nathalie graham

freelance journalist. cat evangelist. jeopardy! enthusiast. words in @seattletimes @geekwire @thestranger [email protected]

[nathalie graham @gramsofgnats]

In my column Play Date, I'm exploring Seattle subcultures, hobbies, pastimes, and places where you feel part of something. If you have something I should write about please let me know—I'd love to learn about it.

Here are some of the little worlds I've explored so far:

[Andrew Buncombe @AndrewBuncombe]

'LGBTQ rugby isn’t a drag': Do read this by @gramsofgnats @TheStranger https://t.co/ZsAzwrcpzq

[nathalie graham @gramsofgnats]

For @SeattleMet and @investigatewest I spent months reporting on the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire. Many ex-faire workers allege corruption, labor violations, and abuse. This piece dives into all of it:

https://t.co/Y1gnwbDhgF

[nathalie graham @gramsofgnats]

There is something so uncanny about the not-quite-right way The Last of Us portrays Seattle, its main setting for season 2. I'm obsessed with it and, if you're a Seattleite, I bet you are, too: https://t.co/hLENvdGD1m

[nathalie graham @gramsofgnats]

the last of us season 2 episode 3 is what conservative media thought CHOP was like in Seattle

[Guy Oron @GuyOron]

Thank you @gramsofgnats for the shout out! I think “Bruce the Sweeps Freak” is quite fitting
https://t.co/ZjkeuTV4FW

[nathalie graham @gramsofgnats]

no “can’t hold us” during the seventh inning stretch at the mariners game??? Cowards!

[t’es woke toi ! 🇵🇸 @teswoketoi]

okay breaking my silence… why do people live inside of u district station

[Hadas Weiss @weiss_hadas]

vibrator that only activates after you’ve written 2 paragraphs

[nathalie graham @gramsofgnats]

Tom carves all the time. He carves in traffic. He carves in his bed. He carves at the movies—well, that only happened one time at a bad sci-fi movie

[nathalie graham @gramsofgnats]

In my latest column, I spent an evening carving a spoon with the Seattle Spoon Club. Their only rule? Don’t say the “f word” (forks)

https://t.co/XVVGPiUo46

[nathalie graham @gramsofgnats]

but seriously, I loved spending an evening with these carvers. It’s such a giving, passionate environment—a tone set by Tom Henscheid, who brought spoon carving to Pratt

[🫎🔱 @BullMooseSEA]

The energy spent here is beautiful. It makes me want to visit Georgia.

[nathalie graham @gramsofgnats]

Ever wonder why someone built a 16-foot Space Needle replica in Macon, Georgia? Because of love, obviously:

https://t.co/bR19miW0bE

[Mohammed R. Mhawish @mrmhawish]

"I held his little body and rocked him like he was sleeping.”

What happens after the bombs stop? These 20 voices from Gaza will show you the cost of war—and the strength of those who survive it.

https://t.co/ifCuXqnHy9

[Los Angeles Alerts @AlertLosAngeles]

The 101 fwy through DTLA

[nathalie graham @gramsofgnats]

the last two weeks on here with the fires and the inauguration is as good a reminder as any to start using blue sky (telling myself this as much I am telling you)

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@divergentfemme @GuyOron @AlexaVaughn Geogrid! https://t.co/bfnJHOw5lN

[geryon @R0SYLNS]

kyle maclachlan saying "i will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear"

[nathalie graham @gramsofgnats]

@divergentfemme Same and I’m so bad at it

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ready to get backdrafted for the firefighting army in the war against mother nature?

[nathalie graham @gramsofgnats]

firefighting army goes crazy as a phrase

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

A lot of misinformation out there.

Just launched a new site to ensure the public has access to fact-based data around the Southern CA wildfires.

The TRUTH:
- CA did NOT cut our firefighting budget. We have nearly doubled the size of our firefighting army and built the world’s largest aerial firefighting fleet.
- CA has INCREASED forest management ten-fold since we took office.
- California will NOT allow for looting.

Get the facts: https://t.co/kgUOGhcC0D