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(Spotted in Fremont.)

Cool Coffee Shop I read about the new Burien Press coffee shop a few weeks ago. Burien Press serves delicious Caffe Vita coffee, so I wanted to check them out … until I plugged my address and theirs into Yahoo Maps and found out they’re a 30-minute drive away. I can get delicious Caffe Vita […]

Ballard’s new condo* overlords must be really tiny, with extremely long legs. Here’s their altar: *Photos taken behind Leva on Market, a new development of luxury apartments. It’s a common misconception that all of the mega residential buildings that have sprung up in Ballard over the past few years are condos. Technically, most if not […]

Photos taken at the Carl S. English Jr. Botanical Garden at the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks in beautiful Ballard (Seattle, WA): Elsewhere in Ballard:

I like Arturo. And I like you guys. And Jimmy. And that’s it. (Guy sitting outside the Ballard Tully’s, talking on his cell phone) He hates everybody else on the planet.

Good news for vegetarians and vegans, courtesy of the Seattle Times: New label laws will say if food or cosmetics get color from a dead insect

Yahoo! Tech headline on March 27, 2009. (*This post was previously titled “Subtlety.”)

A couple of days ago, I picked up a pound of Caffe Vita’s Theo Blend coffee. Even though I’m a dedicated label reader (due to my vegan-osity), I occasionally miss things. Case in point: I didn’t realize until I was putting my groceries away at home that this particular coffee is a blend of Caffe […]

Issues currently affecting America: > Troops still in Iraq (since 2003). > Credit crunch. > Housing slump. > High unemployment rate. > Deep recession. Our most pressing issue: How we, as a nation, feel about our First Lady baring her arms and what, if anything, we need to do about it. I saw at least […]