Category Archives: Wallingford, Seattle

Tonight at the Wallingford Playfield there will be a free outdoor showing of the movie Frozen beginning at 7 PM. It gets a 7.6 user review on IMDB. Don’t forget to rehearse “let it go” so you have the lyrics right for the inevitable sing along. The presentation a nice annual thing Calvary Wallingford does.

At the same time, the Meaningful Movies is showing “From Neurons to Nirvana: The Great Medicines” at Keystone Congregational Church at 5019 Keystone Place N. The movie looks to be a fun psychedelic trip and gets an 8.1 user review on IMDB, so it should …

I haven’t scared the bejebus out of my mom in a while, so here’s a quick rundown on some prowling and crime reports that have come across my screen recently.

Over on Facebook, Michelle wrote:

Nic just caught a prowler in my neighbor’s garage on 1st ave NW […] Early to mid twenties, light brown wavy hair cut short on the sides and longer on top in “jersey douche” cut. Tanned, dark framed square eyeglasses, white T-shirt, black backpack and blue jeans. […]

It’s actually late for prowling. I’ve caught car thieves and neighbors have caught random rummagers but always …

I followed Jordan’s advice and read the voter guides put up by local media. They are all horseshit, my pardon to Doug.

Why does The Stranger support Mike O’Brien? Because he opposes the downtown tunnel and the “lying bureaucrats running it”. Why does the the Seattle Times oppose him? Because he does “lefty” things like take a kayak out to the Shell drilling platform to oppose it. Doug mentions a few policy issues, but fails to draw any contrasts with the other candidates, so for all we know all the district 6 candidates are taking the same positions.

No publications …

Primary elections are coming up, with ballots due by this coming Tuesday, August 4th. Incredibly, there are 47 candidates running for city council alone (not in one district, but still), so maybe you need a hand getting your decisions all sorted out.

Thankfully, there are people wonkier than thou who have taken the time sift through the candidates and develop opinions they’d love you to share.

Here’s a quick rundown on some sources you may wish to reference:

DOUG’s Voter’s Guide: My favorite, not just because he’s from Wallingford, but his is the only election guide that makes a strong…

Fences have been erected along 40th starting at Latona and continuing under I-5, which means the goats shall return!

They’ll be there shortly, munching on blackberries and other hard to remove invasive weeds.

Thankfully, the fence posts have been sunk into the ground this year, to avoid a second showing of the Goat Rodeo of 2013.

(Thanks for the tip, Madi!)…

In my Meridian House For Sale post, I lamented that I once had a photo of the vines at that house devouring an old car, but couldn’t find it. Thanks to Jim for finding this photo by Jim Flanagan on Flickr:

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I’ve been watching the house on the corner of 41st and Meridian for a long time. It was odd because the lawn was always well-cared for (or at least well mown), but you could see from the decaying shades that nobody had lived there for a long, long time.

And then there were the 1950’s-era cars parked under the raised deck, slowly being devoured by vines. I snapped a picture a while back and deemed it art, but can’t seem to dig it up now.

This past fall, I chatted with a workman next door, who related how the owners …