May in Seattle
May. 8th, 2011 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jinianBetween the library and the skate park in Ballard lies a fountain full of marine shells made of cement. (Sea urchin, moon snail, exaggerated limpet, a snail I think they made up.) There are sprays of water that go directly up in between them, and a short wall kids can walk on to get sprayed a little if they don't want to go right in.
I was sitting in the sun, taking a break from reading some Jacky Faber to paint my nails with great concentration. Suddenly I heard a loud baroo? and looked up to find two big, short-haired dogs staring at me. "I don't know," said the person holding their leashes.
"They... like nail polish?"
"I don't know!"
Then she took them over to the fountain, which they feared. Acetone sniffing: ask your pet about it before it gets brain damage.
The "May in Seattle" bit is that, as I was leaving, some kids went in the fountain. Now, other kids had done this in normal clothes, including one who critically examined her sister after they traversed the area and announced that she wasn't wet enough and should go back in, but these kids were different. They were wearing not only their shoes, but also little hats, and... thick quilted jackets. However, they seemed quite happy to be in the water despite it not touching them. (I really wanted to take their picture, but it would've been rude without asking and asking would've been a production, so I describe instead.)
Also we saw Thor and it was really, really pretty: totally worth the big screen for the shots of Asgard via Hubble Telescope alone. Thor was played by a pretty blond man with pretty mascara, but the real badass was Heimdall, who was far more interesting than any other good guy. We found the jotuns a little phoned-in, too much Voldemort and too little fur in my opinion. Also, noted once again, movie scientists make about as much sense as movie anything else. But overall that was one shiny movie. Stay for the credits.
I was sitting in the sun, taking a break from reading some Jacky Faber to paint my nails with great concentration. Suddenly I heard a loud baroo? and looked up to find two big, short-haired dogs staring at me. "I don't know," said the person holding their leashes.
"They... like nail polish?"
"I don't know!"
Then she took them over to the fountain, which they feared. Acetone sniffing: ask your pet about it before it gets brain damage.
The "May in Seattle" bit is that, as I was leaving, some kids went in the fountain. Now, other kids had done this in normal clothes, including one who critically examined her sister after they traversed the area and announced that she wasn't wet enough and should go back in, but these kids were different. They were wearing not only their shoes, but also little hats, and... thick quilted jackets. However, they seemed quite happy to be in the water despite it not touching them. (I really wanted to take their picture, but it would've been rude without asking and asking would've been a production, so I describe instead.)
Also we saw Thor and it was really, really pretty: totally worth the big screen for the shots of Asgard via Hubble Telescope alone. Thor was played by a pretty blond man with pretty mascara, but the real badass was Heimdall, who was far more interesting than any other good guy. We found the jotuns a little phoned-in, too much Voldemort and too little fur in my opinion. Also, noted once again, movie scientists make about as much sense as movie anything else. But overall that was one shiny movie. Stay for the credits.
