tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13558746700550122012024-03-13T10:33:24.951-07:00Coat Pocket FragmentsA collection of short fictions and poems from my kitchen tableChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13981771566957651596noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355874670055012201.post-66001378806411605352013-11-14T09:32:00.000-08:002013-11-14T09:34:51.231-08:00an embarrasment of riches<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What’s going on? There are so many things to do tonight I’ve
had a hard time choosing. My fiancee has bought tickets for us to see
Kylian+Pite at the PNB tonight, but there’s also Deltron 3030 at the Showbox
and Turquoise at the Crocodile. Round things out with dinner. </span></div>
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other than one through five, obviously</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.thecrocodile.com/event/381241-turquoise-jeep-seattle/" target="_blank">2. Turquoise Jeep at the Crocodile</a></span></div>
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</span></span></span><a href="http://www.axs.com/events/245435/deltron-3030-tickets" target="_blank">Deltron 3030 at the Showbox</a></span></div>
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</span></span></span><a href="http://www.seattleshakespeare.org/shows/much-ado/" target="_blank">Much Ado About Nothing at Seattle Center</a> </span></div>
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</a></span></span></span><a href="http://www.rebarseattle.com/" target="_blank">Drunk Spelling Bee at Re-Bar</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Honorable mention: <a href="http://dinearoundseattle.org/" target="_blank">Dine around Seattle</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Call your favorite date and head out there. </span> Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13981771566957651596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355874670055012201.post-7100719370090883702013-11-10T09:11:00.000-08:002013-11-10T09:14:37.400-08:00Seasonal Coffee at Cafe 409<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="uiGrid _51mz contactInfoTable"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Call it the change of season, but for some reason lately it’s
just seemed like a great idea to toss something extra into the basket in the
morning. The best is a pinch of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Numi-Organic-Spiced-Rooibos-18-Count/dp/B003ULE0Y8" target="_blank">Rooibos Chai</a>, but I know straight cinnamon is
also a nice alternative and may even offer health benefits, according to smart
people I know. For a few years after moving from Belize I drank coffee from
anywhere but Latin America, but I’m using the fresh ground Guatemala coffee
sold by the sweet if not overly sycophantic café in my apartment building
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Last time I
went to <a href="http://fresh.amazon.com/Category?cat=worldspice" target="_blank">World Spice</a> they told me they’re working with Amazon Prime, Market
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My fiancée<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gets
really cranky when the weather turns grey, so maybe that’s another reason for
spicing up the Joe, it gets us out of bed in the morning that much more
pleasantly. Listening to Daughter and London Grammar, seems to go with the grey
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Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13981771566957651596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355874670055012201.post-50972975522278317832013-09-07T19:17:00.000-07:002013-09-07T19:17:05.077-07:00The other day I got asked why I have not posted anything here in a while. It took me a minute to think, and then I realized its because I'm saving it. I'm more than 5k words deep into a work of fiction. It's going well, thanks for asking.<br />
<br />
I'll let you know.Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13981771566957651596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355874670055012201.post-63617986522120073992012-04-25T09:38:00.000-07:002012-04-25T10:09:09.939-07:00<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I wrote this letter to my mom last week and it turned into what might be a manifesto. A couple of months ago I took a three Tuesdays a month gig tending bar. I did it to keep up my skills and stay connected to the front line of service. I was looking for something to help me stay current but I got something else, too.</span></div>
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Mom, <br />
<br />
I've been watching Breaking Bad a lot recently, along with a bunch of Mad Men and it seems at least for men all that matters in the world sometimes is being happy doing what you love.<br />
<br />
So
tired yesterday when I finally got out of work, plus just overworked around the retirement home; all the residents get grumpy during Passover...then again actually everyone kind of laments Passover, I'm sorry and don't mean to offend but anyone who knows about it will agree: its a
monumental pain in the ass.<br />
<br />
We build tents for Sukkot, which is in the Fall. You're catching on! :)
Anyway, got home from work at the retirement home at 645pm, and walked next door to work the
bar before 7pm, straight up punchy tired. The bar got busy with friends
and neighbors at 8pm, and then a post concert crowd came in around 10pm,
good cool people.<br />
<br />
I could not have been happier, laughing, joking and making drinks for
everyone. I like to entertain, I like knowing what people need before
they do. And I'm really fucking good at it.<br />
<br />
I'm successful and happy
