We're going to spoil the end of Jonathan Raban's Surveillance. If you haven't read it yet and don't want to know, stop reading now. more ›

Yes, it makes a nifty preview of the what things will look like when The Big One hits Seattle -- what are the odds it'll knock over a half-built Viaduct? -- but really we snapped this to alert you that Pine Street is going to be backed up during the commute for as long as this "HULK SMASH!" phase goes on. That is all. Please return to whatnot. more ›

As usual, Seattlest has donuts on our mind. Since we are compelled to endure that barbaric time of day known in some parts of the world as have been thinking about them too. more ›

Daily papers like the Seattle Times have the jump on local and national publications scrambling to release disaster preparedness material as soon as possible. At the Seattle Times there's no need to scrap the thrice-annual real estate issue in lieu of reminding the readership of the region's pending apocalypse when you can just toss it in any old Monday edition, though. The headline reads "Who'll be to blame if viaduct, 520 bridge collapse?" and the answer, they would have you believe, is most definitely not the Seattle Times. more ›