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gq: It’s National Grilled Cheese month. Celebrate...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:10:07 -0400

It’s National Grilled Cheese month. Celebrate accordingly.

Well everyone, it’s National Grilled Cheese month! What are some of your favorite spots in which to get down on a great grilled cheese?

fycharleston: Fried chicken from Martha Lou’s1068 Morrison...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:32:25 -0500

fycharleston:

Fried chicken from Martha Lou’s
1068 Morrison Drive

Get it while it’s hot.

memoriastoica: Construction of L.C. Smith building in three...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:50:06 -0500

memoriastoica:

Construction of L.C. Smith building in three stages.

Top two circa 1913; bottom circa 1914.

Smith Tower!

bambinablue: Olympia National Forest, Washington So mossy...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:49:10 -0500

bambinablue:

Olympia National Forest, Washington

So mossy & ferny!

nevver: Manhattan of the Mind Personal maps are the best maps,...

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:48:34 -0500

nevver:

Manhattan of the Mind

Personal maps are the best maps, hands down.

neil-gaiman: photovoltaicarray: In SimCity 2000, selecting the...

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 13:52:10 -0500

neil-gaiman:

photovoltaicarray:

In SimCity 2000, selecting the “Ruminate” option in the information box for Library buildings would get you this special essay by Neil Gaiman.

Source/special thanks: http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/sc2kng.htm

That was when you put “2000” at the end of things to show you were talking about the future…

On cities, by Neil Gaiman

anniesoga: interior of Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, Seattle, WA, ca....

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:53:28 -0500

anniesoga:

interior of Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, Seattle, WA, ca. 1900-1910

(from Wikipedia):

The shop was founded in 1899 by J. E. “Daddy” Standley (born February 24, 1854, in Steubenville, Ohio). He had already traded somewhat in curios and Indian goods as a grocer in Denver, Colorado. When he moved to Seattle in 1899 because his wife’s health required a lower altitude, he encountered a boom town supplying and benefitting from the Klondike Gold Rush. He founded the business in 1899. An exhibit at the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (A-Y-P Exposition) in Seattle drew tourists, scholars, anthropologists and collectors and was enormous publicity for his already somewhat famous shop. It also won Standley a gold medal in the category of ethnological collections.

Standley’s shop presented a jumbled mix of curiosities and significant art objects. He collected and sold what came his way, but also had local Native American artists make objects to his specifications. He sold genuine Tlingit totem poles, but also replicas by carvers descended from the Vancouver Island-based Nuu-chah-nulth tribe, who were living in Seattle, and even inexpensive souvenir totem poles made in Japan. A flair for the bizarre and grotesque led him to include items such as shrunken heads from the Amazon (some of them definitely genuine, others probably not).

Ye Olde Curiosity Shop puts the OLDE in Old! This place is crazy and tacky and fascinating. A claustrophobe’s nightmare, but a nicknack and weird stuff lover’s dream.

Without a doubt the very best biscuits in the northwest are hand...

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:45:00 -0500

Without a doubt the very best biscuits in the northwest are hand crafted by the two gentlemen who run Seattle Biscuit Company. Who are they? In their own words:

“We make biscuits with our hands. We use a combination of local ingredients and our Southern roots to bring you a truly unique biscuit experience.”

Sam Thompson and David Hanson know what they’re talking about. First they’re Southerners (and when you’re talking biscuits, that seems to make a difference. I think that folks’ grandmothers’ grandmothers pass that stuff along on yellowed recipe cards and through their very genes). They’re from Mississippi and Georgia respectively. David even today told me that his family (generations way back) are the folks who lived in the yellow brick house at 19 East Battery in Charleston. So they hail from the land of good ass biscuits. Secondly, they source all their ingredients locally - Ballard Bee Company honey, Beechers cheese, Carlton Farm pork, Oola bourbon, and more - farm to biscuit they called it. Third, the biscuits themselves are pretty much clouds of edible heaven. See above the “Nuptial Flight,” a marriage of butter, honey, and rock salt and flaky fluffy biscuit.

When these dudes are in your neighborhood, do not hesitate. Cross the street and walk right up and request a biscuit. And then thank these gents for bringing the real deal to the northwest.

And Sam and David, if you ever read this, do me a favor and fry up a slab of chicken, please, and lay it on that Nuptial Flight for me.

"They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel."

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 01:56:46 -0500

“They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.”

- Gabrielle Zevin (via travels-with-charley)

nickjtom: Seattle Public Library - Beacon Hill Seattle -...

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:32:40 -0500

nickjtom:

Seattle Public Library - Beacon Hill

Seattle - we’ve totally got the prettiest libraries.

diy: Paper map cutouts of Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco by...

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:20:05 -0500

diy:

Paper map cutouts of Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco by Karen O’Leary’s Etsy Shop. A great inspiration for mapping your land and becoming a Cartographer.

Beautiful! I want all of these!

neil-gaiman: I was asked last night how you find...

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:56:47 -0500

neil-gaiman:

I was asked last night how you find adventure…

Neil Gaiman on how to find adventure: You go out and you make it. And you make it for other people too.

You Just Have To Do Something

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 01:22:32 -0500

You Just Have To Do Something:

You don’t have to do it right. You just have to do something.

Took a stroll through Pike Place Market this morning and visited...

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:02:12 -0500

Took a stroll through Pike Place Market this morning and visited new market vendor Britt’s Pickles. They make delicious pickles (duh) and kimchi and preserved lemon and all kinds of good pickled things. They’ll let you try it all including a pickle brine shot. This stuff would make an incredible dirty martini or a damn good addition to a bloody Mary. As they say, “Nickel, nickel, gimme that pickle!” They probably don’t say that much, but you can at Britt’s and they’ll just clink your shot glass and give you a smile.

Think global, act local.

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 23:46:38 -0500

Act local, share global.

blondeinseattle: Happy 50th Birthday to the Space Needle Aww...

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 01:39:06 -0500

blondeinseattle:

Happy 50th Birthday to the Space Needle

Aww hey Space Needle!

archiemcphee: Our friends over at Laughing Squid posted this...

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 02:26:04 -0500

archiemcphee:

Our friends over at Laughing Squid posted this awesome map created by Very Small Array that shows the thing people in each US state think is coming to get them.

We here in the Pacific Northwest would like to take this opportunity to officially invite our Bigfoot brethren to join us for snacks and a Twin Peaks marathon.

"If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the..."

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 02:14:48 -0500

“

If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody.

Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

”

- Anthony Bourdain’s final words in tonight’s No Reservations series finale. (via travelchannel)
Yes, what Bourdain said.

oliveargyle: charlestoncitypaper: It’s official. Charleston...

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:02:45 -0400

oliveargyle:

charlestoncitypaper:

It’s official. Charleston beat out Cape Town, South Africa, and Florence, Italy to win the #1 spot on Conde Nast’s list of top destinations in the world.

Video credit: CharlestonOnly.com (Charleston Convention and Visitors Bureau)

It’s an honor. I’d like to thank the beaches. The food. The trees. The houses. The college students. The meat sweats. The sunsets. The sulfery air. The palmetto bugs. The harbor. The ocean breezes. The bars. The boutiques. The weather. The town. It’s small, don’t everybody come here at once, okay?

Nice one, Charleston!

penelopesloom: EMP Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1.1.10 Even...

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:52:53 -0400

penelopesloom:

EMP Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1.1.10

Even though I think this is a pretty gnarly bit of architecture, these photos of the EMP are beautiful! Enjoy the curvy shapes and the Nirvana exhibit and the Sci-fi museum while you’re at it.