Can't Miss It: Wednesday

BLOG-GAZING: We're going to The Pitch tonight, and as of this second, there's room for one more person on the guest list. The pitch this time is: "An established newspaper will never be able to provide better hyperlocal coverage than a well-managed neighborhood blog," and panel participants include West Seattle Blog's Tracy Record, the P-I's Big Blog's Curt Milton (we see Monica Guzman's on the guest list, too), and last but certainly not least if you ask him, CHS's lovely and talented Justin Carder.

7-9 p.m. // Lucid, 5241 University Way NE // Free

ART & EMPIRE: Along with its Napoleon on the Nile exhibit, the Frye Art Museum on First Hill is presenting Empire and its "complex, even contradictory, figures of difference; provisional notions of identity; mingled pasts and presents; and shifting boundaries of inclusion and exclusion." Ha! We know, you'd rather pull your eyes out than read more of that. But luckily you can just go and see the art for yourself without the Frye over-intellectualizing it all for you. Plus, the cafe is great for lunch.

10 a.m.-5 p.m. // Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Avenue // Free

ICELANDIC SAGA: Minnesotan poet Bill Holm drops in at Elliott Bay tonight to talk about his travel-memoir-meditation The Windows of Brimnes: An American in Iceland, which is at least in part about summers he spends at his cabin near Hofsós in Iceland. It also recounts his forebears' Icelandic roots, and gives him the opportunity to polemicize about the state of the U.S. under the Republican jackboot. It is not a great book, we've read it, but if you like stories about Iceland--and who doesn't!--this is the spot for you.

7:30 p.m. // Elliott Bay Book Co. // Free

That's our picture of a curious Icelandic sheep up there.