Over the weekend we got an email from our friend in Wisconsin asking, "Why does Washington have a caucus and a primary? I don't get it. How does this work?" more ›

The historic Moore Theatre turns 100 this year. December 28th is their big centennial celebration. We got to thinking about this major milestone the last time we were there. It was last Monday night, the Iron and Wine show. We were sitting in our seats, waiting for razor-shy Sam Beam to take the stage and we got to looking around. As always we were impressed by the high ceiling, grand arches, intricate moldings... Then we... more ›

Enough. It's Bacon Salt Backlash time. Seattlest got in our car to drive home last night and Bacon Salt came on the radio. We opened up the newspaper yesterday and Bacon Salt. Bacon Salt, Bacon Salt, Bacon Salt. more ›

The Asubpeeschoseewagong (more easily pronounced as "Grassy Narrows First People") of Ontario, Canada are in town this week after a long twisty trip across the continent to meet with Weyerhaeuser officials and attend the Built Green Conference. The Seattle timber company buys wood that a company called Abitibi harvests from land that the Grassy Narrows First Peoples claim as their tribal lands in the Whiskey Jack forest of northern Ontario. The group has been conducting a public relations campaign against Weyerhaeuser for quite a while now, notably projecting images onto Seattle landmarks last April. Weyerhaeuser maintains that they are the wrong tree to bark up in this case. more ›

We were moderately aware and awake during the heyday of the riot grrrl movement. We dated, then married, and now have a family with a woman who would have been labeled a "grrrl" due to her politics and her taste in music and dress. Albeit, this was all in Boston, not Seattle. But how could Loh, who is paid to be a keen observer of our culture, get grrrls so wrong? Her take on it is not unlike our younger brother's in 1993: "Bunch-uh-dykes." more ›

Oh Al Gore you're so darn funny. You're just ridiculous. You and your "global warming" and the idea that there's someone responsible for it...How do you come up with this stuff? Everybody, look at Al Gore and his little army of penguins and pay no attention to the fact that our laughter is just a little too forceful to not have originated from a place of fear. more ›

When we talked about increased tanker traffic in the Puget Sound recently we pinned it squarely on that Stevens asshole up in Alaska, and we weren't wrong in that. We completely failed to acknowledge that the English oil company BP was pulling the strings for Senator Stevens, though. We're supposed to believe that BP doesn't stand for British Petroleum anymore - Now it's Beyond Petroleum. Whatever they're called they've greenwashed their website in shiney new colors (all done with Earth-friendly dyes no doubt) and we hear a lot about them and alternative energy technologies, but according to an article in The Independent today they're having a spot of trouble with walking the walk. more ›

The internet is both a thing of beauty and a terrible menace and no one knows that better than hapless Erik Benson. Benson left the fold at Amazon.com (specifically and tellingly from the "personalization team") and opened up shop on Capitol Hill as the Robot Co-Op with the site 43 Things. 43 Things enjoyed life briefly as an internet start-up until Monday when Salon.com featured the site in an article about content tags on the internet. To Erik Benson the internet must have been beautiful indeed. more ›

Davos may be home to the World Economic Forum, cofounded by northwest businessman Bill Gates, but Seattle knows where the new economy is going (because we read Wired). Seattle is hosting the Business Blog Summit. The annual Swiss event may have a blog, but Bill Gates does not. The new economy wants new media. Blog + Bidness = Bling. more ›