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Ambers Bar Belltown Seattle

Published on March 1, 2012

One of my favorite bars when I’m in Belltown partying is Ambers. The bar is setup to be very social friendly. The crowd is attractive yet sometimes filled with to many dudes. I have noticed a few fights but they are far and few in between. Over the pass few years the management of Ambers introduced a DJ. The music is very loud which pretty much ruined the social vibe of the bar. The bar itself is located in the middle of the establishment. The customers circle/surround the entire bar and there is an upstairs area also. The upstairs does get pretty warm at times depending on how many people are up there. Reserved parties are can be arranged in this area. Another bar is located upstairs so sometimes it’s easier just to make a trip up there to get your drink. Some of the bartenders are rude but out of the entire staff, it’s just a few bad apples. It’s a little surprising they are still there every time I visit so management isn’t reviewing that. I would say the drinks and food are affordable considering the area. It’s average in that regards. Tia Lous, for all your dancing needs, is located next door but does have a cover charge. There is no charge for Ambers and rarely a line which is nice.
The security team is respectful at closing which I appreciate. The other bars security in the area can be extremely rude (swearing at everyone to get out).

Ambers is located at: 2214 1st Ave Seattle, WA 98121.
Yelp reviewers have described this bar as 2.5 (average). I would rate is higher for quality, being social, and location.

Mitt Romney’s Election Attempt 2012

Published on February 29, 2012

As Mitt Romney continues to rise over the competition with his recent win of both Arizona and Michigan, one has to think will it be enough? In this election, I personally want to see more of a dramatic change to just the basic principles and way less government in my life. The only candidate who will provide that is Mr. Ron Paul. Unfortunately, the public isn’t ready for that yet, I guess. Perhaps another 4 or 8 years and they’ll be ready to see the light. As I said in previous posts, the force is strong with Mitt Romney. His branding is strong enough to convince people to throw votes his way. He gets the most spotlight out of all the candidates and that combined with Super Pacs/cash I truly believe he’ll get the nomination and eventually take the White House. Right or wrong, we will see shortly.

Newt Gingrich is about done at this point, finishing 4th overall yesterday. He should be stepping down soon. I wouldn’t be surprised if it happens shortly after March 6th after Super Tuesday (10 states voting). However, he may do it sooner to save himself from the embarrassment and keep his followers. Newt Gingrich may take 1 out of the 10 states, his home state of Georgia. Once there is a clearer picture of who is leading the pack, Newt will quickly endorse them and get reimbursed for his failed campaign. Ron Paul will hang on longer only to get his message out more. I believe the public realizes (including myself) he doesn’t have much of a shot but his message is what’s important at this point.

I have been seeing more and more Obama ads on the Internet (YouTube for example). Like his last election, he will make a strong push for the younger crowd and continue to use the Internet better than anyone else. He has done well at capturing that audience with him being a social media fan using Twitter. I’m not confident he’ll have the same younger support this time around though. I believe the hope and change promised (and over-delivered in his speeches) wasn’t delivered as promised during his presidency. I’m sure many would disagree with that, though.

Looking forward to Super Tuesday’s 10 states results soon.

Presidental Canidates Republicans — Candidates on the debate stage

Update: In the 2012 U.S. presidential election, Mitt Romney was the Republican Party’s nominee running against the incumbent President, Democrat Barack Obama. While Romney won a number of states and received substantial support, he ultimately lost the election to Obama.

In the Electoral College, which is the system used to determine the winner of U.S. presidential elections, Barack Obama secured 332 electoral votes to Romney’s 206. In terms of the popular vote, Obama received around 51% (about 65.9 million votes), while Romney garnered approximately 47% (about 60.9 million votes).

After the election, Mitt Romney congratulated President Obama on his victory and called for political unity to address the challenges facing the nation.

