What shall we use to fill the empty spaces where we used to talk? Over on io9, an embarrassing wealth of ghost towns.
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Hither and Thither #2
“I want to go here; add this to the list” is something I say to myself pretty often lately. (Two recent additions: Alaska in the summer, to hike and see the nearly-all-day sun; a couple free-form weeks on the Eurail. These both happened within FIVE MINUTES.) But Asia is something that hasn’t piqued my interest so much until recently, mostly because of my fears around not being able to talk to everyone.* But OH MY GOD, this! According to this, the Wat Samphran Temple isn’t on many mainstream tours, which says, to me, that most mainstream tours are exercising poor judgment. I want to go there and just stare at it for about 15 minutes before wandering through all the (publicly accessible) nooks and crannies of this incredible place. Continue reading
Hither and Thither #1
It’s Seattle. Of course there are bees on a dock in South Lake Union. OF COURSE THERE ARE.
Capitol Hill Seattle’s picture roundup of the vigil for Melrose and Pine. Now’s the time to sit at Bauhaus, have ok-enough coffee, and pass judgment on people walking by – its days are waning as another big, dumb construction project looms. Continue reading
Save Ferris*
I need to hang out at the waterfront at night more often, it seems.
My Modern Met put together a really beautiful collection of long-exposure images of the Seattle Great Wheel** at times when it puts on its fancy clothes for holidays and the like. God, I love stuff like this. I’ve never been up in this thing, but I will soon, and I’ll bring you along. Also maybe a flask – I hear it’s pretty slow going.
Fun fact: one of the highlights of the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis was the 26-story Ferris Wheel, which could hold 2,000 people. It was the same Ferris wheel featured at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago.*** However, after its second life in St. Louis, it was BLOWN THE FUCK UP, and only its axle remained. Only no one knows where it is – people believe it may still be in Forest Park, where it’s not out of the ordinary to find weird artifacts from the World’s Fair. But a GIANT FREAKING AXLE remains out there, unaccounted for. This is an open case, people! This is still a thing being discussed!
World’s Fairs are weird things. I wish they still happened in all their hopeful, disposable glory.
*Eesh, sorry.
**Yes, that is the name of the Seattle Ferris wheel when it’s at home.
***P.S. Go read Devil in the White City. I’m serious, get to it, now.
Yes, I Would Take This Tour
Gasp, not the poors!
I found these here. You can too – they’re pretty delightful. Kinda rich in good comedy nerds, this fair city.