Thursday, November 26, 2009

happy thanksgiving

From Tommy, Dick, and Harry. And Sally. This one's shorter.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Things to do when your mom comes to visit: Volunteer Park

Making Pennies, trying to solve life's conundrums one at a time: (this time, what do I do in Seattle when my mom comes to visit?)

1. Start off at the SAAM. If your mom is the museum type (as many are) go on in and have some fun. Otherwise, take a walk to see the water tower, explore the koi ponds, and take obligatory corny photos of the space needle, through the gaping circle (above).


2. Visit the conservatory. It's free, but only open til 4pm, so get there early. Cactus room (above) and chrysanthemums the size of my head (below) were highlights. I'm not sure if these things are here all the time, or if they rotate. You can also see carnivorous plants, if you're into that.


3. Walk over to Lakeview Cemetery, and visit Bruce Lee's grave. Did you know? Bruce could have made it onto this year's ANTM cycle, because he was only 5'7" (ish).

4. Take the 10 bus for a super short trip down to Coastal Kitchen on 15th in Capitol Hill for a delicious meal. Here, brunch is pictured. Try their coffee cake. So good, it's bad.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

TV Commercial Fail.

If you watched ANTM last night (which I hope you did, my fave two are in the final two!), you prolly saw this hella shitty commercial. The maker of it probably said to himself, I have an idea, why don't we repeat portions of one audio clip NINE TIMES in a thirty second commercial?



I will NOT be watching this shit. If anyone does, let me know if they say, "I have an idea, why don't we have a seance" as many times as they are advertising.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

SAM Remix

Y'all know I was a huge fan of Hirshorn After Hours, so, after the stars aligned to give me enough time to do something fun this weekend, I decided to head on over to the quarterly SAM Remix. Now, my first After Hours may have changed my life forever, but... Friday November 6th's Remix at Seattle Art Musem was off tha hook.

Remix featured, among other things, "Highly Opinionated Tours" led by art fanatics like Jen Graves of The Stranger fame, yodeling Dominatrix Manuela Horn (from this year's America's Got Talent), a stilt dancer, and a hella sweet Alexander Calder exhibit (featuring lots of mobiles and his puh-sycho crazy-man circus video).

Need I mention this shit was super gay? Come here if you need a place to show off your latest drag ensemble... Now that I look at the program, it was co-sponsored by Outlaws (for queer law students at UW), Out for Sustainability (fuckin no clue what that means but it sounds gay), Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and Seattle Out and Proud.

Some other activities of the night, in pictures:

Michelangelo's David-inspired temporary tattoos. (There was a Michelangelo exhibit in the galleries.)


A modeling/drawing station.


Crafts 101 for adults: Paper bag luminaria for Dia de los Muertos.


Two different dance floors w/ two different DJ's. This particular DJ, mixed super dancy versions of classic motown and 90's rap.

All in all, hella fun. Def's worth the $8 student admission.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

I'm down with Op(p)

Yeah you know me. (In response to yesterday's post.)

Monday, November 2, 2009

I think I was literally assigned 99 problems

I know this is old, but I never looked at all of them. Recordings are available for most of the songs.

So we have to make a "99 problems" song in response. I nominate Karen. (Please, relay this message to Karen.)

PS. Can you tell I am doing everything to avoid studying for midterms?
PPS. They clearly use STATA. Losers.