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Thursday, March 7, 2013

News Neighborhood Watch: Missing Tortoises and Restless Nights

Posted by Unpaid Intern on Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:32 PM

Posted by news intern Ben Steiner

Thumper Emerges From His Wintery Grave: Thumper is a tortoise, and it turns out he was just hibernating. This comes as good news to his keepers at John Hay Elementary who assumed the worst for Thumper after he vanished from a neighborhood yard, Queen Anne Blog reports.

SPD Cleans the Streets of Capitol Hill: A truck carrying cement and debris from a local construction site spilled its load all over Broadway Ave and Pine St yesterday. Police blocked off the intersection and helped construction workers shovel away the mess, says Capitol Hill Seattle Blog.

Smoked Meats Replace Vegan Shoes: Phinney Ridge residents looking to get their vegan-shoe fix will be sorely disappointed to find that the vegan shoe store Chocolate Shoe Box is being replaced by a smoked meat shop. PhinneyWood says the shop will be called Martino's, and is expected to open this spring.

Layers of the Hijab: Columbia City Gallery will be hosting an art exhibit examining the intricate relationship between Muslim women, the hijab, and a modern lifestyle, says the Rainier Valley Post. There will be an artists' reception this Saturday.

Man Rescued After Extremely Uncomfortable Night's Sleep: A 67-year-old man spent the night underneath his dashboard after allegedly driving his car into a ravine full of blackberry bushes. He was rescued the following morning after a confused Lake City resident called 9-1-1, says Lake City Live.

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You are reading that I will now start addressing my comments using the address of "you".

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on March 7, 2013 at 2:05 PM

Tortoises don't hibernate, they brumate! Hibernation is for warm-blooded critters.

Posted by gholtby on March 7, 2013 at 2:23 PM

I've had a tortoise that did that exact thing.

Posted by Pope Peabrain on March 7, 2013 at 3:43 PM

@1 Could you write them in the form of Choose Your Own Adventure books?

Something like:
If you ignore SRotU's post completely, turn to post 7.
If you tell SRotU to attempt a wildly improbable act of self "pleasuring", turn to post 23.
If you reach the age of 67, get drunk and sleep it off under the dashboard of your car in a Lake City ravine, turn to article 5.

Posted by Smoked Meats Replace Vegan Shoes on March 7, 2013 at 3:49 PM

So sad about the Chocolate Shoebox.

Posted by stating the obvious on March 7, 2013 at 4:09 PM

Ditto @5. I remember reading an earlier Phinneywood story sayin that they're moving online. Hope they find a niche there.

I'm the sort who only buys clothing when there's an imminent need, so while their shoes were nice, I wasn't about to make an impulse purchase. Now, I could have used a belt, but their belts look so much like real leather, and to me that's a turnoff. My favorite belt was a colorful cloth belt from REI.

I think the best I ever did at Chocolate Shoebox was cobbling together a $20 purchase. So maybe I have to share some of the blame.

Posted by cressona on March 7, 2013 at 5:58 PM