If only more photos captured a moment like The Amazing Race, by katemoore82. Drop your gems into the Seattlest Flickr pool and watch them sparkle, too.......

Sanjaya, Schmanjaya. There are other Seattle-area residents on reality shows this season. And at least one of them has reached her show's final episode and is in contention for the grand prize: Puyallup's own Miss California, Dustin-Leigh Seltzer (nee Konzelman) on Amazing Race All-Stars. Dustin and her racing partner Kandice (Dustin's the blonde...with the nice teeth...the one who doesn't kinda sorta resemble Maggie Gyllenhaal) achieved All-Stardom by coming in fourth place last season on......

You know how when you're watching television during a presidential address and you're frantically flipping channels to get away from it, but his face just reappears on the screen every time with a new logo splashed in the corner? Seattlest had that experience while trying to watch the news this morning, except instead of running from the president we were trying to escape American Idol. Did you know that American Idol is having auditions......

Cool: Active/inactive holds breakdown. Seattlest noticed that now, in addition to telling you how many people have a library item on hold, the online catalog tells you the total and how many of those are active vs. inactive holds. You can find out on the item information page (for example, if you want the Revenge of the Sith DVD, there are now 193 holds: 160 active and 33 inactive) or in your hold requests list......

As previously alluded to, Seattlest is unabashed in our love for television. We tend to gravitate toward the good stuff, but we are by no means too highbrow to watch reality TV. Case(s) in point: the gloriously addictive trainwrecks known as Surreal Life 5 and Being Bobby Brown. For us, the viewing of such apocalypse-heralding fare is merely a spectator sport; that is to say, we've got no aspirations to be the castmember who actively......

Seattlest is grumpy. We'd planned to ramble on at length about all kinds of fun and exciting things to do outside this spring, and then, like an unwanted distant relative, our heretofore non-existent winter decided to pay us a surprise visit and make up for some lost time and precipitation. We know, we know, yesterday we were much cheerier about it and suggested you buck up like little campers and ride it out. This......