these days because I absolutely love the HR, the scheduling and managing my big crazy
staff of waiters at the Summit. Because I make (mostly) a lot of
otherwise cranky old farts happy, run a smooth floor and because a few times a month after
I'm done there I rock a party at the bar next door. So many friends show up that if there's someone at the bar who isn't part of the our circle, they leave that way.<br />
<br />
It took a long time to be OK with being so into Hospitality, all
the vaguely negative letters from grandparents, "you don't really want
to be just a waiter, now do you?" <br />
<br />
Yep, I do.Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13981771566957651596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355874670055012201.post-3711335707995242762012-03-08T12:25:00.000-08:002012-03-08T12:33:44.024-08:00Stir Fry Soup<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I admit it. I over-indulge at Pike Place rather often. I buy
a lot of great vegetables. I use <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/franks-quality-produce-seattle" target="_blank">Franks Produce</a>. No one else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I always have lots of veggies on hand. </div>
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I awoke yesterday morning to the feeling that perhaps I had
swallowed an extraordinarily large <a href="http://www.taylorshellfishfarms.com/stores/locations.html" target="_blank">oyster shell</a> and so instead
of going down to the Sculpture park for Fuel Theory I called a cab and went up
to Grouphealth’s Capitol Hill urgent care. I was thinking since it was 5am I could probably get in and out quick. Unfortunately there was a man (I know all the
following because clearly he left his hearing aid at home, requiring the
doctors to speak to him loud enough for me to hear several rooms away) who was
having a heart attack who came in a few minutes before me. I hope he’s doing
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After I escaped the labyrinth halls of GH I headed home. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I should mention there is a game I play with
myself: Fritter lotto. Here’s how you play. Walk past Top Pot on 4<sup>th</sup>,
the monorail rattle-whooshing overhead. If there are more than three people in
line, keep going. If not you get to go in and get one of the most delicious
apple fritters ever. Today I won. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
doubled down with a raspberry old-fashioned so I wouldn’t be
empty-sticky-handed when I came home to my girlfriend. By mid-day the fritter
had worn off and I was thinking of what to make to sooth my throat that would
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Belltown is severely lacking in the budget Pho department. </div>
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Here’s the recipe for what I made yesterday:<b> Stir Fry Soup</b></div>
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Large fry pan or the wok if you feel<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>up to it</div>
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Stock pot with 3 cups of water set to boil.</div>
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One breast of chicken. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Slice it thin then slice those slices into
large tiles of chicken. Set aside.</div>
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Three cloves of garlic chopped</div>
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Thumb sized knot of ginger peeled and chopped</div>
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About a ¼ cup of course chopped onion</div>
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Chinese five spice 1Tsp </div>
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Red Pepper Flake 1TSp</div>
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Thyme ½ TSP</div>
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Chicken Stock 1 cup</div>
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Soy Sauce</div>
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Package of ramen noodles</div>
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Carrot</div>
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Celery </div>
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Water chestnuts from back of the pantry –bonus! </div>
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Saute the garlic, ginger, and onion in 3 Tb of olive oil
and 1 Tb of sesame oil</div>
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spice when the onion and garlic are translucent</div>
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Add chopped vegetables. I used typical soup stuff, but
feel free to experiment.</div>
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Sauté until vegetables are soft. Hit it with a dash of
soy sauce. At this point you are looking at a decent stir-fry. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pour in the chicken stock and let it simmer. </div>
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one had a seasoning packet and I added that to the water at the same time as
the noodles. Boil three minutes. Remove pot from heat, do not drain.</div>
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Add stir fry to the stock pot and serve, season with
Siracha or Sambal, sit on the living room floor and watch Bravo until you feel
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light of the night moon’s occasional penetrating gloom. Landing at last on the
jagged reef; An astronaut stranded in a cratered lost place. Now a member
forever of the unclaimed, the missing and the drown. Countless coins, thousands
of beautiful women and millions of torn and rotting ships named for women now call him home.
