How, I ask you, how could I resist clicking through to a blog headline reading, "Cannibalism on Capitol Hill"?

You, too, clicked right away, didn't you, dear reader?

Broadway Seattle [Welcome. Great to see you.] blog caught a great tale from another blog that's not quite about cannibalism, but for the sake of a headline like that, who among us wouldn't stretch things a bit?

Seems the wonderful tale-teller was running around the old Lincoln Park reservoir running trail (for those new to the area: that's now Cal Anderson Park with the reservoir buried in Homeland-Security certified-safe tanks underground)  when Bonney-Watson's nearby crematorium disgorged a belch of smoke:

The giant, dense cloud of pieces of large gray ash were flying at me and broke over me like the ocean’s surf just as I was gasping. So of course I managed to inhale, ingest, and plaster the insides of my mouth and nose with, an enormous amount of human remains from the crematorium.

Their stack, for whatever reason, had simply discharged an enormous cloud of ashes from its crematorium into the air. ...

Covered in a layer of uniformly baked grey human ash, I walked home. Thankfully it was near, since the cake of ash on my body was very thick, and I was very nearly at the point of vomiting for most of the trip to the shower. One other factor saved me what small amount of dignity I allow myself - since Capitol Hill was also Seattle’s homeless punk youth and heroin/crank/crystal neighborhood, there were people at least as bizarre-looking as I walking down the street with their children and a bag of bagels, or some homeless 24-year old with a tattoo on their forehead that simply says “Drunk.” Nobody really paid me any attention. And if I had vomited, I would hardly have gained additional attention.

OK. So maybe that is cannibalism, after all.

[Update: Names always get me. I had it as "Broadway Capitol Hill" because I thought I detected just a slight family resemblance to CHS, but then... I've been too busy to keep up with much beyond this little world here. The blog's name is Broadway Seattle.]