Next stop on the Seattle Trip was the Asian Art Museum, $18 for admission or $0 if you have organized your life as an economist would predict: “This program provides free admission for up to five people. In-person verification of SNAP, EBT, or WIC card is required.”
One of my favorite exhibits: a local Scientist wearing a protective anti-COVID mask over a full beard. Six years after coronapanic, he/she/ze/they couldn’t find a job with less exposure to the potentially-infected public?
(We saw quite a few indoor and outdoor maskers, but it was rare to find one with as lush a beard underneath the mask.)
Next stop: the Seattle Japanese Garden.
The surrounding arboretum has a gift shop explaining how to garden while Black:
We saw Islamic immigrants in hijabs and burqas, various Asians, and a lot of white people in the Arboretum, but none of the Black girls featured in the book that was for sale.
Next stop: the Ice Box Arcade, which answers the question “How do you keep the local progressives from vandalizing a $15,000 Harry Potter pinball machine, tainted by J.K. Rowling’s stubborn Science-denying insistence that there is a difference between men and women?”
Answer: tell them that the quarters placed into the machine will go to support a Rainbow Flagism nonprofit organization. The collection, which is wonderfully well-maintained, includes a rare James Bond retro machine from Stern:
The standard James Bond modern Stern series is Sean Connery-only. This retro machine is enhanced with Roger Moore and “Daniel Craig says he goes to gay bars to avoid fights at straight venues” (Guardian; if you live with a woman see if you can make “I need to go to the bathhouse every three nights because our water pressure at home isn’t good enough” work?).
Contrary to what you might have read, Seattle progressives most definitely did not set up a 16′-high statute of Lenin on a street corner (you can enjoy some Halal food at Sinbad Express while visiting).
Back to our hotel neighborhood, the pub requires that you pass the sacred Rainbow Flag (but not trans-enhanced?) before entering (this was taken in May, not June/Pride):
CVS keeps my beloved Dawn and Bounty securely locked up:
An awesome playground next to the Norwegian cruise ship pier:
I’ll cover our return to Seattle from the Alaska cruise in a follow-up post.
Are we all doomed to avoid anything to do with our industry, Microsoft, AWS, Dave Plummer, after we retire?