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The boy struggles to wake. He knows or hopes he is sleeping,
and wants not to be here any longer than he has already been. Too far to return
would he just die? Fear comes over him again and wrestles greedy fingers into
the meat of his soul. He is hemorrhaging and strength is leaving him, seeping
into the dark sand near the reef. He looks up at the stars and wonders which of
them is his home. The wasted copper capsule of his spacecraft nearby has
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quickly as they turn and disappear leaving the absolute darkness felt only when
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The pain is stunning and rips a hole in the nightmare. Some
bird is tearing a hunk of his head, its chunky beak and head thrashing back and
forth to dislodge his ear from the tattered remains of his cheek. He screams
and hears the bird speak in a language he cannot understand, “Fucking thief in
my shop, yer skinny little fuck you’ll wish ye had died in the plagues when I’m
done with you, wake up!”</div>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13981771566957651596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355874670055012201.post-51475183340345299662012-01-29T15:27:00.000-08:002012-01-29T15:27:49.987-08:00Does honey go bad?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">'ello! I am zee 'oney bear, yeaz! Perhapz yoo 'ave heard of zee Paula Dean? I deed that! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Muhahahahaa!</span>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13981771566957651596noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355874670055012201.post-22742226825160681282012-01-18T21:21:00.000-08:002012-01-18T21:21:46.048-08:00Dear Seattle<div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
Dear Seattle, </div>
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It’s getting out of hand. The hand out crowd. I appreciate that everyone has
his right to freedom of speech and all that. I get it that the sidewalk is a public place but I'm a
nice person and should not be made to feel like a bastard each and every time I
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Here's the thing. I am sorry that life has dealt you a shitty hand. I really
am. Money is important for survival. So what sort of person would willingly pour out his life savings? With all
certainty of a sample from last week’s commute I could give out -at just one
dollar a person- close to $15 dollars every morning on my walk to work. And
another $10 on my walk home at night. $25 dollars a day. </div>
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$25 dollars is about what it costs to sponsor a non-profit or a child in Latin
America for a month, while I’m on a roll. Maybe I should stop
dodging the clip board wranglers too.</div>
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Seattle, you scare my mom. And
friends from New York. The menace
of being verbally assaulted has been known to be followed up by the actual
threat of physical assault. I could go on about how many of these panhandlers
spend the money handed to them on drugs, or talk about teaching a man to fish,
but I know you’re not listening. </div>
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I just want a little change downtown, is all. Can’t you help me? Fine, keep
walking, ignore me.</div>
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Asshole!</div>
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Feels good, doesn’t it? </div>
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Sincerely, </div>
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Chris</div>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13981771566957651596noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355874670055012201.post-7737307244979766882012-01-12T01:38:00.000-08:002012-01-12T01:38:01.140-08:00Pike Place Lights<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Pike Place has always had a lot of art, next time you're taking the stairs down to Western on the back side of the market keep your eyes out for the light fixtures. They're walking around above you.Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13981771566957651596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355874670055012201.post-500623910368461372012-01-12T01:12:00.000-08:002012-01-12T01:12:00.941-08:00Dream Fragment part twoThis is a continuation please read Dream Fragment (Saturday May 7, 2011) first.<br />
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Can he smell the smoke from here or is it only that he can feel the grimy blanket the stacks belch? Like the spindled legs of a table draped in cloth the stacks dominate the landscape. From here the city reveals its ordinariness. From here it does not look sinister and vindictive. <br />
