Average local yelp restaurant review:

So my sisters boyfriend was in town and we decided to go out and have a good time because he is super awesome and she loves him so much. We went all around Seattle and saw the sights, and we splashed in the fountain because she had totally never done that before but we totally did today and it was fun. Soon we got hungry and we went to this local restaurant known for its great food apparently. We had to wait in LINE because the bitchy hostess said something about reservations and a weekend. After we finally got seated after FOREVER because all these people who had called ahead kept showing up, I was TOTALLY BUMMED that they didn't have anything that was vegan, gluten free, fat free, or bike friendly. What kind of place is this? I mean, everyone said it was totally awesome, but when we got there all they had was this fancy menu stuff that I couldn't read, and I totally don't even know what bechemel is anyway. IDK it just seemed not as great as everyone said it was. Two stars.

I'm looking for recommendations for the best (be it by price or by selection or by your own arbitrary criterion) ethnic and specialty grocers. I am specifically seeking:
-mexican/south american (bonus for anywhere that makes fresh corn tortillas)
-persian (specifically seeking sumac and pomegranate syrup here)
-indian
-kosher (somewhere with a decent selection of israeli imports would be nice, bonus points for a good selection of kosher/israeli wines)
-cheesemonger (preference for somewhere that will cut-to-order by weight, rather than having pre-cut and cello-wrapped cheese)

While proximity to where I'm living is nice (which would be South Everett), I'm willing to make a trip for good quality and well priced foodstuffs.

Dear Greenwood Arsonist,

We get it already. You like to set stuff on fire and watch it burn. Spiffy. Different strokes for different folks and all that.

How about this: instead of setting places where people are trying to conduct business on fire, if you're going to torch something else, how about the old McDonalds on Greenwood Ave. which has been sitting vacant for the last couple years? You could burn it down and do the community a favor by ridding us of the eyesore. Besides, I bet there's all sorts of grease and flammable stuff in there which would catch pretty well.

You could even stay inside and watch to see first hand the sort of effect your fires have on buildings from that side. Sounds exciting, doesn't it. Why not give it a try? After all, I think you're the one person I could tell to DIAF and actually fucking mean it literally.

kthxbye

So, my mother is kind of flipping out. She needs tile wax to use in our MIL apartment. We found 2 stores that carry it but none are open on weekends and the new tenant is moving in tomorrow. Anyone know where I can find this? Proximity to North Seattle/Greenwood would be a plus, but I suppose I don't have a choice as far as distance. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

to do list for this weekend:
cut bangs (check)
go to car dealership to get an estimate (i took off the passangers rear view mirror while backing out of my garage like a ding dong) bye bye $500
go to ac moore
watch spanglish with kat joy for school
wear ghillies around the house to break them in
move furniture around in my room (this may be too ambitious)
food shopping
laundry
go to the gym
do no homework/studying. after this week i deserve at least that.

so...not to sound like a hermit but everytime im at parties i am wondering what is the point of parties? you stay up really late, drink but dont get drunk, cling to the people you came with. you get dressed up but for nothing if you dont get hit on. youre there to socialize but unless you make a new friend its all the same old shit. am i doing something wrong? maybe its just been a while since ive been to an epic party, all these recent ones have been lame ass.

I happened to have this cached in my browser, and I caught it before I refreshed. All will love me and despair:

so in all honesty:
i do not live in seattle
i have never been to seattle.

but i havent wanted anything else as much.
i hate it here
i hate that ive been here my whole life
idk what it is
maybe its the rain
it is the rain
i want it so much
it doesnt rain here enough. not enough for me at least
i want it all the time

i have a car right now but it wont take me up to washington.
i love my car. its just 40 years old and it has over 200,000 miles on it
hah
so.

things i need to achieve in order to start this new life:
car
money (check)
ambition (check)

2 out of 3
im almost there.

My roommate is at Harborview with a friend who's about to go into surgery, and he just texted me that the suspect from the police shooting on Halloween was apprehended by the police and shot and is at Harborview now, so the whole hospital is on lockdown!!! Apparently they acted on a tip and went to the guy's house and he drew a gun, so they shot him.

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I tried the bus again yesterday. Getting to work was, once again, fine. Getting the bus home, however, was, once again, a nightmare.

I figured out that some of the buses just don't go all the way down Frederick and I had to look for ones that specified that they did. I got off work at about 5:15 and after almost an hour and two buses for Paradise went by, finally I spotted the bus I needed. I stepped forward, trying to get it's attention as another bus stopped and it just kept going. I screamed stop and waved my arms but to no avail. Seeing this, I took off after the bus, running continuously for at least a half a mile while screaming, MOOOTHEEER FUUUUCKEEEEER! I wish I could have seen myself because I probably looked insane.

Finally the bus stopped at a red light and I caught up with it. Then after getting the driver's attention, I got on. My legs are sore from running after that damn bus. But I fucking made it.

The score, however, must still stand at MTA: 2, Me: 0. Fuck you, MTA bus route 10. Fuck you.

SNOW DAYYYY. Actually, no, it wasn't. But we did get an assload of snow dumped on us last night! And my early class was cancelled, so, mini snow day for Emma!

