Sadly, this is very true of me lately

via don't touch my moleskine

Googles the Duck

At long last I have finished Googles the Duck. He was intended to be a Christmas present for my stepsister, but uncontrollable circumstances delayed his completion until today. His design comes from the book Kyuuto! Japanese Crafts!: Amigurumi by Chronicle Books. It was originally published in 主婦と生活社, which roughly translates to Housewife and Life Style Co.

Hmm I'm no housewife, but it'd be a compliment to be considered as crafty as one!

Here are some pictures of Googles in his natural habitat--Botanica by Barnes and Noble Books:

Hee, that's me

Craigslist Hilarity

This has got to be the funniest Craigslist ad I have ever read. I am sure it is a spoof... I think.

seattle-tacoma craigslist > seattle > pets

Baby M needs new home ASAP!!! (Seattle)

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Reply to: comm-azeak-1068187409@craigslist.org ^{[Errors when replying to ads?]}
Date: 2009-03-09, 9:29PM PDT

15 year old treasure!!! Magpie has been a part of our family for what 'feels' like a lifetime! While her presence will most likely scar both the adults and children alike with her unique screech, moaning, crying, growling, snarling and gnashing of teeth - whenever there is a moment that she feels less than a 'princess'....

We keep her in a secure cage (most of the time) but have let her out on special occasions like Christmas evening and her birthday.

A $5 RE-HOMING fee is a 'steal' but hard times have forced us to put our princess up for adoption.
Magpie is (most likely) disease free and hardly ever bites (except when you pet her. Just be sure to use thick leather gloves in handling her) Great with kids and a 'special needs' dog who has spent the last 15 years of her life 'playing' with our neighbor's Mature, naked Autistic son. (usually not too rough)

Slight emotional 'issues' and separation anxiety may present themselves from time to time. In the form of biting, blood-traced urine trails, malicious pooping, vomiting, and her bi-annual “heat” cycles. You will know it is “that time” because her princess parts will take on the appearance of an engorged strawberry. Not too worry, she licks most of it up herself.

Magpie comes with her cage, her antique pleather kotex holder, a half-used package of maxi pads, what is left of her food, her blanket, leash, and favorite toy. She is two halves of two pure-bred dogs. Were just not sure which breeds for sure.

ADOPTION TO A GOOD APPROVED HOME ONLY!!! RE-HOMING FEE OF $5 APPLIES!!! Priced to move ASAP.


No flaggers, scammers, posers, animal abusers, beastiality partakers..You just must love dogs!

Sad?

How sad is this ad?


I wonder what criteria they use to determine "members unfit to date." Sounds a smidge elitist to me.

Time for hard-hitting investigative journalism!?

Let's Try This Again...

The City of Seattle has put its five automated public toilets up for auction again after the first round received no bids. The minimum bid has changed too — from $89,000 to a mere 99 cents with a $2.50 minimum increase.

The bidding could turn out to be a popularity contest, which toilet do people desire the most? Bidadoo Auctions has even uploaded dozens of high-resolution photos to entice the reluctant toilet fancier.

The standings are:

Hering-Bau WCmatic Automatic Public Toilet #1 - Seattle **CITY OF SEATTLE - APT #1 - PIKE PLACE MARKET**

13 Bids

$205.38

Not specified

9d 1h 49m

Hering-Bau WCmatic Automatic Public Toilet #3 - Seattle **CITY OF SEATTLE - APT #3 - PIONEER SQUARE**

7 Bids

$112.72

Not specified

9d 1h 46m

Hering-Bau WCmatic Automatic Public Toilet #2 - Seattle **CITY OF SEATTLE - APT #2 - ELLIOT BAY WATERFRONT**

9 Bids

$105.83

Not specified

9d 1h 44m

Hering-Bau WCmatic Automatic Public Toilet #4 - Seattle **CITY OF SEATTLE - APT #4 - INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT**

5 Bids

$102.50

Not specified

9d 1h 47m

Hering-Bau WCmatic Automatic Public Toilet #5 - Seattle **CITY OF SEATTLE - APT #5 - CAPITOL HILL**

12 Bids

$100.00

Not specified

9d 1h 42m

Repeat Offense

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Bellevue, 520, Microsoft, oh my!

Is it too much to ask that they just rename them The Eastside Times and The Eastside Post-Intelligencer?

Did You Know...

Spend a little time on the Seattle Police Department Web site, and you never know what you'll find out.

For instance, I don't live in Rainier Valley, I live in Sector George.

And have you seen the futuristic police cars? Both the Seattle Police and the University of Washington Police have them. It's a bit of a flashback (forward?) to Demolition Man.

Well, maybe just a little.















Don't get me started on all the ways Parking Enforcement Officers get around. I mean, they have segways, tricycles, those little cars, their feet...

Anything-Goes Seating

If you want to see humanity at its most inventive, check out how people sit at festivals.

Not convinced? Well, let's take last Sunday's Chinatown-International District Festival, put on by Seafair, as an example.

Some sat in families.

Some sat enthroned.

Some sat quite authoritatively.

Others were more daring...

and even sat illegally!

Some preferred fire hydrants...

... and even used them as fashion accessories.

But everyone sat with a friend.

Yes, Our Library Is Pretty, Please Give It Back Now

I knew something was up as I pedaled up Fourth Avenue Sunday morning. A motorcycle cop sat staunchly in the middle of the bike lane and one of those new police cars nicely took up the next lane over.

The whole block surrounding the Central Public Library was eerily empty as went to lock my bike in front of the building.

"Kshhshk- biker in front-kshksh," went a man's walkie-talkie as he approached me. They were filming a Hyundai commercial around the library, he explained, and would only need five more minutes.

Maybe he expected me to pedal away in disgust, angry that my precious public resource had been co-opted by gas-guzzling Hyundais. But instead, dear readers, I made lemonade.

It was quite surreal to see the tech guys reattach the signs we citizens take for permanent everyday, as if our lives were the "set," not the other way around.

There was also a stand of potted plants on the corner of Fourth Avenue and Madison Street, which were then loaded carefully into a moving truck. The mind boggles at how potted plants could play into a car advertisement, but marketing guys are tricky these days.

As it was a public space, I brazenly took photos wherever I wanted — I mean, they should understand, being in the film industry and all.

People clustered around a video camera set up on the back end of a minivan, labeled "B-Cam," on the south side of the library.

A friendly man with a French-sounding accent complimented the aesthetics of the library when I ventured near. Yes we love it too, I agreed.

Click.

So folks, if you watch TV, keep an eye out for a Hyundai commercial with a large, pointy building.
It could be your city!