Friday, July 17, 2009
Transportation / Politics Patty Murray, Greg Nickels, Several Seattle City Council Members, Seattle City Council Hopeful Mike O'Brien, and Mike O'Brien's Bike All Went for a "Special Preview Ride" on Link Light Rail This Afternoon
Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 7:06 PM
A crush of political insiders gathered at the Westlake Station stop this afternoon for a press conference that lasted approximately 1,467 hours. After the press conference, everyone was going on a by-invitation-only "special preview" central Link light rail ride. Mayor Nickels talked and talked and talked (we've worked very hard, it has taken so long for this day to come), and then he introduced Senator Patty Murray, who came up and spoke (we've worked very hard, it has taken so long for this day to come), and then Nickels went back up and said more about how hard everyone worked and how long it took for this day to come, and then he introduced Peter M. Rogoff of the U.S. Department of Transportation, who came up and spoke (we've worked very hard, it has taken so long for this day to come). It was safe to say no one was paying attention anymore. Jan Drago kept clasping her hands and rubbing her rings with her fingers. Ross Hunter walked over to Washington State Senator Karen Keiser and mumbled, with a pained expression, "Where's the bar? Why are these guys talking so long?" After Rogoff was done speaking, Nickels unbelievably WENT BACK UP ONSTAGE to say more to the cameras, followed by Gov. Christine Gregoire's chief of staff, and then Nickels AGAIN, and then Sound Transit Board Vice-Chair Claudia Thomas, and then Nickels AGAIN, and then Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon, and then Nickels AGAIN, and then King County Councilmember Julia Patterson. It seemed like a practical joke—or a metaphor for how long it's taken to get light rail built.
Two people showed up with bikes. One of them was Seattle City Council hopeful Mike O'Brien, who biked down to the event from The Stranger's offices, where he'd just finished an endorsement interview. The other person who showed up with a bike was me. After some confusion about where we could lock up our bikes (not a bike rack in sight), the good people of Sound Transit allowed us to bring our bikes onto the train. O'Brien took a picture of his bike hanging there. I took a picture of O'Brien taking a picture.
They really did seem like the first bikes that had ever been hung there: Whoever had designed them had evidently never tried putting a bike in it. The handlebars jutted so far into the aisle it was difficult getting around them, and as soon as the train started moving they swung dangerously at standing passengers. Several of the guys who had designed the visual displays in all the stations were standing nearby talking, and one of them was preoccupied by the poorly designed bike rack and kept talking about how he would reconfigure it. "I think you have to lose one of those seats," he said, pointing to a pair of seats across the aisle from the rack.
The trip to Tukwila was gorgeous, smooth, cool. (Dom and Jonah have covered this.) People waved.
At the Tukwila Station, everyone got off and then on again, and Mayor Nickels and Sound Transit CEO Joni Earl got into our car—both of them making polite, casual conversation with everyone. But Earl was clearly annoyed at Mike O'Brien's bike being in the way, even though it was in the place it was supposed to be, and at it swinging in her face once the train started moving again. Which was kind of satisfying, because all I wanted to do was call up the CEO of Sound Transit to complain about the bike rack, and there she was, being attacked by it.
Earl's the figure in the cream-colored suit. "I don't know about these bike racks," she said to Rogoff, the Obama administration guy, who then pointed to me and said, "He's writing that down." Earl shot me a look and said, "Oh now wait a second, I wasn't talking to you, that was a comment." And then she shrugged it off. Mount Rainier passed by in the window behind her. The train turned, and turned again, and when I looked back at Earl she was once again being clobbered by O'Brien's bike. "I'm wearing the bike now," she said, laughing. And then, pointing to my notepad, she added, "You can put that one down."
Light rail opens to the public tomorrow, and it's free all weekend. It is easily the most important development in the life of the city in years. By all means, go. Just don't bring your bike.
Media Walter Cronkite
Posted by Eli Sanders on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Hump / Sex New! Rough Sex!
