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BYRNE BABY BYRNE: David Byrne is back in town for a visit to the Paramount. Famous in his heyday for biting the heads off bats in his over-the-top metalhead shows...wait that doesn't seem...where's that bio again? Ah. Yes, the former Talking Heads front man is on a summer tour, playing songs by himself and Brian Eno. You'll hear stuff from Everything that Happens will Happen Today, and some back-catalogue Heads music than Eno had a hand in. Something old, something new, what's not to like?

David Williams, the guy who wrote one of the most interesting books about Seattle we've ever read, emailed lately to let us know that what promises to be the absolute most interesting book we've ever read about stone (in a class by itself, actually) is coming in the summer. Where Street-Smart Naturalist explored the plants and animals around Seattle--and not "around Seattle" like just outside Seattle in the Cascades, but "around Seattle" like right there on the sidewalk in front of you--with just a chapter on the stone that can be found in Seattle, this time he's returning to his geologist roots and sticking with rock the whole way through. The book will be titled Stories in Stone.

In the chapter on invasive species in David Williams' awesome book The Street-Smart Naturalist he says of blackberries:

Yesterday the Cascadia Scorecard blog commented on a P-I article from two days ago on the subject of Seattle's troubled urban forests. The article from the Post Intelligencer is quality stuff and you should copy the link for yourself for reading at another time. We know that stuff piles up and you eventually just end up deleting it all because who has time to read that many links, but at least you'll have made an effort. It's about invasive species outcompeting our native floura, a subject also well covered in the David Williams book.