Excerpts from a sunny weekend in the rainy city….

1. Leaving work early, a few drinks in the airport bar and a flight that I don’t remember much of.
2. Walking into the “happy Asian market” down the street from Jenny’s boys house to purchase liquor and a utensil, and leaving, laughing at the “ignorance” shown by the proprietor in regards to the whip-its he sells.
3. A dance performance, UnderCurrents, by a very beautiful Michelle and the rest of the Lehua Dance company.
4. Drinks and laughs at the Elysian, explaining what I do, how I know definitions to obscure sexual terms and why men really are oblivious.
5. More drinks, the Sunday 4:00 Rock show and a cool band I have no clue the name of. My friend Jenny’s boy is in a band named Hang. I didn’t get a chance to hear him, but I heard his friends.
6. Yummy, vegan food all weekend long. There are soooo many good Seattle restaurants; the Sunlight Cafe or Silence Hearts Nest for breakfast. Imagine sweet potato biscuits, vegan sausage and cashew gravy! Beer was often accompanied with hummus platters, soy tacos w/ guac and salsa or crispy veggies. Dessert was anything from vegan donuts (damn skippy, Mighty O’s aren’t half bad) to Vegan Chocolate Mousse cake.
7. A Nazi rally that materialized in an area of Seattle that is fairly progressive. This was soooo strange, very weird and sickening to see. Flags, symbols; it was all there and real. I can’t imagine what intelligent people see in a movement built and powered by hate.
8. A 5:00 am wake-up call, coffee and vegan donuts, a flight that took much too long and stopped way too many places.
9. Sleep.

seattle

tags: friends, music, pikesmarket, seattle, travel