A Little Police Action in NoPo

Last night just as the first rain in a month came down, the NoPo PoPo started to cordon off a four-block radius to ensnare a nare-do-well who had evaded an officer of the law after a traffic infraction. So we all became prisoners in our homes while they went door-to-door looking for some guy who ran a red light?

Where was all the action last spring when we called 911 to report the drug deal going down in our front yard at 3 am? When we called to get someone to break up the transaction the operator retorted with, "Call non-emergency." To the officer's credit (and they don't get a lot of credit in our neighborhood) when they drove up 15 minutes later, they told us that they shouldn't have told us to call non-emergency. The 4 officers (three patrol cars) promptly took the description and the officer called us 30 minutes later to let us know that they had apprehended the man who made the transaction and that he had a warrant out for his arrest for burglery.

The NoPo Popo found the traffic infractor in someone's basement in a matter of 20 minutes or so. I guess he'll think twice before he runs through that light.

Movie Bizzaro 2004

When you are hard up for a cheap date, do you peruse the DVD shelf at the county library? No?

I always take opportunities like this to rent/check-out the movie that you wouldn't necessarily rent because you are willing to take a chance because the check-out is free. And then 9.5 times out of 10 you reget it in the morning. (And it is the morning because the movie was so long and unedited...Oh that's why all of the major studios rejected it...it made no sense.) Resist.

Tonight's culprit was "Secretary" with James Spader. Now I must admit that he and Rob Lowe seemed to take this tragic downward spiral about ten years ago, but both of them seemed to have miraculous career revival as of late: Lowe in the West Wing (until he left like a fool); Spader in The Practice, where he breathed new life into a series that ABC cancelled.

The Secretary was the most boring, erratic benal plot that I have seen in a long time. I knew we were in trouble when it took 47 minutes to get to the point where it was the "present" and we had finished the pre-history on the main character. Too bad. I will admit that Spader's acting--despite the limited plot and leash that his character was given--was exceptional.

Seattle's Biblio-Cathedral.

If I were a book, this would be my home. When I die, I hope heaven looks like this.

Here is a brief history of the downtown Seattle library. Around 1900, the original Carnegie Library was constructed on fourth avenue only to be razed in the early sixties to make way for an awful art-deco four story building that the city and patrons grew out of very quickly. I couldn't think of what was more depressing the low tiled ceilings, the tan-gray everything or the stale smell of old books and body odor.

This cathedral is everything that consitutes Seattle. It is a blend of the rejuvenating spirit that remakes Seattle and the Seattle landscape. You can almost smell the new money and hi-technology as you walk in the door. It is the epitomy of what the 1962 World's Fair tried to emulate when they projected the theme of "Century 21". At least we won't have to worry about Elvis riding up and down in the elevator's for this building to make history.

The Intellectual Property of this Cyber-Real Estate

This is the part of the blog that I pretend that potentially everyone I know will read this blog. Having grown up being that person that wants to please most, if not all, I have been putting off creating a blog for fear that I would write something that would offend someone that I know...if they were to happen surf across this material.

that.

Although I have not decided to broadcast to anyone the fact to whom the intellectual property of this cyber-real estate belongs to...it will remain subtly veild for the moment.

Another blog? Will anyone really Read this? Do I care?