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Well, after two full days of filmery, we made it back from Toronto in one piece, but not before seeing our last movie of the fest, Sean Penn's powerful adaptation of Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer's mega-selling non-fiction book about the insatiable wanderlust that led a young man to drop out of society, tramp around the country for two years, and ultimately die alone in middle-of-nowhere Alaska (for a more detailed summary, check out the paperback's cover).

>>>Hugo House, 7:30pm. Screenwriters Salon: Geoff Miller and Mark Handley invite you to bring your questions about format, technique, structure, dialogue, writing characters, and how to use your catering gig to hand your script to celebs. $5 general/$2 students. Free to members.

SFist commeters pose for before and aftershocks when the mayor commemorates a 1906 earthquake...at 4:30 in the morning. A hot tip on the Chronicle vending machines comes in and the SFist war correspondent risks life and limb to post this dispatch from the frontlines.

After Wired ran a story documenting the GoogleCenter of the United States a bunch of ists jumped on the opportunity to figure out their own middle. Gothamist, Chicagoist, Bostonist and Seattlest all zoomed in on their creamy GoogleCenters. A crack cartography team is hard at work determining the GoogleCenter of the Ist-a-verse as you read this...

Remember when Juliette Lewis used to be cool? She was one of the high points of the questionable Natural Born Killers. Just previous to that she starred across from Johnny Depp in the Gilbert Grape thing which was only a few years after Cape Fear. Have we mentioned From Dusk Till Dawn? Granted those aren't exactly indie movies, but she's always managed an indie aura even when operating under the most obscene of budgets. Armpit hair will do that for ya.

Amazon is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a curious promotion: for a limited time, selected customers will get their booty delivered by none other than a celebrity related to the item ordered. Then--in a twist that could only make us think of those Publisher's Clearing House commercials where the mortified new millionaire answers the door in curlers and a bathrobe--Amazon webcasts the magic moment.

Now that Independence Day weekend has come and gone, Seattlest has gotten all that nasty "freedom" and "liberty" and "love for one's country" out of our system---so it's back to cynicism as usual. With that in mind, it's the perfect time to hit up Elliott Bay Book Company for the reading/signing tonight by politically-minded cartoonist Ward Sutton. Ward lived in Seattle from '91 to '95, when he illustrated posters for local bands (of the grunge variety, no doubt). He's back in town this evening promoting his new book o' comics entitled Sutton Impact: The Political Cartoons of Ward Sutton. This is his first-ever collection, culled from his weekly strip in the Village Voice, as well as works created for the New York Times, The Nation, Mother Jones, The New Republic, TV Guide, and other hippie commie pinko rags. In fact, his book features the following warning:

The Attorney General has found that reading Sutton Impact may be hazardous to your unquestioning devotion to the Bush administration, the Religious Right, and the Media Industrial Complex.

Since you have undoubtedly already seen 'Star Wars Episode 3 Revenge of the Sith,' we recommend putting your wookie costume in dry storage and checking out comedy legend (okay, not really a legend, but a funny guy) David Cross performing with Todd Barry and the Thermals at the Showbox. It is really hard for us to quantify our love of David Cross, but we would like to say that if any cast member of 'Arrested Development' were to ask for our spare kidney, we would grab the nearest butter knife and start cutting. The Thermals play punk in the proper old-fashioned three chord way and are described by Amazon.com reviewer 'wicked emo' as kicking "...my ass every day with brutal sonic punishment, and I love it."

It has come to Seattlest's attention that there's some big movie coming out tomorrow. Sigh.

Are you tired of picking up People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People issue every spring and lamely joking that you once again rejected their offer to grace the cover? Yeah. We're tired of you doing that, too.

Groovy London has its 3am girls, who stay up all night partying with the famous then dish about it in the Daily Mirror. In sleepier Seattle, we have our own party monsters--the 11:30pm girls. Except they spend more time with friends in restaurants than with celebs in members-only clubs, but we find them mildly amusing anyway.