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Tom Brosseau gave a free in-store performance at Sonic Boom Records in Capitol Hill on Friday. Here are a few shots from that event (plus one stray picture from the Matthew Good show), taken from a lousy vantage point with audience members and microphones in the way of many shots. Live and learn, and find a better vantage point next time!

Despite scary-sounding weather forecasts, the skies parted and provided us with a beautiful show last night for a total lunar eclipse during the early evening hours.

This was a good chance to try taking some long exposures with my tripod, and although the pesky white balance settings on the camera caused more than a few shots to lose their reddish tint, that's what post-processing is for! Click the image above to go to the Flickr gallery where there are several more shots of the eclipse.

Also, there is much plotting afoot as I've been spending time putting pictures up at Flickr, thus the lack of new posts lately. There are many new and exciting things that will be shown in the near future! (Or if you're tricky, you can probably already find a lot of them over there...)

Twice Sold Tales in Capitol Hill is home to many floppy (and occasionally fat!) felines, although most are sleepy and curled up in hidden corners of the store.  Not this orange tabby, however.  He was feisty and playing non-stop with a nearby kitten... until we walked into the store and he pounced.  All this time I've longed for a shouldercat, and although he was probably at least 14 lbs and thus not a great candidate for such activities, it didn't stop him from leaping up there anyway.  Alas, I only had my crappy cell phone camera with me.

Twice Sold Tales, Capitol Hill, Seattle - Feb 4, 2008 (click image to (slightly) enlarge)

Hey!  Ever heard of an awesome website for selling or buying stuff that has the following features:

1. Is free
2. Is easy (no logins required... just a valid email address)
3. Is local, so you don't need to deal with shipping
4. Lets you edit and revise your ad at any time
5. Protects your email address from spam by using a privatized contact form?

Why yes, I have!  Obviously the wildly successful Craigsl-- oh wait, we're talking about these jackasses, who plastered their signs all over Capitol Hill on Saturday? (this one at the northeast corner of E John St and Broadway):
Congratulations UsedSeattle, you've just taken a wildly successful business model and done a much worse job of presenting it, with neither the critical mass nor the site layout that makes Craigslist so popular... and to top it off you managed to advertise in the most assholeish way possible, by plastering big coroplast signs on every signpost and tree in the entire neighborhood.

On the bright side, people in the neighborhood ripped down nearly all of the signs within 24 hours, so maybe all hope is not lost.  One can only hope they're now being offered in the 'free' category on Craigslist.

Chop Suey (a local music venue, for those of you not in the know) has apparently started serving southeast Asian food in the back (or as they call it, at the Soy Cowboy Kitchen.)

Curiously, one item not on the menu? Chop suey. (In fairness they're primarily a Thai kitchen, but c'mon, the marketing potential is obvious!)


Also, six-word review of Hypatia Lake: lovechild of Spinal Tap and Queensryche.