Capitol Hill Seattle

Shoulda been a tweet: Local journalism

The Capitol Hill Seattle Blog/blog folks give us an example of how to do local journalism and the importance of local journalism. It celebrates and champions a wonderful neighborhood while also putting tough questions to city government. It's not easy or lucrative. If you read Justin'

2020

Use your words

If you’re a linear thinker, you might want to skip this one. You’ve been warned. It wasn’t my best pandemic day. Every time I told myself I should eat I poured another cup of coffee. That worked for Hunter S. Thompson. Not advisable for the rest of

Capitol Hill Seattle

Testing, testing, 1...2...Taylor Swift

There are scientific studies, and then there are SBHOPPER studies. SBHOPPER studies should not inform thinking, actions, or policy-making. Trust me. I entered one of those baking soda + vinegar volcano eruptions into a grade school science experiment. You can’t call it a science experiment when the chemical reaction is

Capitol Hill Organized Protest

Playing ping pong on a comet

[Note: In August 2020 I moved my site from Squarespace to Ghost by way of Wordpress. Broke all of my image links. I'm slowly trying to repair some of the damage.] There are bloggers, and there are people who have a blog on their website. I am the

Capitol Hill Seattle

Capitol Hill Animal Encounters

A week or so ago a crow dive bombed me. He scored a direct hit. This little fella seemed more willing to share the sidewalk.

Adobe Audition

8pm on Capitol Hill

I’m slowly – very slowly – practicing with audio. My progress is moving at glacial speed. I’ve taken the recorders out a couple of times right around 8pm. Are people in your neighborhood cheering for all of the people working hard to help us get through this pandemic? It’s

Backstage Pass

Dead Spells and Sterling Serpent at Seattle's Highline

On Friday I saw Dead Spells [https://www.instagram.com/sterling_serpent_music/] play at Seattle’s Highline. I really like them. And that sentence reveals a source of frustration – I can’t write about music at all. I like their music, they sound good. Awesome prose, Scott. It’s

Aoki in Capitol Hill closing

On the Streets: Aoki Sushi & Grill

Capitol Hill’s Aoki Sushi & Grill is closing this month. I think 16 March 2019 will be its last day. I’ll miss that place. I’m not a sushi connoisseur, but I’ve always enjoyed their food and the people who work there. It’s a nice neighborhood

Capitol Hill

On the Streets: Hot Mama's Pizza

Hot Mama’s Pizza, Capitol Hill, Seattle, March 2017.

Architecture

On the Streets: Loveless Building

If you’ve read this blog, you know I’m a fan of Joe Bar [http://www.thestranger.com/locations/24515/joe-bar](link goes to The Stranger’s writeup about Joe Bar). It took me a little longer to warm up to the Loveless Building, which only seems appropriate given

Architecture

On the Streets: Suffragette City

In Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1605783/], the protagonist longs to be in the company of the writers and artists of The Lost Generation. Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Dali, Man Ray. Who can blame him? We all want to find that time-machine