Seattle’s Best

October 22nd, 2006General0 comments

This past weekend I had a great time in a great town, wandering up to the Pacific Northwest. Saw yelling fishmongers, space needles, and one of the places where Sleepless was shot. Saw a really great opening night production of Cowboy Versus Samurai, and got to talk back to a really wonderful audience. They asked great questions and I supplied hopefully-adequate answers. Much fun was had!

Pike Place electric pig.

I think of Seattle as a mix between San Francisco and Minneapolis, with a lot of trees thrown in. The people are really nice and the local style is definitely a little granola — the city contains the largest REI I’ve ever seen, featuring its own monolithic climbing rock. Unlike San Francisco, Seattle isn’t exactly a coastal city — it’s nestled deep inside Puget Sound, so there are a lot of inlets and islands and beaches.

There are so many coastlines that views of the water are abundant; and from Alki, west of the city, you can see that its skyline is a grouping of modern buildings punctuated by the Space Needle like an exclamation point at the end of a Japanese sentence.

Market abundance.

We checked out the views from a lot of different angles, sampled the local food, carefully examined a devil themed coffee place on Queen Anne. You can look in any direction and see trees and natural beauty, which provided a great escape for the weekend from L.A..

Seattleites, I really like your city. It has the homegrown friendliness of Minneapolis, the style of San Francisco, and being there reminds me of when I was a counselor for Unicamp. I’ll be coming back sometime soon.

I will devote the whole of my next post to SiS Productions’ production of Cowboy Versus Samurai; right now I gotta go to Ralph’s because my apartment is out of food.