The boy walks along the seawall. Shop windows display towering figures made grotesque in the puddles that swirl with rainbows of petroleum spit from the sky or the sea, one cannot know. This window has cookies. Wild colors stacked high like precarious plates in a cartoon, each one the same shape. He turns into the alley made no more illicit by his boots. Finding the darkened door to the bakery, a window above. The bottle shards spinning and sparkling down the alley to distract anyone who might care.<br />
Dropping into the shop is like sliding into moisture itself. The air yeasty and suffocating. He waits for his eyes to find corners. He listens for shoes, for violence and escape. He hears the ticking of wood, the rush of his own bloodstream. His stomach.<br />
There is a long uneven line of light drawn diagonal through the shop, like God’s light in paintings he has seen in the doorways of the cold dark churches, the light always leads to God’s head.<br />
Pastel macaroon coats dirty fingers, hands. Jaws, feverish eating without thinking seated in the warm darkness just outside of the band of light. Staring at the flour that he has stirred cartwheeling in and out of the river of light. He slumps sideways into a sack of flour.Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13981771566957651596noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355874670055012201.post-475182333460331682011-09-26T12:26:00.000-07:002011-09-26T12:26:10.590-07:00waking up in ParisNoises from the restaurant at the bottom of the courtyard came. The comforting sound of china being stacked. Pigeon sounds, the scratching of their claws on the rain gutters. Getting up would make the floor creak, and risk waking her. She was steaming under the heavy comforter, hair sprayed across her shoulders and twisted at her neck. Admiring, I pull hair from her forehead and stroke her ear.<br />
I work first one leg then the other from under the blanket, heavy as sod. Standing and going to the window, eyed by pigeons that do not scare easily. Dressing in my only shorts I gingerly open the bedroom door, its latch loud as rockets in the stillness of the stone wall room’s dawn. I let myself out of the apartment thinking, “There is only this key, I must not be gone too long.” <br />
I descend the spiral red patterned carpeted staircase that has an ancient creak I have come to really love. <br />
The air is sticky with late summer; light traffic collects like leaves running down the curb at the first sign of rain. I cross, hearing the soft whir of the rolling billboard. A chandelier comes on in the window above me suffusing yellow light on the opulently adorned ceiling. <br />
There are lovers sleeping among empty green bottles and twisted blankets. The vendors move wearily with giant rings of multicolored trinkets that pierce the morning with an oddly incongruous jingling. There are joggers silently moving under the trees. I cross carefully through them and looming there is the tower. I walk under her, unable to not look up. I cross the river under the watchful eyes of statues. The Trocadero resembles a ship made of stone. The fountain here is mute at this hour. Security guards in bright green jackets smoke and talk to street sweepers, radios crackling at their hips. I start to run, up the steps, down the steps. Last night there were a thousand people here. I drop and begin to do push-ups. Last night I saw a man rollerblade backwards down this very staircase. Amazed. <br />
I am alone save the workers, who don’t seem to notice me. I’m unbelievably happy.Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13981771566957651596noreply@blogger.com0Île-de-France, France48.871941639608913 2.351073843749986748.311230139608909 1.2946553437499868 49.432653139608917 3.4074923437499867tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355874670055012201.post-28960343586732708862011-09-26T00:06:00.000-07:002012-01-12T01:20:47.231-08:00Graffiti<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Graffiti is a part of city life</span>. There are some who find graffiti to be a malignant and unattractive element, or one that connotes some unseen danger leaking up from under the fabric of the population. Its true Graffiti often is a reaction to social or political pressures in a society, and there is of course tagging which in its own way can become art. <br />
There are those seeking to have voices about political injustice heard, and those looking to change minds, or get people to notice the beauty around them. <br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Then there are artists who seek to find an audience in a place where most are looking only back in time. </span><br />
