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BLACK MONDAY: Good God! Have you been following what's going on in the banking sector? We're closing our WaMu accounts as fast as we can and switching to WSECU before our Wamoola goes the same way as the investors in Lehman Bros. Wait...is that how bank runs start? Shit. Anyway, if ever there was a good day for drinking, it's today. Which is why Seattlest is happy to host a Moe Bar happy hour tonight from five to eight p.m. Come by and enjoy free financial advice from just-this-side-of-homeless Seattlest contributors, spinning fanciful webs of cheap liquor-fueled disinformation and plain old bad advice for your amusement.

There was little real reason to expect anything different during Sunset Bowl's last night of operation. We read histrionic predictions somewhere that hipsters would swarm the place; this never materialized. There were perhaps a few more people--though that place was always packed whenever we went--and some may have stuck around later, but by and large the clientèle consisted of the same combination of loud, scruffy, tattooed, pierced, well-groomed, young, old, middle-aged, beefy, wiry, scrawny, trashy, nerdy, slightly-off-kilter, and unironic miscreants that one normally found there. In short, the place was filled with bowlers, drinkers, and karaoke singers.

Well, this piece certainly is interesting. We recognize it as satire because we know the cultural context that is Dan Savage. We only wish that Mr. Savage would have done the same about a month or four ago when he royally skewered Garrison Keillor, who wrote his own bit of satire in this Salon piece.

>>>EMP, 6pm. First The Police's Andy Summers gets interviewed by EMP Senior Curator, Jasen Emmons. Then he signs his book, One Train Later: A Memoir. You need tickets to stand in the "Don't Stand So Close To Me" book-signing line, available with purchase of the book from University Book Store. Andy will sign one piece of memorabilia per copy of his book. Did we mention he has a book out? $5 at the door, free for Museum members.

It only took a few minutes of digging to find that classic N.P. Thompson is all around us: The Seattle Weekly ("It's obvious that the jaded Murray resents the older man's buoyancy, and this is the one time real life pokes through Anderson's barren world of precocious window dressing."), Tablet ("Scorsese undermines his trademark of apocalyptic excess with reaction shots of the people inside the demolished houses and slapstick cutaways that look lifted from Spielberg’s 1941."), Northwest Asian Weekly ("Equally appalling, there’s Li, that superb actress, in her first disgraceful performance."), and Movies Into Film ("I have always considered Garrison Keillor to be a thug and a bully who camouflages his aggressive-homicidal nature with a studied, almost convincing façade of folksiness, so it should come as no real surprise that the film version of his tasteless radio show amounts to little beyond a soul-poisoning nightmare.").

John Hodgman, Writer, has offered up fascinating insights into himself for our sister publication, Gothamist. He's created smarty-pants user-generated content for McSweeney's and This American Life. And Mr. Hodgman, Writer, has published a book, The Areas of My Expertise, in which he makes up a bunch of facts. (Like that's not a contradiction in terms. Did you think no one would notice, Mr. Hodgman? Must you lie to us to be funny?)

Monkeys are funny, puppies are cute, and ligers are totally awesome, but our favorite species is people. Our need for human interest stories is unquenchable, which is why we've been enthralled by the Seattle P-I this week.