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September 30, 2005

For those who like Osteria La Spiga

Read to the bottom for info on La Spiga

12th & Madison project outlined

A total of 30,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, 66 lofts and 100 apartments will open by early 2007 at the corners of 12th Avenue and East Pike Street, and 12th Avenue and East Madison Street.

The 12th & Madison project, developed by Ted Schroth of GTS Development, will feature The Trace Lofts, an upscale 42-loft renovation of a 1920s warehouse, and the North Building, 100 high-end apartments and 8,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space.

The 12th & Pike project, developed by Liz Dunn of Dunn +Hobbes, will feature 24 lofts over retail space in the Marketplace Lofts and the renovated Piston & Ring building, where Osteria La Spiga is relocating.

Seattle PI

Posted by meloknee at 05:03 PM | Comments (0)

September 02, 2005

More Help for Katrina

I know, it's impossible to not know that you can give money, but at Go Fug Yourself there is a list of (not only charities) stores and organizations that are matching donations.

Also, aside from making me cry at work today, this site is awesome. It's a listing of people all over the country that are offering up their homes and places of business to people who need places to stay. The number of people in seattle alone that are offering up their homes blew me away. Thanks for posting it Georgia!

Posted by meloknee at 05:19 PM | Comments (1)

I HATE THE RED CROSS

only for making me cry three times this morning. The commercial that they have on to get people to give money for the flood just makes me lose it. You know, the one with Johnny Cash singing Bridge Over Troubled Water, while showing images of overpasses and bridges in New Orleans.

Kudos to your advertising department. Whoever came up with that is a freakin' master at tugging on the heart strings of America, or at least of Melanie.

Posted by meloknee at 11:34 AM | Comments (1)

August 11, 2005

meth

Written Tuesday 8/9/2005

I was listening to WNYC this morning and one of the shows was talking about meth. I don't know what all the hype is about meth. it's all over the news these days (CNN, NPR, MSNBC). Meth is old news. At least if you grew up in Central California. There were meth labs all over the place when I was in high school. All the chicks in school were doin' it to stay thin. One of my friends did crank all the time so that she'd get straight As in school. There was one guy who'd smoke it in my backyard (not with my permission). Little kids were getting killed when their meth-making parents accidentally lit the house on fire. Of course they weren't on meth, no one who makes the shit uses the shit. How could you? That stuff is foul.

I remember the day that I found out one of my best friends was doing crank. Earlier in the day she had asked me for a ride to get some pot. I wasn't exactly thrilled about doing that. At the time, i had maybe been drunk once and smoked cigarettes. All my friends smoked weed though, so I just went along with it. We went back to my house afterwards and were hanging out for awhile and then her dad came and picked her up. About an hour later she called frantically saying she needed to come back to pick up her purse she had forgotten. So she showed up and I grabbed her bag to take it downstairs to her. It felt practically empty and it shouldn't considering the amount of pot she had supposedly purchased. So I looked inside and saw the off-white powder.

It made sense, she had lost tons of weight and had been acting different. She had been hanging out with new friends. She had been really depressed and now she was "happy."

I told no one, except for one friend. He talked to her, I talked to her, we didn't tell a soul. Her parents were freakin' missionaries and close friends of my parents. We had BEGGED her parents to let her go to public school with me that year. I was supposed to be "watching out for her." I was 2 years older than her.

About a month later she tried to kill herself.

Meth is awesome, or not. It is also NOT new.

It was amazing, in a frightening sad way, while listening to this radio show that is based out of NY, NY, nearly every caller that called in to tell of their fight against meth was from a "small town in central california." I remember taking drives through the foothills and being able to smell the labs. Aaah, if only they had pulled cough syrup off the shelves 15 years ago, everything would be fine. What kind of bullshit answer to a serious problem is that?

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