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Man, best heat wave ever. The other night, the guy on the weather mentioned Seattle's all-time record high temp being one hundred degrees, all ooky-spooky like I was supposed to wet my pants hearing that.

It was 115 degrees on my wedding day. This weather is absolutely perfect as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by Ben | July 10, 2007 4:33 PM
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Im with ben. 100 as the hottest is a joke!

Posted by Bellevue Ave | July 10, 2007 4:35 PM
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They think they are New Yorkers.

That's why they're in black.

If they thought they were from Santa Barbara, they'd be wearing light-colored shorts and jaunty tops.

Posted by Will in Seattle | July 10, 2007 4:45 PM
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They're required to wear black is my guess.

Posted by Amy Kate Horn | July 10, 2007 4:48 PM
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Hahahaha, "heat wave."

Hahahahahahaha.

Posted by Jordyn | July 10, 2007 4:51 PM
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I dressed up as an Aveda girl for Halloween. No one noticed.

Posted by shernobyl | July 10, 2007 4:53 PM
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They wear black on the outside 'cause black is how they feel on the inside.

Posted by DOUG. | July 10, 2007 4:56 PM
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And they're still smoking? In 2007? To still be ingesting that poison, in this day and age, with all that we know about it now.... Insanity, truly.

Posted by R on Beacon Hill | July 10, 2007 4:58 PM
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Maybe they think it's slimming?

Posted by Sally Struthers Lawnchairs | July 10, 2007 5:02 PM
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Which? Smoking or Frying in the sun?

Posted by Will in Seattle | July 10, 2007 5:11 PM
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Hairdressers always wear black. Doesn't show the hair, or something like that.

Posted by catalina vel-duray | July 10, 2007 5:16 PM
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if it is to look slimming it obviously failed for that hambeast on the right. i bet shes a vegetarian to boot.

Posted by Bellevue Ave | July 10, 2007 5:16 PM
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and when I was 10, it was 110 degrees in the shade in Texas at one time ... so 100 is not that hot ...

Posted by Will in Seattle | July 10, 2007 5:18 PM
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Vegetarians are "hambeasts"? I don't get it. Vegetables make you fat?

Posted by Sally Struthers Lawnchair | July 10, 2007 5:30 PM
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Fat women who are into fashion opt for the veggie route to lose weight but accomplish nothing!

Posted by Bellevue Ave | July 10, 2007 5:33 PM
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They didn't go to the beach in all black, they're at work/school.

Posted by Dougsf | July 10, 2007 5:41 PM
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Wow, aren't you the fella that doesn't know anything about fashion or something? And, fat women that go veggie and don't lose weight aren't really truthfully eating veggie or healthy or light. They're probably slipping in a shit ton of Oreos on the side or something. Or not exercising. Besides, eating meat doesn't automatically make you thin. That's just stupid.

Posted by Sally Struthers Lawnchair | July 10, 2007 5:49 PM
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someone who works at aveda is self selectively saying they are into fashion. how hard is that to understand?

i never said anything about eating meat making you thin. i was merely pointing out the folly of career, clothing, and eating habits...

Posted by Bellevue Ave | July 10, 2007 6:07 PM
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I wonder if there is some sort of cosmic connection between Aveda schools and altweeklies...same situation here in Milwaukee. Just down the block from the Shepherd Express; hoards of people in black with overly coiffed hair.

Posted by Milwaukee reader | July 10, 2007 6:07 PM
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uh they are required to wear black while working there.

Let's spraypaint this in front of the academy:
Fuck wearing black, bring light clothing back!

ha that was horrible - I need help in the rhyming dept. maybe I can find the eric grandy spraypainters...

Posted by Triple X | July 10, 2007 6:11 PM
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June 26, 1990 - Phoenix. It was 122 degrees. And I survived that. (Right now, is where I'd spit a watermelon seed out and say "By cracky")

Posted by F. Dixie Dumplin Cupcake | July 10, 2007 6:18 PM
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I live in Tucson. You guys are all wusses.

That said, since I'm moving to Seattle, feel free to laugh at me when I complain about freezing my ass off in 6 months.

Posted by supergp | July 10, 2007 6:28 PM
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Why does that one girl have a cane?

Posted by JD | July 10, 2007 6:45 PM
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Why does that one girl have a cane?

