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IN MONDAY’S NOOZE

Clark Humphrey 07 — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:12:00 +0000

Fret not about Bill Gates’s pending retirement from MS’s day-to-day operations. The whole joint’s hardwired around his mindset. MS will continue to produce and market just as it’s been doing.
Starting tomorrow, you’ll be able to read/solve the NY Times crossword in the Seattle Times. No word on whether it’ll continue in the P-I.
One more reason to quit smoking: A guy asks two Belltown lowlifes if they’ve got a light, gets robbed.
Wash. state will boldly go where Greyhound no longer bothers to go, bringing intercity bus service to the state’s small towns.

IN SUNDAY’S NOOZE

Clark Humphrey 07 — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:29:00 +0000

“A 29-year-old Wenatchee man told police a pterodactyl caused him to drive his car into a light pole…”
The film Dancer in the Dark notwithstanding, no woman has ever been sentenced to death in Wash. state. Sadly, this might change.
Spokane Catholics have raised $8 million to help pay abusive-priest lawsuit settlements.
Help a rural flood victim— donate a cow.
Sonics fans (and, yes, there still are many of us) have a new mantra. During last night’s laugher against the even more pathetic Timberwolves (which the Sea. Times chose to cover on sports-section page D14), when fans were encouraged to make noise during an opposing-team free throw, the repetitive shout came loud and clear from the rafters on down: “Clay Bennett sucks! Clay Bennett sucks!” TV announcer (and all around good guy) Kevin Calabro responded with a brief giggle, before he returned to strictly commenting on the action on the floor.

IN SATURDAY’S NOOZE

Clark Humphrey 07 — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:40:00 +0000

Even architects can’t afford to live in Seattle these days without special programs.
The end of Netscape Navigator as a web-browser brand doesn’t mean all that much. The best of Netscape lives on in its open-source successor Firefox.
One of the ex-Mariners named in the Mitchell Report has admitted to using steroids and uppers in 1999. His explanation: All the other kids were doing it. (Except catcher Dan Wilson.)
It’s the law: If you’re stoned, don’t install other drivers’ tire chains.
You can tell it’s a slow news day when every TV station reports the following: “Woman doesn’t want dog in bathroom during couple’s shower.”
Betcha didn’t know there was anything historic in Tukwila. Except it’s not there anymore. It’s being barged to Seattle.

IN FRIDAY’S NOOZE

Clark Humphrey 07 — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:43:00 +0000

Despite off-and-on cleanup efforts over the years, Seattle’s five biggest “urban streams” (formerly known as “creeks”) are in sorry shape, eco-wise.
The lowly Sonics played three periods of valiant basketball against the mighty Celtics, before the NBA’s best team finally switched into high gear in the fourth.
Atlas Clothing, Broadway’s biggest vintage store (and, very briefly last year, an all-ages music venue), is reportedly moving to a Fremont antique mall.
Wash. state’s minimum wage goes up on the first. Don’t spend those extra 14 cents in one place.
Can suburban sprawl be eco-friendly? A Spokane developer of “enviro-townhomes” claims it can.

WE’RE #2!

Clark Humphrey 07 — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:51:00 +0000

Seattle’s no longer America’s “most literate city”— Minneapolis is, with St. Paul third and threatening. And you thought the only thing separating Mpls. and St. P was the Mississippi River. (No jokes about “it’s damp enough here today it feels like the Mississippi River,” please.)

IN THURDAY’S NOOZE

Clark Humphrey 07 — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:27:00 +0000

There goes the most-recent great hope for cooling down the heat of violence in Pakistan and vicinity.
The bus tunnel’s open again. But the SLUT has been stalling intermittently.
Do Wash. state Republicans stand a ghost of a chance of survival, let alone renewed relevance? The Seattle Times would like to think so. As for me, I think the local GOP will come back only when it can again field candidates of an Evans (or at least a John Spellman) level, and actively try to appeal to those of us who believe evolution is real and wrestling isn’t.
It’s the law: Don’t text and drive.
Starbucks is experimenting with sugar-free latte syrup.
The good news about Puget Sound’s housing market? “Not as grim as rest of U.S.”

IN BOXING DAY’S NOOZE

Clark Humphrey 07 — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:00:00 +0000

That temporary passenger ferry between Seattle and Pt. Townsend? Some folks would like it to be a little less temporary.
Meanwhile, some guy’s hoping to start a commercial passenger train between Bellevue and Snohomish—just the thing for bringing new customers to my mom’s antique-mall spaces there!
One way to annoy the sandals-and-wool-socks voting block: Propose mandatory licensing for bicyclists.
The bus tunnel: Still shut.
The American Stasi is on the watch for peculiar behavior at airports. Insert your own joke here.
The White Christmas thang sure looked damn great yesterday afternoon, whilst I was returning to Seattle from northern realms. Could we get an encore?
The local holiday ended in typical fashion, with the ceremonial State Patrol officer shooting a naked guy who was walking across I-5.
Idaho police academy students got to choose their own graduating-class slogan: “Don’t suffer from PTSD [post-traumatic stress disorder], go out and cause it.”

FOR SOME REASON,…

Clark Humphrey 07 — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:31:00 +0000

…archives aren’t posting on this site properly. I’ll have to look under the hood after the holidaze and see what’s (not) going on.

IN MONDAY’S NOOZE (yes, there is some)

Clark Humphrey 07 — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:49:00 +0000

Wash. state insists on giving kids “medically accurate” sex-ed info instead of the federally-mandated abstinence-only nonsense, loses federal funding.
MS and Amazon decide they’d rather fund Democrats, at least for this cycle.
Would you like the King County Courthouse to continue looking like a poorly “modernized” ’60s efficiency-architecture victim or have it restored into the stately authoritative edifice it once was?
A UW frat member was arrested for shooting a gun at tin cans in the frat house’s basement. Hey, at least he wasn’t aiming outside.
What??? Evergreen State Coll.’s actively soliciting students from in-state???
Huckabee (hearts) regressive taxation, Wash. state-style.

IT’S THE FIRST…

Clark Humphrey 07 — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:22:00 +0000

…post-shopping-season Sunday. This means the Sunday paper’s a much more compact product, stuffed with far fewer flyers and far easier to carry. Still, there is some news today:

Who wouldn’t love a fancy home holiday display, depicting a full-size Santa on a cross?
The American Stasi wants to know everything about you.
Another old ferry has potential problems.
Capitol Hill’s delightfully delapidated “Undre Arms” Apartments might give way to yet another mixed-use whatever blah blah blah.
And my Belltown Messenger colleague Mary Lou Sanelli has a nice li’l essay, summarizing some of her thoughts about the novelty of urban living.