Arsonist Arrested For Fire At 6710 Corson Ave. Georgetown

Published on February 17, 2012

The SPD Blotter has reported that the Arsonist for the fire at 6710 Corson Ave. in Georgetown has been arrested. I thought the report should be copied and pasted verbatim, but now want to add my spin to the on going saga with some pictures. The previous article about the Arson fire was posted the morning after the fire and at that time all the officials that were talking to us all gave me the impression that the building would be torn down. I was standing talking to the owner Allen Hua at the time and I think he thought it was going to have to be bulldozed. They had not let him in to look at it yet. That was then and this is now. I am posting 3 pictures taken 2/16/12. If you look at all three you can see the entire top floor was on fire. The flames were shooting out of the windows until the fireman could get the people off the roof and cut holes in the roof so the fire could go straight up. If you look at the white light in the first picture you can see daylight through a hole in the roof. The night of the fire I could stand on my balcony (I was very close to the fire and could see the fireman going to the roof from inside). That being the case it had to burn the ceilings all out and I am sure it could not have missed doing damage to the studs or beams or whatever holds a roof up. Partitions are all burned. One fireman told me the entire top floor would have to be torn off at the very least but said he was not a building inspector. That is not happening now it seems.

The place has been nothing but a hot bed of trouble for years. Drug sales, prostitution, fights, and all of us neighbors get to listen to the most filthy talk. It appears the owner is going to just be able to cobble it together, cover the burned stuff with plywood. His last fight with the city at another slumlord complex (he owns 6) he fought on the fact that they were discriminating against a poor Chinese farmer. He lives in a million dollar home in Issaquah and keeps these dumps open because he will rent to people who do not dare fill out a credit check or prove anything. I read where he makes approx $195,000 a year on these so called “low rent” places. We neighbors have no recourse, police, fire department, everyone is aware of the problems at 6710 Corson but do absolutely nothing to correct the situation. I would think after a certain amount of drug over doses, people sitting on the curb hand cuffed, the place would be boarded up. I have had to have bars put on my windows and have always been expecting the place to burn up. You can’t have 11 (single occupancy rooms) with several buddies (visiting) 24/7 doing drugs, fighting, drinking and not expect something bad to happen. One time I thought one guy was going to kill another one (yelling that he was). I called 911 and they arrested the fellow. I ended up with a subpoena to come to court. Wasted a whole day. I got paid $10.00 before taxes and neither guy even showed up.

I do not know how to end the cycle there but felt I should put it in the paper for Independent Thinkers and hope some of you will get to thinking and leave comments below. LLL

Arson Fire in Georgetown

Published on January 26, 2012

During the night of Jan. 22 and morning of Jan 23 there was a huge apartment house fire at 6710 Corson Ave. This fire was ARSON. It is a three story building and the entire top floor was engulfed in flames. This happened right between wind storms or the house right beside it would be gone too. At least 8 people lost their homes and everything they owned. No one got killed. The tenants were lined up across the street for a few hours with nothing but what they had on their backs when they escaped. Approx 3 hours later a red cross car arrived and handed out blankets. Another couple hours later a red cross van came and took them all away. A photographer took pictures of that so it was basically a Red Cross photo op.

This apartment house has been a hot bed of trouble. It might be what you call low low income people but I want to expand on that a little. These were housekeeping rooms and I believe there were 2 apartments that had their own bath, so there was a lot of people that had to go down the hall and share a bathtub on the main floor or go to the basement or upstairs to share a shower. Lots of street people or people who would park an old motor home on a side street would come and use the facilities. It was impossible to know how many or who really lived there. The police and fireman came at least once a month for drug busts, or over doses or fights, you name it and it happened over there. This was an accident waiting to happen. Why I wanted to expand on low income it appeared to be non working people who paid HIGH RENT because this was a place where the landlord did not do a background check. He got paid double what the room was worth and if you didn’t like it you couldn’t just move because half didn’t even use their right name. One would rent a room and a few buddies moved in. The place should have been closed down years ago but somehow managed to exist. Fights where yelling was I am going to kill you etc. over and over and over. Until the 23rd.

Fireman, detectives, a tenant that lived there, and the owner of the building all have told me it was ARSON. Right on the start they said it was. I am not sure how they could tell immediately but that seemed to be obvious to them all. There have been several versions which is common to any story. But when I asked one fireman if he thought a firebug was loose and we neighbors were in danger he said he didn’t think so. He said this fire was set to hurt or kill someone on the top floor. It was set in the doorway at the top of the back stairs. A fire bug that wants to watch a fire would usually just torch something at the ground level and make a fast get away. Also, a tenant said just before the fire there was a loud explosion which woke them and they all escaped because of that. Of course the detectives, fireman or police are not going to tell any of us neighbors the details and we know that but none the less this was a BIG BIG STORY. That being the case why was it not on the front page of the Times? Why was it not on every TV channel as a leading Seattle news story? KIRO and KOMO had about a 2 second spot of the red cross handing out blankets. No story about how big the fire was, no story about ARSON. How can that be. It is scary to think you are actually getting the news when you read the only paper in town or watch the local news. If a story this big and important wasn’t mentioned how many other really important things are they NOT telling us. My point completely is we are only told what officials want us to be told. That is very scary. I am going to try to find out from the times why they did not even mention it at all. Hope all of you readers do too. I am sure you can check with the fire department to know my story is true. At least 3 blocks of Corson Ave was full of fire trucks, medics, etc. LLL

