We’ve got three, count ’em, three free fun picks for this weekend:
Friday
Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies (Keystone Congregational United Church of Christ
5019 Keystone Place N.) 6:30 to 9:30 PM TRANSITION FRIDAY! (NOTE EARLY START TIME) An Evening Focused On Positive Solutions at a Local Level! FILM: “VANISHING OF THE BEES”…Plus a selection of Short Films beginning at 6:30. Please join us for this great film, followed by a community discussion with:
Dr. Evan Sugden PhD, Entomologist, UW Lecturer, Beekeeper and Consultant
Corky Luster – Ballard Bee Company
Jordan Schwartz – Hive-Mind Bee Blog and the Wallyhood Blog
Leo Brodie – Transition Seattle
“VANISHING OF THE BEES” (90 min, George Langworthy & Maryam Henein, 2009) takes a piercing investigative look at the economic, political and ecological implications of the worldwide disappearance of the honeybee. The film examines our current agricultural landscape and celebrates the ancient and sacred connection between man and the honeybee.
Saturday
Did you miss Wallingford Community Senior Center’s Family Movie & Pizza Night back in March? Well you’ve got another shot at it. This Saturday, join friends, family, and neighbors for a special showing of the animated hit “Ponyo.”
- When: Saturday, June 11th, 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
- Where: WCSC in the Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N. Lower level, north end.
- Cost: Free, donations accepted.
WCSC says, “We’ll be serving popcorn, pizza, and salad. We hope you can attend!” Please RSVP with the number of adults and children in your party so we have enough pizza!: [email protected] or 206-461-7825. Need a ride? Need to know where to put the car? Click on the WCSC’s page here for transportation info.
Sunday
The 56th Street Market (2201 N. 56th St.) in Tangletown is hosting a free BBQ on Sunday for their Grand Opening, from 10am to 4pm. Owner AJ told us that they’ll be serving up hot dogs, hamburgers and boca burgers for everyone, plus they’re holding a raffle for a chance to win new bike. And if that’s not enough, here’s a flier with a few coupons to print out and bring to the store.
Uuuum, nice pic of Sarah Palin for Tina Fey! Please tell me that was intended as a joke….
You betcha!
ML already noticed it, but I can’t help but ask as well. What is with the Sarah Palin photo? If it is not a joke, this kind of mix up frightens me. Actor, politician, idiot, it’s all the same – their interchangeable!
“Actor, politician, and idiot” Oooh, that’s a different kind of trifecta, Claudia! Yes, it was intended as a joke. See my comment above.
The Palin photo is my fault. I was trying to be funny. Fox News ran a picture of Tina by accident this week when doing a story about Palin. http://blogs.ajc.com/news-to-me/2011/06/08/report-fox-uses-picture-of-tina-fey-in-sarah-palin-story/?cxntlid=cmg_cntnt_rss
@Chris W:
FWIW, I totally got the joke upon seeing the photo. Thanks for the laugh. 🙂
I don’t get it? What’s the joke?
Actor, politician, idiot, it’s all the same – their interchangeable!
I guess using Sarah Palins photo is to get all the hate- Sarah people spiddling at their keyboard with froth!! Maybe I should put up an Obama picture and start frothing-would that be okay in liberal lala land? I thought Wallingford was a HATE FREE ZONE! Oh thats right-follow the goose stepping liberals!!
Nah, we don’t advocate spiddling or frothing. That’s just gross.
@ Margaret, very funny! Thanks for the joke!
@ Doug, lighten up! It was a joke! Yeesh..
FWIW, I’ll make fun of just about anyone, regardless of political affiliation. 😉
Doug, lighten up! It was a joke! Yeesh..
Oh your right- its just a joke! Why would they fire people over “just a joke”, must be some people see it another way. Maybe I should do some off color jokes! Are there subjects we can’t joke about? Hummm-guess only one kind of joke is okay in Wallingford!!!!
