Editor Dan loves you, Seattle. City, people, land, water and professional sports franchises; all of it. However, he cannot back you on the issue of the Seattle Seahawks vs. the Chicago Bears. If you're looking for calming words of compassion or hilarious Seahawks histrionics Seattlest will take care of you there, too, but one of us grew up with a Bears helmet painted on our neighbor's garage door and didn't appear in a photograph without any Bears paraphernalia until he was about 15, and that kind of indoctrination just doesn't wash away in half a decade of Seattle drizzle. In fact, to this day we maintain a close relationship with a few Chicago-based RSS feeds and we'll check in on them throughout the week. more ›

Possibly we first saw this meme in a blog post, but the barely controlled chaos that is our newsreader makes calling it back up not feasible at this time. It caught our eye. Hey, that's smart, we thought, wish we'd thought of it. We're pretty sure the first time we saw someone tie the delays at the Sculputure Park to the striking concrete workers was in a blog post. Ninety percent certain. Then it appeared in the Seattle Times and in about a million other blog posts and each time we see it now the idea loses a little luster. It became annoying and then kind of insulting to the strikers who are trying to do what they feel is the right thing and to news consumers who are trying to figure out what's going on in the world. Now it's in the P-I today, but at least they have the decency to mention a few other projects that are suffering before hitting readers with the cutesy Sculpture Park, and we should be clear that Seattlest is all in favor of the Sculpture Park and we're so there once it opens we'll be there every day. We'll be the Seattlest sculpture. But using the Sculpture Park and its delays (and let's point out that it's also been delayed due to non-concrete related factors) is condescending and belittling. Readers don't care about light rail or the Fremont Bridge - They need to be clobbered with the Sculpture Park! Because this strike is screwing the city, right SDOT? more ›

Seattlest James isn't the only one with car trubs this week. Doug McDonald failed his eye exam thrice in a row and the State Department of Transportation says it just can't license drivers who can't see. This is fitting or ironic or hilarious because Doug McDonald is the Washington State Secretary of Transportation. Doug suffers from a diabetic condition that has been degrading his eyesight over the course of the last few years. more ›

As Seattlest was falling asleep last night we caught a glimpse of a teaser for a local news story that we couldnt stay awake to watch: an escort ad client shot by a pimp for refusing to reimburse the escort's gas money. The teaser included a shot of a two-page spread-eagled escort ad section from one of the local alternative weeklies. more ›

It's happened to all of us...you're sitting quietly at a bar, when some meathead has the audacity to suggest that baseball's Earl Torgeson is the greatest sports figure in the history of King County's neighbor to the north, Snohomish County. more ›