In the court of the Crimson King

10-second beer review: Elliott Bay Mashing Pumpkin
Tasty coppery ale with crisp pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg high notes and rich malt body.
Seattle Diary: if you have a community, do not take it for granted

When my marriage fell apart in 2010 I quickly realized just how much of my social life was tied to my wife’s friends and family. I had friends of my own, of […]
The old dog and the sea
And so it was that on the eleventh anniversary of his birth, Ronan MacScottie came at last unto the sea.
Nota Bene #116: Long Live Elena Pavlichenko
“I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn’t allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.” Who said it?
TunesDay: what is, what was and what almost was – the S&R interview with Don Dixon
I’ve been a very big Don Dixon fan since the late ’70s, so when his new CD, The Nu-Look, dropped I was bouncing around the living room like Snoopy doing a happy […]
Quotabull
It’s good that everybody knows that the people involved in the pro-life movement are directly responsible for the decline in abortions. — Wanda Franz, president of the National Right to Life Committee, […]
The Weekly Carboholic
According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved the first wave power program in the United States. The program is for four 250 kW […]