I’ve never quite understood the conventions surrounding the terms “midsummer” and “midwinter.” Each is used to describe the solstice – June 21st or so and December 21st or so – which are, as you know, the beginnings of summer and winter, not the middle. Today is Imbolc, which we popularly celebrate as Groundhog Day.(I’m not sure whether Punxatawney Phil saw
Read moreBallast Point’s visit to Beer Junction in West Seattle was a hit, and the Rum-Aged Victory at Sea Nitro stole the show. Periodically Okay, this is going to be more like a 30-second review. Beer Junction in West Seattle will have one of the region’s craft brewers in to showcase their products. Last night the special guest was San Diego’s
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Snowden, Assange, Greenwald, and anyone else who believes that NSA spying on American citizens is wrong is a tool for Mother Russia. Makes sense. I just read Edward Lucas’s Wall Street Journal piece entitled “A Press Corps Full of Snowdenistas.” I can’t honestly say if Mr. Lucas is a liar, an idiot, or simply a guy who’s a little too
Read morePart 2 of a series. How can we honor athletes for cheating and then talk to our children about honesty and integrity with a straight face? Matt Record’s post yesterday arguing that Major League Baseball should admit steroid users to the Hall of Fame gets a lot of things right. For instance: Ty Cobb? Sub-human PoS, no doubt about it.
Read moreYep. Check out #5. Sic ’em, Alex.
Read moreI got a nice note from a woman earlier today on OK Cupid. She thought I looked interesting and wanted to take a shot, although she wasn’t 100% clear on what I meant with my answer to one question. There’s a section at the bottom of the profile where you have to fill this out.
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Poetry, fiction, music reviews, art and photography from one of the country’s fine young independent online art and literature journals. We’ve pointed you in the past toward Amethyst Arsenic, one of our favorite online literary and arts journals, and the Winter 2014 iteration is now posted. This edition features fiction from Victor Infante, art by Jill Christian, a few music
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Progressives with more passion than intelligence provide aid and comfort to conservatives, and as usual, Huffington Post is leading the charge. Twitter is stupid and Instagram is Twitter for people who can’t read. @OfficialKat The picture you see here has ignited a firestorm of outrage over the past few days. In an airy white blouse, art gallery owner Dasha Zhukova
Read moreNewman is pretty darned good. But it’s too early to know if he’s the dude Amy Winehouse or the dude Duffy. A few days ago BuzzFeed up and wet itself over Brit Soul-Pop wunderkind John Newman, calling the 23 year-old singer the “Dude Version Of Amy Winehouse.” As a famous man once said, “simmer down, Beavis.” Comparing Newman to 27-Clubber
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It started innocently enough, as these things often do, with our boy Dan Ryan on Facebook wishing there was a video of the gopher from Caddyshack dancing to “Water of Love” by Dire Straits. Which, turns out, is actually a thing. That caused me, for some odd reason, to wonder what the movie would have been like if David Lynch
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EMP Museum, Seattle
Read moreAdler calls out her attackers. But winning a battle isn’t the same as winning the war. I noted last month the latest in the University of Colorado administration’s ongoing campaign to completely destroy the school’s reputation, as it sought to fire Dr. Patti Adler for daring to teach deviance in her class on, well, deviance. There’s good news. The professional
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