Posted by Kelly O on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:20 PM
I just checked my mail before going home for the weekend, and lo and behold, a brand new DVD from Tristan Taormino!
The description, from Gamelink:
In this unprecedented new series from award winning author and filmmaker Tristan Taormino, the scenes are based entirely on the real fantasies of the female performers. Through deeply personal interviews, you’ll discover their definitions of rough sex, why they love it, how they establish trust with their partners, and what they need to feel safe to play on the edge. With scenes that are part documentary and part vignette, Rough Sex dares to challenge conventional wisdom about the fantasy lives of women. Through dramatic roleplaying, each woman shares her most intimate desires, tests her own boundaries, and rides the seductive line between pleasure and pain. Witness female sexuality at its most extreme: raw, rough, and real.
And it stars Sasha Grey. I think my weekend just got more interesting.
Also, it's 88 degrees right now. 80 and sunny tomorrow. Did you know that one of the extra credit points in the HUMP! 5 is the Statue of Liberty at Alki Beach? Hey, I'm just sayin'.
Science I Love Living in the Future
Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:28 PM
I love this article for two reasons:
1. The fact that the United States has apparently completed the first successful motherfucking double-hand transplant
Kepner lost both his hands and feet from a bacterial infection about a decade ago, but was supposedly ambivalent about the surgery, after hearing reports of previous attempts failing due to rejection. With a little persistence from his wife, and some convincing from the head surgeon about new anti-rejection techniques, he agreed to try it. The transplant required 21 surgeons working in groups of four on each arm to attach the new hands.
and
2. The term "lunch hooks" used to describe hands, which I had never heard before.
(Special note: Please do not consider the use of John Irving's The Fourth Hand as an illustration for the blog post to be any sort of an endorsement for the book; I loathed the fuck out of it. But it does feature hand transplants. Relevance trumps quality yet again!)
Transportation Five Million Metro Riders Don’t Pay Fare
Posted by Dominic Holden on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:08 PM
Metro bus drivers registered 5,483,300 passengers who didn’t pay or didn’t pay full fare between 2005 and 2008, according to records from the King County Department of Transportation. It’s impossible gauge exactly how much money the bus service gave away in free rides—as some payments could be made partially—but the amount is likely millions of dollars.
The figures come from a records request filed by a citizen who forwarded the data to the Stranger (and confirmed by Metro). He is appalled that the county may have lost more than $10 million over four years and suggests that Metro should eliminate the ride-free zone downtown, arguing that most riders who board in the zone don’t pay when they get off—even in areas where payment is required.
According to Metro’s most recent analysis, the department will run a $168 million deficit over the next two years, says Metro deputy general manger Jim Jacobson.
But Jacobson says it’s doing all it can to collect fares. Over 400 million riders have taken the bus in the four-year span, and the lack of fares are within reason, he says. “I don’t know how many retail stores operate without people shoplifting one percent out the door.” The department's primary concern is the safety of the bus driver. He says, “The operators are trained to ask for the fare from each passenger, and if the passenger refuse to pay, they are also trained to manage the situation in a way that won't put themselves in danger." Drivers can call in officers for a rider who repeatedly refuses to pay. He also notes that some of the incidents—measured by the number of times a driver presses a “no fare/partial fare” button—can include times a rider simply has an outdated bus pass. “They turn around and buy a pass the next day and you haven’t lost any money really,” he says. Jacobson also sees hope in the ORCA Card (which stands for One Regional Card for All and works in nearby transit systems), which allows riders to add money in bulk so they don’t miss payment for lack of correct change.
While our data-requesting reader seems to be well intentioned in sleuthing for government waste, this doesn’t seem so bad. Metro drivers shouldn’t get shot over a buck-seventy-five. And Metro should be focusing primarily on getting more riders onboard, and drivers should be hitting the accelerator instead of spending commutes haggling over change.
