I Love This
I grew up in the Pacific Northwest and I when I was a kid I thought that every place in the world had Totem Poles. My grandfather also had elaborately carved Swiss clocks and Barvarian wooden knick knacks on his shelves. So, you know I love this site of Native American art. Click here for >>>Northwest Coast Carvings<<<.
MOHAI in Seattle. courtesy: The Survive & Thrive Boomer Guide
Hey kids,
Check this out! I was on the non-consumer gal’s website and ”Alunachic” posted this comment
I remembered Bank of America has an offer for free museum admission by showing your debit card. I’m not sure where you bank, but a quick check revealed several museums with free admission via Bof A debit card.
Here’s the link for Bank of America Museums. Seattle WA has:
These places are free on the first full weekend of every month. You need a B/of/A piece of ID. Thanks Alunachic.
Wow, I just checked NYC. MOMA’s on the list. I love this. And, the Whitney. I need to make sure my next trip to the East Coast is the right weekend. Maybe, I should look at LA, too. I go there from time to time to see my daughter.
Ballard Sunday Market
Can I Still Ride on the Camels?
Try these three Seattle art museums to catch new trends and make new friends: SAM (Seattle Art Museum) or SAM’s little sisters: Seattle Asian Art Museum or Olympic Sculpture Park. (Click on the SAAM link above to see free days at these museums.)
I am sad that China keeps their own stone animals out in the open air, but Seattle replaced our camels with fakes. Come on! My brothers and I used to sit on the camels in the 50s to take silly pictures. It was something free to do. Man, I think our museums and zoos were all free in the 50s and 60s.
Now Seatown peeps need to wait for special days to get a hit of culture That’s a rip. (I guess it’s better than nothing.)
Parents who don’t take their kids to see the camels (even if they are fake camels) should be sued for child abuse. I love my city! Free Museums NOW! Hello…London has free museums!
EMP is not a tourist trap. Experience Music Project is a true shrine to Seattle Rock. Take 3 visionaries: Paul Allen, Frank Gehry, and Jimi Hendrix, then shake. Voila, it’s Magic.
After driving past the EMP Seattle Building for ages, I finally decided to stop in. This place is amazing.
Click here for my REVIEW OF EMP. I love my city. In the summer, Seattle is as beautiful as Switzerland. In the winter, it’s a tiny knock off of London. If we could beam up parts of Musee d’Orsay, there would never be a reason to leave.
Six Degrees of Dale Chihuly
The title of this post is a spoof of: Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, which is a trivia game, based on the concept of the small world phenomen. The Six Degrees game rests on the assumption that any actor can be linked through his or her film roles to actor Kevin Bacon within six steps.
My contention is that in Small Town Seattle, any Seattleite can be linked to another Seattleite by one or two degrees of separation. For example, there’s someone who used to be part of my family who went to school with Bill Gates. That’s two degrees of separation, I believe.
And, in a serendipitous moment, I met Dale Chihuly in a parking lot. That links me to the famous artist in one degree. And, Chihuly is one of my idols. It was like running into Mick Jagger in a grocery store. (Mssr Chihuly gave me a beautiful book of his glassworks.)
It was so totally random, but very meaningful to me because I was on my way to see the inside of the Frank Gehry building (EMP), the music shrine to Jimi Hendrix. When I looked at the organic qualities of the Gehry building, I kept thinking about the similarities between Experience Music Project’s shell and the organic sea shells of Chihuly’s spiritual glass shapes.
Wow. I love Seattle. And, I love the people here. Thank you, Dale Chihuly, for being a regular guy and not a prima donna.
Dick's Drive In on 45th
No one knows how to scrimp on tasty foods like old-time Seattleites. While some of the best places for cheap eats in Seattle have been icons for decades, others are hole-in-the-wall ethnic eateries. It’s more fun to become a “temporary local” and go slumming with the best of ‘em at these yummy fast food joints.
Snoqualmie Falls (courtesy: cefka at Wikipedia)
“Location. Location. Location.” No. In Seattle it’s, “Pronunciation. Pronunciation. Pronunciation.” Seattle Newbies have difficulty with the pronunciation of words like Snoqualmie and Sammamish because they didn’t grow up hearing the names.
No one visiting Seattle for the first time would ever guess how the tongue-twister, Puyallup, should sound. Even simple names can be mangled, but the following words are used often by Seattleites:
Read Puyallup, Sammamish, Tulalip to find out why these words are used everyday in the Northwest. (This is a photo of Snoqualmie Falls. From Seattle, go to I-90, cross Lake Washington and keep going east about 25 miles (or less).
Green Lake Seattle
Seattleites lived in an isolated, provincial city before Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, and other local companies brought in thousands of outsiders. It is easy for a Seattle local to tell when a newcomer has landed in this interesting, but rainy, city when the visitor doesn’t use the same lingo.
Go to Speak Like a Seattleite. Be cool and hip…well, at least you won’t sound clueless when visiting friends. And if someone giving directions to you says, “It’s down at The Waterfront,” you won’t think they mean Green Lake, Shilshole, or Lake Washington.
Photo courtesy of: seattle.gov
