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The post we wrote yesterday about Rick Steves ("Rick Steves. The man lives in a pleasant world.") seems reasonable if you only know the man through his travel shows on PBS. He was on the Town Hall stage for all of about four seconds last night before destroying that illusion. Actually, he lives in a few different worlds; one here, in Edmonds, Washington, U.S.A., and another in Europe where he spends a third of every year, and the conflict between those two equal something other than "pleasant." Steve was pissed last night during his "Travel as a Political Act" talk. It was an angry, wrathful travel guru working the microphone--A much different animal than the "This is reeeealy great" PBS guy in sensible shoes.

We had no intention whatsoever of going to see MI:III, but Microsoft took us for free on Friday morning to Crossroads in Bellevue, so we figured what the hell. Maybe it'd give us a chance to write a bad review, which is always fun. The theater was packed with Microsofties--a fairly tough crowd, it turns out. After the preview for The Break-Up, we're gonna go out on a limb and say many denizens of the Evil Empire are on Team Jolie. On the plus side, it was possibly the shortest wait for the ladies room we've endured in a crowd that size since our last trip to a Seahawks game.