Seattle Love

Let me just say, we fucking love Seattle. We arrived at the best collective house any of us have ever been to to find signs on the couch from a protest that the new Seattle chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace had organized in response to a "We stand with Israel" rally put on by Seattle's Jewish Federation. Needless to say, we knew we were in the right place, and were relieved and excited.

We hardly got to see the city, which sucks, but we got to hang out with the awesome people in the house quite a bit. We slapstickishly slept all in one bed together- with Eli transfering to the floor in the night, and then spent the whole next day talking and talking and talking and more talking with Bruin and Ronni. Not to mention the tour of the beautiful garden, lessons on pickling, and eating blackberries that we picked in the alley.

Seattle queers and Seattle JVP turned out a great crowd. Alex Guy deserves special props for putting this show together totally last minute. It was really special to play to people we'd been talking politics and family and life with all day, and to whom we felt instantly connected to, despite a P.A. bent on putting bizarro effects on our vocals against out will.
We returned after the show to more heimishe talking, pickle eating, and sadness at having to go to bed early to leave for our 15 hour drive back to San Francisco.