Chow Vegetarian on Wheels
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:06 PM
When Dominic Holden reviewed Maximus Minimus and Marination Mobile recently, he tried the veggie sandwich at the former (sadly finding it "a gastronomic catastrophe," though he loved the meat version) but neglected to sample any vegetarian fare at the latter. (It must be his partial-meat agenda!) Now Herbivoracious finishes the job, pronouncing Marination Mobile's tofu tacos "vegetarian and delicious."
Marination Mobile's on Capitol Hill tonight, 10 p.m.—2:30 a.m., at Pike and Broadway, and tomorrow they're in Ballard, 11 a.m.—2 p.m. at the Cheka-Looka Surf Shop, 6300 Seaview Ave NW.
Photo from Herbivoracious.
Drugs One Way to Avoid Building a New Jail
Posted by Dominic Holden on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Seattle police are trying to change the way they deal with open-air drug dealing. The East Precinct is considering a pilot program called "Drug Market Initiative," which offers a new approach to eliminating chronic drug dealing.Instead of reacting to arrests, low-level drug dealers will be confronted and pressured to stop. Prison won't be automatic if the person accepts drug treatment, job training or other services.
Police say for this program to be effective, neighbors need to be engaged.
"And the community itself says, 'We want you to stop this behavior. And as a sign of good faith, we'll offer you services and support at the community level, but you have to stop your street level drug dealing,'" said Capt.Paul McDonagh.
This is long overdue. Many if not most street dealers sell drugs to maintain their habits; more than jail, they need a way to get clean and get off the street. But in 2008, the Seattle Police Department booked 2,957 people into the King County jail primarily for drug offenses, making drug offenders 10 percent of the overall jail population, according to findings of a jail capacity study being conducted by the city council. Seattle and nearby cities are grappling with whether we need to build a new jail—at costs ranging past $200 million—but if we can stop filling the jail we're using (with people who don't need to be there), we won't need to build a new one.
"We're at a time when the national Drug Czar and Secretary of State have acknowledged that focusing on the drug problem primarily as a criminal matter is a failed strategy," says Alison Holcomb, a member of the jail study group and drug policy director of the ACLU of Washington. "Taking a closer look at the reasons why people use drugs and get involved in the illegal drug market could lead us to smarter, more effective and more cost-efficient solutions." Indeed.
Savage Love Savage Love Letter of the Day
Posted by Dan Savage on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:32 PM
Very recently, a good friend of mine with whom I have been having sex with on and off for about a year has told me that he has found religion. To give you more specifics, my friend and I are both into BDSM, I have an open relationship with my boyfriend of two years to allow for outside-relationship kinkiness. Now my fuck friend has decided to be celibate until he can "study up" about what God really thinks about bondage and pre-marital sex.I want to tell my friend that he is being kind of silly. But he's on a kick of trying to be on better terms with Jesus. So far I've only told him that I am supportive and that he can talk to me about anything, but he has made it clear that we can't talk about bondage because of the temptation to slip back into his old ways of beating off to femdom porn on the Interwebs.
No priest or counselor is going to be as open-minded about giving sound advice to the kinksters as you are. I respect your opinion and honestly just need some advice on how to keep a friendship alive. So, should I wait it out and make supportive noises? Or do I tell him that he is being a complete moron and that I won't hold his hand while he is figuring this out?
Kinkster Seeking Guidance
My recent response to a complete moron trying and failing to reconcile his sexuality and his religious beliefs seems to have pissed people off—particularly readers of this blog—so I'm going to turn this one over to the braying (praying?) mob: got any advice for KSG and her on-hold-while-he-gets-right-with-God fuckbuddy, gang? Let her have it in comments.
