in other blogs: the items I forgot to post before rushing off to happy birthday hour
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- In truly astonishing news, Starbucks is going to open stores in the Netherlands, which has until-now been Starbucks-free aside from a roasting and distribution center. But don’t worry about them pushing out cafe and coffeeshop culture: they’re only opening in train stations and will, like all of their other stores, be any kind of smoke free. In less astonishing news, the Netherlands is reportedly “between Belgium and Germany”. [p-i via bigblog]
- On Seattle’s anti-public sitting law, part of the “civility” package from the 1990s. [10things]
- Now straights are being gay bashed in Belltown. [belltowner]
- Sharpies are awesome and turn out to be important in the recording process. [lineout]
- Failed club for sale, includes fake Lamborghini? [capitolhillseattle]
- The reason the “sexpresso” story won’t die is because people are keeping it alive. [citizenrain]
- Like the native american feather accessories and keffiyehs before it, now even the fannypack is being reappropriated by the hipster class. [captothehill]
