James, this is a very sweet blog entry. Personally I feel much better when the rains finally hit -- "Ahhh, now this is the city I know!"...

I want to make this, but someone will have to blindfold me before I dump three sticks of butter in there. "Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth"... lest thy left hand speak some reason...

To add to the list, I had the perfect pint of hard cider at Pyramid last week. ZOMG. ...

Yeah, and trust the white guy in his 30s to make this genius decision. "Well, I hear the banks are failing. I think I will rob one and walk out with a bag full of IOUs."...

After you get home from the Middle Fork, Kim, you should read The River Why by David James Duncan. Such a beautiful book, and it always makes me wish I liked fishing....

I've been loving Portage Bay's brunch for special occasions. It tastes better in my experience, and fresher -- maybe I just OD'd on Julia's in decades past, though! Another brunch place I've been mean...

LOL! Wow, that ending makes a lot more sense in this context. I was having a hard time wrapping my mind around the idea of Ra Scion stealing offering money, but I was totally willing to try to underst...

Maggie M knows what's up....

Whiskey bitters on the rocks! Or, I like anything in coffee (brandy?). ...

To be fair, most of Seattle IS north of I-90....

Pork pasole! YUM! Field trip to LC's...

Our house makes a mean pot of soup, if I do say so myself! Creamed parsnip and turnip soup: sounds gross, tastes DELICIOUS. And I'm recalling a white bean soup with a swirl of roasted red pepper puree...

I liked it, it's not my fave but the ending got me. Haha @ Grynch smiling while he's trying to push Ra around!...

What a beautiful, beautiful bacon angel! ...

Whole Foods is exorbitantly expensive in my experience, but that doesn't stop me from taking field trips there every couple of months to buy some luxuries. Mmmm, cheese....

I did this at the Capitol Hill Block Party a couple years back and had to work to get those sweepstakes people off my back. I just wanted some free groceries!...

That mega-meetup NEEDS to happen....

The new location is a little bit too convenient for my budget to be happy, but my espresso addiction is sure purring. ...

When I return, I'll try the full thali experience -- if just to taste the melon soup I've heard so much about. I was surprised at how much I liked the eggplant fries (blackberry honey, mmm). The cauli...

This was a particularly intricate review, MvB! "False Coordinates of the Ideal" would be a fantastic title for a poem. ...