…One Less Scene

Not Quite Valentines Scavenger Hunt and Roller Race, Funhouse, 2/13/10
There aren’t a lot of opportunities to play Slayer and De La Soul in the same DJ set. An indoor bicycle race is one of those opportunities.
I thought I would be able to play some super amped-up Bad Brains jams while the sprints were actually happening; [...]

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Bike Messengers are disappearing quicker than icecaps, and pretty soon all that will be left are those Jimmy Johns delivery dudes, and Mark Pilder’s fantastic cornucopia of photos spanning 10 years of athletic-alcoholics in Seattle. We should all go buy a new Dank Bag right now, not only because you can pick your own colors [...]

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I met up with my friend Ron Brown for the Motorcycle Expo on Sunday. Aside from knowing the history of every vintage bike we saw, Ron also knows all of the salty characters that call themselves the Vintage Motorcycle Enthusiasts. I signed up for the newsletter immediately.

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22 Jase catchin’ out for Chicago.

So long Treebeard

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Adam’s memorial services at the Belltown Underground last night were one of the last times that so many members of Seattle’s messenger community will be in the same room together. I saw people that I hadn’t seen in years, but that I used to see every day. It was a somber gathering, but certainly not [...]

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We all miss the large, bouncing hair and omnipresent smile that is Sebastian, but we have to tolerate his absence for a while because he is an International Bike Polo Superstar and is touring Europe right now. Here is some sloppily non-edited video of SeaBass and friends playing bike polo at a secret Ravenna location [...]

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The capital hillbillies didn’t let these upcoming somber anniversaries get in the way of a good dance party over the weekend; here are some photos of a basement birthday party at something-and-Alder, in which everyone wore stick-on Bindis and danced like Shiva. People were just kind of milling around in this dank little basement, playing [...]

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As Seattle’s public school programs are getting cut or relocated, the city’s plans to build a new municipal jail continue. Real Change News executive director Timothy Harris wrote a scathing criticism in this week’s newspaper, and called the idea “a bricks and mortar commitment to racism and economic marginalization”. 
I decided to read the city’s stated [...]

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The Real Change Organizing Project arranged a camp out last night on the Seattle City Hall property, with a Survival Gear Swap planned for 7:00 this morning. The action was to bring awareness to the city’s sweeps of homeless encampments, which are unbelievably heartless in these sub-freezing temperatures. Ironically, no one at Real Change was [...]

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       Two news stories lately caught my attention, not just because I find suicide fascinating, but because both suicides involved an act of “watch this you motherfuckers” publicity. One guy jumped off the Aurora bridge  which is nothing new, but he did it during peak rush hour traffic, and threatened to go for two [...]

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