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I have noticed that Paris tries to include new artist's work along side the historic works. At Versailles there are several new sculptures. The Pyramids at the Louvre are by I.M. Pei, a celebrated Modernist architect. There are many who find the contrast to be jarring or unsettling, but that I think is the point. <br />
Imagine if the city never introduced new artists. Paris<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are artists here, creating work now. They are not buried in Pere Lachaise. And the best of that work is sometimes right there in plain site, in the form of graffiti. </span><br />
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Hey,<br />
Thanks so much for the invite to your party. Unfortunately I got invited to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_monarchy" title="Absolute monarchy">absolute monarchy</a> of the <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancien_R%C3%A9gime" title="Ancien Régime">Ancien Régime</a></i>.<br />
Maybe next time,<br />
ChrisChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13981771566957651596noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355874670055012201.post-43883521958152653592011-09-07T14:36:00.000-07:002011-09-07T14:56:09.767-07:00Signs of Paris...Occasionally you see a sign that makes you smile. Or that maybe doesn't make sense. Sometimes you wish people would obey a sign more often, like this one in Belltown posted here: http://coatpocketfragments.blogspot.com/2011/06/second-and-bell.html<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No carrying bi-fold doors.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">apparently there's a lot of this going on, people carrying large white things</td></tr>
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But sometimes a sign makes no sense.<br />
Or really makes sense, depending<br />
on how you look at it.<br />
What the hell does this one mean? <br />
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Here are a few thousand words.<br />
They forbid photos at the Museum D'Orsay<br />
so you know Marissa only took one or two there.<br />
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The apartment has a small kitchen. A galley really. Dinner begins in the street. I stop for wine in tiny groceries, mom has found some beautiful avocados and butter lettuce while shopping in Les Puces. There are of course bagettes. Just around the corner is an artisan butcher and the pates are incredible (and the variety of them is piling up in the fridge) Oh, and fantastic cheeses...so many cheeses. We choose our wines by price, staying under 5 euros. I drizzle oil and balsamic on the lettuce and slice apples. Corks come out. We talk about all we have seen today, then watch a show of Marissa's talented shots of the day. <br />
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The humming grows and as we turn the corner there are people: reclining and walking, standing, kissing. Sprawled out on the grass in the cool night, drinking from bottles of wine, passing cameras and food to one another. Laughing at the moment the tower begins to sparkle, a mirthful cheer rising in the charged air.<br />
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It is our first night in Paris. <br />
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<br />Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13981771566957651596noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355874670055012201.post-91948538276639131172011-09-01T10:08:00.000-07:002011-09-02T15:50:25.993-07:00A Belltowner afield: New Amsterdam aka NYC<div><p>
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<br/><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvSzdVZQfapf7X-9zMmAm1jzfRCJM2kT8QuQ0REtWlz-5334Z4WQ1oV0KWoZR2zDzBXYFezWNHZ3kZRGDKtCelt4X-gGf4mDrdBa3z4UrvwkTIVkflsfAEM3WYbl8eDQBTElf7nQYiHDfl/' /></div>Sometimes the best way to get to know your own space is to get out of it. I've been in New York for the past few days and what I have seen and experienced here puts a whole new frame around Belltown for me. How is New York somehow quieter than Belltown? What this place needs is a Tia Lou's. But then again I keep seeing signs stating that it is illegal to honk. Really. There's a big fine. I'm sure mayor McGinn would agree that keeping people from honking is a clear violation of civil rights. I don't know about you but I don't know if I want to live under such oppression and cruel suppression of my liberties: Imagine living in a place where you can't honk in neighborhoods where people live and sleep?