Chow For Your Stomach's Consideration: Gert's Barbecue-on-Wheels
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:32 PM
Gert's is another brand-spanking-new mobile chow vendor (permitted and on the streets as of last weekend), and OH MY GOODNESS Gert's barbecue is GREAT—the perfect balance of smokey/salty/sweet. They're calling it Seattle-style; I'm going to go ahead and call it the best in the city. Also, Gert's sides are crazy-drivingly good, from the old-school macaroni salad to the green bean casserole (nicknamed "bean crack"—I'm guessing it's not vegetarian, though the people at Gert's refused to confirm my pork-sausage suspicions). Please note that this endorsement is based on a meal that Rodney from Gert's brought by the office; yes, free food, but you go and tell me if I'm wrong.
Find Gert's on Twitter—they're parked at 4801 Rainier Avenue South, next to the Bank of America, from 6-10 p.m. tonight and tomorrow night. A hot night and some ass-kicking barbecue: heaven.
Pictured: Gert's executive chef Donnell Jackson.
Chow My Market
Posted by Charles Mudede on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:30 PM
This is my favorite grocery store in Seattle: 
It’s just the right size (not too big and not too small), and location (on the border between downtown and First Hill). It’s neither fancy or ghetto, and the people who shop here are as interesting as the people who work here.
A sushi joint, Kanpai, recently opened on the same block as my favorite grocery store.
I gave the place a try a few nights ago and I’m happy to report that their sushi is completely respectable and affordable.
The restaurant also has a great view of the center of this metropolis.
TV / Nerd Today in Nerd Outrage
Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:23 PM
More news on the Nerd beat while Jonah is busy vacationing at the Precious Moments Chapel:
Nerds everywhere celebrated when Fox announced that they were relaunching Futurama for 26 new episodes on Comedy Central. Well, put away those pom-poms, my four-eyed brethren: There are grumblings that Fox might be planning to recast the voices of the series regulars:
According to no less than cast members John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, and Maurice LaMarche on their Facebook pages, a casting notice has gone out to replace actors DiMaggio, LaMarche, Billy West and Katy Sagal.
As Slog tipper Nat says: "This cannot stand."
In order to end on a less outrageous (and slightly more porny) nerd note, I will now link to io9's sci-fi cheesecake photo gallery. If anyone knows where I can locate a man-version of this gallery for balance, I will be happy to post the appropriate sausage-fest link as soon as I can.
History "Surfers at Redondo Beach, Calif., 1962"
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM
From the UCLA library of vintage LA Times photos.
Crime Foot Chase Through U-District
Posted by Unpaid Intern on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:52 PM
Post by news intern Alexander P. Brown
On Tuesday, Seattle Police Department Officer Brian Rees spotted a man in a Metro bus shelter on University Way NE holding a green soda bottle containing a "brown liquid," a police report says. Rees pulled over his squad car and confirmed that the liquid in the bottle was alcohol and asked to see the man's identification. But after the man handed over his wallet, he shoved the officer, and then ran into a Rite Aid on the Ave. Officer Rees dropped the wallet and ran after him. Inside the store, the man threw two racks of store goods in front of the pursuing officer's path and ran through the back door to the alley and took off across the parking lot.
Officer Rees caught up with the guy three blocks away, on the 1100 block of NE 45th St., after the man tried to lose the officer by running down an ally between 12th Ave. NE and Brooklyn Ave. NE and hopping a fence to drop 15 feet into a parking lot. Officer Rees told him to stop running or he would taze him, the police report continues. Only after the officer added the dart cartridge to his taser did the man lay down on the ground and submit to arrest. Officer Rees couldn't find the wallet he'd dropped to run after the man, but identified him using a King County Jail photo. The police report notes that the man had two outstanding misdemeanor warrants for obstruction and another for "escape obstruction" in Kent.
Books / Breaking News More Breaking Hugo House News
Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:36 PM
It's been quite a day for Hugo House press releases: It has just been announced that Amazon.com is now a Presenting Sponsor of the Richard Hugo House. Amazon, which until recently did nothing for local arts, is giving a $35,000 grant to the House.
This is wonderful news for the Hugo House. Congratulations, too, to Amazon.com for their bold new foray into philanthropy. I discuss the man who has guided Amazon's change of heart here.
The full press release is after the jump.