Seattle Snow Storm On The Way

Published on January 17, 2012

If you watch the news, you obviously know a big snow storm is on the way. It is predicted to slam Seattle late tonight and tomorrow. In the event this storm drops more than 7 inches in a 24hr period it could be one of the top 10 storms of all time for the city of Seattle. Forecasters are predicting 5-10 inches approximately. In Puyallup, Washington (south of Seattle) I know they are sitting on about 1.5 inches currently. In the event of 9 inches of snow it would be the most in dropped in 27 years.

Facts:

The most snow fall in a 24hr period for Seattle was Jan 31st 1916. Amazingly 21.5 inches fell.
In 1985 – 8 inches of snow fell on Seattle Washington.
A snow and ice storm in 1996 shut down the city’s Metro for the first time in its history.

Mayor Mike McGinn’s Secret NBA Arena Contract

Published on January 15, 2012

Taxpayer’s get ready to be jumping though the hoops again paying fees, taxes, fines, levy’s or whatever else the city might decide they want to take away from you to build a new Basketball Arena. We lost the Sonics because we the people would not pay for another stadium for them. Of course we the people voted against the other two stadiums but they got built anyway. I thought we had made it clear that we were not interested in building a bunch of millionaires a sports facility so a bunch of millionaire players could earn them some more money. Tickets are out of reach of the ordinary person.

When Mayor McGinn talks about the city slashing, cutting, laying off police and fireman and no money to fix streets. No money for the homeless. Man he says the city is broke. What most of us don’t know about is the fund he has that allows him to spend up to $250,000 without even telling the city council what he is spending it on. To the city that is just pennies, but it had to be taken away from workers to create that fund. In secret he has had a contract with Carl Hersh, a sports- facility consultant. He has been paying him $19,500 a month since July. The Mayor says he is examining the “opportunity” to bring an NBA Team to Seattle. He didn’t even bother to tell the city Council about this. Something is really wrong here.

There was an opportunity to keep the Sonics here but we could not afford to build a playpen for Bennett so he took the team to Oklahoma. The economy has not improved. We can’t afford a stadium anymore now than when Bennett said Key Arena was not good enough but the Mayor is blowing almost $20,000 on this consultant. This is the same consultant that worked for Howard Schultz on how to make the Key Arena profitable. Maybe we need Dr Phil to ask the Mayor, “hows that workin’ for ya”. We were still paying on the mortgage on of king dome when they blew it up to build a bigger, better more expensive arena THAT THE VOTERS VOTED DOWN.

Let the investors hire their consultant, let the investors buy up property, then let the investors apply for permits, pay for everything including the building. Then let them pay their taxes and the city might make some money but not if we are in the business of buildings stadiums and then being made hostage by the millionaires that bought the team wanting more remodeling, more luxury seats. Let all of that be THEIR problem. Not the taxpayers problem. How many more secret things are we paying for that never see the light of day. Why is this such a secret. Is the Mayor wheeling and dealing and by the time we hear about it and say we don’t want it he can say the contracts are signed, we cant back out now like the stupid tunnel that we cant afford. I say whoa nellie. Stop spending money on consultants and lawyers looking at the initiative that taxpayers signed that says the city has to make money from the stadiums. Let the millionaire players build their stadium like the millionaires have to build their own swimming pools etc. No taxpayer money should be used, especially while the Mayor is talking about how broke the city is. Shame on him. If he thought the people would be excited over it why keep it a secret?

Polly Immigrant Story – Conclusion

Published on December 23, 2011

Polly says hello again. Hope you have enjoyed my two previous stories (Start Here) (Part 2 Here) as much as I have enjoyed digging out the old pictures and writing about them. I ended my last story by saying life stinks. This would be the place to explain there is a couple meanings to the word stink. I meant it to say I was not living the good life anymore. But there is another stink I feel I should mention here. The kind that I discovered with my nose.

