Seattlest's Favorite Things

Without Oprah to tell us what to like and buy, the Seattlest Staffers were feeling a little lost. So we've polled each other and come up with the stuff that we can't get enough of this week, from places to go and things to do, to the little tidbits that make our life better on the daily. Here's what we've got this week:

Pie Is The Answer by Pippi Konstanski from the Seattlest Flickr pool. This is one of many entries into the Cake vs. Pie photography contest. Add yours!

Motherly advice: When I was leaving for college, my mother told me to "be a panda." That essentially meant, don't be a slut. Yesterday, she directed me to watch Steve Jobs' Stanford Commencement Speech from 2005. "Stay hungry, stay foolish." Moms, they get it right about 50% of the time.
--Annie

Pie: Washington is one of the largest apple producing states in the country. So there’s no reason that you shouldn’t be digging into a piping hot piece of apple pie when fall rolls around. This is the perfect time to hit up one of Seattle’s Farmers Market to get the freshest apples straight from the orchard and get baking. I recently pulled an apple pie from the oven made solely of the famed Gravenstein apple. But there are plenty of other varieties to choose from including the Black Twig, Jonagold Red, the Cox Orange Pippin and plenty of others. So mix and match or stick with your favorite, but whatever you do get in the kitchen and bake a pie! There will be plenty of baking action taking place on Monday night at Seattlest's own Jenise Silva’s Cake vs. Pie event... baking slots are full but why not enter our Cake vs. Pie Photography Contest for a chance to win some prizes, and have your best shot featured as one of our daily Seattlest Pix.
--Michael

Simple comforts: Dry tents. Dry Sleeping Bags. Being Dry.
--The Occupiers

DC Comic's O.M.A.C. #1: As superhero comic fans are aware, DC just recently did a company-wide reboot, starting fresh with a clean slate while retconning a bunch of continuity in the process (Barbara Gordon can walk again!). I'm working my way through the entire line-up of first issues and while there are some early favorites (Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Action Comics and All Star Western) I was bowled over by O.M.A.C. A straight up tribute to Jack Kirby that's both respectful and winking. The artistic team has captured the non-stop feel of Kirby's stories, and the artwork looks and feels like the master never left. It remains to be seen if they can continue bringing the mind-boggling cosmic action from month to month, but the first outing is promising.
--Jose

Soup for Sluts: In an otherwise tough week, this is making me smile. Cheap, fast, and easy.
--Tamiko

Big cheese: Last year I had the wonderful good fortune of attending the American Cheese Society Conference full of 4 days of non-stop creamy goodness. One of the fascinating things about the conference was watching the team transport 1000s of wheels of the country's finest cheeses around town for the plethora of tastings, parties, the award ceremony and finally to the amazing post conference cheese sale at The Palace Ballroom where you could snag large blocks or even whole wheels of award winning cheese for just $5 each. The 100lb Stilton Cheese Wheel was created in honor of Long Clawson’s 100 year anniversary and is rumored to have earned a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records next year.
--Jenise

Some heady shit: My favorite thing this week kept me at work late watching it right after last week's favorite things went live: Foucault debating with Chomsky.

My Dav knee-high rainboots. I got them on sample sale for ridiculously inexpensive and they are cute and have a heel and make me feel like a rockstar even when it's raining.
--Hanna

This: This video is incredibly well done. And truly, my favorite thing of this week is the gigantic reminder that the 1% of the media represents the 1% of the population. Keeps me hopeful for revolution as we manage to keep going, we, the unpaid media that represent the unpaid masses.
--Dikla