Results tagged “ducks”

"Four" by jennybhead, from our Flickr pool

Just in case you forgot why you live in Seattle, a photo-refresher course. A rum drink really sets the mood, if you have anything like that handy.

This Oregon drive started when the Ducks intercepted Jake Locker on their own 6. Oregon drove the ball into Husky territory, but were still outside field goal range on this key 3rd & 8. If the Huskies were going to have a chance, they needed to make a stop on this play, and they couldn't--due to a blitz that didn't work and miscommunication in the secondary.

Screw you, Kenmore Air. You fly these things over our duplex every 2.5 minutes en route to Lake Union and you offer that tantalizing tourist flight around Seattle that's just out of Seattlest's financial grasp, and then, if those two weren't enough, you confound us by never ever hacking any boaters to bits when you're on the lake. We've been out there when it's busy and we can attest to the fact that it's difficult to tell who's the most clueless: the kayak rentals, the frat boy ski boats, the huge corporate yachts, the rowing club skulls or the damn Ducks. None of them know where they're going anyway, but where we couldn't pilot a canoe safely you tear in and out like it's the salt flats or something.

>>>EMP, 6pm. First The Police's Andy Summers gets interviewed by EMP Senior Curator, Jasen Emmons. Then he signs his book, One Train Later: A Memoir. You need tickets to stand in the "Don't Stand So Close To Me" book-signing line, available with purchase of the book from University Book Store. Andy will sign one piece of memorabilia per copy of his book. Did we mention he has a book out? $5 at the door, free for Museum members.

Sampaist is on the scene in São Paulo beginning this week to become the only ist south of the Equator. Editor Leandro M. Pinto leads the paulistanos down there.

We don't actually have anything against the Ducks, but it is the season and we found this site that seems to despise them in a hilarious manner. Yes, the Ducks are annoying to see on the streets of downtown and you want to respond to every "quack quack" with "Yes, an actual Seattle person walking to work. Fascinating isn't it?" And, ok, if you're in a kayak most other boats around you are moving in some sane kind of A to B fashion, but the Ducks just wander drunkenly over to you via some twisting path and everyone leers at you and tries to see down into the cockpit for some reason like you have something weird stashed down there and you gotta paddle quickly away lest a tourist set eyes on your sixer of Rainier. Really, though, aside from the times when the Ducks are quack-quacking up in our faces we enjoy the ducks. It's probably a pretty cool way to check out the city and, well, we won't go as far as to say that we wouldn't mind taking the ride sometime, but if a relative came by and absolutely insisted that we go on the Ducks with her then what are we gonna do? She insists.

For the first time since maybe the 2004 tournament loss to UAB, the Husky men were beat by a more athletic team Thursday, as Oregon upset them in the first round of the Pac-10 tournament.

Local literary enthusiasts should plan on staking out Elliott Bay Books for the next three nights. They're hosting readings by a debut novelist, a well-established novelist, and a local journalist/author visiting Italy (but not Rick Steves).