My daily bike commute takes me south on Dexter and then right on Denny across the “gauntlet” until I can hang a right and get off Denny onto quieter streets and head through the Seattle Center. The point where I get off Denny is just southeast of the EMP and an unusual vantage of this building.

This year, it occured to me that the gold part of the building looked just like a sea turtle from this angle. See if you don’t agree! Raised my esteem of this building which I think would be really cool if it weren’t for the green panels (guitar strings??? what?) tacked like an afterthought onto the top. Sort of ruins the otherwise beautiful curves and lessens the impact of the color forms.

Frank Gehry's EMP

EMP, Seattle

This is definitely the coolest news story of the week! Totally made my day today. Kick Ass in real life, right here in our city!

Go get em Phoenix Jones!

A couple weekends ago, I took both kids out to the School of Visual Concepts’ (SVC) annual Wayzgoose festival, which is an open house and a celebration of letterpress printing. My friend, Kate, teaches at the school and I wanted to go to support her and check out the event and the SVC letterpress studio as I love letterpress printing (nearly as much as Jill!). We ended up meeting Tim, little MJ, Jenny, Koga, and Kate down there!

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Earlier, Dylan’s interest in going had waned and he wanted to stay home and play trains. I was able to change his mind by telling him that there would be a steam-roller down there and that Kate would be driving it. That did the trick.

Kate had finished her stint as driver, but we did see 3′ x 5′ letterpress posters being created 2 at a time by a crew of volunteers, big linocuts, a couple of 4′ x 8′ sheets of plywood, and the steamroller for the actual pressing. Pretty ingenious. The posters were hung from the school balconies to dry and were auctioned off as a fundraiser. My favorite was the Godzilla/sushi poster created by a crew from Starbucks.

A Wayzgoose is a tradition in the letterpress printing world that dates back to the 17th century, when master printers would serve a feast to their apprentices in recognition of the impending shorter days of fall and winter which would require the difficult work of hand-setting type by candlelight. Goose was often served, along with whisky. Now shops had adopted the past time as a way to open their doors to the public and showcase the work that has been going on.
— Kate Fernandez

Hope to make Mayor McGinn’s Inaugural Music Festival @ShowboxSODO tomorrow night. I’m eager to hear Wheedle’s Groove, and this vid just got me pretty excited about it!

After our weekly coffee this morning, I told Marty about a couple local political blogs I had turned onto recently, Publicola and Huge Ass City, and he told me about Horse’s Ass.

Today, on my first visit, I viewed this video of an interview with that blog’s founder, David Goldstein, giving a very calm, articulate discussion of the role of the blogosphere in media, the regressive tax structure of Washington state, and the genious of conservative politcal movement in copting populist/verbal methods of reframing issues and getting the poor and middle classes to identify with the very wealthy.

Goldy

And to explain my post title, here’s the other Goldie I referred to, most well known as a jungle/drum ‘n’ bass dj/producer and owner of the Metalheadz record label.

Goldie