Emily Essley

Love both of these shops to death. Just watch out for that train!

Brave is my pick of this list- no way Trainspotting is gonna fly with the 10 year old! (Although it's a great movie for grown ups, if you've not seen it.) Secret of Kells is also fantastic, but technically Irish versus Scottish.

I would suggest Anthem instead!

I have never been so relieved to be confronted by a paywall.

Um, yes, we remember the bamboo.

I've thoroughly Mandela effected myself now.

I'm realizing I misremembered Lowly as the reporter in that show, though. Goldbug is the reporter!

Hey, they are a rarer breed, but we do also have our glam moms!

Also Isaac Newton looks like a Portland Mom there.

A bullshit Reddit ad presumably geared toward people obsessed with IQ tests and Meyers-Briggs divination. It says,"How Rare is Your Intelligence Type?" The choices offered are "Word Smart, Picture Smart, Logic Smart, Music Smart or Self Smart" with accompanying illustrations dead white people evidently personifying the types. There is also an unhinged 3D donut pie chart marked with percentages, but the proportional pie allotted to those percentages does not match the percentages AT ALL.

Evidently my intelligence type is "deeply offended by this unhinged 'infographic.'"

Like, she's obviously an asshole, and I am not excusing any of that, but it seems some really terrible shit may have happened to her.

Honestly, I have now crossed into genuine concern.

Bring back Paperboy!

Like it's always been.

BeautifulOrange and pink sunrise over a neighborhood with a bicycle , leaned up against the curb power lines , stretching overhead

Good morning Tigard/Portland! I hope you were able to enjoy the sunrise from outside of a car this morning. 🌅😍

🤩 We were up and saw this, but this shot is glorious!

I also keep cracking up about drinking an entire water tower being perhaps one of the least sexy images possible.

What is a McDonald's Impact Summit, and why is the president speaking at it?

Street in front of McClure Middle School with a type III barricade and street closed sign off to the side.

I have a few advocacy projects for next year but a big one is to improve Seattle's School Streets program. Currently, a "school street" in Seattle generally looks like this.

I would want waterproof more than snake proof, but your environment may be more snakey than damp.

I kept puzzling over the whole "I wrote this book while hiking" thing. How does one write while hiking? I just now realized that she likely stream-of-consciousness narrated it into her phone. (Look, I'm old, OK? My terrible writing of this ilk was scribbled into notebooks.)

Probably a dx that should rule out writing as a career.

I mean, Nuzzi says right there in that piece that she has a phobia that if she introspects too hard she's gonna die.

Is there a posthumous album in the works??

Came to say this, plus Key Lime Pie and Louder than Love. Also my guilty pleasure that Love & Rockets album.

Oh, and I didn't know about it until I moved to the PNW, but Wrong by NoMeansNo is also a banger!

We all agree on Doolittle, though!

I was 16. I am now PRETTY unflappable in interviews. 😂

The eventual ACTUAL interview was totally fine. I think the eyebrow-raising venue was in service of frugality versus anything else, BUT JFC.

This was one of the most embarrassing interview experiences of my life. But you know what? If dude had set up an official presence at the hotel, this would have never happened!

My stupid plan almost worked, but the dude I was supposed to be interviewing went looking for me. He looked his head in and asked, "Are you Emily? I think I'm supposed to be interviewing you."