pittsburgh post-gazette illo by anita dufalla, 2009
- Census data says even more of Seattle’s low-income population (some 68 percent) now resides in the suburbs. However, I’m not ready (as this linked article is) to declare the likes of Tukwila and Skyway to be “suburban slums.”
- New fun word of the day: “blagging” (defined by the BBC as “obtaining personal details by deception,” as in the Murdoch UK tabloids’ nefarious gossip trawling).
- R.I.P. Theodore Roszak, who was 35 in 1969 when his book The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society professed to know just what Those Krazy Kids were up to.
- Pyramid Hefeweisen is now called Pyramid Hefeweisen again, following a three-year failure to rebrand the wheat ale as “Haywire.” I could repeat my hefeweisen riddle here, but I won’t.
- There is such a thing as wearing too many clothes. If you’re in a mall. And you didn’t pay for some of those clothes.
- Amazon’s own tablet computer—look for it this autumn.
- The local ski season is finally over.
- Oh, all right: What do you call the last hefeweisen that causes a yuppie to total her new car? (Answer tomorrow.)
