"Scary Clown" (indeed) by Jay Cox The Daily Weekly reports that the City of Seattle has successfully sold its scandalous public toilets on EBay....for over $80,000 less per toilet than they'd hoped.While we know it means our Seattle Native card could be revoked, we are still less than thrilled that a new clown statue in honor of JP Patches is set to be unveiled this Sunday. We hate clowns, we always have, and since JP......

Now for sale on EBay! "Take Me To Your Toilet" courtesy of Seattlest Flickr contributor M.V. Jantzen Unfortunate Washington Names, Part II: A sad chapter in unfortunate Washington names was written this weekend, when a paraglider died on Tiger Mountain after launching off Poo Poo Point. Eric Jansen, a veteran paraglider was killed at 4:20 p.m. on Friday after suffering heart problems mid-air and crashing into a tree. While Jansen died doing what he loved......

Another gorgeous photo from slightlynorth As Seattlest reported a couple of weeks ago, Washington State was trying to unload a used passenger ferry on Ebay. Sadly, the time has come and gone for bidding on the Chinook, without an acceptable bidder. This wasn't one of the "your best offer" sales on Ebay, Washington State wouldn't part with the boat for less than $4.5million and no one laid down that kind of offer. Bidding on......

Just in time for MLK Day, a friend emailed us this WTF? moment, brought to you by the automated internet. He's been researching old advertisements for slave auctions, and a Google search brought up this text ad for eBay: Negroes For Sale Looking for Negroes For Sale? Find exactly what you want today. www.eBay.comeBay, you may want to inspect that text ad-generating algorithm a little more closely. For balance on our internet reporting, here's Green......

Attention Pearl Jam fans and Flatstock attendees: You need the new, superfancy art book Pearl Jam vs Ames Bros: 13 Years of Tour Posters. The book is a compendium of the band's 1995-2007 gig posters by artists Ames Bros and Brad Klausen, PJ's exclusive print-design minds. Though (sadly) it doesn't date back to the Golden Days of Grunge, at 229 posters, it's an exhaustive collection. But it isn't just poster reproductions. Pearl Jam vs......

Prince Howard of Schultz, the man who would be our entertainment king, also wants to feed us frozen yogurt. Yes, the man who brought you Frappuccino wants you to start licking his Pinkberry. The instrument is Maveron, a private investment firm Schultz and Wall Street banker Dan Levitan started ten years ago. (Levitan, then with Schroder Wertheim, had handled the Starbucks IPO.) Maveron, duh, is a mashup of maverick and vision. They've put money into......

Overheard at Seattlest HQ: "I can see how the guy might have a case, but it's pretty common knowledge in the industry that you don't fucking sell AutoCAD on your own -- at least not on obvious places like eBay." That Seattlest was referring to Timothy Vernor, a local guy who filed suit against Autodesk because they used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to have eBay pull auctions where he was trying to sell used......

Local photographer Jenny Jiménez got robbed big time. Some skeevy dudes broke into her house and stole a whole mess of shit worth over $20K, including photography equipment, computers, and her mother's wedding ring, which Jenny was going to use in her own nuptials this fall. Way to go, assholes. From her LiveJournal post: My home was burglarized yesterday morning between 8:40am and 12:30pm. All of my camera gear, both of our computers, all......

Jim Moore of the P-I reports this shocking news today: The Wazzu Cougars have passed the UW Huskies in apparel sales, according to a company that keeps track of such things. This is crazy! To wit: Not only does U-Dub have nearly twice the enrollment of Wazzu (43K to 23K), the Huskies are in a major metropolitan area where tons of people who never went to Washington adopt the team as their own (this Seattlest......

As a teenager, Seattlest loved posters. We plastered Miami Vice stills rock gods, Tiger Beat pages swimsuit models and sports stars on our walls with tacks, tape and that white boogery stuff. Some boys grow up and out of the phase. Others become obsessed with poster art, set up savings accounts for Flatstock, and bitch about those who “flip,”—resell high-demand gig posters—for a steep profit. (We fall somewhere in between.) Artillery Design, a new......

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend... Gothamist spent the week writing about New Yorkers behaving badly: at the post office, at the Garden, and at the fertility clinic. Calvin Klein may not be misbehaving, but he's just a little dirty, and in a completely different way than some NYC kitchens. SFist had its share of misbehave-rs, too,......

We vividly remember the first time we saw Brett Wolfe: in 1998, we were standing outside in a parking lot on Dexter, talking to someone on our cell phone. We stopped silent when we saw a guy with only one leg riding his bike up Dexter, and he was passing people like they were standing still. This was before we became immersed in mountain biking ourselves, before we found out about Wolfe, who has completed......

