After eight years in the making, Lake Union Park opens this Saturday. Seattlest blog dishes on the offerings at the free kickoff party. The park includes a model boat pond. At long last we can recreate the Battle of Jutland, sailfans!
Maple Leaf Life blog checks in with some frustrating news—someone smashed in the window of the building displaying plans for Maple Leaf Reservoir Park. What a sucky vandal. Couldn’t you have done something constructive like draw a massive penis on a bridge as they did in St. Petersburg this summer?
Capitol Hill Seattle blog reports that construction at the Broadway station site will soon be ratcheting up a notch with the introduction of a Big Fucking Crane 9000. How about some large numbers? The crane “is nearly 200-feet tall, has an 197-foot jib (that’s the big arm), and can lift 26,460 pounds.”
The blog PhinneyWood.com wants us to know that Saturday is the DEA’s first National Take-back Initiative—people can freely and anonymously turn in unused prescription drugs for disposal. There will be multiple sites in Seattle. One of the site’s commenters expressed concern over where the DEA will get rid of the drugs. Rush Limbaugh is still based in Palm Beach, right?
I’m going to do a Big Fucking Facepalm if someone manages to complain about the height of that crane.
crane too high. (That was actually pretty easy to manage. )
Did you have to link to a Russian news website? I spent half an hour reading all kinds of rubbish before realizing “oh, this is a Russian publication… I might as well be reading the gospel of St. Malachy…” Nice prank with the bridge, though.
i watched the ribbon cutting then hammered a bottle of win in the grass
@3–I’m confused, that’s the English-language Pravda account of it. If you want more English coverage, I originally read about it in either the Moscow or St. Petersburg Times this summer.
I would think the Battle of Trafalgar would be more interesting for sail fans to recreate since the Battle of Jutland happened during WWI and didn’t involve sailing ships. Historical reference FAIL.
@6–You haven’t seen my collection of model dreadnoughts.
@ 7 Granted, I have not but if they have sails they aren’t dreadnoughts. That being said it is nice to see a reference to WWI history on SLOG.
I was pretty board at that Lake Union Park opening. Couldn’t find the so called mainstage, didn’t see a Ivars free chowder (read about it on the LUP website) etc.
@9:
The stage was around the back on the lake side of the Armory building – the Ivar’s booth was, IIRC, down towards Valley St.
And since you obviously didn’t come to enjoy the park itself (which is gorgeous IMO, and is going to be a very welcome addition to the city’s string of urban parks), but simply went trolling for freebies, the fact you were “board” (sic) on what turned out to be a simply glorious day tells me pretty much all I need to know about you as a person.
Maybe you should hang out at Costco instead – I hear they give away lots of free shit every day…