Posted by JD | July 10, 2007 6:45 PM
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I live in Seattle and I think you guys are all wusses. this is nothing. trust me. Try throwing humidity in the mix and THEN you'll start to know heat. Enjoy it while you can because in 6 months you'll all be whining and dreaming of days like this.

Posted by Dod | July 10, 2007 6:46 PM
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man i hate fatphobic people. "hambeasts"? "slipping in a shit ton of Oreos"?

get a life.

Posted by kim | July 10, 2007 7:07 PM
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In all those weird places like "Arizona" or "Texas" most every residence is air-conditioned.

The high today in San Francisco was 70 degrees.

It is snowing in Buenos Aires.

Posted by S | July 10, 2007 7:42 PM
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are you fat kim? or just afraid of becoming that way?

ive had sex with all body types and fatties are no worse than skeletons when it comes to rocking the sack.

Posted by Bellevue Ave | July 10, 2007 7:44 PM
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Post pictures of women, get stupid misogynistic comments. THE POWER OF THE INTERNET

Posted by jamier | July 10, 2007 7:49 PM
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Oh brother.

Posted by Sally Struthers Lawnchair | July 10, 2007 7:58 PM
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This was South Dakota, I think I should note. Meaning 120 in the summer, -60 in the winter. I am not exaggerating

This is why we moved here. I laugh at your "hot" weather, I laugh harder at your "cold."

Posted by Ben | July 10, 2007 8:06 PM
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What @4 and @20 said. They are required to wear black...

Posted by Julie | July 10, 2007 8:16 PM
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i wouldnt post comments like that unless i knew it gave you purpose to post here.

you need a villian to justify your very existance, just as a donut needs a cop to exist

Posted by Bellevue Ave | July 10, 2007 8:18 PM
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Just because this isn't the hottest I've ever experienced doesn't mean I'm still not uncomfortable in this heat and can complain about it. I don't get what all these dick-measuring contests about how hot you have/had it where you are/were is all about.

Posted by Andy | July 10, 2007 9:01 PM
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YA, we Seatleites cn make comments and observations about how we feel about the weather.

But when people FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE offer their perspectives, boy that makes me mad! How dare they presume to have any feelings that are valid. They are intruding into my little Seatle bubble of ignorance. WHY SHOULD I HAVE TO KNOW WHAT OTHER PLACES ARE LIKE -- OBVIOUSLY THIS IS THE ONLY PLACE WORTH TALKING ABOUT!!!

So if they comment I will call them dickwads.And yes we're the Nicest People in the World (we just don't give a shit about you).

Posted by Lars Nativson | July 10, 2007 9:22 PM
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They remind me of the idiots in Phoenix who own black cars (one of which was J.D. Hayworth, former US Congressman (R-Scottsdale)).

@21 and 22. I lived in Phoenix for 29 years. There I didn't consider it hot until it hit 105, but with the humidity and the lack of a/c, the bar is much lower here.

Also, my kids complain when it's not cloudy.

Posted by Mike of Renton | July 10, 2007 9:48 PM
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When I first read this on my RSS feed, I thought Mudede wrote it.

Posted by Gomez | July 11, 2007 12:05 AM
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Also, since most Seattlites don't have air conditioning, the threshold of reasonable comfort is far lower than it would be elsewhere. It's 108 degrees here in Las Vegas, but all I can really say about that is Fuck It's Hot. The A/C in my current lodgings offsets that agony when I'm indoors.

I can't imagine what it's gonna be like to return to Seattle and these 96 degree days tomorrow. I'm gonna seek out some air conditioned locales this weekend.

Posted by Gomez | July 11, 2007 12:09 AM
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Is a shit ton heavier than a ton? or an assload?

I saw those same girls in the park where I spent a beautiful afternoon enjoying the glorious heat.

Not as hot as Conejo heat, obvz.

Posted by SEAN NELSON, EMERITUS | July 11, 2007 12:51 AM
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The sad part is they are better dressed than most of the people in Seattle. Seattle: the city that has no clue how to dress comfortably, classy and tastefully all at the same time

Posted by Cato the Younge Younger | July 11, 2007 8:07 AM
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Seriously. If you've been watching these girls from The Stranger offices for a while, maybe you should have already guessed that they have to to wear black to school. Christ, you could even have asked any one of these very nice young ladies and they would have told you how not a fashion statement their dress is. Black is required, so get the hell over it because at least you don't have to wear it on a hot, unairconditioned day.

