
This is how it ends. Neighborhood blogging descends to provincial cheerleading and boosterism. Vehicles for neighborhood nationalism. The Balkanization of Seattle. Wallingford, turns out, is quite proud of its Wallingford Word of the Week and has waved this week’s word — fubsy — in our face. And by our face, I mean the face of the entirety of Capitol Hill.
Wallingford — and by Wallingford, I mean the entirety of the neighborhood — writes:
Hey Capitol Hill, how’s it going? So, what’s your Word of the Week? Hmmm? Don’t have one? Oh, that’s a pity. We’ve got two. Yeah, we know, it seems like a lot, but you get used to it.
Normally, we wouldn’t lower ourselves to take such obvious bait, but I’ve got movie passes to give away. We’d like to welcome our newest CHS RSS feed sponsor, Northwest Film Forum, by giving away a buddy pass to the NWFF screening of choice to the neighbor who provides us with the CHS One-Time-Only We’ll Never Do This Again Word of the Week in the comments. Please add your nominations and any justification you feel is necessary in the comments. Winner will be selected based on an algorithm combining replies to your post and my whims. It is a complicated algorithm.

For the record, Wallyhood is only one of the Wallingford neighborhood blogs, and they don’t necessarily speak for “the entirety of the neighborhood.” You can also check out http://wallingfordseattle.tumblr.com to hear from other voices in the neighborhood. We mostly talk about cupcakes and ice cream. Mostly.
praeteritio ( http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:Praeteritio&ei=5CTNSazOFZGYsAO_3LiwCg&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title)
seems oddly appropriate for this situation (cicero was a big fan of praeteritio by saying things like “i won’t even mention … ” and then going on to mention it anyway). in latin, it means roughly “to pass over”
Barrio is a Spanish word meaning district or neighborhood. And also the name of a new restaurant on Capitol Hill.
Balanohphagy: the eating acorns. For obvious reasons.
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Short, often overlooked–and essential.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner