Blogs Jul 1, 2010 at 8:41 am

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1
this place sucks ass. i'm getting the fuck out and moving back to sunny northern az. will the last vampire in seattle please turn the lights out.
2
Try painting outside. This shit suuuuucccckkkksssss.....
3
I'm with you. I do tend to have a selective memory when it comes to the weather, but I know it hasn't been THIS cold, THIS late into the summer in at least four years.
4
It's getting sunny next week. mid 80's by Wed so we can all complain that it's too hot to sleep. :)
5
You're not going crazy Dan, you're going sane in a crazy world!
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Old-timers know you can't count on Summer until after the 4th. It's always been that way.
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Then move. Put up or shut up.
8
I've been here for 10 years, and almost every fourth of July was miserable, cold, and rainy. last year was an anomaly.

still, I'd love some "too hot to sleep" weather.
9
Cliff Mass says it will get nice on July 6th. Assuming it gets nasty again in mid September, we can look forward to more than two months of non-suicide-inducing weather!
10
I think that we're in for a "non-summer" summer this year. But then again last July we hit an all time record high in Seattle of 103.

And we ALL loved that right?!?!?
11
ACTING!
12
quit yer bitching. This is par for the course.
13
Dan, you're now bigger than little ol' gray Seattle. You know that better than all the rest of us combined. Gay issues are global; and you're a trend setting word master social engineering jet setter. Time to leave the nest and never have to trouble yourself with an issue so proletarian as 'local weather' again. Oh... one last request before your apotheosis, please take Dominic with you. thank you!: best wishes, the small peoples.
14
I've just texted the Two-Block Radius waambulance to respond to the moaning pundit frightening away custom from the artisanal ice creameries and foie-gras french fry shops. Reported (and disputed) age of victim suggests possible complications from osteoarthritis aggravated by continued damp weather.
15
The Chicago Reader is looking for an editor, Dan.

Or rather, the Chicago Reader is looking for some competition, Index Publishing.
16
Thinking positive. It's a great day to bake cookies.
17
My furnace just kicked on. It's July 1st. WTF?
18
Hey, Kim in Portland is in Alaska right now. She sent me photos from her dogsled yesterday. No shit. It could be worse.
19
The winter before last was remarkably harsh for the area...everyone complained about all the snow and cold.

Last summer set records for high temperatures...everyone complained about the heat.

Last winter was very mild...everyone complained.

Now we get a mild start to summer...and everyone's complaining.

That's what drives me fucking insane. Everyone wants it both ways, and everyone wants an excuse to complain. Get a fucking hobby, folks.
20
Whiny and childish. Suck it up, take 6000 IU of vitamin D, sit in front of a full-spectrum lightbox for a half-hour, and move on with your day.

On an unrelated note, the disposition in Canada is sunny everywhere today (except for the bleue, treasonous parts of Québec).
21
Oh WOW. Check it out in Chicago right now! Gorgeous!

Hey Dan! You're Chicagoan, aren't you?
22
Come to Baltimore. It's dipped down to the low 80s that last couple of days, but will be back in the upper 90s over the weekend.
23
To be fair this winter was an el nino year so the winter was very mild. This year is going to be mild all around. It's going to be even worse when we get to the fall and its cold and wet and we never really had a summer.
24
I don't mind people complaining about the weather. It's the complaining about the complaining that bugs me.
25
Dan, I got a Verilux lightbox last month. While it doesn't make me happy it takes the anrgy, desperate edge off and allows me to have some emotional distance from this bullshit weather. I'm still moving back to AZ asap, however. Hang in there, pal.
26
Yeah, usually we get a streak of spring weather that gets robbed from us until early July. No sense spring at all this year. That's the big difference. Normally I don't like talking/complaining about the weather this much but it's hard not to.

@ 18, dog sledding in Alaska just makes me jealous.
27
It'll get better after the 4th, like it always (well, usually at least) does.

Patience.
28
Retire, relax, enjoy your family. It is just the weather. Not worth it.
29
I don't mind people complaining about the complaining. It's the complaining about the complaining about the complaining that bugs me.
30
Meanwhile in Florida...the roommate and I both had sunstroke. It hasn't rained in over a week and it feels like 100+ outside. I fucking wish I was in Seattle.
31
I second 15 & 21, Dan. It's fantastic in Chicago right now. Maybe you could have a summer home here.
32
9 times out of 10 the 3-day weekend of the Fourth of July is cold, rainy and gray. However, the workdays running up to the holiday are almost always beautiful and pleasantly warm giving everyone hope they won't need a fleece or raincoat for their picnics. It's exactly right that next Tuesday will be spectacular.
33
It usually doesn't get nice around here until July 5th. Anything earlier than that is a bonus.
34
I LOVE the weather here. I moved here because of the weather. Give me cool and gray any day over hot and sunny.

It never ceases to amaze me that all people do is complain about the weather here. Really -- MOVE. Go to San Diego if the weather bothers you so much. Go anywhere else. Move, or STFU.
35
If one more person complains about the lack of summer weather in Seattle PRIOR TO THE FOURTH OF JULY, I swear I'm gonna lose it.
36
No, this does pretty much suck. Yes, yes, it's usually crappy in the couple weeks before the 4th, but that is also usually preceded by pleasant days- or weeks-long breaks of sunshine and warmth starting in April. But this year, I can't think of the last time we had consecutive days of sunshine since that freakish warm spell in, what, February? Early March? Other than that it's basically been gloomy from November on.
37
@29: Gus, your comment really bugs me. Consider this a complaint about it.
38
Obviously you're not applying the proper vintage to your problem.....and Happy Canada Day!!!

