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Sometimes urban elements come together in interesting ways. I just liked the way this looked and the colors. A follow-up to our three duckies from yesterday.
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. . .say that in your best Edith Bunker voice. Archie McPhee's popular novelty shop will be closing its doors after nine years in Ballard and moving elsewhere. Home of the Devil Duckie and all things plastic, schlocky, and beyond cool, it has been a much beloved fixture on Ballard's main drag. Here's the full scoop. So long, fun little shop, and farewell.
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A jet black sports car is just making the lights, speeding toward what seems like a barricaded route in the Cascade neighborhood. That's Key Arena off in the distance, and if you were trying to get there, this would definately be a case of "I know where you want to go, but you can't get there from here." The concrete divide is actually the median of Aurora Avenue/Hwy 99, a fast moving, not so pretty north/south main artery through Seattle.
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Which lane to get in? You can go north from the left lane. You can go south from the right lane. Or, if you are still undecided on the route, you can stay in the middle lane until the last minute and then decide which direction to go. After last night's candidate debate, perhaps you've figured out which lane you'll choose for the presidential election? :-)
It took me awhile to get used to some of Seattle's hanging traffic signs and suspended lights when I moved here for college many moons ago. It all looked so foreign. Does your community hang signs or traffic lights above roadways in this fashion?
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I had long wanted to catch a shot of the translucent roof and large neon sign on top of Ballard Market (which you saw here in a daylight shot). I was over driving in that area the other night and looked east and just had to stop, even though I was due somewhere else, and capture that rising moon in the background. Somehow, this association came about all of its own as I tried to compose within the tight confines of the only lens I had with me. This is the second in a developing series I'm calling Moon Roofs.
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I took a couple of abstract shots incorporating the waxing moon over a few nights and thought you might enjoy seeing them. So here is today's. This is the blue shingled roof of the Science Fiction Museum portion of the EMP building. The distorted reflection of the Space Needle is glistening in the undulating surface.
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Here is Washington Mutual Bank's WaMu Tower seen from on board a sail boat in Elliott Bay. WaMu, known for its amusing free checking accounts ad campaigns and its trademarked "Whoo hoo!" slogan, is singing the Whoo Hoo Blues these days as one of the very large American financial institutions whose mortgage division has been devastated by the sub-prime mortgage debacle. I invite US readers who wish to better understand the taxpayer bail out proposal under debate in congress to view this brief OpEd piece which has a link to the full wording of the legislation as well as succinct notes on key parts of the legislation; or this piece considering alternative legislation, or this piece which shows concern is not a partisan issue but a shared concern of both major political parties, and to phone or email your congressional representatives expressing your own views and concern. Democracy is participatory; we all benefit when we speak our minds and inform our elected government of our will. I'm wishing each of us well in the personal and collective economic challenges ahead of us in the USA.