Yes this is politics as usual- I lean right, but I cannot stand the constant distastefull jokes BOTH sides of the political spectrum. I think Obama is a good man-I disagree with some of his policies-but I would NEVER do off color jokes or ridicule or de-face his image-or call him an idiot-he is our president! But of course it was okay to de-face, ridicule, want to kill Bush during his term, I would guess margaret would follow this pattern.
I expect to see more hatred thrown towards Sarah as the months go by-just remember, what goes around-comes around!
And yes Paul Revere DID warn the British after he was captured that day-look it up.
I’m so confused. Tell me again who I hate?
I’m confused as well. Doug seems to be in his own movie right now. And not the one that Tina Fey did the voicework in…
I just read Fey’s Bossypants last week. Hysterical!
@Doug
>>I would guess margaret would follow this pattern
Um, Doug, the author(s) didn’t actually say the “Actor….idiot” thing, another reader did. So your outrage is actually directed at your neighbors. (Which makes sense, given your political leanings because the only way this neighborhood could possibly be interpreted as ever leaning right, is with Fremont as the median)
BTW: I guess you missed the whole SNL/Palin thing in which Palin herself participated?
I got that the joke was about Fox News’ mix-up, and I thought it was funny. It is in no way distasteful. Ignore my namesake. Nice work.
BTW: while we’re sorta on the subject. Did it occur to anyone else that the regime change just *may* have contributed to Not-a-Number’s halving in size ?
“Recall Obama” mechandise just doesn’t do well here…
I think I know what’s happening here.
Doug’s mad about Claudia’s “actor, politician, idiot” remark, not necessarily that you were referencing Fox news for showing a pic of Fey during a story about Palin.
And yeah Doug, Revere did warn the British AFTER he was captured (of course he didn’t warn them the first time he encountered British officers that night on his ride). But that’s very different from “ringin’ those bells and makin’ sure as he’s ridin’ his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells.” This did not happen on his clandestine mission.
I can’t believe this is even up for debate.
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I hear what you’re saying, Doug. Others do too. I lifted the following highly-appropriate quote from Richard Conlin”s most recent newsletter:
“I believe that the community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a potential enemy. Where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religions, is a mark of disaffection; without specification or backing, takes place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists to win or lose.”
— Learned Hand (philosopher, lawyer in the northeast who died in the mid 1900s)
I’ve lived in a lot of places including the mid-western ‘Bible Belt”, but never have I lived in a place where people are as openly judgemental as they are here in Wallingford. I found it sad to discover that it’s perfectly acceptable for neighbors to take the position that those of us who disagree with the politics of the majority are the enemy–not to mention just plain wrong. Frankly, that closed-minded attitude is the single thing I like the least and disrespect the most about the people in the city I now call home.
Openly judgemental on a blog comment section that doesn’t publish identities?, yes. In person? I find we’re actually pretty passive aggressive around here. I find a lot of the people that are vocal seem to latch on to a cause they feel has no down side (like being” green”) and like their cause in the way a teen likes that stupid “Friday” song. To fit in. And when questioned on the pros/cons of their opinions/causes, they retreat until it passess. (e.g. Ask a “green” zealot to consider if it’s really better for the environment for me to use 12 gallons of treated city water to wash out one 10 oz metal dog food can and sit back and enjoy the inner turmoil…)
Don’t Revere Revere” stickers available now at Not-a-Number
You know in this day struggling business you would think putting your political beliefs on your door is really stupid. I for one and alot of others will NEVER put my foot in that store and I will assure you they don’t want our business either. Great business model!!!
@ the other Chris. Thank you. And I think I may have to stop by Not A Number soon, see what all they’ve got these days!
Np. Btw: I think all that’s left in the Vitriol section is directed at BP, Banking & Monsanto.
“You know in this day struggling business you would think putting your political beliefs on your door is really stupid. I for one and alot of others will NEVER put my foot in that store and I will assure you they don’t want our business either. Great business model!!!”
Is that a joke? lol @ the thought of Not A Number succeeding as an apolitical business. That’s like telling Starbucks you won’t step foot in their stores as long as they sell coffee…