There is a huge kiwi vine beside the railing that I sit on. One of my jobs has been to be the KIWI tester. I tell the old lady when they are just right to pick. I was sitting there “nibbling and testing” a kiwi when here came a bunch of illegal immigrants. I had to protect the old Lady’s kiwi’s. My adrenalin kicked in and I landed right in the middle of one illegal. Surprise, surprise he didn’t fight at all. He made himself into a ball. No head, feet or a thing, and man did he stink. Their defense is to play dead and smell like the worst spoiled, decayed meat that even a vulture would not touch. I backed off and headed for a bath. I had a date with Big Red but he dumped me. Now my life stinks and so do I.

Blacky still has not brought any acorns. He eats from my seed dish and even has started to dig up the food I buried. I had such faith in him. What was I thinking? My life was already about as good as it gets with the old lady feeding me. Sure I had to work some but not half as hard as spending all day trying to find enough food to get by on. I lay on the sill at the kitchen door and only let the cats in and out. I am worried about Frosty because I heard them saying Old Whity didn’t sign up for Blacycare and she cant get hospice coverage because of her age. That’s not nice to talk that way about little frosty who was born right in this house. She deserves hospice care if anyone does.

Blacky digging up the yard. I just planted that there.

I don’t see any little sparrows flying around at all anymore. The tree in front yard by the feeder used to be full of them. I decided to make a quick trip to the old bird feeder where it all started and a bird about twice as big as a sparrow was there. It was black with a pretty red wing. I thought it must be a red winged blackbird. I said “Hi I am Polly the resident squirrel, who are you?” Well you better be sitting down when you read this because I fell off the feeder at that point. She said “Oh I am an Acorn”. Can you imagine a pretty bird calling herself a NUT? I knew I was dealing with a Crazy Lady but I climbed back up to eat with her. I said no you are not an Acorn, you’re a bird. That’s when she told me that the Possums and Raccoons were Acorns too. My life had really got crazy. I admit they were all acting like NUTS, coming in here eating my food, taking over my possessions and I didn’t understand the situation we squirrels had gotten into when we fell for Blacky’s line that he had brought a lot of acorns and our lives would be better. The Acorn raccoons were the worst as far as danger went because they were all over the plant racks where we squirrels always played, and now was even stealing the cats food, one handful at a time. They will eat birds, squirrels, even cats and steal our food too. They have to go.
I tried to talk to Blacky but he would not listen to what we fellow squirrels had to say. I let him know what I thought about Illegal Immigrants who were also called Acorns, who were also his helpers. I told him we squirrels were going to get a bunch of Pit Bulls to clear out the illegals but he said he would take care of it. He said he would station an Official Immigration Agent on the bird feeder and on the roof of the rental house.

Hey get out the cat food! — Hey get out of the cat food!

Well.. I admit this Racoon is kida cute — How's the hope and change workin for ya?

How stupid can a community organizer get? His Immigration agent was a Hawk or Falcon or some darn thing that we were all afraid of, even his red winged Acorns could not eat there. This agent will eat squirrels and all birds so what on earth was he thinking? Even Blacky is about to be ran out of here. That agent will turn on him if it gets hungry and for sure the Old Lady is not putting anymore food out for anyone. Haven’t seen the blonde peace keeper acorn(possum) for days. She must be on a fact finding mission in another yard.

Just when you think it cant get worse, it does. Talulu, Frosty and I were in the old lady’s house (I pass out in the food storage section) when we heard shouts, we are the 99%. We are the occupiers and right across the street from the old lady’s house comes this huge flock of geese(don’t think they are acorns). Once they cross the street it will be the beginning of the end I am afraid. We were huddled with the old lady and a knock came at the kitchen door. An illegal immigrant who said his name was Phil, said “how is the hope and change, workin’ for ya?” The old lady fainted. I decided to go sit out on the garbage can and check out the alley because our escape would have to be that way if we decide to run for the hills. Life is different.

Flock of Geese I hope they don't come over here.

Seriously it has been a good life for all of us, I am 6 years old, Frosty is 22, Talulu 16 and the old lady is 88. When you look at it like that, we are all on borrowed time. We are just going to live the good life in the kitchen because the old lady says that as long as her social security check keeps coming none of us will starve. Thank God for the Old Lady in the big house, she has made my life soooooooo good, and I think I have made her life soooooooo good too. Polly.

