The Boy Scouts really are good training for being a journalist (or pseudo-journalist, or pasty-faced blogger, however you want to refer to your intrepid Seattlest contributors as): Like those scouts with their trusty Swiss army knives, rule one is "Be Prepared." Alas, last night, we were decidedly not prepared. Admittedly, who could blame us? We've been hassled at more than one club's door for trying to carry in a voice recorder, and why bring a......

So, we were total boneheads: the TV debut we've been awaiting for months rolls around, and what are we doing at 9 pm Monday night? Having an evening constitutional. My God, what have we become? Yes, it's true: there's something a little cliche about our ongoing love of the works of Douglas Coupland. Generation X appealed to us in late high school, around the same time we thought Kurt Vonnegut was the greatest writer......