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We’re not trying to dissuade you from meeting Dan Aykroyd! We just suggest you focus on what’s truly and awesomely bizarre about him: his UFO obsession.
The Seattle Times reported that minority group leaders called both McGinn and Joe Mallahan "strangers," and not in the Balki-Bartakamos wacky roommate way.
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Besides live animals, we're most looking forward to the food: Food at the Puyallup Fair is either surprisingly bad or surprisingly good.
You may know Seattle comedian Hari Kondabolu from his national performances, his appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live, or his role in All About Steve. Here, Hari makes a case for approving Referendum R-71, which would preserve domestic partnership rights in Washington:
Royal Caribbean, which offers offers seven-day cruises that depart Terminal 91 for Alaska every week, got a D in sewage treatment and an F in air pollution reduction. Slate estimates that your carbon footprint doubles each day you're on a cruise. You might as well idle your car for a week instead.
KOMO reports that UW is testing out the use of the Amazon Kindle in their classrooms this fall.
The University's Computer Science & Engineering Department will give every CS&E graduate student a Kindle DX, which will replace textbooks and research papers in their first-year courses. Kindle-edition textbooks and other materials will also be given to them free of charge. Amazon's sending Kindle DXs to six other universities throughout the United States. UW will be the first to get the book-killers.
- Chicagoist scoped out the spectacle, the crowds, and the madness surrounding Oprah's 24th season premiere, which shut down a stretch of the famed Magnificent Mile (aka Michigan Ave) and sent some residents and city officials into a tizzy.
- Gothamist had mixed feelings about a video showing a would-be bicycle thief getting a serious beatdown from the bike's owner and his friends—the lesson is: Do not steal bikes, bro!
- Seattlest looked over some of the seminal images of the 2009 Bumbershoot music festival.
Nein! Nein! Nein! We Mean 09:09:09 09/09/09
Nine minutes past nine, on the ninth day of the ninth month of the ninth year. Just thought we'd mention it.
Steve Pool is promising eighty degrees by Saturday, but we know better than to hang our hopes on the emptiness that is a Seattle weather person’s five-day forecast. Just go outside, shit is cold. If summer is going to spring back into form like a sunny Lazarus, we won’t complain--but right now it’s taking more faith than us heathens can afford. Coming off maybe the wettest Bumbershoot in memory, this feels like an appropriate time to reflect on the summer in the past tense.
Authorities have decided to let a wildfire burning in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness run its course. Considering this is one of the most beautiful areas in the state, it’s kind of like saying, "We know the prom queen just started snorting meth but we’re going to let this thing play out and see how it goes."
Mt. Vernon should be proud of Glenn Beck like the UW should be proud of Ted Bundy. (Fun fact: Both were active Republicans!) Just because you’re a big deal, doesn’t mean you’re a good deal. Mt. Vernon Mayor Bud Norris, long-time Beck friend, isn’t letting that get in his way as the Fox News waterboy is to be honored and given a key to the city later this month.
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