jdavin

> Like Portland's beloved The Butchers and The Builders, It's the Builders and the Butchers. Surprised me for a minute there thinking they reversed their name. :)...

That sounds good but how likely do you think it is that all that will actually happen? I'd say there's a snowball's chance in hell of all those measures getting done. Better late night transit? That...

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> home prices in Seattle will drop a worst-in-the-nation 22% over the next few years. On behalf of Seattle, we would like to respond to Goldman Sachs thusly: Well fuck you, too. Apparently Ian Chant ...

> demolition of the Maguire apartments McGuire, not Maguire....

Good timing... I was just looking for Irish soda bread today at Fred Meyer. Couldn't find any. Do you know of any supermarkets that sell it (even if only around St Patrick's day)? ...

>> for killing a sentenced grizzly bear in 2007. Heh heh... what was the grizzly bear sentenced to? Life without salmon, no parole? ...

Unfortunately that is a somewhat misleading analysis from Calculated Risk. The percentage of banks in a state that are in distress is not a good yardstick. If a state only has 2 banks and 1 is in dis...

I had a ton of fun. I was sad with my decision to do Modest Mouse over Metric though. The Mouse seemed kind of low energy, especially since they followed Franz Ferdinand and did mostly older songs in ...

> we didn’t do Sasquatch I think you mean Bumbershoot; Sasquatch is in May. ...

Your schedule is pretty similar to mine. I'm sad that Metric and Modest Mouse are in the exact same time slot. They're both good bands, but I think I'm going to go to Modest Mouse since I've wanted t...

If you have any extra hops from your harvest, let me know and I'll bring you over some homebrew in exchange for hops. I have a Belgian witbier that I'm bottling tomorrow, and some other brews that are...

> Things have been relatively quite in the U District quite -> quiet...

As mentioned in the comments on the Seattle PI post, but not in the Seattlest post, this is from the East Texas court system which is known for supporting frivolous patent litigation. The i4i lawsuit ...

They really got a room full of drug dealers voluntarily show up for a community meeting? Wow. That's kind of cool. My guess is they were all low-level dealers ("runners" in The Wire terminology)? Se...