My Friday unfolded just as promised: Hub pizza** (after a long but tolerable wait in an elbow-to-elbow dining room), followed by the Tree Roots in the Basement show at the Helm. I flirted briefly with King's Books, but did not linger.

I snapped a few shoddy pics from the show to upload. Look out for those later. But it made my heart happy to see all the young'uns of Tacoma out in their best skinny jeans and thrift-store dresses to support the artistic pursuits of their friends. God knows I didn't have my act together at 19. I was probably still wearing something made out of hemp.

** Loyal reader Dave L. says he, too, had pizza this weekend, at home, but burned it. The Hub did not burn my pizza, so that's an option to consider in the future, Dave. I'm sorry for your loss.

In other news of a Washington sort, a boy from Whatcom County beat all of us in terms of weekend ambition.

BLAINE, Wash. (AP) — A 13-year-old boy in Blaine is claiming the world record for blowing balloons with his nose.
Using one nostril at a time, Andrew Dahl inflated 213 balloons within an hour Friday in the town’s public library. His feat has been submitted for review by Guinness World Records.
His father, Doug Dahl, measured the balloons to make sure each was at least 20 centimeters, about 8 inches, the minimum diameter, and his mother, Wendy Dahl, kept the tally.
At one point he asked, “Does this count as practicing my trumpet?” His mother replied, “Only if you can play that with your nose.”

Ah, to be young again.