Seattle Theatre Group unveiled the (apparently) most controversial banner to date on Monday (May 19th) at 1:00PM on the east facing exterior of The Paramount Theatre. The banner features Lucy, star of Broadway’s Avenue Q, in all her provocative glory.
“This is the first billboard that’s made me blush,” says STG Executive Director Josh LaBelle.

AVENUE Q is Broadway’s smash-hit 2004 Tony Award® winner for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book. A hilarious show full of heart and hummable tunes, AVENUE Q is about trying to make it in NYC with big dreams and a tiny bank account. Called “one of the funniest shows you’re ever likely to see” by Entertainment Weekly, AVENUE Q features a cast of people and puppets who tell the story in a smart, risqué and downright entertaining way. AVENUE Q has not been authorized or approved by The Jim Henson Company or Sesame Workshop, which have no responsibility for its content.

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As reported by the Associated Press in the Kitsap Sun, a new sanctuary for chimpanzees retiring from the biomedical research or entertainment industries will be opening in Cle Elum in the spring. Seven will be moving in at the time of the opening. The chimps, currently living at a lab facility in Pennsylvania, are aged 24 to 34. Chimps, whose average life span is 35 - 50 years old, can live into their 60s, so these chimps could be settled in for quite some time.

The story doesn’t mention if visitors will be welcome. I sure hope so–I love chimps and I’d be thrilled to go see these animals relaxing in a well-deserved retirement from being poked and prodded and injected and examined. It would make a nice companion trip to a visit to Ellenburg , a mere 25 miles away, where the Central Washington University plays host to the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute.

via our group photo pool [flickr], this unlikely visual mash-up:

spotted by ___erik98122 [flickr]

just imagine the possibilities of an independent republic of Capitolhillistan.

Those of you who are hoping to have a little bit of liquor to go with your explosions would do well to shop early. A friendly-fonted warning sign alerted me that liquor stores will be closed on Wednesday for Independence Day. Along with being a nice perk for state employees seems like a decent public safety measure — who needs a crazy uncle with bottle in one hand and trunk full of fireworks in the other?

This is probably the most content-free post I’ve ever made, but the trip back from Presse last night took us by a sign that made me do a double-take: Sleep 101 or Sleep lol?

Obviously the answer in either case is to stop spending so much time on the interweb.

Mere days after the death of Boris Yeltsin, communist propaganda springs up on the streets of Seattle.

The Metroblogging empire expands again; welcome San Jose [SJmb] to the fold. Did you know that San Jose, a/k/a “The Silicon Valley” is the 10th largest city in the US and considered (by Wikipedia at least [wiki] to be the “safest” big city in the US?

spotted around Capitol Hill, a re-definition of our city’s much-maligned marketing slogan:

metronatural / adj. 1 : Having a hybrid car with a bumper sticker that says “Impeach Bush” while wanting more police on the streets because crime might drive down property values. 2 : A blending of environmentally friendly lighting and feng shui in a million dollar condo in a city where 1.25% of the population are homeless. n. 1 : One who makes their hired help clean their house with eco-friendly cleaners, and criticizes them for not voting while they’re scrubbing the floor. 2 : Rich people in Seattle.

Oh my, where has the day gone? I meant to post this picture up when I got to the office this morning and now it’s freaking almost the end of the day. I don’t know what my boss is thinking of, giving me so much work that I can’t post. The nerve! Thankfully, Grey’s was a rerun last week so I didn’t have to fall down on the recapping job as well. Crazy, crazy.

In any case, I saw this dude at least twice outside my office last week and he made me wonder if aggressive marketing helps panhandling. Inexplicably there seems to be a good bit of competition on 7th and Pike in the evenings. I couldn’t tell if his scheme was scaring off potential donors or drawing them in. Either way, I see lots of signs from my office to the bus, and this might be the best, at least the most creative, so far, so I thought I’d share.

Oh, and if it’s unclear in the picture, his sign says, “A face only a mother could love.”