Wallyhood spent Election Night lighting off fireworks and dancing in the streets on Latona, but we're not sure where we're going to spend this Tuesday day. Anyone know of any Inauguration Day specials, happenings or events around the neighborhood?
We live just a block west of the I-5 ship canal bridge, so people often ask if the noise bothers us. Well, we like to think of it as the roar of a river, like the Mighty Mississip, flowing from Canada to Mexico, and we're blessed to live on its banks.Self-deception is our favorite coping mechanism.Fortunately, we're getting some help from the state, as well. WSDOT engineers were deployed this past Tuesday and Wednesday near the south concrete portion of the…
We saw this intriguing sign in Molly Moon's Ice Cream Shop's window this evening:Another Robin William's film? Late-breaking Sundance entry? Inquiring minds want to know!We've sent Molly an inquiry and will let you know what we hear.Update (1/18/09): Molly responded:i actually don't know the name of the film. it's an indie short that will be at sundance, but i don't know much more than that. they're filming a scene in my shop this morning. i'll try to let you know when…
Wallyhood took it on the road today, walking up 45th Street, visiting businesses and dropping off these beautiful cards (right) designed by Wallingford graphic designer Heidi Smets (thanks, Heidi!).It was a great opportunity to meet business owners we didn't know and simply go in shops we'd never been in (like Seattle Mopeds, who promised to let us know when their upcoming fundraiser party would be). After determining that we weren't trying to sell anything, they were all gracious and excited about…
Relevant to my Home Invasion post yesterday, I just read in the Beacon Hill blog that the Seattle Police Department broke up a major burglary ring this past month, and now has over $1 million worth of stolen stuff waiting to be returned to its rightful owners. There are full details on the SPDBlotter on how to review and claim the material, and the Seattle P-I has kindly posted photos of the loot. Wallingford is in the East Precinct, but the…
Shortly after college, I spent a few months tramping around Israel and the Sinai, hosteling, thumbing and generally doing the post-college vagabond thing. At one point, I met a girl (no, not like that) who was doing her graduate work in archaeology at an excavation at a tell in Northwestern Israel. A tell is a hill that has been formed through the accretion material from ongoing human occupation: one civilization built on top of another on top of another.Having nothing better…
I received a horrible e-mail from a Capitol Hill friend this past Sunday:We were home upstairs, with the lights on. The door bell at our upper door (split level entry) rang a few times in quick succession, followed by a brief wait, and another few rings. We stayed quiet; discussing whether or not to see what was up.Shortly thereafter, they tried to kick in our lower door and break the frame. This shook the front of the house and was very…