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Today the PostGlobe followed up on our own sterling reporting about how the Parks Department doesn't want you, your baby, or your dog in the water features at Cal Anderson Park. There are tiny little signs!

Lookit, today is a downright glorious day--way too glorious for the beginning of a workweek. We could encourage you to attend all kinds of events, including scads of SIFF films and at least two shows (the dirty electro of Peaches at the Showbox or ex-members of the Unicorns and Arcade Fire making up Clues at Neumo's). But we won't.

The California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8--which bans legal recognition of same-sex marriages--yesterday, sparking a wave of protests across the country. Here in Seattle, a "Day of Decision" rally was held downtown at Westlake Center. The Stranger reports State Senator Ed Murray was ambivalent about attending, saying, "so few people are willing to get off their butts to do something about marriage equality here, in the state where they themselves live." But of course he showed, along with Rep. Jamie Pedersen (photo) and a host of others. Hundreds of people crowded Westlake, and afterwards a smaller number took the chance to march up to Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill. Check out Seattlest Flickr Pool member subsetsum's "Day of Decision" photoset for a full chronicling.

Today being Harvey Milk Day, we lunched in Cal Anderson Park, named after Washington's first openly gay state legislator, appointed in 1987 by the King County Council to a vacant 43rd District seat in the House.

The thing is, it didn't have to go down like this. We stepped out today looking forward to a hot dog in the park, courtesy of Wandering Wieners, who have taken up residence in Cal Anderson. We ran into them there one rainy day last week, and made plans to come back when the sun was out. We tried earlier this week, but couldn't find them, this tweet to the contrary. Nothing today, either. So what could we do but try a scoop of Molly Moon's salted licorice ice cream in a waffle cone? You tell us! That's right. You'd have done the same thing.

FOOD ORGY: Get thee to the Seattle Center this weekend for the annual Bite of Seattle. Over a hundred booths, multiple beer gardens, cooking demos, live entertainment... all in the name of of good, local eating? Sounds like a great weekend event to us! Take advantage of the Just A Bite area, offering mini versions of local restaurant specialties for $3.75 a serving.

My God, it's beautiful outside. When did that happen? Here we are sneezing and coughing and oozing from every orifice on our face when we look outside and Holy Obamalove, Batman! It's really nice out!

A hundred or so people met at Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill last night, to serenade the full lunar eclipse with Bonnie Tyler's '80s classic, "Total Eclipse of the Heart." The plan was to sing the song for the entire 51 minutes of the lunar eclipse. Sadly, Seattlest could not take the song or the cold long enough to see if they succeeded.

On the plus side, the basketball and tennis courts at Cal Anderson Park are completely open.

Seattle's known as one of the least-churched cities in the U.S. But consider this recent report from the Barna Group, which found that three out of every four American adults interpret literally the Bible story in which Jesus rises from the dead after being crucified and buried. The numbers are taken from a thousand-person telephone survey. There's some interesting poll information there, and some even more interesting commentary from the Barna Group ("Your partner for information, strategy, execution and transformation!" says their website):

A minority of the people who believe these stories to be true consistently apply the principles embedded in these stories within their own lives. It seems that millions of Americans believe the Bible content is true, but are not willing to translate those stories into action. Sadly, for many people, the Bible has become a respected but impersonal religious history lesson that stays removed from their life.

Seattlest can't find any hard data from the poll to back up these last statements from Barna, an admittedly Christian organization, and we're not sure who's providing the official description of what it looks like to "translate those stories into action." However, we would be down for a grand Seattle-style social experiment: for 24 hours, Cal Anderson Park could be turned into a playground for all the apparently-repressed Biblical literalists to freely act out their beliefs. The prayer walkers will be on hand to referee; we think this could yield a crop of fascinating YouTube material.

Dan Savage and Jamie Pederson aren't the only gay dads in town--apparently there's a whole bunch, and some of them are looking to form a support group. "My partner and I had a baby a few months ago and were surprised at the lack of support, social outlets for Gay men with babies/kids so we decided to get off our ass and start one ourselves," says Larry Nicholas. Good on ya, Larry. They're meeting at Cal Anderson this Sunday at 11am.

We did our best to ignore the shirtless guy's bongo tappy tappy, but when two California poseurs got him to provide a beat for them to rap to (badly), it was time for our person to move along.

Two ducks in Cal Anderson's reflecting pool illustrate tried-and-true ways to beat the heat. Cool off in the park's mini-Wild Waves after the jump.

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East wing of Cal Anderson Park. Right next to the water cooler.

Cal Anderson Park reflecting pool, 9:10am.

This morning we noticed that someone had dumped some Ultra detergent into the fountain at Cal Anderson Park, which made a bunch of pretty foam, but which perturbed us because we weren't sure if that was getting into our drinking water. The park, as you might already know, is basically a very cool lid for the reservoir that sits underneath it.

-Four percent of the country's beer went up in smoke in a warehouse fire in Yakima yesterday.

We recently got an email from Bradford Bohonus over at VRSeattle that alerted us to the fact that he's updated the site with a new crop of that peculiar kind of wrap-around picture. The screen capture above of Cal Anderson park is not one of the new ones. We just really like that one. These are the new ones.

Strolling through Volunteer Park on our lunch break, we spotted a new skate bowl where the antiquated reservoir used to be. With what looks like a (mini) super-collider laid out on the bottom, it's Seattle grunge meets Seattle hi-tech. Is this a response to the success of Cal Anderson Park, just down the Hill, with the younger set? If so, Volunteer is firing both barrels.

We're certainly not the only ones to be ragging on new housing being built on the Hill. But we've got our eyes on another development, specifically the nine condos for sale at the corner of 11th and Howell, right across from Cal Anderson Park. Seattlest lives near these condos and has been acutely aware of their construction, via one year of all kinds of noise starting everyday 'round 7 in the AM (and *that's* why we hate the unions).

There aren't many days left at Cal Anderson like the one depicted in this Michael Hanscom photo set. We're sure it'll be just as nice under the clouds, but go bath in the sun soon if you don't want to wait out our 62 months of winter

Seattlest chortled like little Stewie over this headline. Do you know why? Because this post is about the long-awaited opening of Cal Anderson Park!