soul stroll

one of the many reasons I love Seattle: I'm easily bored and it's not boring. there are mammoth negatives about such frenetic flux also, but I'm even mostly okay with those aspects. 

Belltown! apparently in 2007 it was named one of the "best neighborhoods in the U.S. to retire in." hahahaha! I learned the term "cracktivity" from someone who worked in Belltown. Belltown remains a weird mix of absurdly expensive condos and effluvia-scented alleys and empty storefronts and dopey youths and sporadic pedestrian activity. it was named after William Bell, the dude who bought a lot of land in the neighborhood in the 1800s. I remember when Belltown had single-family houses. and Sit & Spin. and I Spy. and that weird Russian restaurant. and the place with the gelatin molds affixed to its exterior.

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are we not all insects?

the remains of the Hurricane. 

looking northeastish. 

and amid all this gentrified kerfuffle, an Alaska Car! ...even if it has Washington plates and Washingtony bumper stickers. I get you, crappy Frankensteined Geo Prizm. 

41 stories. prices start in the $700Ks. I looked it up. this building is entitled The Insignia! of course it is. 

and an unrelated photo of horrifyingly lazy and wasteful products at Le QFC.