No words can describe what it is like to be loved by a squirrel. Lots of them will grab a nut from your hand but Polly was a one of a kind experience. She would run to greet me at the alley gate. She would come scratch on the kitchen door. On a sad note, she has not came to my kitchen door for several weeks. She may be on an extended maternity leave but she may be waiting for me on the rainbow bridge with my kitties. I miss her a lot. The old lady.

This is the end of the Polly stories.

Gap in Seattle Schools Test Scores of Blacks

Published on December 22, 2011

The American born blacks are doing lots worse than the immigrant blacks in their test scores in math. They use words like this is an “alarming” or “comparison shocks some”. I am no expert at anything but feel the need to give my spin on what I would think makes this happen. Everything has a pay off, there must be an incentive to do something. From the time you are a toddler you must eat your “veggies” to get your piece of cake.

I have always been amazed at how the Asians come over here, not knowing our language or culture and get to be the top achievers. Maybe there is something in their genetic make up but mostly it’s the way they are brought up at home. They are taught to study. They are taught to better themselves. I don’t know a thing about American born Blacks and Somali born blacks but I would imagine their genetic make up is the same. That being the case it has to be attitude. There are some rich Somali blacks and there are some rich American born blacks, so lets stick with the run of the mill type.

My take on this is our welfare society has ripped all ambition form the little American born blacks. I am using a broad paint brush and there are exceptions but for some reason American born blacks are raised to believe that because their great, great, great, great Grandaddy MIGHT have been a slave they should be handed everything on a silver platter. There are 3rd and 4th generation blacks who have lived on welfare. They even whine about that. Lets just take one family for an example. A little American black is born to a Mommie that has no idea who his daddy is or if she does know she wont say because she would not qualify for welfare. He can still slip in the backdoor of her “free rent” apartment, and eat from her food stamp supply of food. They can go to emergency rooms free, get a welfare check that gets raised every time she has another baby. That baby grow up knowing he is way better off to JUST HAVE FUN and not study, his Mom does not try to get him to study or support himself. He has a better life(better apartment, and food) than the little white boy and girl that got married and both have to work at flipping burgers and have no insurance.

If the United States stopped giving free rent and food to the Mommies and Daddy’s whose kids are doing so poor in school it would stop. There should have to be a pay off. The Mommies are home all day and could be teaching their pre schoolers all sorts of things, instead they give them no reason to do well in school at all. No punishment, no rewards and probably the parents dropped out of school and on and on. Lots of Somali blacks came here from war torn countries and refuge camps but still do better than the blacks who had a much better life here. The American born blacks are actually being harmed by insisting on things instead of earning things. Even trying to force whites to integrate with blacks backfired. I have worked with blacks, I have rented to blacks, I have lived beside blacks. I do not hate blacks but its how they act that makes me like them, not because someone is trying to force me to live or work with one.

Cut of Mommies welfare check and food stamps if she cant help her child with his school work. If she knew unless he went to school and brought a passing grade home, “she would get fired from her job of collecting freebies”. It would change in a hurry. The American born blacks have a huge chip on their shoulders that the Somali blacks don’t and until that changes these little blacks would rather hang on corners in gangs or stay out all night because Mommie doesn’t care what they do. She doesn’t care if they bring home a good report card. Give them an incentive to study.

I was a really really poor little farm girl, baby of 12 that caught on early that if I was going to do anything different I had to study. I was the first in my family to graduate from high school. I was the valedictorian of my class. My parents made all of us little kids sit at the old kitchen table and study by a kerosene lamp. We had no running water, we had a three holer outhouse so if you think for one minute being poor automatically makes you do poor in school, YOU ARE DEAD WRONG. There was a willow switch waiting if we brought home a bad report card. There was no welfare or food stamps. We were taught, “work if you want to eat”. The little American born blacks don’t have a clue what its like to be poor. They have no incentive, they have been robbed of that. They have to want to better themselves but giving them more freebies is not the answer. Maybe school work camps for the children, and make Mommie get a job, even a low paid one.

