By now, you’ve most likely realized that Seattlest loves a little bit of the strange in our daily lives. Between all the off-beat circuses, live movies, and pillow fights, our entertainment tastes obviously run a little bit off center. It shouldn’t come as a surprise then that spending a day shooting nine holes of golf around Capitol Hill, in costume, at the bi-annual Seattle Urban Golf was right up our alley. At first glance, nine......

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My God, it's beautiful outside. When did that happen? Here we are sneezing and coughing and oozing from every orifice on our face when we look outside and Holy Obamalove, Batman! It's really nice out! We recommend leaving your office job early and skipping through Cal Anderson Park (or whatever facsimile exists in your neighborhood). Pick up an iced latte. Go have a margarita. Take your dog and your little sister. Put your hair......

A hundred or so people met at Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill last night, to serenade the full lunar eclipse with Bonnie Tyler's '80s classic, "Total Eclipse of the Heart." The plan was to sing the song for the entire 51 minutes of the lunar eclipse. Sadly, Seattlest could not take the song or the cold long enough to see if they succeeded. all photos by Seattlest. Also don't miss out on all the......

On the plus side, the basketball and tennis courts at Cal Anderson Park are completely open.......

On a recent Wednesday morning, Seattlest was exiting Vivace on Denny with our clergy mother, happily discussing something secular. As we descended the ramp, Seattlest noticed a group of five thirty- and forty-somethings trailing past, each with a Bible in hand. We grew confused and a little nervous. After all, this has been our haunt for a solid year now and this was the first group of Bible-toting folk we've seen there yet. That would......

We did our best to ignore the shirtless guy's bongo tappy tappy, but when two California poseurs got him to provide a beat for them to rap to (badly), it was time for our person to move along. Just as we were walking around the north end of the fountain thing at Cal Anderson Park, we spotted our unlikely subjects: Two northwest indie-rockers sitting out in the sun? They'll burn for sure! We hung back,......

East wing of Cal Anderson Park. Right next to the water cooler.......

Cal Anderson Park reflecting pool, 9:10am.......

This morning we noticed that someone had dumped some Ultra detergent into the fountain at Cal Anderson Park, which made a bunch of pretty foam, but which perturbed us because we weren't sure if that was getting into our drinking water. The park, as you might already know, is basically a very cool lid for the reservoir that sits underneath it. But we weren't sure how it all worked, so we called the Parks......

Strolling through Volunteer Park on our lunch break, we spotted a new skate bowl where the antiquated reservoir used to be. With what looks like a (mini) super-collider laid out on the bottom, it's Seattle grunge meets Seattle hi-tech. Is this a response to the success of Cal Anderson Park, just down the Hill, with the younger set? If so, Volunteer is firing both barrels. Further inspection yielded a new artistic installation "reminiscent" of......

We're certainly not the only ones to be ragging on new housing being built on the Hill. But we've got our eyes on another development, specifically the nine condos for sale at the corner of 11th and Howell, right across from Cal Anderson Park. Seattlest lives near these condos and has been acutely aware of their construction, via one year of all kinds of noise starting everyday 'round 7 in the AM (and *that's* why......

Seattlest chortled like little Stewie over this headline. Do you know why? Because this post is about the long-awaited opening of Cal Anderson Park! Ha! Not parking! Tomorrow, September 24th, there will be an official opening from noon to 3:30pm:We'll have a community celebration with tours of park, information on the reservoir lidding, music and other entertainment.No word on what this "music and entertainment" might be, but it is sponsored by the Seattle Parks and......