Had a celebratory dinner for Kerewin at Lecosho last night. It’s located downtown on The Harbor Steps (in between the two high-rise apartment buildings on the steps themselves), about midway down on the south side.

Mm, Mm, good! We had the rillettes and and green salad for starters, and split the ribeye and cauliflower for our entree. Washed it down with wine, Dixie and a topper of Chartreuse – boo-ya! Our friend Matt Janke opened his new place a short while ago with his business partner Jill Buchanan, and it was definitely worth the wait 🙂

Got to get back there for the happy-hour menu veddy soon, too – here’s some additional press about them:

Seattle Times

Seattlest – with pics!

Matt’s Lecosho blog:

Nancy Leson in the Seattle Times earlier this summer

and Jason Sheehan in the Seattle Weekly.

Lunch, Dinner, Happy Hour or just for drinks – as their site and menus say – it’s ‘food WE like’ too. Congrats to Matt and Jill for a great new addition to the downtown eating scene and can’t wait to get back there :).

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Recent: We made it through about 45 min. of Hot Tub Time Machine tonight before giving up. Rob Corddry was just too much for me – he is really funny normally but the dialogue they gave him was just lame or mostly too over the top. Craig Robinson is great in The Office but here, not enough counterpoint to RC. The great John Cusack – hmm. I’ve seen him far funnier with better material (nearly all his early movies, yes they were 20 years ago I know!)…Hmmm….Dunno, just didn’t do it for us.

Not as recent: I haven’t seen a movie with Seth Rogen in it yet that was anywhere close to as good as The 40 Year Old Virgin barring his several cameos in Fanboys (see earlier post). Pineapple Express had all this build up when it came out, but I only made it about 25 mins. and gave up – Just too dumb. If you’re going to make a pot movie, you start with FUNNY pot humor and go from there – yeah, I’m talking about Cheech and Chong, guys. This wasn’t a straight comedy of course like C&C’s movies are, but still, PE was trying to have it both ways and was just lame.

Superbad was largely the same, although in that movie, the cop scenes with Rogen and Bill Hader constantly hassling ‘McLovin’ were really the only parts I liked – I just can’t believe high school kids use profanity every other word like that all the time, even if not attending The School of Rock and wearing uniforms. Sorry Seth, try again.

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So we were one of the lucky ones to get to go to the Rally for Sanity and/or Fear this past weekend in Washington, DC. I had some Alaska miles hanging around to cover one of the plane tix, and a great friend in the DC area who put us up.

Rather than rehash all the other articles already out on the Rally (pro/con/etc.) I will just say this – If we hadn’t gone, we would have wished we had. Despite getting fairly sunburned, it was a great time with 215,000+ ‘reasonable’ Americans – we met people from Alaska, MA, and even eastern Oregon – pretty damn cool. And while Jon’s big speech at the end wasn’t say, JFK’s inaugural speech by any means – it was still inspiring and meaningful. And that’s what really matters. 🙂

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