Hope this generates some thoughts. Until you change the mind set of the American Born Blacks that they are so poor, so picked on etc etc nothing will change. LLL

Ron Paul For President

Published on December 21, 2011

I once wrote an article here about the trillion dollar deficit he have in America. It was created for both humor and factual info about our Government spending habits. It includes and outline of the worthless agencies we have created just to use up tax money and things we may want to cut. I admit I was inspired by the “HOPE” brand Obama brought to the people. It sold him and his campaign. The campaign grew in power and eventually overshadowed everyone else running. American was hooked. I for one didn’t vote for Obama. Looking back that was a good decision, however, I not sure the outcome would have been that different though. I believe McCain would have handled the war spending better and in general made larger cuts on spending. Hardcore fans still have “HOPE” for Obama’s “HOPE” campaign and many will leave Obama high and dry. He just didn’t deliver, unfortunately.

I talk about political brands and how money buys campaigns. Because of this, I am predicting a win for Mitt Romney. He has the best brand to date and with more money you can get the exposure needed to convince the public for their vote. It’s easier for companies to invest in you (with contributions). It’s also easier to get endorsements from the other runners. If a runner up is failing in the polls/votes and realizes they don’t stand a chance, the guy with money will take care of his/her expenses for running (or debt) for their endorsement. After a few endorsements, you grow even stronger in the public eye. Sadly, this is how the game is played.

I also look at Newt Gingrich. He has a fair amount of money from doing “historian work” for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Both companies were federally backed when the housing bust came as you know. He says he was just a “historian” but Newt collected 1.6 million that we know if publicly. In reality, he was hired to calm down the republicans making them turn down the heat and back off of the companies. It was a cleaver move by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and Newt was in on it. Unfortunately, Newt is just another politician playing all the games that the others are playing. Sad but true.

The more I read about Ron Paul in the news the more I like this guy. He has no brand and lacks the money really needed to win, however. He is not the best speaker or salesman (like Romney or Gingrich) but I truly believe this guy can get the job done. He doesn’t really care for the Federal Reserve, wants to cut five departments (needs to be done drastically), lower corporate taxes, and allow younger workers to opt out of the failing Social Security system. He won’t kiss anyone’s ~~ass~~ rump and he’s not a political tool like the others. He wants to cut $1 trillion from the federal budget during his FIRST YEAR in office – which is great. I am tired of hearing how we are going to cut a trillion dollars over 10 YEARS currently! We are 15 trillion in debt right now and spending over 4 billion a day. We don’t have 10 years for such a little cut. He would like to cut is presidential pay to 40K compared to the 400K it is now. There is a lot more but the point to all this is that this guy is a do’er. I truly believe he will do what he says he’ll do and won’t be bought out like the others.

My voting strategies have developed over time but now with every canidate locally or presidential, I look for a person who will put their neck on the line and make a solid decision (good or bad). A decision to cut. A decision to fire. I just want a decision on something to solve the problems. Most politicians today don’t do that and that’s part of the problem. It’s just the same old some and dance. They want to keep everyone happy by not cutting anything or firing anyone (less work means you need to let people go). They sit around and think up new ways to build revenue on a failed system. They build tolls on the roads or add traffic cams for the city. Increase street parking to $8 and hour until 8pm in Seattle. These additions continue to rise because of people wanting to keep their jobs (get re-elected) while back-dooring these little money makers. Another is tax the rich. That is a simple one because most of the voters are broke as a joke and it doesn’t relate to them “so who cares” lets just take it from them right?

Whatever your decision is for the presidential campaign pick someone who will cut and isn’t easily influenced. That is the only “HOPE” we have to turn this country around.

Seattle New Years Eve Parties

Published on December 20, 2011

I must admit one of the my favorite nights in Seattle is New Years Eve. My other favorites include Halloween and now Santanarcy ( you must go to this if you haven’t before). There is something about these nights that people just love. Everyone is friendly and in a talkative mood. The environment is much different than your typical Friday or Saturday night.

New Years Eve falls on a Saturday this year so it should be a really exciting night. I have done some research and came up with what I believe are your best options for ringing in 2012.

