Georgetown With Camera

After the big storm of yesterday, everything is washed in a bright, shiny light. I went to meet fellow tech guy/bon vivant K. at All City Coffee in the heart of Georgetown. After we talked business, gossip, business, and more gossip, I took a stroll around the hood, camera in hand. It was like a …


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(Shell) Fish Wednesday: Test Cook Edition

During the gold and avocado velour years, my family would pass the winter holiday break at a shingled time share community on the California cost. We’d play epic games of monopoly or jump off the dunes and at low tide, we’d roll up our pants and follow Dad down to the beach where we’d dig …


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Aloha? Oy. Or, a Travel Writer’s Angst

When I retire to the islands, I will run a smallish chain of bagel shops named “Aloha Oy.” We’ll serve a tuna with bacon sandwich called “Fish and Goy.” Oh, come on. It’s hilarious. As I mentioned last week, I’m pondering a book contract for a Hawaii travel guide. You’re saying to yourself, “What’s to …


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Music: Angela Reed and Kenny White on Phinney Ridge

Angela Reed is one of those not quite waif like white girls with very very very very long hair and a voice that belongs to someone much older and more experienced but somehow, dammit, ended up in her body. Wow, can she sing. You know the type, forgive the pigeon holing – Jewel, Joss Stone, …


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Enough About Me, What Do YOU Think About Me?

Have I mentioned my hearty dislike of memes? Oooo, I really don’t like them. For starters, I already have a head full of nonsense just waiting to get out, and at the root of it all, I’m not a joiner. I hate “fun activities” and “games” and “team sports” – especially if there’s a ball involved. And the meme comes under that heading for me.

But I do like Jessica and her In Search of Dessert. And though I haven’t met her in person, I just know we’d have tons to talk about. I’d like very much to sit with Jessica at the Baekerei Munding in Innsbruck over big servings of cake and coffee. And because Jessica asked, I will do her #$%&@*$ meme.

Also, because it’s about why I’m fabulous.

[If you share my bad attitude, maybe you’d like to read this, instead, from the archives: Fish Tales. It’s about snow, salmon, and Seattle.]


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