Well, CHS, we made it through the first round, and I don't know about you (well, I sort of do; you know what I mean), but my brackets took some hits...
All in good fun. Here are the current standings (note: the Times system awards bonus point for upsets, so huzzah to those of you with the guts to pick the underdogs!) I've put the alias, followed by points, and then the number of bonus points you've been awarded:
1. saranut 160, 25
2. dkmaestro 151, 21
3. jaywalk5000 151, 26
4. kcrobinson06 149, 19
5. yancy9 141, 16
6. christinabollo 139, 14
7. svaldezz 138, 13
8. emilydominick 136, 11
9. willch22 131, 16
10. jenn9 130, 15
11. reginaaletto 129, 19
12. moltamatic 127, 7
13. scoville 121, 11
14. justin_carder1 110, 0
15. zendragon0 103, 8
Way to go with the upset picks saranut! Cornell, Washington, Georgia Tech, and ODU!
On a related note: no bonus points, eh, jseattle? :)
Round two begins this morning. Hey, we still haven't tried to do a watch-party. Any interest in some Sunday games? I have to watch Kansas down at Sport (by the Space Needle) with the alumni group, but I suppose you all could also get together for today's UW game (2:50 tipoff). Thoughts on spots with TV's? Summit? Redwood?
In any case, thanks for playing! Good luck in round two!
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Well it's tournament time again, and I'm super excited (and not just because my Kansas Jayhawks look so good). I don't know about you, but I had fun with last year's CHS tournament pool...
Let's do it again!
I'm a fan of the simplicity and quiet of the New York Times bracket site, and I've created a CHS group there. This link should take you to the group:
http://ncaabracket.nytimes.com/groups/men/Gu3wcFCvOSu
Hope to see you there; and let's try for some CHS basketball watch parties!
Not that the landscaping in front of my building is that great, but are you serious? Sadly, despite my calling the police (yes, I'm that guy, at least tonight) immediately, they didn't manage to make it here during the hour that this a-hole from Oregon left his car like this...
I'm just hoping he moved it to a loading zone... help me, karmic justice!
And how did they get a P-Patch stamp that would make it so their mailing would fool me into excitedly thinking I might have gotten a coveted Capitol Hill P-Patch?
In any case, the mailing instead asks folks to email "pledging your support." Support, apparently, for a garden at 16th and E Howell,
a p-patch that will try a different style of community garden, a "collective" that does not have individual plots. The whole garden (not just the common areas) will be designed, planted, maintained, and harvested together by community members that sign on to work the community garden.
So am I the only one in the dark about this organization? And if you email them, does that mean I'll get a p-patch sooner?
The Huskies lost, my team lost, my bracket was "busted" when Pittsburgh lost ... none of which really excuses my failure to say this sooner. Apologies and congratulations, then, to christinabollo, who came in first in the CHS NCAA tournament pool. Way to go!
I remember hearing j mention a prize, but I don't know what ended up happening with that ...
Well, until next year, CHS bball watchers. Cheers and thanks for playing!
Exciting first round for our tournament pool.
After quite a bit of shuffling, a good friend of mine (going by the excellently-colored handle Crimson&Blue) is on top, followed Pizza Fusion.
Pizza Fusion called the Dayton upset, and Crimson&Blue and dschonbe both made a good pick with Wisconsin over Florida State . . .
Josh and I are neck and neck at 4th and 5th, and it continues on, tightly packed, from there.
Of course, the first round is crazy (and crazy fun), and the scoring will eventually make it so these current standings are totally irrelevant. But anyway, there we have it.
Fun so far.
Oh, any further thoughts on where to watch? There's another Husky game, around 2pm today. CHS watch party, anyone?
So I was out with some fellow CHSers the other day chatting about the whole college basketball thing thang . . .
Which got me wondering: if I started a CHS Capitol Hill Seattle group over on the New York Times site, would anyone join and trade guesses with me?
Maybe even do a watch party or two? Redwood seems fun, and I know Coastal Kitchen opens early and has a TV just sitting there waiting to show sports . . .
Here's that group again:
http://ncaabracket.nytimes.com/groups/men/Oio3YRyig8e
PS, I'm experimenting with this Times thing; if it won't work, please feel free to suggest alternate platforms! You'll need a (free!) account with the Times, but you already have one of those, right?
I mean, first of all, A O Scott liked it.
"It is an exciting debut, and a film that, without exaggeration or false modesty, finds interest and feeling in the world just as it is."
And we all like A O Scott and his paper, the New York Times, right? So there you go.
Second of all, it's at the Northwest Film Forum, so you know it'll be a nice experience, and you'll be supporting a Capitol Hill institution.
And third, since it's there and they're super cool, if you go tomorrow you can also enjoy a Q&A with the director, Barry Jenkins.
Here's a trailer:
Back in November, jseattle mentioned that Horizon Books was struggling and thinking of moving (and he linked to an Examiner story). Well, now it sounds official: Olivia Hernandez reports in the SU Spectator that "After more than 30 years as a neighborhood fixture on 15th Avenue, Horizon Books is set to close its doors by the end of March."
photo by Casey Hamilton
I've never actually been inside of Horizon Books (still catching up on oh the books I bought at Powell's last time I went to Portland--shh!), but now (of course!) I really want to, and I wish they could stick around.
I've also never heard of Recollection Books (I do read lots, I swear!), but Hernandez goes on to say that "Horizon Books will eventually merge with Recollection Books, a store located on 10th Avenue, much closer to the increased retail life-force of Broadway in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood."
"an opportunity for you to provide design input and voice your concerns about the proposed new building."
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:00 p.m.
Location: Seattle Central Community College, 1701 Broadway, Room 4106
For the sake of disclosure, the email came from a group that describes itself as follows:
"the main argument of 1650choice.org is directed toward saving the existing structure with the B&O business intact, instead of building another huge, monolithic dense building lacking both charm and character with little connection to the neighborhood."
As a resident of the Broadway region of Capitol Hill, I have mixed feelings about some of that (in fact, that's not true: I just want the B&O on my block, and the sooner the better!), but it's good to know about the public meeting.
