Yes, fuck this shit. We have the best weather in the country, but there’s no oxygen in our air right now. There’s ash falling in my neighborhood near Puget Sound. I would love to hear a climate-change denier argue with you about why the past 2 years have had this smoke pollution with 45 year old natives not…

I was driving down I-5 a few weeks ago while the Siskiyou fire raged in the mountains all around us. The most disturbing thing is that the fires don’t seem that large until you see the fire helicopters flying over (which are pretty damn big) and you realize they’re just specks by comparison, and the giant hoses they…

The CLink pretty much looks like the casting call for this Almost Live skit, even today...

I was living around Detroit when they hosted the Pittsburgh / Seattle Superbowl, and I was astounded at how the city was flooded with Steeler fans and basically no Seahawks fans showed up to watch that Hasselbeck team. This has always been proof to me that the 12s are bandwagon scum who didn’t give a shit before the…

Kent rises above the rest, but as alluded to above, once you’re 10 miles (so about 4 hours on I-5 or the 405) outside of Seattle proper, the avatar for the greater Puget Sound area is a jacked-up Chevy Silverado that’s never been off thepavement, decked out with Truck Nutz and a giant “12" window decal, idling at the…

Since I think he’s a closeted psychopath, I think he might end up purchasing literal dolphins to strip them of their parts.

I work with someone who identifies as a “12" and I knew two things about her, and her fandom. She once called into work after injuring herself by cutting her hand while trying to stab someone with a broken bottle in a bar fight (and that’s not the only out of work drunken hijinks I’ve heard about her getting into)...…

Drive 30 minutes in any direction and you’re in MAGA-hat-wearing, Calvin-peeing-on-a-Chevy-logo-ville. And 12s from these towns seem to have exclusive rights to 90% of the tickets.

It’s hard to argue such rankings as 95 99% of the I-5 corridor are burbs. Federal Way, Auburn, Des Moines, Edmonds... ranking the difference between these places is an exercise in futility. It’s not as if the gas stations, Teriyaki places and Starbucks’ are better in Lacey compared to Mill Creek.

Gabriel gets bonus points for going with Tukwila and Puyallup as the po-dunk suburb de jour. Second place would have been Marysville and Tumwater. Third, Burlington and Centralia.

If I hear one more bandwagon tech-bro transplant defend the pass play I may be posting from prison that point on.

Ever get a clear shot on a trip? It’s the best feeling. You blitz along the highway, arrive fresh as a daisy, and joyfully declare “There was NO traffic!” to anyone who will indulge your boasts. It’s the greatest dad feeling there is.

If you ever find yourself traveling on I (the) 5 near Redding CA and see a 10 year old boy picking up garbage with the chain gang on the side of the road just know he knows what he did and things are dark now but he’ll be better for it on the other side.

I used to live in an urban area with somewhat limited curb space, and in front of my house was enough space to fit two cars comfortably, but one guy kept parking in the middle everyday. It was juuuust enough so that you couldn’t park on either side of him without blocking someone else’s driveway. I would often think…

Exactly. I’m not against taxing the shit out of Amazon on principle. While they did didn’t intentionally fuck up the Seattle housing market, they predominately hired highly skilled, highly paid workers from out of state and expanded rapidly, created a housing shortage where new employees are able to outbid anyone who…

You should realize that many not rich Seattle residents opposed this tax because we have supported plenty of taxes in the past and they have been mismanaged as fuck. Durkan & co. need to put forth an actual plan FIRST and then we’ll talk money.

You are right. As a corporation, there’s 100% no reason for Bezos or Amazon to give a shit about the homeless. It’s insanely depressing because I’d imagine the rising cost of living associated with housing companies like Amazon, is a big contributor to the rise in homelessness in that area, but there’s no reason as a…

They did call his bluff, and he halted construction on a major city construction project and said he would also stop plans to complete a new skyscraper under construction of a skyscraper being built at Rainier Square with an estimated 7,000 to 8,000 workers. That’s basically why they’ve now backed down.

So Seattle progressives are spineless, too? Good to know.

Thanks for posting this. I’m with you— there’s a moral obligation but I also think that corporations will bail on a city that pushes them too hard.