Books Book Utopia
Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:09 PM
The ever-delightful Maud Newton linked to this (very slow-loading) French video that conceives how an ideal e-book would function.
First, the book itself would be slender (and non-branded) and allow the actual act of page-turning, which I think is important in an ideal reading experience. (It's unclear how the book would enable page-turning, as the special effects in this video are pretty janky.) The only thing I'd suggest to modify this e-book would be the option to display the cover of what you're reading.
Further, the book allows for the reader to go to a bookstore and "buy" e-books from a bookseller, allowing for the browsing and recommendation experiences. The process would probably have to be a lot more complex than this video makes it out to be, but this is a great concept of an e-book that's light years ahead of any e-book that currently exists.
Chow / The Weather It's Baking Hot
Posted by Gillian Anderson on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:15 PM
It's supposed to get up into the high 80s today, why not put that heat to work for you and bake some cookies in your car?
Full recipe, baking instructions, and analysis at Baking Bites.
It took about 2 1/2 hours for the cookies to bake completely. I ended up opening the car door shortly before the end of the baking period to check for doneness. This check has to be done manually, as there are no color indicators (such as brownness) to judge by because the sugar in the car cookies does not caramelize and brown like that of oven-baked cookies.
The finished cookies were very light in color, but smelled and tasted delicious. They were slightly crisp at the edges and chewy in the center. I think that they were best hot out of the car.
Thanks to Nat for the tip!
Money Crocs Going Bankrupt?
Posted by Eli Sanders on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:54 PM
Perhaps. And Ezra Klein's reaction seems right on:
Looking back, the fact that people bought 100 million pairs of the ugliest shoes ever made, and then began buying charms in order to add gaudiness to the monstrosity, should have been evidence that the amount of money sloshing through the economy had made us lose our minds.
Film Re: This Weekend at the Movies
Posted by Lindy West on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:54 PM
Commenter keshmeshi reminds me that Three Dollar Bill Cinema is showing the losing-your-virginity-in-contest-form-at-summer-camp classic Little Darlings outdoors at Cal Anderson Park tonight. Sounds like a lovely time!
To whet your appetite, here's the intro to the Kristy McNichol E! True Hollywood Story:
"McNichol's off-screen life was, in fact, a human thrill ride."
Chow Snacks! in Ballard, Plus the Five Point, the People's Pub, and Porchlight
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:47 PM
This week in the print edition, David Schmader visits Ballard's sweet new bodega, Snacks! (their exclamation mark). He likes it! And he finds a poem:
For now, Snacks! is a wide-open work in progress, a fact addressed by the two-by-four-foot wish list hanging near the door that invites customers to share their dreams for Snacks! inventory. It is the greatest poem about America since "Leaves of Grass":Pita bread
Funyuns!
Rap Snacks
Soy creamer!
Vernors ginger ale (X2!!)
Grey Poupon
Cheap champagne
Tastykakes! (YES!!!!!!)
Shredded cheese
Sparks (black can!)
Frozen pizza
Fingernail clippers
Stash teas
Smarties (YES! Yes!)
Day of the Dead candles!
Asian snacks!
Pinball machines
Porno
I found myself at the Five Point, which remains everlastingly awesome:
The Five Point is inarguably one of Seattle's—indeed, the world's—best dive bars. It is most famous for its men's room, specifically the view from the urinal: There is a window into a janky kind of periscope, providing a startlingly close-up look at the top of the Space Needle... The Five Point has black-and-white checked floors, duct-taped upholstery, and a moose head festooned with slingshotted brassieres (notably a gigantic, dangling pink one)... The Five Point has floppy, salty fries that've never seen the inside of a freezer, and if you like an old-school open-faced turkey sandwich with gravy and mashed potatoes, you've come to the right place.
Marti Jonjak surveys happy hour at the People's Pub, providing Swabian phrases both handy and useless (arschdaggl: a fool with a big ass, granatedaggl: explosive dachshund).
