[Always playing catch-up: Seattleness]

Now, some randomness.

A pendant I bought from Wyrding Studios, art by Erin McCauley, with a bonus set of earrings:

I know absolutely nothing about tarot, so if anyone can suggest a reason why I was so compelled to buy the Chariot, please do.

After the jump, a whole whack of Seattle stuff.

I love this photo:

It’s from the sign for August Wilson Way down at the Seattle Center. As always, click through to embiggen.

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I spend a decent amount of time at Seattle Center because SIFF Cinema is down there. SIFF Cinema is made of win and love and revival film and coffee.

Speaking of coffee, I kept failing to take a picture of this at Monorail. It’s been up for ages, of course, so this is unforgivably late:

And here’s another shot, from just around the corner. I can never buy anything at Anthropologie, but I love their windows:

Speaking of window displays, Fox Jewelers has a bear theme for the holidays, and this is their attempt to be inclusive:

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The windows downtown are pretty, but in terms of city-wide decoration, they have a lame “Light Spectacular” thing instead of nutcrackers. I know I spent a lot of time complaining about the nutcrackers, with good reason, but I do miss them. There are still a few about in Pacific Place, though, like this nutcracker of doubtful cultural sensitivity:

Seattle has a few downtown holiday events. The day after Thanksgiving is the lighting of the tree at Westlake, which came with a nice variety of protesters:

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This past Friday was the Figgy Pudding caroling competition, which I went to mostly to see if there would be barbershop there. Because I miss barbershop. There was:

There were also these carolers (from a Vietnamese church, I think) whose hats made me do a double take:

Bus stops were closed…

Because the streets looked like this…

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They projected snowflakes and photos on the sides of the buildings around Westlake.

And my favorite part of Christmas in Seattle, after eggnog lattes: the star at the Bon Macy’s.