As the world holds it's breath, teetering precariously on the cusp of the Super Bowl (well, at least in America), the wheels of the -ists keep on turning. Austinist was in a musical frame of mind as they listened to the new Shins album, updated the SXSW band listings and got called "punk rock" for their efforts by MTV. And an ice storm swept through the area. Bostonist said goodbye to John Kerry's plans......

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by heavy winds, making it a bad time to be a twelve-meter (nearly forty-foot) tall snowman. Still, not everyone decided to keep warmly covered. Meanwhile, back indoors, the Big Brother racism is now causing all kinds of headaches for international diplomats, and Londonist got into......

Image you're the type to buy a "celebrity owned" Range Rover from Craigslist. Man, is your life fucked up! What is wrong with you? Do you think that just because a Seattle celebrity owned that thing before you that it somehow makes your life more interesting? Is it alpha to own such a vehicle, to sit with your ass in the seat that was occupied by our most embarassing athletic figure? Is it going to......

UW science professor Dirk Schulze-Makuch was quoted today in this story on CNN about how life on Mars was discovered and killed during the Viking space probes of the 1970s, from his paper delivered at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle: The Viking experiments of the 1970s wouldn't have noticed hydrogen peroxide-based life and, in fact, would have killed it by drowning and overheating the microbes, said Schulze-Makuch. One Viking experiment......

There are times, we admit, that we just don't get it. Downtown merchants, in a rare spasm of civic altruism, turn over space to a bizarre philanthropic two-fer: Pacific Northwest Ballet, which has its own money-machine at McCaw these days, the iconic Nutcracker, and Northwest Center, the most sacrosanct of local charities. Some 60 identical, 6-ft sculpted nutcracker figures, subjected to politically correct ornamentation by various and sundry local artists, stand mutely outside coffee shops......

Remember half.com, the popular used media marketplace that got bought by eBay and turned into one of their red-headed step-subsidiaries? Remember when dot-coms had the money to pull wacky publicity stunts? Remember when Half.com, the company, bought the rights to rename Halfway, OR, and call it Half.com, OR? Neither did we, really -- December 1999 was so long ago! -- but we were reminded by William Drenttel's What Ever Happened to Half.com, Oregon? on Design......

You know those journalists? That report real news? They're idiots. Google News round up link: LIFE STYLE EXTRA (UK) - "Britney Spears' half-eaten sandwich is for sale on eBay." The Post Chronicle: "Britney Spears' half-eaten sandwich is for sale on eBay. The snack was snatched from a table at a music awards ceremony Britney attended with her husband Kevin Federline at a New York hotel earlier this year." Etc, etc... Apparently none of these......

If it weren't for our life as an -ist, we're not sure we'd ever leave our apartment. Fortunately, to fully -ist, one must seek out the new, the fresh, and the unknown. Brand new, or just new to us, that's what we're all about this week. Phillyist keeps it fresh by getting a new motto, learning to prioritize, and taking in an experimental indie rock show. Torontoist does their first post in franglais, gets ready......

Seattlest's token bicycle hobo friend (who would himself blog for Seattlest if only Google would unveil the much-needed hobo translator language tool) clued us in to a little eBay scheme his friend - also a bicycle hobo - recently initiated, whereby said hobo tries to sell a half-eaten corndog and egg salad sandwich allegedly touched by Britney Spears and her rapping man-child pet K-Fed. From the auction's hilariously straight-faced copy: A couple of months......

Oh were we ever excited about December 1st. Not because it is the birthday of our senior year high school president, Max Grinnell, but because it is the day that Husky men's basketball single game tickets go on sale. We'd organized a group of five. We were ready to buy our tickets for the Gonzaga, Arizona and Stanford game. But, when we called the ticket office yesterday to ask a preliminary question, we discovered this......

We started poking around Amazon yesterday to read the customer reviews of John Hodgman's book The Areas of My Expertise. Sniff sniff, hmmm...things seem different. Our Beacon Hill bohemoth is up to something, testing out some new designs, and apparently some new functionality for their product pages. We noticed first that they'd significantly slimmed down their rating system UI, and tucked it right up under the main product details at the top of the page......

We heard about a gigantic clam for sale over at eBay recently and thought maybe we could throw it on the grill to serve some out of town guests at Chez Seattlest. Turns out it's not that type of clam. And it cost someone $1,626. Dan McAuliffe was the lucky, uh, winner of the auction and is now in possession of one 12' x 12' x 7' Ivar's promotional clam. This sounds like an item......

Occasionally when we take a break from adding bulletproofing to our trusty Seattlest offices on the off-chance 50 Cent stops by for an interview, we amuse ourselves with the Clear Channel College Entertainment site. What is the Clear Channel College Entertainment site, you ask. Well frankly it's one of the more entertaining and revealing sites on the internet. Pause for you to be shocked that Clear Channel can actually provide some entertaining content. Let's say......