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Seattlest confidant/subliterate henchman "Pete the Polak" told us a long stupid story this weekend about how a friend of a friend of his once knew Duff and this credible source claimed that it was he and not Axl who wrote the lyrics for the timeless classic "Paradise City" and that said song was based on Seattle. We immediately called horse shit on this obvious lie, but upon activating a computer we could find no evidence to the contrary.

Seattlest received a tip from our only contact in the bicycle enthusiast hobo underworld (a sub-species also referred to by anthropoligists with the more politically correct term "Urban Primitive") that New York's Idiotarod - an urban parody of the Alaskan dog sled race whereby shopping carts are used as the vehicle of choice - will come to Seattle this weekend in the form of The Seattle Idiotarod. The Village Voice covered the recent New York session and the situation the idiots enjoyed with the local police.

Seattlest went to see the allegedly brand new, fully-restored print of the 1959 Robert Bresson classic Pickpocket at the Northwest Film Forum Tuesday night. We havent seen the French masterpiece since the late '90s when we caught at least part of it at the Grand Illusion, but we must not have stayed for the whole thing because we don't remember falling this madly in love with distressed ultra-goddess Marika Green (move over, precious Natalie Portman!). Seattlest will defer film criticsm to the experts, but for our money, it is indeed a classic: the much-hyped, convincing naturalism by way of Bresson's stylized minimalism, and intense visceral tension in all the close-ups and intimacy with the stealing tradecraft, etc. As for the film's alleged print restoration: to our layman's eyes the picture seemed pretty clean, but the sound quality was mired by the aged hissing/static noise that kind of subsided toward the end. But what can you do? It's an old, old movie. C'est la vie.

Seattlest knows these two crazy Mormons from Orange County who are in the process of moving to Seattle by the slowest means possible: by foot. The Schmidts chose the Pacific Crest Trail for their route to sunny Seattle over the less scenic--and yet, less crazy--I-5 option. The intrepid couple post regular reports on their personal and meticulously detailed blog that’s a pleasure to read even if you hate hiking.