Results tagged “thesound”

Jesse Thorn, member of sketch comedy group Prank the Dean, produces his public radio show from his own living room in Los Angeles. At first, Seattlest thought that was code for "I am unemployed and play a lot of XBox" but it turns out he actually does have a radio show (this is still ambiguous on the "unemployed" detail), and even more to the point: it is very good.

We called Elliot Bay Books last week in advance of John Hodgman's reading, and asked whether they thought it would be crowded. Should we show up early, now that he's all famous and whatnot? Not a bad idea, they said, maybe 7pm. The reading was to start at 7:30. We strolled into EBB as the clock struck 7, and our heart sank into our feet as we spied the line at the bottom of the spiral staircase, making its own spiral all the way through the cafe next to the reading room in the basement. Luckily, Seattlest Jack and Audrey were wiser than we are, and had arrived even earlier, securing our seats three rows back, just left of center.

There was a great editorial in the P-I over the weekend in which the writer Daniel Jack Chasan said (and this is Seattlest’s Paraphrase): The Sound is a mess. The Sound was a mess in the 80’s and we said we’d fix it and we never wanted to foot the bill so the Sound is mess now and we’re saying we’ll fix it and we won’t foot the bill. That was the gist of it, but it’s worth going to read for yourself if you haven’t.

Puget Sound is not that big. It's deep, sure, but there aren't really many (any?) places on the Sound where you can't see land all around you and every ferry run has at one time or another struck Seattlest as very swimmable. Never mind the fact that we've struggled with large lap pools or have been driven to the brink of sanity by those infinity pools. The Sound strikes us as swimmable. So when a helicopter ditches into the Sound we find it hard to believe that it's so difficult to retrieve it. Nobody saw this happen? The entire Sound is surrounded by the living room windows of rich people and not a single one of them spotted a helicopter falling out of the sky? As soon as Seattlest gets our due we're going to get ourselves one of those Puget Sound view windows and we will then devote ourselves entirely to staring out of it. You can be sure when the flaming wreckage of a helicopter plunges into the water like a meteorite that we'll be able to tell investigators, "Yeah, right there. It's swimmable from the end of our pier."

Seattlest is on a Canada bender. Well, to be accurate, this particular member of the Seattlest ranks has spent more time in Canada than in Seattle during the month of June. Soon we promise to have a long, lovely post about our 9-day trip to the interior B.C. Okanagon region, but right now we're having too much fun up at Whistler. (Cheers to Electric Daisy Internet for great pay-by-the-minute access, located right next to Garfinkels in the main village.)