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Mark your calendars.
I’ve got another live book event on Thursday, Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m., at The Couth Buzzard Books and Espresso Buono Cafe, 8310 Greenwood Ave. N.
And there will be another new book by me debuting at this event.
More details shortly.
Some 50 people attended our fantabulous Walking Seattle event Saturday at the Elliott Bay Book Company.
At least half of those followed along as we took a short stroll through upper Pike/Pine during a lovely equinox early evening.
Thank you all.
nordstrom photo, via shine.yahoo.com
defunct connecticut strip mall, from backsideofamerica.com
The downtown Seattle Borders Books closed earlier this week after 17 years. (The Redmond store closes Sunday, among the busted chain’s final outlets to close.)
(Remember, my big book shindig is one week from today (Sept. 24). See the top of this page for all pertinent details.)
from inmagine.com
There seems to be a growing book genre, about Seattle white women telling their life stories via their yoga experiences.
First was Presidential sister Claire Dederer’s Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses.
Now we’ve got Suzanne Morrison’s Yoga Bitch: One Woman’s Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment.
In which, I presume, Morrison attempts to conquer skepticism, cynicism, and cigarettes, and achieve some form of enlightenment.
Is there room for more than one self-reflective yoga queen in this town?
And if not, how will they duke it out?
Perhaps they could stage a stand-off (or pose-off) on the stage at Hugo House. A series of increasingly difficult poses, to be maintained for at least two minutes each.
By the time they get to the upward-facing two-foot staff pose, we should have our winner.
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• Lake City’s legendary, recently-closed Rimrock Steak House is saved! Well, maybe.
• Starbucks gave away download codes for a “free” ebook. The document turned out to exclude the novel’s ending, telling readers they had to get the paid version to learn what happens.
• Get ready for Sleepless in Seattle, the Musical. In preparation for years, it’s set to open in L.A. next summer.
• The Longview longshoremen’s strike might be ending.
• J.P. Patches, who announced his retirement from public appearances earlier this summer, will make his last one this Saturday at Fishermen’s Terminal.
• Darn. Just when we were getting used to Dennis Kucinich, turns out he’s probably not coming to stay.
• The Republicans have a master plan for winning the White House. It has little to do with actually fielding a mass-appeal candidate (or even a sane candidate), and everything to do with voter suppression and making the Electoral College even more unfair.
• Earlier this week, we discussed an LA Times essay asking where today’s great recession documentarians were. Well, here are two more places to find them—Facing Change and In Our Own Backyard.
1931 model bookmobile, from historylink.org
The summer doldrums in news-type postings seem to have ended. Enjoy.
Don’t try to fight irrationality with rationality. It will only make you more frustrated and the other person more defensive. No matter how many well-constructed arguments you offer, you won’t make headway until you understand the underlying motivation that is driving the other person.