Results tagged “clownstatue”

  • Apparently, not everyone in town shares our deep-seated fear of clowns, thanks to J.P. Patches. According to My Ballard, hundreds and hundreds of you, many donning clown make-up yourselves, came out on Sunday to watch the unveiling of the new J.P. Patches statue. As for us, just writing those sentences and the Flickr photos we saw were enough to prompt a cold sweat which, in this weather, actually ain't half bad.
  • You know when these words are involved in a headline--"home-built helicopter"--it's not going to be good.
  • Capitol Hill Seattle spotted and posted evidence of one of the greatest help-wanted fliers of all time.


  • The Daily Weekly reports that the City of Seattle has successfully sold its scandalous public toilets on EBay....for over $80,000 less per toilet than they'd hoped.
  • While we know it means our Seattle Native card could be revoked, we are still less than thrilled that a new clown statue in honor of JP Patches is set to be unveiled this Sunday. We hate clowns, we always have, and since JP Patches was the big local clown during our childhood, we kinda blame him. The idea of having to walk by a creepy clown statue while drunk in Fremont gives us the shivers.
  • My Ballard has photographic proof that bike lanes have been painted on 8th Avenue between Market and Leary.

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