Seattle: have you heard that many of the coffee shops here ban laptop use? How is one supposed to sit and crank out thousands of pages of emo blog text if he can't look up once in a while and see others also pouring their souls out like so much silt from a french press? Unheard of. And a blatant disregard for the rules, far as I am concerned. I would go to a coffee shop to write one thousand words on the subject, but alas! And subways. How come no one wants my money here. In three days I have been asked for money in -count 'em- ONE time. People here must make a lot of money, bums included because I can't walk to Bedlam without someone wanting a dollar back in Belltown. What's with bags and bags of garbage on the sidewalks here? And the quiet organized way in which that garbage gets collected. Weird and a little smelly. Don't you have any alleys? No wonder there's no crackheads, where would they stand and rant? Great food this trip, had an incredible spread of dim sum yesterday for $16 dollars, just about half the price of a rolex. Seattle has a fairly decent skyline, I have to say. The other afternoon we walked down to the water to see the skyline and it was stunning. Our 520 bridge is a little underwhelming when compared to--well just about anything, but this place has some great bridges. Lets get on that. Anyway, The skyline here is broad and dense, but Seattle has the hills, and it makes our buildings look enormously tall. Sort of like being the only guy in class doing downward dog. Awesome. Ok, I'm going to Paris now.Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13981771566957651596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355874670055012201.post-88706852259256259512011-08-11T20:05:00.001-07:002011-08-11T20:05:39.833-07:00Thursday night yacht races...<div><p>Seattle I love you.</p>
<br/><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOXC4aeJuUoiZSgnTZUsaux5xB45h5xtvixP5lKO7WXsqTUMgF0tO6dmqgxhBZyH-14UrPOe7VWaQKso0Sd2uXRB98dyK_K6TlKUGtQXy8_88NZJGg1dnzd7PijEB8WzBDB-sc6blGDWCu/' /></div>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13981771566957651596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355874670055012201.post-27044998722518615522011-08-07T10:52:00.000-07:002011-08-07T14:34:42.477-07:00Coach begins “urban camping” class in Belltown, sparks an exercise revolution.The summer always gets people into the mood to get fit and go outside. Even now that Global Warming has done away with what our forefathers thought of as “summer” the innate desire lingers. Each year, Personal Trainer Jason Squatenhold sees enrollment in his outdoor “boot camp” classes soar early in May in anticipation of the legendary sun’s appearance and this year was no different. Except this year, Mr. Squatenhold had an idea that he says is catching on throughout the country now. <br /><br />Urban Camp<br /><br />Jason describes how the idea of “Urban Camp” came to him.<br />“The ideal of beauty in our society is to be tan and ripped, everyone is trying to get to that place where they look like they spend a lot of time outdoors. Staying thin is very important to the style conscious. I hold my boot camp classes in area parks. In Seattle the homeless are encouraged to occupy the parks as well as streets in front of Nordstrom. What I was seeing was that my clients were all chunky and pale, even more so in comparison to the homeless men leering at them. That’s when I came up with Urban Camping.<br />The Seattle motif is to be at one with the outdoors, recycling and roughing it, and no one does it quite like the homeless. They literally never go indoors. Harnessing this, Mr. Squatenhold’s clients go through the motions of typical homeless activities.<br />Client Marsha Mellow says she can feel her core burn when she does the “cigarette butt bends” a move where the class simulates picking up used cigarettes from the ground. Jason makes the class do hundreds of this exercise in a class.<br />Other exercises include “Spinning in a circle shouting at the sky” a move Coach Squatenhold says is a great way to prevent chin muscles from sagging and an excellent method for getting that sun kissed glow on your face. <br />"There are no lockers here, in the first class I send every one of my students back to their cars to collect the contents of their trunks, they have to carry everything, including the spare, the duration of the class.”<br />Naturally you can find a Groupon for “Urban Camp” classes so you can try it out yourself, but the savings don’t end there. “Thursday a German tourist gave me $5 out of nowhere,” stated die-hard Urban Camper Dave Flanders.Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13981771566957651596noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355874670055012201.post-88457351081797259932011-08-07T10:40:00.000-07:002011-08-07T10:43:25.330-07:00City Council to approve several initiatives aimed at helping Belltown homeless.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrv5x3xP2frGBwZDzFGbIbCh05bXpXrcPQRbs7nN43z6X4C5JUol5fGxNP7sTBEaGYtRcAlwj2y-JKhEAnt9bexadewMAL5pZJ1RfgD1pElCeGQrnxojoNiLLe068IibzfJsnBjKy2VkY9/s1600/Real-Change.