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@31: isn't it about time for Dan to be heading to Saugatuck?
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It's going to get better - Cliff Mass says so. Let's all pray to little baby Jebus in a manger that he's right. http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2010/06/fo…
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@8 You're wrong. I distinctly remember 3 years ago getting sunburnt because we had a picnic in Cal Anderson then watching the fireworks from the 50th ave bridge.

2 years ago was nice and hot.

Last year was too.

I wasn't here 4 years ago.
42
Emma, now that you mention it, I think you're right. I just got back from my annual week in Newport, and he usually goes right around the same time.
43
Everybody who wasn't born here (and a few who were) complains about the weather, but nobody ever moves someplace with better weather.

What's that called again? That thing where you get all angry about something, but can't be bothered to actually do anything constructive to change the situation that made you angry in the first place?

It's right on the tip of my tongue...
44
Emma and 5280, I think you mean Provincetown, where he and the family take over Andrew Sullivan's sleeping porch.
45
god dan you are retarded aren't you this post just gets cuter and cuter every day you vomit it up what is it six in a row now? why do you think they call it fucking global WARMING retard? that's right because they're FUCKING RETARDS hey just like you!
46
I am loving Iowa City this week - warm, sunny, and not even humid. I may have a job offer in Seattle after school is done next year, but being away from the Pacific Northwest for the first time in my 40-plus years is.....liberating. And I DO mean liberating from the horrible horrible horrible weather. I hope I don't have to go back.
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@44: Gus, while I'm sure Dan would love that, I definitely mean Saugatuck.
48
The people that complain about the gloom are the same people who complain that 80 is too hot.
49
Emma's bee, I will not sacrifice my lame joke for the sake of mere accuracy. How pedestrian!
50
I moved to someplace with better weather and I hate it.

It's not supposed to be nice outside until AFTER July 4th. I require drizzle to enjoy fireworks.

I miss puddles.

*sigh*
51
I love it. Love, love, love it and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
I hate hot weather. I like it breezy and about 70 or just like this.
Move if you don't like it. All you jerks that move here and bitch about the weather, move!
52
I can't figure out why people get so incensed over complaints about the weather. EVERYONE complains about the weather. No matter where they live, no matter where they're from, no matter what the weather is actually doing, people complain about the weather. It's what people DO.

And when people complain about the weather, you don't tell them, "Hey, if you hate it so much, you should just fucking move. Asshole." No, you nod mechanically and say "Mmm-hmm," and when you complain about politicians or barking dogs or the horrible music kids are listening to these days - not like the great music from when you were a kid - you expect them to nod mechanically and say "Mmm-hmm" in return.

That's what makes us civilized. Forget all that walking upright, opposable thumbs shit. What makes human society possible is our ability to politely listen to others complain about stupid, ridiculous crap no one can do anything about, knowing that sometime in the next five minutes they're going to have to politely listen while you complain about stupid, ridiculous crap no one can do anything about.
53
@37, you're only going to further annoy @24 if you keep doi . . .

Oh. Never mind. Uhhh, sucks to be . . . you?
54
You'd think he just woke up and found himself in Seattle. Where the hell does he think he is? Do Seattelites always whine this much about the weather?
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@38: They left off the poutine! We can't allow that to happen!

And that is not back bacon! That's just plain old American-style bacon soiling our waters (our most prized asset in waiting). Give me peameal or give me . . . a cold Rickard's White (only because you can get it anywhere).

Canuck, be sure to listen to Stompin' Tom Connors legendary "Bud the Spud" today. It's the closest thing we have to a Canada Day anthem. <3 to the Most Canadian Stompin' Tom.
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@53, indeed.
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@ 48, that's because it goes from gloomy to HOT & bright all in one day then back to gloomy the following. They need more time to adjust. We're sensitive up here.

The one good thing about this crummy weather is that it keeps Californians from completely taking over.
58
It's 111 here in Phoenix. Trade you!

At least you can put on a jacket. Can only remove so many clothes before you run out.
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@57: Wasn't Washington state going to follow the footsteps of Arizona by passing a law requiring IDs to be held at all times in order to smoke out the illegal Californians (which is to say "all of them") sapping off Washington resources like the 520 bridge and unobstructed views of Elliott Bay from Belltown (instead of fortress condo housing)?
60
hey look, all the transplants are upset.

61
The weather is among the top factors in me considering leaving. Thanks in advance to any snarky comments telling me to go already.
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For the record, I love ya, Dan, but I'm so fucking sick of you bitching about the weather. I actually like it cool and overcast and rainy. But when August rolls around and it's 100 degrees, you don't hear me bitching. In fact, you don't hear me at all because at that point I'm holed up in my basement, sitting on an ice pack.
63
One year ago today I was on a bike tour of the San Juans with my dad. It was sunny and warm every day and we slept under the stars every night for a week. Magic!

I fully expect my Gifford Pinchot NF tour later this month to be just like that, only hotter and hillier.
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@43 - I know, right? Every time we get a normal Pacific NW summer - which, by the way, we haven't had in the last few years - you get rafts and rafts of people swearing they're gonna move. But they never do.

I wouldn't move to Phoenix and then complain that it was too hot and dry all the time.

Enjoy the beautiful days when they're here. Blow off the others. One thing about weather - whatever it is, it always passes. At least it doesn't destroy our houses.

And I was HOT yesterday. I had the top down on my convertible, and the sun was shining and it was warm. So what's the problem?
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(singing part 2 of "Cry me a River")

Wah fucking wah. I'm enjoying this weather.

And for you who had your furnace come on--What do you have your thermostat set at? Turn it off! Wear a sweater!

(hoping it's pouring rain 7/4, so I can get some sleep that night)
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@19 - they have a hobby!! It's complaining...
67
Reminds me of Mark Twain, who said, "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody ever does anything about it."

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