Untitled (Exercise 6)

THE WEATHER

The weather in this town can console your melancholic-twinged-with nostalgia-mood like nowhere else. It may also drive you to madness. Symptoms may include: irritability, drug use, hatred directed toward hippies, a desire to jump off buildings (just to name a few)... However, there are two glorious months of summer which if you can make it through those dreary days, make it all worthwhile.

COFFEE

Coffee (or espresso) in this town might begin as a pleasure, but if you've lived here long enough the pleasure evolves into a necessity. Thankfully there are many nice places to accommodate your need: Vivace, Cafe Ladro, Cafe Vita and many more.

DUCKS

You may find yourself wandering down a street -- it doesn't even need to be downtown—when, seemingly out of nowhere, you hear duck calls. Loud, insistent quacks followed by horn honks. You spin around so abruptly you almost hit the pavement. You see two dozen tourists aboard Ride The Ducks: See The Sights. They are waving and quacking at you. Confused, you raise up your arm and give them a half wave, turning your wrist slightly and slowly.

THE GREEN BLOB

I'm still surprised every time I see the green blob building (Experience Music Project). The sight of it casts an ugly, green shadow upon my nostalgic feelings of riding up the elevator of the Space Needle in my youth. I don't consider myself an expert in architecture by any means, but I know a green blob when I see one.

A TALL BRIDGE AND A TROLL

Beneath the sometimes tempting Aurora Bridge lies a troll. He has a metal eye and giant reaching hands, one of which is squishing a Volkswagen Beetle. I do not know why he is there.

A FIGURE ON THE BEACH

A figure sits on a log at the beach. She is young, perhaps fifteen or sixteen. She is staring out into the Sound. You want to take her photograph but doing so would interrupt her. You keep walking.

THIS PLACE

This place became my childhood. I won't be back again.