Tinky Winky

I saw two people in full Tinky Winky suits today. Two different people, not the same person twice (one was a middle school student the other an adult). No other teletubbies have been represented.

Most other people, I couldn't tell if they were in costume or not.

I wonder if kilt man wore pants today?

18.10.10

 Street person holding a substantial dream catcher and asking for spare change. Reaction from girl on the street in a tank top that said "vagina": "It's that old guy who makes the evil fucking dreamcatchers."

I'm assuming there was backstory.

Over the weekend....

A man was killed by an aggressive mountain goat while hiking in Olympic National Park. Really. Crazy.
I heard on the news today that they put the goat down - they're sure it was this goat because of the blood on his horns. The take home: "wildlife is unpredictable."

I'm just saying...

Sunrise today was only 7:33am. Does that seem right to you? It's only October.

Maybe I should have titled this blog, "blogging my Seasonal Affective Disorder"

11.10.2010

Shirtless man with a bright red mohawk juggling, or at least moving about in a magical way, a glass orb right in front of my building around noon today. Why? And, who? And where was the shirt? It was a chilly day, though another lovely, sunny one.

A cacophony of human smells on the bus that began with a woman smelling of grain alcohol around 9am but luckily didn't follow the logical turns of possible odors and just petered out in a strange array of different smells of men who wouldn't have been wasting their time if they'd washed up this morning. And then a rapidly escalating disagreement about whether or not a fare was paid, leading me to think it might be best to make everyone pay for bus service up front, so as to avoid any hurt feelings upon exit.

10.10.2010

Saw a man pedaling a bike and towing behind him 3 ducks in a cage. Now probably, this is the most reasonable way to convey ducks, who could be untidy in the car and would prefer to look around anyway, and with the current trend towards fowl ownership - urban chickens are on the rise around here - most likely nothing was wrong or strange about someone transporting their ducks that way. But the visual, of a man in a rain slicker making his way through traffic with 3 ducks quacking behind him... well, it was priceless and I was sorry that I did not have a camera with me at the time.

9.10.10

The Seattle Weekly organized, with lots of partners, a festival of Seattle music in Ballard, Reverb, on Saturday. I went for a few hours, visiting different venues and seeing different acts. There were more people out at 4pm than I expected, and by the time I left around 7, things were getting busy despite the heavier than normal rains. One highlight was arriving at one venue in time to watch a marimba get set up. Despite taking a while to do, I couldn't look away. At least one woman was photographing the proceedings, and I heard several people murmur about the size of the instrument. The act, Erin Jorgensen, played and sang unaccompanied (though there was a drum machine for the Rihanna cover - that's right, I said Rihanna cover, on the marimba, with the drum machine). Was it a post-modern statement? Does she just not want the music to stop? Is it just fun to do, particularly in front of a crowd who looked unfamiliar with Rihanna's oeuvre? Any way you slice it, it was a pretty awesome cover.

5-8.10.10

It was an eventful week on the bus, though not much managed to happen off the bus beside the usual. One morning a talkative man explained to me that the people in the know call it the "forty-late". He also let me in that it was a commonly held belief that drivers were relegated to our route when they were being punished.

Someone else wanted to debate whether skateboards should be considered lethal weapons. He didn't elaborate, but I suspected perhaps a run in with some errant skateboarders. I also learned there was a rather impressive panther at the zoo, and that the Grizzlies were pretty cool, too. Haven't been to the zoo yet, though it's on the list. Though I'm always torn - I love to see the exotic animals but I also hate seeing them caged.

4.10.10

National Bird Control, originally uploaded by l'exterieur.

Really?

3.10.10

Ballard Farmers Market, originally uploaded by l'exterieur.

Ballard Farmers' Market, the view from Cafe Fiore on Leary. Perfect day for enjoying coffee, people watching and buying fresh produce.

2.10.10

Golden Gardens Park 2, originally uploaded by l'exterieur.

Golden Gardens Park. A lovely day for it.

01.10.10

Just discovered there are possums. Aggressive, fearless possums who want to come into my warm, inviting home and eat my cat.

Well, maybe they don't want to eat my cat so much as get his food.

30.09.10

A guy got on the bus in loafers with no socks, short, short cut off jean shorts, a leather jacket and a coonskin hat. It was an interesting response to the surprise bit of sunshine and temperatures in the high 60s and low 70s.

At the same stop a girl got on dressed like field hockey player, only she clearly wasn't (no stick, for example), and she had a tattoo of a treble clef, with notes, winding up her thigh (which was visible due to the very, very short field hockey-esque skirt).

29.9.10

A man was using an electric razor to shave his head on the street corner in the reflection in a window of a Chase bank. It was late morning. It took me a while to figure out what he was doing when I saw him from the bus. It didn't seem like anyone else noticed.