And Steven Blum investigates brand-new Porchlight Coffee's hairless-mole-in-a-business-suit mascot—over here, scroll down a little.
Now it is lunchtime.
Tech / Books Freedom Is Slavery
Posted by Anthony Hecht on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:38 PM
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to."
This is a quote from George Orwell's 1984, which—along with Animal Farm—was unceremoniously removed from Kindles of people who had purchased the digital editions of these books. Oh, the irony.
Why did they do this? Because the publisher changed their mind about offering these books in Kindle format.
Amazon, of course, claims that this is "rare," but it should never be able to happen at all. Selling something to someone is a final transaction, regardless of whether that thing is physical or digital. Amazon exploited the fact that they have a data connection to every Kindle to basically sneak into these people's homes and forcibly remove their property. Giving them a refund is entirely irrelevant. Once you've sold someone something, it's theirs. They didn't rent the right to have a Kindle edition of 1984, contingent on the publisher continuing to think selling such a thing was a good idea. They bought it.
Amazon really needs to get their shit together on this kind of thing and start advocating for their customers.
via Pogue - and thanks to Slog-tipper John
Transportation People Get Ready
Posted by Dominic Holden on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:34 PM
From our June article "Seven Things We Learned While Riding Light Rail for the First Time," item number six is called the first weekend of light rail is going to suck:
On opening weekend, July 18 and 19, the train will be free, though it will only be running from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Saturday and 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Sunday. (Sound Transit is expecting 100,000 riders on opening day. It'll have double the number of trains out than it normally will.) Plus, once you get to the end, you'll have to wait in line (again) to take the train back home or get on a damn bus
Other than that, light rail is really fucking cool.
Politics / Books Does Reading Make You Submissive?
Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:22 PM
Despite the promises of literacy posters for kids, reading is a passive act. But is it submissive? In this interview with Joseph O'Neill, who wrote the great recent novel Netherland, he suggests it is. Netherland is the last book that President Obama was spotted reading. O'Neill has given great consideration to joining Obama's Book Club:
There is such an asymmetrical relationship between the President and the rest of the world in terms of power, that it can only be good for the soul of such a powerful man — whether it’s this President or another — to submit temporarily to the authority of a novel. Because whatever the nature of the novel, it is actually, ultimately a submissive act to read a novel.
It's not surprising to hear that a novelist thinks reading is submissive, but I think this is kind of a literal take on reading. I always think of reading as a collaborative act between author and reader. The two come together to create something new in the mind of the reader—an author can't force a thought into a reader's brain, s/he can only suggest it. But I'm sure that O'Neill enjoys his perceived mad power of temporarily controlling the mind of the leader of the free world*, and so maybe we should let him have his moment in the sun.
* After Bush, it feels kind of weird to call the president the leader of the free world, in the same way that it felt weird to say "It's a free country" when Bush was president. Is this still true? Is America still the leader of the free world? Or is that title currently up for grabs? Does anybody else want a drink?
Video of the Day Lunchtime Quickie
Posted by Kelly O on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:15 PM
Because it's Friday, and because we all know summertime is funnertime...
Health House Education and Labor Committee Passes Health Care Reform Bill; McMorris-Rodgers Votes No
Posted by Eli Sanders on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:05 PM
As with the Ways and Means Committee earlier, the vote today in Education and Labor relied exclusively on Democrats: 26 of them voted in favor, while three of them defected to vote with 19 Republicans who lined up against the health care reform plan.
Among the Republicans trying unsuccessfully to block the bill: Cathy McMorris-Rodgers, the Congresswoman from Eastern Washington's 5th District. She has yet to put out a statement explaining her vote, but she's been pretty clear in saying that she sees the strong public option in the current bill as "another government takeover" that is going to "have federal bureaucrats tell you what your health care needs are, instead of those who know you best, like your physician, nurse practitioner, or pharmacist."
Questionland Burning Question
Posted by Megan Seling on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:54 AM
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