Results tagged “moseslake”

A rash of bomb mishaps has broken out in Grant County, according to the Seattle Times. We can't help but wonder if these Moses Lake folks were on the million-man terrorist watch list, and what consequent crazy connections the cops will concoct. (Yes, we wrote that sentence to see how many silly c-words we could string in a sentence.) Speaking of blowing up, did you catch the Fleet Foxes on Letterman last night? And, speaking of wild animals, a sea lion hopped on a sailboat this weekend. There are too many money quotes in that article to pull just one. And this concludes your random Tuesday afternoon news brief. Back to work, people.

This is a new one. Instead of fleeing arrest, a Moses Lake man crashed his car into a police parking lot gate to guarantee his arrest would happen. Officers inside the station heard the impact of the crash and responded immediately (very easy to do when it involves getting up and walking outside).

To the average damp Seattle dweller, life in eastern Washington's Moses Lake--complete with rodeos, farms, and arid landscape--may very well seem like a different world. But NASA believes that Moses Lake and its surrounding landscape better mimics life on the moon. That's why NASA has decided to test a prototype of a lunar vehicle near Moses Lake this summer.

As we said on Friday, this past weekend marked the opening of the 24th annual Northwest New Works Festival at On the Boards, which also runs next weekend and features 18 new performances from local artists. Seattlest had the chance to catch the Mainstage Showcase on Saturday night and, well, color us blown away.

Seattlest's AP US History teacher, George Henry, was something of a rabble-rouser at our Salt Lake City high school. At the time, we only barely appreciated that we were getting a hands-on miniature lesson in civil disobedience from the only African-American teacher at the school. What we knew at the time was that when the school board started debating talking about condoms and sex ed, George Henry started one of his lectures by replacing every noun in it with the word condom. "So during the condom treatise of the late 1880's, condoms became the most important condoms under discussion." Or something like that, you get the idea. He also sent us to steal tables from the football coaching offices when he was told there was no more budget for him to have an extra table (one extra table!) in his classroom; he instructed us to bar the door to his classroom with said table when the football coach came looking for it. Plus, he took his entire class (all white, mostly Mormon) to his baptist church where he played the organ every Sunday. And George Henry never once got suspended. But we also know that he never ran into the cafeteria and jumped up on the tables screaming obscenities--George Henry knew how to make a point without making a fool of himself.

--The real estate bubble really is getting crazy.