Electrolicious

Native Seattleites have this built-in weather guilt. Whenever it’s nice out, there’s this constant needling of “ohmigod, I must make the most of this gorgeous day, I must get outside, it’s criminal if I don’t, I won’t forgive myself next winter if I let this day slip by,” etc.
This weekend was the unofficial first weekend [...]

I haven’t been an active member in Seattle’s rave community for many years, but I still feel profoundly effected by yesterday’s tragedy. The people killed were friends of friends, and a few years back it would have been me at that party. The victims were ravers, burners, freaks. Not the types often targeted by [...]

Last week I had my first of what will be almost every Friday off.
I woke up at my usual time, put on stretchy clothes, and headed off to Capitol Hill to attend my first NIA class. Last year, Dori had described NIA to me as “hippie aerobics” and I’d sort of been put off by [...]

How passive are Seattleites? So passive that, on an overstuffed commuter bus, there are close to 30 people who would rather stand in the aisles than ask one guy to move the duffle bag that’s sitting next to him, or wake up a slumbering teen who’s taking up two seats.

Today is how you think Seattle will be.

Most Seattleites are aware that the hipsters over at Dan Savage’s paper, The Stranger, hate the old folks over at Village Voice’s Seattle Weekly. It’s sort of stupid: the papers need each other desperately, and would fail without having the other to define themselves against. But whatever: The Stranger loves to snipe at the Weekly, [...]

When I woke up this morning and saw that it was cloudy, I thought to myself, “Thank GOD. It’s been too bright and hot lately.” I’m totally excited for the rains to start this year. Andreas and I are getting our new oil (biodiesel!) furnace installed in a couple weeks, and it’s going to be [...]

Further observations on the Seattleite demeanor:
…we generally agreed native Seattleites are “polite but not friendly”, rarely returning messages and almost impossible to pry away from doing whatever they’re busy with (even if it’s nothing) for anything spontaneous. One must give at least 1 week notice to have a coffee with a Seattle native. Anything less [...]

Seattle, New York, Portland.

First pedicure of the year, originally uploaded by .Ariel.

$55 on Capitol Hill gets you a half leg wax and tidy eyebrows in a chi-chi salon. Oh, and tip is extra.
$55 in Rainier Valley gets you a half leg wax, tidy eybrows, and an hour-long pedicure with all the extras. It was practically [...]