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Wed, Aug. 19th, 2009, 12:14 pm
two good news
1. Seattle voters have rejected a 20-cent fee for every paper or plastic bag they get from supermarkets, drug stores and convenience stores. so i can keep recycling the free bugs made of shitty super thin plastic, instead of buying small garbage bugs made of thick, prime grade plastic. common sence prevailed over irrational exuberance of self-defeating tree huggers. 2. The city's incumbent mayor didn't fare much better than the fee, trailing two challengers in a bid for a third term...Sierra Club activist Mike McGinn has a slim lead with 27 percent of the vote. Cell phone executive Joe Mallahan has 26 percent, while Nickels has 25 percent. The top two finishers will advance to the November election. *no need to comment. out, demons of stupidity!
Mon, Dec. 29th, 2008, 11:07 am
seattle
the city of seattle has a web form to report about missing garbage collection. it directs the report to an email address spu_missedcollections@seattle.gov. there is a person - mind you, actual person, not an autoresponder - who to any email to this address replies with this: "Please write to:
Seattle Public Utilities, Utility Hearing Officer
700 5th Ave, suite 2777
PO Box 34027
Seattle, WA 98124-4027"
they setup a web form and an email address only to direct people to snail mail. how insane is that?
sunset on alki beach
seattle covered in snow 
damn global warming!
Tue, May. 29th, 2007, 03:15 pm
no man's land
like every big city, seattle has these deserted, obscure corners, fallen out of time, populated by characters from stephen king books, outside people, and shadows. they have a quiet poetry, amplified by the virtue of being overlooked. it's no man's land.  ( Read more... )
 sunset on alki beach
Originally uploaded by polyrealism.gallery: http://polyrealism.com/deck/deck.shtml copyright polyrealism.com © 2007 for some reason, many asked me how do i come up with this, and with all that other shit i paint... here's an example. this piece is painted with acrylics on a small linen canvas, au plainair, on alki beach. acrylics because it dries fast enough so i can do a few layers au plainair, linen because it has perfect structure for dry-brushing the shadows. we got there around 4, but i knew that the color that was haunting me earlier will be precisely what i need around 7. i did quick underpainting with basic colors - no sketching, no measuring, it had to be loose and impressionistic - correlated the color of sky and water from what it was to what it will be during the sunset - decades of painting will do that to ya - and mixed the color of the shadow and applied it to the outline of the city. then i could sit, smoke and kick back. no beer, bear makes you lose precision. after two cigarettes, the exact color that i needed hit the walls, i quickly mixed it while it was there, and in sort of trance painted all the highlights over shadows that dried up by that moment. then, just as i finished, a cloud covered part of the sun and changed the colors, so i had to add a reddish streak as it was setting on the tops of the buildings. then i signed it and made myself stop correcting it. to quote the greatest russian poet pushkin: "if only you knew from what kind of garbagethe poetry is born!"
Fri, Dec. 15th, 2006, 01:48 pm
cyberwinds
the bird's eye view at the disaster:  all it took is a little wind... p.s. At Crossroads Shopping Center in Bellevue everything was closed except the deli called From Russia With Love. Owner Tyna Dzliafarova had placed a sign out front offering passers-by free hot water and tea. She was also selling hot food. seattle p.i.. that's a lesson for you, seattle pussies, from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) vichka's folks :P
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