Crabby

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Today was the first day of crab season and a glorious one at that.

I got my license from good old Linc's (always full of semi-grumpy but appreciated advice, that one).

After a semi-late night at the Shabazz Palaces release show, I got up at the crack of dawn this morning and my old friends Josh, Jason and I took the boat out. We dropped three crab pots off the south end of Hat Island (aka Gedney Island but everyone calls it Hat).

We didn't get too much this first time out (3 Dungeness and 5 Red Rocks) but the boat is running great and I'm looking forward to many more trips this Summer.


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Inez

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Getting friendlier day by day.
I believe she learned this particular maneuver from Jeans.

Best Foot Forward

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Lanvin metal-cuffed leather sandals,
$439.60 (regularly $785) at net-a-porter.
On sale just in time for the summer
that I'm sure is just around the corner.

In the Studio

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Ciara Ramos, photographer and stylist.

Image of the Day

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I haven't had a chance to watch the whole thing but I think this is worthy of note – The Murder of Jean Seberg is an hour-long conceptual film "inspired by the controversial and shocking death of the all-American actress Jean Seberg in 1979," produced by Daphne Guinness with filmmaker and photographer Joe Lally. Check it out at SHOWstudio.com.

On the Town

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Misc. snapshots going way back....

Raindog and Vitamin R may also incur fees

Theresa, Emily, Ashley and Samantha at Still Liquor

Shabazz and Thee Satisfaction at Neumo's

Theresa and Kyle at the I Want You magazine party

Samantha, Miles, Charlie, Kyle at Still Liquor

Emily, Jessica, Robert at Vermillion

Jessica, Emily, Sara, and Caitlin at Bus Stop before trying to go to the Crescent and ending up at... The Elite

Emily and Natasha at Sun Liquor Distillery

Emily, Amber, and Natasha

Vampy

Emily explains the style.com app to Jason at Linda's

Impromptu diners club meeting at Oddfellows

My oldest friend on the planet, Michelle, with Dustin at the Roanoke on Mercer Island

Detective Agency at the Comet

Natasha, Meg, and Ms. Jackie Brown

Stephanie and Matson in front of Cairo

Bill Callahan at Neumo's

A cat I met on the way to the Lookout

Everyone think of Kurdt

In the Studio

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Julie Cheek, photographer.

Felt

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Shabazz Palaces "Are you... Can you... Were you? (Felt)" – my favorite cut from Black Up, the long-awaited new album, out today on Sub Pop. Release shows this Thursday and Friday at Neumo's.

[ photo: Seattle Center, last Friday night ]

The Straight-Arrows that Nonetheless Get It

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Glenn O'Brien (right) with Jean-Michel Basquiat during a filming of O'Brien's TV Party

On this week's installment of The Sound of Young America, Jesse Thorne interviews Glenn O'Brien, most recently the author of How To Be A Man. It's worth a quick listen – at this point in his life, with all of his various experiences, O'Brien is on the level of Vince Aletti or Steven Heller as both a primary and secondary source of interesting information. Click here to check it out.

In the Studio

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Ben, Filson employee and occasional model