hat hat was husking in the rain. He was terrible. Couldn't even recognize the tune. I put my change in his bucket, next to the dollar already there. He stopped to say thank you and played on.

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i've thought for a while that i want to explore the Duwamish and this seems like a good primer:
http://seattlest.com/2008/10/17/life_on_the_duwamish.php

map here:

http://www.duwamishcleanup.org/uploads/MapOrderForm.pdf

port of seattle parks resource:

http://www.portseattle.org/community/resources/parks/index.shtml

http://slog.thestranger.com/files/2008/10/menacing_poster.jpg

NOW

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NICE

4 those of you who don't know, that's our front yard. notice how nicely trimmed it is.

thank you, waste management:

Starting March 30, 2009, Seattle will add new recycling services, including:

*Weekly food and yard wast collection for all households.
*Subscribers will be able to put leftover meat and dairy in their carts.
*Glass bottles and jars will go in your recycling cart - no more sorting into a separate container!
*More plastics will be recycled, including cups and take-out containers.
*Special curbside electronics and used motor oil collection.
*New low-emission garbage and recycling trucks will dramatically reduce key pollutants in neighborhoods.

(about a year ago wm implemented a program to allow non-meat and non-dairy food waste and food-soiled paper in the yard waste bin. we hardly have any garbage now. with these new services, plus the banning of styrofoam containers which will go into effect in january, we could consider getting rid of the garbage can entirely.)

!!!

what would still need to be thrown away? some plastic?

can't recycle or compost garbage from the bathroom, and yeah some plastic probably. definitely we can downgrade to the smallest size garbage can. but we could do that already if somebody got around to calling.

somebody = me

http://www.soundtransit.org/x78.xml?curID=x9880
http://www.soundtransit.org/images/newsroom/photos/2008/20081107_duwamish.jpg
Blue Duwamish

Earlier this week, the recently installed artwork on the Link light rail elevated guideway over the Duwamish River was turned on. The artwork is a series of steel "ribs" that include clear plastic tubes filled with blue LEDs (light-emitting-diode) lights. The lights will turn on just before a light rail train crosses the Duwamish, and turn off soon after it passes. The Blue Duwamish artists are Dan Corson and Norie Sato. (photo by Dan Corson)

http://seattletransitblog.com/2008/11/17/new-look-pioneer-square-station/

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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?)

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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
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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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