Seattle Indulgence Party

I have been to this party the last two years. It was fun but expensive at $60 + $6.23 service fee per ticket. The event is held at one of Paul Allen’s Palaces (Called the Seattle EMP). It’s a big event with 3 levels and different music. For the last 3 years its been the same format. Usually 80’s (at the small side bar), some cover band (big stage), and hip hop (upstairs). The last two times I was there the small 80’s band outshined the main band playing on the big stage. The big stage dance floor is busy but never full. I just checked and I looks like it’s the same this year. There will be line outside to get in. They are pretty slow checking in the tickets. They do provide a lot of free hats and party favors. The most disappointing thing about this location (beside the ticket price, drink prices, main band) is that you can’t step outside to see the space needle fireworks when the big moment arrives. You are stuck inside the location and are not allowed to leave. Well… you can leave but you just won’t be let back in. There is no balcony or any big windows to watch it. That is a big disappointment because you literally are right next door to the space needle. Being so close to it (hearing the fireworks outside) and having to watch it on TV just sucks. That is very disappointing.

Bonza Bash

This will be held at the Hyatt Olive 8 Hotel in Seattle. I haven’t been to it personally. Tickets cost even more than the Indulgence Party. They are $70 +$7.23 service fee per ticket. I would say this is one of more luxurious events of the night. It’s black tie which means lots of tuxes and black dresses. I like more casual locations when It comes to the dress code (Indulgence is casual) so I won’t be visiting this one. If you have a date planned and you want to wine and dine – then this place maybe for you.

Euphoria Masquerade Party

This looked interesting. It’s a masquerade party so people will be all dressed up (high fashion) with masks. I think this would be another good location if you have a date or wife and will be partying with the special person. As a single guy always ready to mingle, this one is off my list. One, there will be lots of couples there. Two, if everyone is wearing masks how you going to talk with people and get that special kiss at night? Sounds like a lot of work for the single people. This event is held at Seattle’s Republiq and ticket prices are about $17 dollars.

Masquerade Party At Pink

Another Masquerade party. This one is located at the Pink Ultra Lounge. Cost is $15 for ladies and $25 for gents. I have been the Pink Ultra Lounge before, however, not for any NYE parties. The location is better than the Republiq event. I won’t be visiting due to the masks and ultra classy dress code (like republiq) but if I had to choose I would pick Pink.

Roaring 20’s Party

Located on Pier 56 aboard the ship The Royal, this event will be a dress up event. You can expect to see gangsters, molls, politicians, hit men, jazz singers and Hollywood starlets. The ticket price is $245. per ticket. I won’t be going due to the ticket price and there are just so many cheaper options available.

Sparkle Party

This is held at the See Sound Lounge in Belltown. That location is great. Ticket prices at the door are $40 ($30 advance). I have this on my favorites to check out and probably will show up. The music is electronic which can get annoying after about the first hour. One positive is that they say they are staying open until 3am. Unlike all the others closing at 2am. Noc Noc is the only other club that stays open late that I know of (5am). Belltown is probably one of the best locations in Seattle for nightlife. If you don’t like this location, you could easily walk around the block and find something else happening.

THE ISLANDER Boat Party

This looks pretty good. Ticket prices are $40 per ticket. I saw last years video of the event and looks good. The only problem I see is if the party is lame I’M STUCK ON A FREAKING BOAT! I am also nervous of the gender ratio like how many women to men. Nothing worse then getting stuck on a boat with a bunch of dudes on New Years Eve (unless that is your thing). Last year it was named the booze cruise and I once experienced a booze cruise in Hawaii – it was awesome! I’m considering this one.

Ambers

In Belltown this is one of my favorite locations. If all else fails I will be visiting here because you just can’t go wrong with it. Cover has always been free, however, it is NYE so I am unsure if they will charge.

Tia Lou’s

Located next to Ambers this is a good dance club. Again you can’t fail going here if you need a solid location. $20 at the door if you decide to visit.

So there you have it folks my top picks for Seattle New Year Eve parties. If you’re going out or staying home just have fun and take a second to set some goals next year. What can you do better or what do you want to accomplish in the new year? It’s a new year and an opportunity to start something new in your life.

In fact, do yourself a favor. When the clock strikes 12:05 am, take a few seconds to look at the bright moon above and think how blessed you are. At the end of the day, we are all humans made of flesh and bones and really blessed to just be living life on this big green planet traveling 66,000 mph. From the big blue sky, the fresh air we breath, to the shining seas full of life, we’re just small pieces in this big universe. Our time on this planet is short and one day our flesh and bones will be returned to this big planet. Breath in and breath out – before you know it…. that is life……you have to make the most of it.

This night is a fresh start and one of those rare opportunities every year you can experience that feeling.

OK now back to the party!!

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