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 142px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrv5x3xP2frGBwZDzFGbIbCh05bXpXrcPQRbs7nN43z6X4C5JUol5fGxNP7sTBEaGYtRcAlwj2y-JKhEAnt9bexadewMAL5pZJ1RfgD1pElCeGQrnxojoNiLLe068IibzfJsnBjKy2VkY9/s320/Real-Change.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638170985983907618" /></a><br /><br />New data shows that Seattle's single family recycling rate is over 70%, Mayor McGinn now wants bars and restaurants to help the homeless help themselves by introducing a double header "Recycling Initiative"<br />In a move similar to the aggressive pro-panhandling support Mayor McGinn handed out to the homeless and Children International last Spring, the proposed "Trickle Down Recycling" bill has local restaurants, bars and fishmongers throwing more than fish. Part one of the new law would require Pike Place Market businesses use only Real Change newspapers to wrap fish, meat and poultry. No word as to if fruit vendors or hippies selling pottery would be subject to this legislation. Citing the weird guilt and awkward conversation one must have when refusing to buy the paper and his disappointment with his agent at not being cast in one of the explosion of shows like Deadliest Catch and Swords: Life on the Line that have decimated the number of actual fishermen willing to work at Pike Place. "Can we just buy a pile of them and then have the guy go away? asked Noord Jergensonsonson, "You know, its bad enough that I'm not on a fishing show, and now this?" <br />Bartenders have similar issues with the new initiative. Part two of the law requires that cans and bottles be separate. "If we can help the homeless by separating the cans from the bottles, they will no longer tear open every bag in the alley looking for cans," said Council member Jean Godden, " This will promote cleaner alleyways. A Belltown man who calls himself Cigs was urinating and smoking from an old bic pen between two recycle bins early Sunday morning when this reporter found him. I asked him what he thought of the new law. "Man, can you give me some spare change?"Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13981771566957651596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355874670055012201.post-12489897195793983072011-06-29T06:55:00.001-07:002011-09-07T14:32:05.601-07:00Signs things are looking up<div>second and bell <br />
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I think this is probably the work of the talented group of designers and artists that frequent Bedlam. Lately I have been seeing a lot of "signs" not specifically authorized but certainly welcomed.Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13981771566957651596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355874670055012201.post-4655883400143929532011-06-15T09:27:00.000-07:002011-06-15T16:37:32.933-07:00Black Plastic Bags<div><iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8yfpPpu7bik" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Did you know its illegal to drink on the street? Me either.</span> At the risk of being banned from my favorite pizza bar and music venue I need to get something off my chest. I have, after all these years made a bad decision because of crack dealers. I have tried to drink on the street. <br /><br />I’ve always surrendered my cup as I departed the bar for the next bar, usually because I was finished, and the door man presumably was in charge of keeping the glassware from walking out the door. But it was a plastic cup, full of Bulleit Rye. And the band was finished. And you can do meth at any KC metro bus stop. Plus no place I know adheres to that whole 25 feet from the door smoking thing, it's too cold for that to work. <br /><br />And most obviously, <span style="font-weight:bold;">all the crack dealers on my street drink on the sidewalks all day</span>. I think the bike cops put the discarded tall boy cans in the their spokes so they can sound like motorcycles. <span style="font-style:italic;">It can’t be illegal</span>. So maybe what I needed that night that the bouncer pulled the cups from my friend’s and my hand was a <span style="font-weight:bold;">black plastic bag</span>. <br /><br />Black plastic bags. Beautifying our sidewalks, in the hands of all the cool guys on the corner. These bags are as much a part of the uniform of crack dealers as heavy quilted jackets. <br /><br />It's important to point out that when you finish your beer, you should under no circumstances throw the can into the trash. Recycle: someone wants that can and looking through the trash for it is demeaning. And the bag? Throw that down too, for it is art and someone may want to clean up after his dog anyway. <br /><br />As for me, I have found a place on the internet where I can purchase my own black plastic bags (Ok, I didn’t look I just got them from the ghetto-mart, the one that complains to the landlord about the nice restaurant it shares the building with while selling whole pallets of Genesee each week.) Anyway, I got all these black plastic bags. <br /><br />I am thinking of selling them next to the hot dog cart this weekend. So stop by and get a bag, so you can drink on the street too! Just remember, throw it in the air when you’re done. Make it rain!