I've even raped and killed a mountain panda in the hills of Shaanxi.

Last night I got off the bus near I-5 to meet whip_poor_will at Kate's Pub. That place is weirdly hilarious, so near the UW yet we got carded. We then justified it by telling Yr Mom jokes for an hour. We got ready to leave and quent walked up just as we walked out. He gave us a ride to Smash Wine Bar, though, where we met velvet.

The whole point of this was partly Reg's birthday and partly I had spent $3 for a $25 off coupon and was all excited. We got a cheese plate, sliders, duck spring rolls, fancy round tater tots with sour cream, chives, and bacon - and roasted potato ravioli with brown butter sauce and bacon-grease-sauteed chard. Um, yes. I got a glass of house Cab and it was fantastic. Plus Keely bought me a drink earlier, before having eaten, so it hit me pretty hard.

So we were being super ultra goofy and Quent had his digital recorder out. We kept forgetting about it, especially when the boys were smoking and we were talking about girly shit. (Like penises.) Anyway it was all very fun, we showed off our Droids, Quent showed off his iPhone apps, and Keely drooled and talked about the host of Blind Date. Apparently he was also in That's So Raven. Reg accused her of having lost all "intercred."

All in all it was an awesome evening, but I was so drunk afterwards that I just wanted to go home and watch the ceiling spin. And so I did. Slept poorly and am about to go pass out now. Woooooo.

Beacon Pub karaoke was pretty fun, except there were so goddamned many people singing that despite arriving at 9:30 or so and leaving around 1:30, most of us only got to sing two songs. I did "Mysterious Ways" and "Once Bitten Twice Shy." Reg did "All I Want Is You" and "True Faith." Um I didn't drink a ton so I remember almost every song our crowd did, unless I didn't really know the song... quent did "No One Knows" and "Virtual Insanity", dearnana did "Gangsta's Paradise", some Fiona Apple number, and took Asa's missing turn for "Boyz in the Hood". asabass did "What's so funny about peace love and understanding?" and I forget. uncelestial did "Ain't Nothin' But A G Thing" and "You Keep Me Hangin' On." baroof did "Sweet Chil' O' Mine" pitch perfect as he is wont to do.

Before that Reg, Katie the Gimp, suxdonut, clay88, drinkyclownhuh and I all had sushi at Aoki. It felt like we got too much food, and some people got booze, and we even got dessert - Will showed up and ate the leftovers - and the bill was only $121. I felt pretty happy about this, even though the kids didn't want to come with us to karaoke. Oh well. All in all it was a really nice Friday night, except when I drank too much Red Bull and yelled at Reg for getting lost. Cos really how can you not get lost in Beacon Hill?

$15 appetizer at Bal Mar

$47 for bacon-wrapped medallions at the Met Grill

Capitol Club Burger, $13

Oceanaire burger

SR&B burger

Veil - $11 appetizer

Canlis - Wasyugyu tenderloin

EMP - Snake River Spiced Hanging Tender Steak, $17

Cascadia - carpaccio with oysters, $15
full course $90

If I wanted

• Margaritas
• tacos
• on a patio

where should I go?

edit: don't say El Camino, I don't have the budget for them after rent.

edit: WOW everyone loves agua verde. I went there once, waited for an hour to be seated, had a mediocre taco after another hour... and plus it's way out of the way.

blue blue, electric blue
that's the color of my room

Went to the little Italian place under, er, Seven Gables Theater last night, it was really quite good. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to go to a place where the entertainment is too loud for you to do anything but gaze at your dining companion lustfully.

And then we watched Solaris except I was out of it and kept nodding off. It was so slow that apparently I didn't miss much. The next day we watched Killing Zoe and Goldmember (well, I watched that one alone). I can't really say they were great but I don't want those 3.5 hours back or anything. It was the middle that I didn't like so much, for both. Oh well.