"Fence Guard" by Jeff Carlson From Jeff's own words: "I don't really know what it's supposed to be saying: Stay the hell back? Put breasts here? Private eye residence? Still, different and cool." Keep those different and cool photos coming. We love ya Seattle.......

Two Seattleites are offering a guaranteed spot in heaven for the low cost of $12.79. Their website, ReserveASpotInHeaven.com, also offers an all-access "VIP" reservation for the slightly more expensive price of $15.95. VIP access provides entrance to "The Land of Milk and Honey and Thug Mansion, where all the elite get together and kick it." The website also offers a group discount, if you make reservations for 10 or more people. All reservations come......

Any Seattlest readers in the market for their very own Washington State Ferry? If so, you can head on over to EBay and make a bid on the decommissioned Chinook Passenger Ferry. (Guess you really can find everything on EBay!) The Chinook was posted on the site late Thursday night, with an asking price of $4.5 million dollars. The auction for the ferry will remain open to bidders until February 24th. The ferry's condition......

Coffee Angel photo by Seattlest Flickr Contributor, Jeff Carlson The world just might stop its rotation on February 26th. Seattle's coffee giant, Starbucks, has just announced that all 7,100 of its stores will close for three hours that day. Whatever shall we do? The recently returned CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz, made the announcement today. The three-hour closure will be spent retraining baristas nation-wide, in hopes of boosting sagging sales. Blessedly, it's not at......

It's snowing in Seattle -- so quiet you can hear the shutters clicking. Some snowy highlights from our Flickr pool: "Yay! Snow Day!" by ERIK98122 "Snowy Path" by sonek321 "Snow Rail" by Jeff Carlson......

Seattlest wishes it was at a coffee shop on Saturday, when the snow was falling in swift, wet flakes. We imagine sipping a delicious doppio espresso, protected from the cold and watching the snow fall. Instead, we are braving the pouring rain and have ended up here, in Fremont, at Cafe Ladro. We're wet, cold and crabby. Ladro is bustling with the young professionals crowd. An entire table of six is covered in laptops, another......

"Ferry Leaving 2" by Jeff Carlson. Another beautiful photo from the Seattlest Flickr pool.......

Explodin' Rhodies by Jeff Carlson, bursting full technicolor goodness all over our Flickr Photo Pool. Won't you jump in, too?......

Before the 2007 season began, we said local Hall of Famer and Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Mark Hendrickson sucked, silly HOF induction or not. And the stats don’t lie—he sucked. Yesterday, to our shit-eating chagrin, he proved he deserved the call … to replace sore Jason Schmidt in the Dodgers rotation. After six scoreless innings on the hill at Chavez Ravine, Hendrickson’s got this line for the season: 27 IP, 24 Ks, 5 BB,......

Howard Schultz is probably enjoying his first relaxing day in a while today after the Starbucks shareholder's meeting yesterday. At least, he finally had a chance to explain to everyone just what the hell he was talking about with that whole memo thing. You remember the memo--we're talking about the one where he complained that Starbucks had lost its way in the name of growth and had become a cookie cutter retail chain that was......

Reflected Sunset by Jeff Carlson in the Seattlest Flickr Pool. Seattlest is a complete sucker for things reflected in other things. The best aspect of modern, glass-and-steel structures is their ability to reflect light and objects in creative and beautiful ways. Thanks for sharing, Jeff!......

On Saturday and Sunday, the Pike Place Market was host to the 2nd Annual Seattle Cheese Festival. The weather cooperated, so it ended up being two beautiful days of mass cheese consumption. Seattlest personally ate more cheese in the span of an hour than most people should ingest in a lifetime. Oh but it was worth it... And now we can relive the lactose-filled memories, thanks to Flickr. Just a cursory examination has turned up......