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">SMC 12A.24.025 Unlawful consuming of liquor, opening a<br />container of liquor, or possessing an open container of liquor, each in a<br />public place.</span></div>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13981771566957651596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355874670055012201.post-5607658007710739272011-06-13T08:20:00.000-07:002011-06-13T08:22:45.531-07:00Rising Fuel Costs, Happy Hour Deals Keep News Crews in BelltownBelltown, Seattle-The rising cost of fuel combined with Seattle traffic has local news crews scrambling to find news close to home. “Belltown is great for news, its only a few blocks from our office and its got some great backdrops," said cameraman from BIRO8, adding” I have a whole story on the crumbling inner city built entirely around some B-roll of the McGuire!” When asked about crime that takes place in other parts of the city, news organizations all agreed that reporting news outside of Belltown was challenging and not nearly as rewarding. There’s not a single sign or wall not covered completely in vandalism up in Capitol Hill, which is the point, it’s hard to see the forest for the trees, but down here close to home: “Broken windows! Look!” News like this, right by the studio is a no brainer. First Hill has a really bad problem with cars being broken into, I mentioned. “We know, and you can’t imagine how much expensive equipment we have in our van,” said engineer Rob Basil, “going up there could cost us significantly.”<br />“Belltown has some wicked happy hour specials, and we can walk to most of the best places,” said on air reporter Connie Shellhair. “We used to party down here when I was at UW and I know all the cool spots.” She said that sometime the news hits home for those in the news business, citing last year’s shooting in front of one of her favorite bars. The shooting eventually ended in the bar losing its liquor permit.<br />“Businesses everywhere are being told to Think Local, and be sustainable,” said news desk manager Duck Blame of KLAW4 holding up his fingers making air quotes, and we’re responding to that market segment. Mr. Blame said that reporting news, any news in the neighborhood was his way of being green.<br />But it’s not all wine and roses for these loca-repores. Parking rates in the neighborhood are steep, and can put a dent in bottom lines. “Try parking your news van for more than a couple of hours! Forget it!” Engineer Basil lamented. All news crews agreed that to avoid hefty parking fees they tried to cover stories in Belltown as superficially as possible.<br />“As news people we’re supposed to get footage of us talking to cops, but then we realized that in Belltown there aren’t a lot of cops, so we often get forced to interview the droves of parking enforcement officers and drawing attention to our vehicles. This was a bad strategy.”Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13981771566957651596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1355874670055012201.post-57288697225414440772011-05-07T00:05:00.000-07:002011-05-07T00:08:41.641-07:00dream fragmentUnderneath the window of the shop a boy stood. He played with a coin that he continually and with a twist of his wrist used to assault the crumbling plaster of the wall at his feet. He stopped once in a while to look up at the window. The plaster flecked white on his otherwise dirty shoe. <br />The window of the shop above flickered with a deep light. The light of a betrayed woman’s eyes in winter. The boy displayed patience of a man four times his age. In time, the light faded and the boy looked down and then up the alley where he had stood for a hundred years or more. He stooped down and collected the coin from the grit of the alley. The white of the plaster and the red of the brick that lay underneath ran in curving lines into the creases of the asphalt at his feet, a vascular roadmap, science class diagram of a man with no skin, head turned in silent embarrassment at being found so stripped naked. <br />The boy looked once more at the shop window and pocketed the coin. He turned and began to walk, following the footsteps of a cat that had darted silent as thought from behind a derelict dumpster. He began to whistle. His hands found his pockets where the right hand idly turned the coin over and over. The alley met a street where astonishingly tall women sailed in pairs carrying parcels or pushing bicycles under trees draped with the precarious heads of late Spring blooms, each one like the face of a woman about to slide from the side of a listing, wailing ocean liner. Thinly they screamed, the air peeling fingers from limbs sending them descending to carpet the path of the cat and therefore the boy. <br />At the seawall. The scent of the sea sweeps the enormous coral stones of the battlement. Bracing against the angry darkness of the limitless aggression of the ocean which steals the whistle from his face. He throws the coin into the clamor and terror beneath him. The cold fiend immediately clutching the coin in its salty folds. <br />Turning he sees the skyline of the city. In the high street the shop light again bleeds its color into the ancient iron columns of cloud.Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13981771566957651596noreply@blogger.com0