A quiet getaway for the gun lover in your life.
A quiet getaway for the gun lover in your life. DMYTO/GETTY

Olympia liquor store doubles as a gun club: Take a trip to T Brothers Liquor and Wine for all your beverage and trigger-happy needs. In the back, perplexingly, there’s a secret, private, membership-only gun club. It includes a cigar room and a six-lane shooting range. Don’t worry, you can’t drink and shoot. You also have to pass a background check to join. This just proves that the ultimate secret society isn’t the Freemasons or the Illuminati.

The Mariners are really gunning for these stadium repairs: They want that $180 million in public funding to fix the movable roof and probably do some other stuff, too. The stadium was built in 1999 through public funding. The Mariners want the public to foot the bill again with the stadium repairs. The money would come from hotel-motel taxes. If that goes to plan, then our boys in blue (not the police) will sign a 25-year lease. That’s all well and good, except no thank you very much. Spend that money elsewhere.

Some Twitter drama between Washington’s elected officials: It started when Washington State Democrats chair Tina Podlodowski responded to yesterday’s report about Representative Matt Shea hating the press:


Not to be outdone, the Twitter account for all of the Washington GOP tweeted back. The GOP used a foolproof strategy of bringing this whole thing back to sexual assault:


Tips for a solid defense? Don’t bring up things you don’t know anything about, especially when they are about assault! Because the woman from the Meinert story responded:


The activism we need: Seattle chef Renee Erickson is taking Chinook salmon off the menu. Orcas need that, she reasoned. The orca mom pushing her dead calf around for 17 days really moved Erickson.

Seattle ramps up homeless sweeps: There have been double the amount of encampment sweeps this year than any other year. The majority of those sweeps all happened in June (46 removals) and July (85 removals). The Seattle Navigation Team, the team responsible for the sweeps, referred 675 people to shelter in 2017. So far this year, 474 have been referred.

Auburn apartment fire kills 2-year-old girl: The fire originated in the girl’s bedroom. Officials don’t know how the fire started. This is sad:


Amazon funds voice technology research: It has expanded the Alexa Fund Fellowship from 4 universities to 18. The University of Washington will be receiving the fellowship. The universities aren’t limited to the United States. Other fellowship recipients are in the UK, India, and Canada. Amazon really wants to make artificial intelligence. I saw Ex Machina last week. I don’t know if it’s a good move, Amazon.

The National Weather Service better not be lying to us: According to them, tomorrow is the day we’ll be able to breathe again. The smoke will begin subsiding around 9 p.m. tonight. If they’re wrong about this, I don’t know what I’m going to do. Probably nothing, but I sure will be unhappy.


At least we’ve all had a good sense of humor about this:


Fucking lol at this: This guy, our president, is a real smooth operator.


Michael Cohen has flipped completely, has valuable information: Says his lawyer, Lanny Davis. Yesterday, Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including campaign finance violations. He said he made those on behalf of Trump. He apparently has evidence that Trump worked with Russia.

An Oregon quake: There was a 6.2 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Bandon, Oregon. No tsunami, though.

Headline of the week: Saudi Arabia, which has been calling out Canada over women's rights, may soon behead a female activist for the first time.

Headline that deserves an honorable mention: Spokane residents launch campaign to blow smoke back to Canada.

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Tonight's best Seattle entertainment options include: Your last chance to see the vibrant and immersive Summer Dreams: Works by Electric Coffin, Peter Gronquist, Neon Saltwater, and Jennifer Zwick, a "slinky yet robust, fluffy, and flamboyant" jazz show with Pink Martini, and Amy Bhatt's reading of her new book about the unpaid and unacknowledged domestic work undergirding the transnational tech world, High-Tech Housewives.

Now, what you're eating for breakfast:

From Lissa: "Apple breakfast cake from Deep Sea Sugar and Salt in Georgetown with a side of banana."

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From DeeDee: "Leftover prime rib burger patty with...some kind of sliced cheese and a curlicue of Dijon. Feta and olive salad. Marinated artichoke hearts. Some new ginger tea we have at work that I’m not sure I like but is growing on me because I’m too lazy to buy my own. Throw off the shackles of acceptable breakfast foods and eat what you want. Or what’s left from the night before. Whichever."

These are wise words. My brother has been eating ramen for breakfast recently. I don't know how I feel about it, but I guess nontraditional breakfast is "in" these days.

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Jim sent me two this morning.

Here is his process: "Under construction - fried egg (double yoke!) with vindaloo curry powder, peppered Spam, red bell pepper and onion, to be topped with Swiss cheese, put on English muffin, avocado on top."

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Here is his product: "Constructed."

Jim you are a breakfast god and hero.

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Our other friend Jim, equally talented at breakfast, sent this: "This cocktail bun will be part of my breakfast. Did you know that in Chinese the name for a cocktail bun is pretty much a literal translation? It comes out to "chicken tail bun," which once made me think there was a chicken butt in it. But there are no chickens involved, unless they use eggs. I bet they use eggs."

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