Washington: It’s California’s Other Canada!

Originally published at Route 96. You can comment here or there.

Washington State, beautiful as it is, was underappreciated by our heroes as they drove Jenkin hard to make a return to native soil before the sun went down on my birthday. Isn’t Seattle kind of 1993 anyway?

Speaking of the early 1990s, we did stop for burgers at a diner near Isa’s home town of Bellingham, and there spotted the kind of sublimely tacky t-shirt Canadians usually only read about. On the front was the ingenious Gulf War slogan “Saddam Hussein = So-Damn Insane,” and on the back was a cartoon showing the Butcher of Baghdad under the gun from a bristling array of star-spangled bombs and missiles, defecating in fear. So now we know where Isa gets all of her genuine class.

Tonight

Edit Edit: Special thanks to that_cad for cracking the whip.

Edit: It looks like the hive-mind has settled on Finale in Harvard Square, which is funny, because what L had already planned to do tonight while I was meeting up with y'all was: meet up with a bunch of her other friends at Finale in Harvard Square. So it seems like a sign, even though it'll be weird to sit in different parts of the restaurant pretending we don't know each other.

Finale it is, then - we'll be there around 8 pm. We can always head elsewhere later if there's momentum.
I don't think we'll make it to Cambridge No. 1 after all - I hope emilytheslayer isn't standing there wondering where we are. If she has a cell phone, can somebody call her?

So I'm sorry this is all so haphazard, but it's hard to plan things when you don't have a cell phone and can only get on the internet while the mean old archivists aren't looking. Here's what I'm wishing for this afternoon. I know that wishing won't necessarily make it so, but I can't expect my wishes to come true if I don't express them.

I would love for someone to nominate--strike that, choose a place to meet up for drinks, say 8:00-ish tonight, that is:

• Red Line accessible
• actually that's pretty much all my design specs

And I would love it if a bunch of you showed up.

I would also love to have dinner with L, and anyone else who wants to join us, at Cambridge No. 1 Pizza in Harvard Square (an old favorite) around 6:30 pm, but I haven't been able to reach her to get her commit to that.

Tonight

Updated!