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Thursday, July 30, 2009

City Text Message From The Beach

Posted by Eli Sanders on Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:23 AM

Received at 11:22 p.m. last night:

Madison Beach after hours is to triple digits as Denny hill is to snow days.

Which gives me an excuse to re-post this. Stare deeply. You might feel cooler.

I don't know what it means that we just came from a winter with unusually serious snow into a summer with unusually serious heat. Maybe Cliff Mass can tell us. But I do know that I preferred the snow.

Photo by StrangerFlickr contributor joshc.

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God, that night was the most magical night I've ever experienced.

Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh.

C'mon everyone, sigh with me.

Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh.

Posted by Baconcat on July 30, 2009 at 9:33 AM

we've got real weather this year - & it's a nice break from the routine. but i live here because we don't have the extremes of the rest of Murka. the routine is good - no freezing, no sweating.

this weather will break, and then we'll all get misty about it when its 39 and pouring.

Posted by Max Solomon on July 30, 2009 at 9:59 AM

It's 56 degrees here right now. Seriously.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on July 30, 2009 at 10:04 AM

mad park beach has some of the worst tatoos on the planet.

last week a guy had a nice, old oak tree tatooed on his back with "FUCK" written underneath. HUH?

Posted by dacoach on July 30, 2009 at 10:12 AM

I used to commute by train in the 90s living in London, so had lots of time to read. I picked New Scientist every week to stimulate my engineer brain and peek into the future.

Before global warming was really taken seriously be the mainstream media, it came up a lot in New Scientist. And the thing that came up again and again was that scientists all seemed to agree that it wouldn't necessarily make everywhere hotter the same amount everywhere. It would be unpredictable. Some places would get hotter, some would get colder. Some wetter, some drier. But the one constant thing we would see more of nearly everywhere is more extremes of weather.

Posted by Stowe on July 30, 2009 at 10:21 AM

That photo would make a great winter-holiday greeting card, except for the weird crucifix porch light that makes it all Thomas Kinkade-y.

Posted by rob!

on July 30, 2009 at 10:21 AM

Think it's hot?

Jump in the sound for ten minutes.

You'll be freezing in record time.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on July 30, 2009 at 10:29 AM

Today in Dallas, TX, it's 81 with showers. Today in Seattle, WA, it's 100 and sunny. We're living in bizarro world.

Posted by Samuel on July 30, 2009 at 11:39 AM

Playing and drinking in the lake at Madison Beach is the only reason I slept last night. I'm totally going again tonight.

Overheard quote of the night: "Man swimming without lifeguards is cool. There's nobody to say 'No splash fights,' or, 'You can't have that liter of vodka in the water'".

Posted by Mike Smith on July 30, 2009 at 12:17 PM

I'm glad tat extreme weather really brings out the whimsy in some of us to counter what would otherwise be overwhelming whininess.

Posted by josh

on July 30, 2009 at 12:36 PM

josh@10, that's your photo, yes? It's amazing in many ways. The lighting, just the right amount of motion blur, the sledders who could not be more perfect if they were deliberately posed, the timeless quality (and I don't mean just the absence of obvious modern-day cues). I've decided I like the porch light, too, for the focal point and color variation it brings. Dickensian, Rockwellian, but schmaltz-free; just fun. Great job.

Posted by rob!

on July 30, 2009 at 1:14 PM