Countdown to 2011: Our Top Predictions for 2011

Seattlest will be counting down to 2011 with a series of posts on our highlights of this year and what we're looking forward to in the next. Got a list to suggest? Send it our way. See the entire series here.

Are you tired of year-end countdowns yet? As the minutes tick down to the formal conclusion of 2010, we bring you a few predictions for what's going down in 2011:

1. Gov. Gregoire will finally challenge Mayor McGinn to a fistfight. McGinn will decline.

2. Tim Eyman will become some kind of viral Internet laughingstock. Like state Sen. Pam Roach's "roses" audio, only you know, in the era of YouTube where it will be everywhere and people in Mozambique will even be laughing.

(or, alternately...)

3. After nearly 15 years of dodging and having accusations of fraudulence sliding off of him like Teflon, Tim Eyman is finally brought low when it is discovered that he has an active furry lifestyle, which he conducts as the Lorax, of all things.

4. Seattle will lead the way in national economic recovery, one Kindle and Kinect at a time.

5. At least one Seattle band is going to blow-the-F-up this year, sweeping the nation by storm and laying the licks down fierce. The Moondoggies will probably be one of these bands.

6. Seattle will finally become the kind of city where finding a cab after midnight on a weeknight is not an impossible task.

7. The Washington State Liquor Control Board will have a staff party where someone spikes the punch, resulting in everyone getting drunk and laid. This will lead them to finally realize that booze is not the devil's elixir and they will allow extended drinking hours, permit the selling of booze in regular stores, bring back the real Four Loko and remove the alcohol impact zones. Party Time All the Time.

8. The state will end up building that ree-diculous deep bore tunnel despite the many reasonable alternatives, all evidence that it is a horrible idea and the flat out opposition of the voting populace.