Fucking unobservant dumbass.

PS -- I'm on a working vacation in KCMO right now. It's much hotter and more humid here (though I have central air). I am fully aware of how lovely Seattle weather is and I can't wait to get back to it.

Posted by Deal with it. | July 11, 2007 8:10 AM
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I don't care about people from AZ or other hot places. This is western WA, to western WA, this is hot. You live in your 110 degrees (in a fully air conditioned home) and you're fine because that's what you're used to. But when you grow up here, like I did, you're used to MILD temps. I like 60. I love 70. I get uncomfortable with 90 and I HATE 100. I know it was 103 last summer and I was miserable. I live here because of the temps. If I liked hot, I'd move back to Hawaii or go someplace like Florida or AZ. But I don't like hot, so guess what? I can fucking complain about it if I want to. It doesn't make me a wuss. When you come here and freeze your ass off because it's 20 degrees on a winter day, I won't call you a wuss, I'll just call you a tourist.

Hairdressers always wear black. Doesn't show the hair, or something like that.
But it DOES show the dandruff. ;)

Posted by FS | July 11, 2007 9:49 AM
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-- I nickname them "Bats of the Hill".

Posted by Aaro)))n Edge | July 11, 2007 10:38 AM
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I'm pretty sure the color choice is mandated by the academy.

Posted by GW2 | July 11, 2007 11:32 AM
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why is this so bizarre? it is a uniform. black hides the hair and most color stains so the potential stylists don't look like too much of a mess. it also makes it less likely that they would wear something that would be considered unprofessional.
i am required to wear black or white at my work, and yes it does suck in the heat, especially on the bus, but come on. this is just weird to me that people find this weird. it is like finding the fact that the employees at target all wear red shirts and khaki pants.

Posted by liz | July 11, 2007 11:36 AM
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Yo, y'all....black is supposed to mask all the fat.

Sometimes it don't work.

Posted by Shaniqua Jackson | July 11, 2007 11:56 AM
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That poor girl didn't ask for her picture to be on the Slog. I can't believe the comments that are being made about her. God forbid she actually cross the street.

As a fat chick who gets yelled at on the street WHILE EXERCISING, I ask, what the hell do you want us to do? Go to a nunnery until every ounce of extra fat you deem disgusting is gone? Starve ourselves thin without moving a muscle until we meet your standards? Buy me a fucking treadmill, asshole, and pay my rent so I don't have to go out in public to go to work, and maybe I will.

This is fucking disgusting.

Posted by fuck, you guys | July 11, 2007 2:16 PM
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I agree with this last comment from "fuck you guys". This girl didn't ask to have her picture thrown on the web and have some assholes point out her weight. All the Aveda girls are hot and they work their asses off. They pay a shitload for the program and don't get paid to cut hair all day so let them have a smoke if they want. I've got a friend going to school there and having to wear black everyday isn't her favorite thing.

Posted by Bellevue Ave is an ass | July 11, 2007 2:56 PM
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I agree with this last comment from "fuck you guys". This girl didn't ask to have her picture thrown on the web and have some assholes point out her weight. All the Aveda girls are hot and they work their asses off. They pay a shitload for the program and don't get paid to cut hair all day so let them have a smoke if they want. I've got a friend going to school there and having to wear black everyday isn't her favorite thing.

Posted by Bellevue Ave is an ass | July 11, 2007 2:57 PM
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I agree with this last comment from "fuck you guys". This girl didn't ask to have her picture thrown on the web and have some assholes point out her weight. All the Aveda girls are hot and they work their asses off. They pay a shitload for the program and don't get paid to cut hair all day so let them have a smoke if they want. I've got a friend going to school there and having to wear black everyday isn't her favorite thing.

Posted by Bellevue Ave is an ass | July 11, 2007 2:57 PM
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All the aveda girls wear black and that is the only objective statement you can make.

Posted by Bellevue Ave | July 11, 2007 7:30 PM
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She has the cane because at the last employee party, she lost at Charlie Craplin.

Posted by Lloyd Clydesdale | July 11, 2007 9:05 PM

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