Jeff Schrader 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇫🇷

You better run (from the smell).

This applies to many people, I think. Goths not so much.

But hey, car people can go where they want, when they want, even if they're in a three hour bumper to bumper drive each way and have frazzled nerves in the process because freedom. /sarcasm

Jokes? You've got to be havin' a laugh.

Also, it wasn't a case of the trunk cover pasted over the butcher cover. I bought it in late 1969, so it was three years after the latter copies were recalled and given that treatment. I didn't even know there was another cover besides this.

It is spring training, and you often see lopsided scores like this. Still, the local media will still give Diputo far more praise for the M's never reaching the WS than they will Schneider for staffing two SB winners.

The first record I remember buying with my own money was this one. I was seven; we already had six others but this was the first I got first myself. Not thr original butcher cover, but the trunk one seen here.

Well, most small business owners don't live in the neighborhood their store is located and drive in, so they assume all their customers do the same thing.

That just emphasizes again how car centric most of the US is. How they can't imagine people moving around by anything other than a private vehicle. I say that as someone in the US that has been in that environment all my life.

Sad, but that's Oak Bay for you. The city of Victoria isn't quite in the same boat.

I don't know what "swicy" ramen is, but I'd certainly try it once. 😋

Add modern buses and metro systems to that list and you're spot on.

I suppose my collection of stuffed animals, mostly bears but also a couple of black cats (Chococat and Jiji) and a gator. I like having some cuteness in my place and when I see them most of my tension dissolves. That and being in good physical condition in my 60's.

You've described the saying "when all you have is a hammer, everything around you looks like a nail" very well.

Long overdue, even if just a pilot project. It was ridiculous to allow cars to drive through a busy market with heavy pedestrian traffic that provides the bulk of customers.

Again: cars do not drive business.

Shame never works on those with no conception of what shame is.

The problem is it's too easy to start furious. Most social media depends on people having that mindset. The proliferation of cynical rage bait posts is proof.

As usual, the MSM in this country, most of whom don't know Spanish, missed this entirely.

When I worked in a cafe in NE Seattle, I saw that the bulk of our customers were from the neighborhood and just walked to our location. Most of the cars parked in front were by people who never frequented our or any other store. Cars do not drive business (pun intended).

Seeing the fact Tumblr was down for a couple of hours as a trending topic on here made me realize how far out of the loop I am. I had no idea Tumblr still exists and is actively used. Figured it has gone the way of MySpace and Vine.

Yes, protests taken by themselves without any further action/pressure beyond that fit the definition of insanity: the act of doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results.

Mariners appeal to the Old Seattle (isolated small town in the PNW) that a certain percentage of the population wishes still existed.

Seahawks, Kraken, and Sounders all, in their different ways, represent the city as it is today.

Nuff said.

I don't mean you must engage with obvious trolls, but talk with someone that has a somewhat different outlook but generally agrees with you, so one can see an issue from different angles.

Echo chambers are an unfortunate aspect of any social media app. It's too easy to get sucked into a sphere where everyone has exactly the same views as you, and thus no real opportunity to utilize critical thinking.

Amtrak is booming: Why more Americans are taking its trains than ever before More Americans are taking the Amtrak than ever before. Here's why the national rail service is having a moment.

If this can be sustained and advanced in the current inhospitable climate for any mode besides cars, so much the better. share.google/dfgk5T5QcX6J...

I'm not one for making New Year's resolutions, preferring to gradually change from year to year. Ive done more walking in the city in recent years, ditching my car as much as possible, feeling more in the moment as a result. This is a reminder to keep in doing it.

And I would never have made the connection to One Piece, but after reading that, it makes sense.

That was goid, a different view on the Roses impact and on their political leanings. I only heard it from a distance, being in Seattle then, but the feeling of collectivism and euphoria via the dance/rock combo was evident.

Front cover of the Christmas album Quality Street by Nick Lowe.

Happy holidays, all. This album is one Christmas release that doesn't get overly sentimental and mushy. Nick Lowe sprinkles his usual magic over the proceedings, with inventive song choices, including Hooves On The Roof by @ronsexsmith.bsky.social. A good one for this tine of year.

The coffee shop I'm in this afternoon is playing classic 50's and 60's country music. Ray Price, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Marty Robbins, Buck Owens. It's a needed break from the non-stop Christmas tunes everywhere else.