Man Drinking, by Francis Bacon, 1955

Saka is gonna have some very confusing feelings when he sees this.

If there are any Seattle companies that take the Seattle Scores soccer tournament too seriously and want to hire a ringer for your team...I'm open to work.

I listened to the arts committee meeting today for the appointment of Amy Nguyen as OAC director. I was really impressed by Nguyen, she's a very good public speaker, she has the background in the dept and history in the city which is nice, and she was clear on issues like funding.

This is such a bad look for Nike, to let this get out across their entire line of kits for the world cup. I have to imagine it'll affect sales for them.

Had a lovely day dream today of starting a tree nursery in the south of France. Getting a chateau and making a big greenhouse with a tiny home in it, and hosting an artist residency in the villa. We'd sell plants and art, and have gardens for everyone to walk through.

At this point I don't need more reasons to not like Saka, he's so weird and performative, but watching him touch a soccer ball is a crime against the sport.

Cool collab. I wish Project 9 would credit the artist on their packaging though. Shout out to Garrett Morlan for his design.

'Why' varies case by case, but some players you just have to use their full name. Arda Guler is one, and it's entirely due to the one clip where the commentator goes nuts for his goal. Harvey Barnes is another.

Ok Simeone, you're up 4-1 at halftime and have adequately dunked on Spurs...please play Vargas in the second half.

They started off with jackets that were dark with white undershirts and they both ended up taking off their jackets.

Given that the final match was under the pretense of a exhibition/fixed game there wasn't any point in Marty looking for an advantage.

If they cared about the city then they wouldn't limit all their planning to a few adjacent neighborhoods. Expanding to other spots would help spread the economic benefits to other parts of town and businesses, it would also lessen the burden on transit by not sending everyone to the same area.

If they cared about the sport then they'd take this opportunity to fund murals that are soccer related. Seattle doesn't really have soccer street art and we are hosting the world cup, with fans seeing "every corner of the city" there should be soccer murals in those corners.

SeattleFWC26 committee pisses me off, 2 big public decisions they've made are spitting in our faces. First they fund large murals but don't make them soccer related, now they claim that "every corner of the city" is just downtown. They don't care about the sport or the city.

Do it, Luis. You have the green light for the first time in your life

Graffiti is also largely about democratizing who can paint so it doesn't have the same extent of gatekeeping and barriers to entry which inherently promotes diversity.

You could maybe make an argument that graffiti (tags in particular) is sufficiently stylistically similar that it also creates a monoculture. My counter to that is that graffiti is a highly diverse genre of art but most people don't care to see the nuance.

I like Henry's work but at the same time agree that he has far too many opportunities, it makes it harder for other artists to get a chance and it creates a visual monoculture.

I funny aspect of Seattle's street art/graffiti discourse online is that there is unsurprisingly a ton of hate for tags but there is also a ton of hate for Henry's murals.

I know I'm day dreaming.

If the pendulum swings the other direction from online short form content and algorithmic recommendations, it's opinionated and curated print media.

I'm thinking along the lines of a city having a host of periodicals that focus on one niche interest or another. For Seattle I could see some for the music scene, the art/gallery showings, coffee and biking subcultures, and local sports. High production value, quality images, long form articles.

As the internet, media, and social media becomes increasingly tainted and dominated by ai slop, I hope that we see a cultural reaction which leads to a renaissance of curated local print media.

I misremembered Alysa Liu's piercing's name, which is frenulum, as frenum...and it was a bit shocking to look that up.

I get it, but having the corner store legislation require the biz close by 10pm is a real bummer. I'd love to have a low key local bar in Ballard, in one of the quieter parts of the neighborhood mixed amongst the houses, with an occasional jazz + trivia night, like a Targy's but a bit less of a dive

Ok, so underground suburbia has some storyline implications...it all makes sense, in that the people who have power don't make sense.

Want some insight into what I'm like? ... My therapist recommended I read "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Melville.

A short story about a person who is so apathetic about life that they continually say "I'd prefer not to", to the point of literally starve to death.

Supposedly the WA state cannabis industry is not doing well. There was a lil bubble at the start of covid that has now popped, big companies are undercutting small producers (reminds me of Walmart in the 2000's), and most brands are becoming white labels for the big corps.

I'm not too surprised by the news though. Turns out I have been smoking a Solstice brand for the past 5 years and I didn't even know it was them. Their site hasn't been active for years and their socials haven't been active for years, the bare minimum for retail businesses nowadays.

My budtender and I got talking and they told me that Solstice Grown is closing but I can't find any news/info on it. Has anyone else hear about this?

Solstice was the first legal cannabis producer in WA and advocated for policy changes, feels like a big loss.