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• Posted Illegal Eagles to Seattlest
  NPR reports that there's been a huge rise in the traffic of under-the-table eagles- and the poaching happens in our backyard. A bald or golden eagle can fetch as much as a thousand bucks on the black market- but only in pieces. The large pinion feathers on an eagle's wing can sell on the black market for $100 apiece. Breast feathers fetch $10 and eagle down is plucked and used in headdresses which, in Europe,...
• Posted Go Yurt! to Seattlest
  No, not a spoonerism (complete with granola and strawberries), but an imperative! It is Seattlest's confirmed opinion that not enough of us Yurt. Yurting is an activity enjoyed by the upper classes in Mongolia. A yurt is a kind of large boat, featuring massive engines, diving platforms in the back, and a man in a Ghengis Kahn hat, smoking a pipe. In it, posh Mongols cruise through their vast waters, raping and looting and having...
• Posted Neil Gaiman, Telling Tales to Seattlest
  It's time for Seattlest to ask a couple of absurd questions about Neil Gaiman. For instance, if Mr. Gaiman were to swoop from the sky and attack you- like a bird of prey- what sort of predatory bird would he be? The answer: A very polite one. At least that's how we remember him- as polite, not as a bird of prey. He was extraordinarily kind the last time we saw him, which was in...
• Posted Hiking Lake Serene to Seattlest
  Summer never ends, or so sing The Anomoanon. Seattlest knows very well that summer does end, metaphors notwithstanding, and with it go a lot of our outdoor frolics. But September ain't November, folks- there's still time to get the heck out of Dodge, if you've a will. That's what we did, on a recent weekend, out Highway 2 way. If you want to get to Lake Serene, like we did, you've got a helluva lot...
• Posted California, Here We Come to Seattlest
  If the names "Captain Oats" and "Princess Sparkle" mean nothing to you, you'd best plan to skip to the next post. Because Seattlest is about to geek out in a major way over the approaching season premier of- some of you guessed it- The O.C. A teen soap, yes- but a teen soap with depth, dammit! And breadth- strewn with more pop-culture references, adventurous music choices, and nerd-chic than any show can contain and expect...