Which I spent rereading The Perilous Gard (*happy sigh*) and watching Sons of Anarchy. Good way to laze around, I think. And then this evening we went out to see Men Who Stare At Goats (entertaining but strange - not in subject matter, but in tone, really, but Ewan and George earn a collective unf) and then on to the Elephant and Castle for supper, and it was cold as hell and really absurdly windy, and it still is, I can hear things thumping around outside - my favourite kind of weather. One of the poor girls in my English class this afternoon asked if this was typical Nova Scotian November-type weather. Oh, sweetie. I mean, no, it's not, but still - it's kind of cruelly amusing to watch the kids From Away deal with our weather for the first time.

Also I cannot WAIT for Up in the Air to come out. The trailer looks awesome. As does the trailer for The Morgans, what the hell

EDIT: Forgot to add: The Daybreakers looks intriguing? In a really stupid way, but dude, vampire movie, I don't care about this horrific popular trend and/or market saturation, my ass will be in the seat. Ethan Hawke, brother, where've you been?

(Yeah, well, see: they used Running Up That Hill in the trailer. Damn, I love that song. And will forever associate it with TVD ah ha ha ha)

BRIDE OF EDIT:

( omg supernatural )

Hello,

My brother is visiting (he's from Florida) and he wants me to take him to a good seafood place. I am vegan so I am unaware of such places in the city. I live in Queen Anne but have a car so anyplace is okay. Downtown is a plus so I can show him stuff down there. What's your favorite?

Thanks

I just saw THREE snowflakes while looking out my office window.

We're all going to die.

Discuss.

The group that manages the official King County web sites has apparently retired it's longstanding metrokc.gov domain to replace it with kingcounty.gov, which is all well and good. It's a better name, anyway. But what they've done is redirect ALL requests for the old host names to a useless dumping ground instead of just aliasing the old names over the new ones. This is what they have done:



Why is this incredibly stupid and improperly done? Say you have any number of bookmarks or embedded tools (say, mobile applications–iPhone or other) that aim at http://tripplanner.metrokc.gov. That now arbitrarily dumps you on http://www.kingcounty.gov/About/metrokc.aspx rather than forward you to the matching URL on the new host on http://tripplanner.kingcounty.gov/. This applies to all of these in the chart above. Who on Earth approved this stupid way to do it? No one just “retires” and kills off a major domain name, let alone one so old and embedded all over who knows where. All you’ve done is now break all prior internet connectivity to various parts of the county’s web infrastructure.

You also did no favors to search engine optimization and Google searches for the county, either.

If you're in King County please e-mail them at:

http://info.kingcounty.gov/about/contact/default.aspx

To let them know what a bone head move this is.

Roll of thunder over Capitol Hill. Please report in.

Edit: Also hail. More storming. God is destroying Seattle for approving R 71

So not sure if anyone here posted about this, but I randomly thought about this tonight and decided to Google it. After seeing the underwater billboards on hwy 99 by Seattle Center and down by the West Seattle Bridge, I wanted to see what came of it all. Found this: http://www.nrn.com/article.aspx?menu_id=1368&id=374816

Looks like it was all a publicity stunt. But, alas, it was still fun thinking they could have been down there all these years.

EDIT: For some background...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009889864_ivar18m.html

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/photogalleries/localnews2009889217/

http://www.youtube.com/user/IvarsBillboards

In case anyone else is wondering what those creepy blue flashes lighting up the entire sky were around 7:30, it appears to be power arcing. There are reports of downed wires just a few blocks from where I am in Magnolia, and I could definitely hear the buzzing sound that page mentions.

Edited to add: apparently power is out on Queen Anne, and the east side of Magnolia.

I just drove from north ballard down to south ballard and back - the experience was somewhat terrifying.

saw three different accidents - and had an equal number of cars dang-near plow into me.

it's almost like they couldn't even see me. is there something strange about this rain?

Washington state voters have approved Referendum 71, keeping a law that expands state benefits for registered same-sex and some senior domestic partners.

The tally late Thursday afternoon saw the vote to approve R-71 leading about 52 percent to 48 percent.

That lead now appears insurmountable. The Secretary of State's Office estimates another 500,000 to 600,000 ballots statewide are still outstanding, with about half expected from King County, where the measure is being approved by slightly more than 2 to 1.

"Voters across the state listened to the personal stories of lesbian and gay families and the challenges they faced and sent a strong message that we want to see all families treated equally under the law in our state," said Anne Levinson, chairwoman of Washington Families Standing Together, which worked for the measure's approval.

But opponents of R-71 were not conceding Thursday afternoon.

Larry Stickney, head of Protect Marriage Washington, which worked for rejection of R-71, said: "There are a lot of votes out there still. We continue to have some hope that the votes cast later will move in our direction."

My comment: Larry Stickney can stick it. Hey Larry? Your side kept saying that rejecting R-71 was what God wanted. You would have thanked God if your side had won. Who are you going to blame, instead? Yeah, calling the hypocrite on the carpet, as it were.

(Source: Seattle Times)

i'm trying to watch community on nbc, using my over the air antenna. never had any problems in the past, but nbc (5.1) is suddenly at 0 signal strength. what gives? anybody know? anybody using OTA getting nbc right now?!?