So I guess there's no point in keeping up the charade any longer. The only reason I took this Mercury gig was that I knew it would be a stepping stone to a technical-advisory job on some kind of pickle-based reality competition show. Cha-Ching! Since the networks should come courting tomorrow morning, Alison has agreed to start filling my Last Supper column inches with photo collages of her cat and old Sleater Kinney album covers (I think you’ll really love her work).
If I sound full of myself, that’s because tonight, at the Ace Hotel Cleaners, I’ll be judging—along with Dave “Killer Bread” Dahl and Courtney Sproule of the Din Din Supper Club—some of the finest pickling our fair city has to offer. Competitors include folks from Beast, Chop, DOC, Le Happy, Navarre, Olympic Provisions, Salt, Fire, & Time, and Unbound Pickling. It’s all part of a fundraiser and membership drive for The Dill Pickle Club. There will be music from Marissa Anderson, Orca Team, and DJ Cuica, plus a screening of a short film from Mikey Kampmann and our own Sarah Mirk. It’s $5 to get in (free for members) but bring some extra cash for A.C. Dickson’s pickle auction.
These guys do great work, and I think it’s going to be a good time. Full schedule after the jump, plus a video of a dog and a puppet listening to Sade (it’s cute).
