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Friday, May 14, 2010

City Pry Your Buttocks From the Love Seat

Posted by Unpaid Intern on Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:43 PM

Posted by news intern Lara Phillips.

FRIDAY:

No longer content to merely give you free energy-efficient supplies, City Light will now up the ante by coming to your house to install these goodies. People who live in designated South Seattle neighborhoods can have smoke detectors, energy-efficient light bulbs, shower heads, and faucet aerators brought to their homes and installed for free. While "Ma'am, I'm here to install your low-flow shower head" sounds like the intro to a Hump! scenario, there are apparently people out there who want free energy conservation stuff but are too bewildered to install a fucking light bulb. Call Seattle City Light for an installation appointment so they can stop sending me press releases about faucet aerators. (City Light, (206) 449-1132, your house, free.)

Speaking of South Seattle neighborhoods, it's the first BeatWalk of the year in Columbia City. One cover charge lets you amble into six venues for live music, plus there are three free shows as well. Take the light rail if you intend to get liquored up and cause trouble. (Vicinity of Rainier Avenue South and South Alaska St, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., $7.)

SATURDAY:

Wanna-be community activists should attend today's Crown Hill Neighborhood Association annual meeting for the free Jim Diers workshop on "Neighbor Power." Diers was the head of the city's Department of Neighborhoods and literally wrote the book on neighborhood activism in Seattle. (9250 14th Avenue NW, 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., free.)

SUNDAY:

Trikes, booze, and hills- what could go wrong?

Flickr photo by shaney+matt
Trikes, booze, and hills—what could go wrong?

Booze. A big hill. Adults on comically-undersized tricycles. Really, the blurb for Trike for Beers writes itself. (Beers at Targy’s Tavern, 600 West Crockett Street, 1:00 p.m., race begins at 7th Avenue West and West Blaine Street, 2:30 p.m., $5 suggested donation for "biker down" fund.)

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energy efficiency to your door?

God we're lazy ... just pick up a box of 49 cent CFL bulbs or 99 cent CFL dimmer bulbs or 99 cent CFL three-way bulbs at Costco.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on May 14, 2010 at 1:57 PM

freebies? what about the north end? oh, that's right, we have our shit together.

Posted by Max Solomon on May 14, 2010 at 3:30 PM

@2 - well, there's always Fred Meyer.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on May 14, 2010 at 4:10 PM

Fuck low-flow shower-heads. Love the bulbs, will use the aerators--fuck the low-flow shower heads. Where can I get me a full-flow shower head?

Posted by HellboundAlleee

on May 14, 2010 at 4:28 PM

omg targy's.

one of the most underrated bars in seattle.

Posted by sarahlloyd on May 14, 2010 at 5:29 PM

@4, often there's a removable flow restrictor conveniently located right where the shower head screws on to the shower arm (the bent piece that comes out of the wall). The "rain" type showerheads (with the big sunflower-sized heads), like WaterPik's "Cascadia" models, are awesome, and they have a flow restrictor made of blue or gray plastic just inside the female-threaded attachment; it has a tab just right for grabbing with needle-nose pliers to unscrew (righty-tighty, lefty-loosey).

If you have to remove an existing showerhead to look for a flow restrictor or to replace the head, use two of the right kind of wrenches and wrap the jaws with many turns of masking or electrical tape to keep from scratching the chrome. Put one wrench on the showerhead nut and one on the shower arm. Hold the shower arm firmly in place; if it loosens, you could develop a leak inside the wall and/or you could have to remove it all the way and dope up the threads before reinstalling.

Assuage your guilt over increased water consumption by adding an instant-off button between the arm and the head (Cascadias and many others have them built in); you hit this while you're lathering up (it allows a dribble to come through in order to maintain temperature).

Posted by rob!