Seattle Street Art

Seattle, have I told you recently how much I love your graffiti?  I really think that this is one of my favorites.  Well… I guess so… This mermaid is armed and dangerous.

Tramps, Vagrants and the Long Depression

It turns out that names are important.  Everyone’s heard of the Great Depression, that worldwide economic trend covered so evocatively by Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, or To Kill a Mockingbird. But what about the Long Depression?  No?Previously called...

More Seattle Street Art!

With the weather turning nicer I have even more excuse to go traversing Seattle looking for interesting street art.  Here are some of my recent finds! First of all, there’s apparently a pretty militant bike culture in Seattle… Two versions of gas mask...

So we’re all still here…

To the surprise of very little people here in Seattle, the rapture didn’t occur.  But maybe that’s because we’re all just godless atheists. Certainly there are people who think so. At the same time Seattle is one of the few places where a poster...

Randomness!

More later, but here’s the alt text from today’s XKCD: Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at “Philosophy”. It...

The Original Portal to Hell- St. Patrick's Purgatory

Through me you pass into the city of woe:Through me you pass into eternal pain:Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric mov’d:To rear me was the task of power divine,Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create...