Yo yo yo homies! It’s time to get down with the Wallingford Calendar.
The Meaningful Movies dwells on our whiteyness with “WHITE LIKE ME” tonight at 7 PM, a discussion of “what it means to be white in a white society, run by whites, for whites. Plus how easy it is for whites to be oblivious to all the obvious advantages and more subconscious perks and less well-known benefits that come from being part of this “normal” group.”
Expect a communal conniption as liberal whitey town dwells on its whiteyness. Hey, at least we didn’t gentrify this place (take that, Central District!)
On Saturday Brooks Sports has decided to get involved with the neighborhood in the obvious way, by sponsoring a runner invasion of the neighborhood. You knew this was coming, right?
They bought their own domain for this event, calling it Brooks Trailhead. The race begins and ends at Gas Works Park in Seattle. “Runners will enjoy a beautiful counterclockwise loop of Lake Union with the 15K runners completing an out and back through Seattle Pacific University.”
As for collateral damage, don’t expect to be driving around Lake Union Saturday morning or parking in lower Wallingford.
On Tuesday at 7:00 Hamilton welcomes incoming middle schoolers! We’ll be there, my daughter insisted on Hamilton as she has friends going there, so even though her parents begged her to go to Hazel Wolf we’ll be there eating ice cream at Hamilton. I just wish Mr Levin and Mr Pounder weren’t retiring / retired from Hamilton, they were so good!
Finally, school lets out 2 hours early next Wednesday, making that the perfect time to take in the Wallingford Farmer’s Market. There’s enough food and fun there now you can just eat there like a picnic. Unlike a couple years back, you don’t have to be into buying organic, locally grown kale in order to enjoy it. Opening day last Wednesday easily had over a thousand people there by closing time, the most I’ve ever seen at the market:
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On the Brooks run numbers – I believe 15K is the distance; there could be up to 500 runners. Just wanted to mention that, in case anyone thought they were expecting 15000 runners. I won’t be there.
You’re right, Wallingford wasn’t gentrified. It was redlined.
Right you are, DOUG. Not to mention the original inhabitants who were displaced.
BTW, the article hyperlinked in ‘Take that Columbia City” is about the Central District, not Columbia City. That’s like saying, “Take that, Northgate!” in an article about Wallingford… 🙂
Yeah, good point runyararo, I had thought Columbia City was in the Central District, like Wallingford is in the Lake Union District. I just fixed the article.
You’ve really gotta get over your beef with the Brooks building, Eric. It’s over. Your constant snarky barbs just make you look small.
Furthermore, this is not the first or last running event around Lake Union. They’ve been going on for years, sponsored by many different entities. This is nothing out of the ordinary.
I think I was a certified opponent of Brooks/Burke. I’m surprised that you’d remember Eric there, because I don’t – I kind of think you’re making that up – but I guess I’m small too, because it looked all right to me. You’ve got to be snarky to survive in this business.
Gotta agree with Donn, Chuck. I think you got Eric mixed up with a lot of snarky others of us. Eric is more….ironic but kind? Well, anyway, he is doing a really decent job of managing and moderating this site imho.
Eric, Why do you run a Wallingford blog if you don’t even want your kids to go to school here? Maybe you should move to Ravenna? You seem to hate everything in Wallingford.