Setting the mood for the day often involves listening to “Baby” by Donnie and Joe Emerson

If a solution is both cheap and effective, it is by definition, not dumb.

OMG! Public safety in Magnolia!
Just wait till the newly-arrived lower income citizens roll into the nearby Metropolitan Market on 34th Ave W and gaze at $20 a pound steak!

Jesus man, high 70s does not qualify as “hot,” and mid-80s is definitely not “oppressively so.” Your ass gotta toughen up right quick if you’re going to live through this global warming thing.

@4 - Yeah, that hype is getting really annoying.

The fight for the Showbox is the most ridiculous thing ever. We have serious issues in our city, a 100 year old 2-story dilapidated fire hazard of a building in the heart of downtown being redeveloped isn't one of them.
Seriously, put away your pitchforks and stop being a baby because you saw some cool bands there back in the day. It's the Showbox it's not Mecca. People are literally advocating for seizing private property from the family that has owned the Showbox for decades, because it was a cool venue. I saw was because it will never, ever, ever be a cool venue again. Especially if the city tries to run it. Seattle should not be in the music venue business, or the stealing of private property business.

In my house, we have a long established morning dance party ritual. Today we were rocking "Bills Like Jean Spirit," getting multiple generations through the morning. You could do worse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAYV3d9fSW8

“Yakama”

Hey @6, isn't the ongoing failure to plan and holistically consider development issues through the lens of zoning and character preservation one of Seattle's "serious issues"? I think most people besides you would say yes.

Ooh, if we're doing music requests, I got one! Bow Wow Wow's 1982 hit, "Go Wild in the Country". Truth loves to go naked.

@11: Oh that's a good song! And topically enough I saw them at the Showbox back then. Somewhere I have the poster...

Some of my favorite morning songs would be:
That Thing by Lauryn Hill
O Saathi Re by Bally Sagoo
Humanize by Lizzio
Cowgirl by Underworld
Ackee 123 by the English Beat
I'm excited to see what other people will post!

Heat wave my ass.

We used to build houses in 110 F temps for weeks, when I was a kid, and I've trained in Yakima in temps over 100 F.

Get a grip.

Slow down, line dry your wet clothes so it cools the indoors, and open the topmost windows in your place, and stay out of the sun. Drink water or iced tea, not alcohol.

Ronnie Laine doing "Oolala" especially now that I'm the old grandad . (@1, Ariel pink brought me to them)

I'm no geographer nor an expert on anything Asian, but I think your use of "island" in referring to Hong Kong may be misleading. Hong Kong Island (approx population 1.3 million) is not all of Hong Kong (population 7.4 million)

favorite morning songs: Joe Hill (the Billy Bragg version)
Paper Heart
Dump The Bosses Off Your Back
There Is Power In A Union

@6: No of course the Showbos isn't The Mecca, The Mecca is in Queen Anne.

@12

Actual world-class cities tend not to use the word "heritage" to describe squat, square, windowless cinder-block buildings painted primer-grey.

I've seen and heard wonders inside of it, but it's a remarkably ugly lump of a thing on the outside. I suppose that's something people love about it, too, but that comes from an aesthetic sensibility that would prefer demolition to being declared "world class."

One of my most favoritest slog posts of all time was a link to this wonderfully pleasant little ditty. Think it was either Dominic or David Schmader who introduced it. Gosh, it's fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtW6HW8jO_U

"... rich Western countries didn't have a good way to get rid of plastics anymore."

Then why not follow the lead of extremely wealthy and Powerful multi-Nationalist Corps and just dump it into the Biosphere, where it becomes Not-YOUR-Problem. Problem Solved.

"More than one million people ... 're speaking out against a new bill that would allow China to extradite Hong Kong residents accused of committing crimes to mainland China."

And when China outlaws protesting, they can just ship all the protesters off to China for a little re-education. Like Trumpfy'd just LOVE to do, but he doesn't (currently) have the House of Reps. Unless MkKKonnell Kavanaugh Roberts and Trumpfy happen to Steal it.

"Brace yourself for a few more heat waves this summer."
Yeah. Specially if you think this is bad.
Wait'll it's 90+ every day and never below 80 at nite
And smoky.

Comment on this post with your favorite songs to listen to in the mornings,
Blue Skies AND Jessica from the ancient Allman Bros. always perks me up.

@21 Hmmm mmmm. Peak Florida.

Toronto is in (North) America though.

@24, no, it's in Red Trump Ontario.

@26: The issue isn’t your interpretation of the landmark law; it’s that nobody was claiming landmark status before the land and building went on sale. That leaves the city open to the current lawsuit, which says (in legal language) that the city is trying to get by fiat what it needs to buy via eminent domain.

(Indeed, the city’s obvious lack of effort or interest to buy the building is the “tell” here; if our City Council cared that much, they’d find a way to buy the site, or to negotiate for a music club to be built in the ground floor of whatever goes there next.)

@8 Fuck you, you fucking piece of shit. There are legendary life affirming shows at a number of venues all around Seattle. Stealing property from a family because you want to keep a fire-hazard dilapidated 2-story building in the heart of downtown as a music venue run by the Socialist alternative is the stupidest fucking thing of all time.
I can't wait until the City of Seattle has to appropriate $10 million in funds for the homeless in order to make it safe for people like you to actually walk into the building without it collapsing.
WTF is wrong with you. Please use eminent domain like Donald Trump and steal property from grandmothers to build a fucking Casino. Fuck off

@2
still we wonder what the Fire Marshall thinks about it...

"I like the idea of a Canadian team winning—so much for Make America Great Again!"
Clearly it is my patriotic duty to pull for Sweden in the Women's World Cup.

Hong Kong is occupied Chinese land.

Colonialism must be rolled back because collectivist rape, imprisonment, and torture.

Irl.

@29 Based on your previous postings, I'm pretty sure I'm wasting my time here, but just in case you are actually sincere and not just pulling your usual BS : the problem we have is AFFORDABLE housing, for people who don't make $100,000+ a year - people who make all our lives possible, such as teachers, police and firefighters, nurses and non-MD hospital staff, grocery workers, etc. At the price the Showbox owners want to sell their building, any appartments built there will be high-end and unaffordable for the people who actually need housing in Seattle. Ergo, useless in solving our cost-of-housing crisis; they will just add to the glut of high priced appartments and condos sitting empty around town!

What happened to you that caused your total lack of empathy and compassion towards poor people?