Having waited the federally mandated two months since site creation before promoting (attn: Slog), CHS is now happy to introduce the latest web-based portal into Capitol Hill’s hipster universe, Hillebrity:
Nightlife photography by Timothy Rysdyke, chicken-nugget aficionado. A “hillebrity” can include but is not limited to: people on or around Capitol Hill, celebrities, drunk people, beautiful people, crazy-looking people, singers, artists, dogs, writers, criminals, people from Hawaii, the unemployed, girls with awesome hair, and my friend Panda.
A “hillebrity” does not include jseattle, scarf dancers, Sound Transit, slackliners, people who LARP, Olympia Pizza & Spaghetti House III, that guy who stands like Jesus on 14th Ave or Solar Tan.
Hillebrity fills the wide, smoking maw left with the implosion of Cap to the Hill which is now a GoDaddy advertisement. It captures images — and names — of some of the most interesting people on Capitol Hill and many who deserve more attention. It also has pictures of people who don’t. Enjoy!
It really helps if you work at The Stranger, or, sleep with someone who does.
Also: Don’t be old.
Lol!! Perfect,Michael!!
That hit the nail right on the head!
People who need to lose a few pounds should be excluded.
In my day, you had to do something to get famous like die or show your wiener on myspace
…and ask him what’s up with that. Then I realized the other morning he and I had crossed Pike St. together (on 14th, natch) when he stopped on the island before crossing Madison and put his arms up. I was too surprised to put my sentence together, and besides, I was late for work.
Has anyone ever talked to him?
By snappers, I’m with you on this one!
I live right near there and walk past him pretty frequently….All I’ve ever heard him say (with a smile) is “Jesus loves you, friend, have a blessed day.” I think I’ve seen him doing odd jobs around the exterior of the church there too.
I would LOVE to find out his story, though! I’ve seen him in conversation with passersby from time to time, but I’ve never stopped to chat.
Pictures of “interesting” Capitol Hill people doing “interesting” things.
I don’t understand this article.
masturbation.
FUCK that is so interesting!
ugh.
…I could be so self important to find myself on this blog
…you could start your own blog so that dozens of people you’ve never met can read it and find silly reasons to resent you, too.
It’s pictures of people who get drunk or are in the process of getting drunk, on Capitol Hill. It could be “brity” as in lack of sobriety.
…and they’re all children.
So, SoMad, have you seen him doing… carpentry?
Another self aware, dirty fishbowl, buttstain of a hipster web project.
Pictures of my closest friends doing what they do best: getting drunk.
Yawn-o-rama.
I was misreading “hillebrity” as “hillbilly”. It seems to work both ways.
poor Victoria!
no picture of PurpleMark?
Waxie Moon?
underwhelmed.
Purple Mark is nothing but an attention whore.
Here’s my impression of purple Mark: “Look at me!!! Look at me!!! Look at meeeeeeee!!!!!!”
I think you mean loose a few pounds
She may be loose too but I was only referring to her need to lose weight. See the difference?
If you are going to correct, make sure you know what you are talking about.
PurpleMark? Waxie Moon? Who the hell are they and why should I care?
“hillebrity” how to be obnoxious, drunk and dirty looking.
You are overweight, alone, and sell people burritos. A picture on a blog is your reward. The world’s gifts are justly distributed to those who deserve them.
navel gazing at it’s finest.
My eyes demand a refund, and $$ to wipe the memories.
Heed your own advice, jackass.
Try reading my comment again. It wasn’t a quote so I don’t need to use incorrect grammar.
From one jackass to another, you still don’t know what you are talking about. Do you want to try again?
which is totally unlike all the other hillebrities pictured here.
another website out there! don’t look at it if you don’t like it! big deal. let him take his pictures!
Quit bitching about people bitching. If you don’t like the bitching, stop reading the comments. The purpose of blogs (especially this one) is for people to bitch.
Well I think the blog is great! It shows all kinds of people that make the world interesting and unique!!! I love the photos and the young man that shot them! He is my SON and I’m proud of what he does and the person he has become!
Wow, Michael, way to baldly expose your own insecurities. I’m almost 50 and I think these photos are great! They all have spirt and tell a story about a real character. Are you jealous? Does every photographer have to exhibit fat and old to meet your standards of acceptability? Be fat and be happy…or get off your couch and lose weight and be happy. But whatever you do, think about how silly you look posting things that that.