‘It’s home’: Slices of life from Seattle community hub Gas Works ParkWhen she moved to Seattle nearly 40 years ago, Barbara Hubers-Drake discovered that she lived within walking distance of Gas Works Park. With its steep green Kite Hill, flat wide grassy fields spilling out into an unparalleled view of the city across… Sep 29 23September 29, 2023Article at The Seattle Times
Here’s what it’s like to walk around Lake Washington in a single dayThere comes a point in every Very Long Walk when you’re faced with a dilemma: You can either keep moving your exhausted feet, or you can just give up. For me, that point arrived at around 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 9. I’d left my house in South… Aug 27 22August 27, 2022Article at The Seattle Times
Who Reviews the Reviewer?Writer Paul Constant made a career out of reviewing books. Now his very first comic, Ahoy’s timey-wimey high school drama Planet of the Nerds, is hitting shelves today—and it has him thinking about the relationship between being a critic and a… Apr 17 19April 17, 2019Article at Gizmodo
I’m From Seattle. Here’s What Amazon Will Do To New York City.Homelessness, traffic, and average rents have skyrocketed. But hey, at least we have some nice restaurants. I’m writing these words in a coffee shop in the Seattle neighborhood of South Lake Union, formerly a wasteland of empty warehouses that the… Nov 15 18November 15, 2018Article at BuzzFeed News
Books Without BordersMy Life at the World’s Dumbest Bookstore Chain It’s embarrassing now, but on the day that I was hired to work at Boston’s flagship Borders store in 1996, I was so happy that I danced around my apartment. After dropping out of college, I had worked a… Dec 07 14December 07, 2014Article at Medium
Down and Out in Tampa and CharlotteHow and why the 2012 Republican and Democratic Conventions nearly broke me in half. I oozed into Charlotte for the Democratic National Convention on a Greyhound bus right as a sky full of nasty clouds cracked and spilled down lush streamers of… Dec 07 14December 07, 2014Article at Medium
Haunted by the Radness of Subconscious Mallsor, Why I Liked Virtual Reality a Little Too Much You have probably never seen a group of human beings get this excited about a photograph of a shoe. I followed an e-mail invitation to Belltown, followed some signs into an alleyway, walked in a… Dec 07 14December 07, 2014Article at Medium
Necropolis NowIf you’re looking for a sign that we live in a nation that is heading into some sort of strange cultural shift, I have your proof. In the East Village neighborhood of Des Moines, you can eat at a restaurant called Zombie Burger. It’s a zombie-themed… Jan 02 12January 02, 2012Article at The Stranger
