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By: The Other Andi

The Other Andi — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:19:15 +0000

A tamale truck??? In Seattle?!?! Wow, Seattle has really changed since I lived there. You couldn’t even get decent pizza at the time. Whereabouts can one find this truck?

I always hated going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark. That whole first winter I didn’t realize what was happening to me until the sun finally came back out in April… people think the rain is the problem; it’s not. It’s the gray, gray, gray. But now you have cherry blossoms! Hooray!

By: jen mills

jen mills — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:33:43 +0000

When I lived outside of Detroit going to grad school, I would jump up and down when Dairy Mat would open, the hole-in-the-wall soft serve ice cream stand. Nothing compares to an orange sherbert cone dipped in chocolate, all for 79 cents. Definitely a sign of winter when it closed, and then finally spring when it opened up again.

In Seattle there’s not only the cherry trees blooming (almost instantly it seems), going to work and coming home in the daylight (which really throws off your sense of time) but in my neighborhood, the ice cream truck music coming down the street.

But instead of ice cream, the truck sells tamales. No joke. They’re amazing.

By: C.C.

C.C. — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:42:49 +0000

Deena, so sorry to hear about Calvin. I have a sick cat myself and the thought him leaving to pet heaven breaks my heart. Me long with Milo and Max send our condolences.

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:23:37 +0000

I thought the car was a moose.

By: Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:59:04 +0000

Yeah, that was Bigfoot. Or a passing car. One or the other.

By: compost maven

compost maven — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:50:35 +0000

sure does make me homesick. i can hear that sap running all the way from southern california!

By: Ginjoint

Ginjoint — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:11:22 +0000

Cate, you...heard in Toronto about a sinkhole in Chicago?! Huh. Must've been a slow news day at the ol' Globe and Mail. Or, this spotlights the differences between Canadian and American news programs - your call.

By: Alex the Bold

Alex the Bold — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:40:50 +0000

At 1:56, was that Bigfoot in the distance?

By: Suz

Suz — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:21:34 +0000

Egad, I should proofread before I post. Looks like my excitement about soft-serve ice cream got the better of me.

By: Suz

Suz — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:20:03 +0000

Condolences for y’all’s loss of pets.

In NYC, spring is marked by the return of Mr. Softee ice cream trucks. I heard my first Mr. Softee (heard, not saw; where some ice cream trucks have bells, Mr. Softees play a song and it’s everywhere in the residential parts of the city through spring and summer) of the season last week.