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Not sure if there's any subtext to this particular layout over at KING5.com...but it seems like more fun to pretend there is. Snake venom skin care. You just have to shake your head.

KING 5's SkyKING chopper was out over the Puget Sound today, getting footage of about 40 orcas swimming the frigid waters. Whale researchers "believe the L and K pods are cruising through, possibly in search of Chinook or Coho." Guess they finished up with Bo Derek's leg years ago.

• Joining us for the first time in our Round-Up is Lake City Live, with a request for more and better coffee in their area. It's true--we drove around in Lake City a few days ago and all we found were Jack In The Boxes and car dealerships. No Vivace branches to be found.
• Someone on Seattle Livejournal was summoned for jury duty to two different courts for dates within two weeks of each other. What to do, what to do? Seattlest will take one of those summons off your hands, as we've been wanting to serve for years now and have remained un-beckoned by the law.
• It's just about that time for an Amanda Knox post, and West Seattle Blog kindly obliges with an archived video of a King5 interview with Amanda's sisters.

Seattlest doesn't watch TV anymore. The Daily Show at 11, then lights out. But TDS is on hiatus for the holidays, and there's all this fucking weather to worry about, so we flipped on Channel Five. There's Lori Matsukawa, we remember her. And Mimi Jung, that's right. Saw her once next to Allen Schauffler on a weekend newscast. How cool is that? Two Asian females co-anchoring. And no big deal, either. Now the big story: tomorrow's weather. We're just catching the audio now, a voice like Sarah Palin! What, the meteorologist's a woman, too? Shannon O'Donnell, haven't seen her before. By the time Lisa Gangel comes on with sports, we've figured it out: except for Jim Foreman's live feed from somewhere, all the King's men are either on Mastodon Duty or home baking cookies.

You know what sucks worse (physically, though perhaps not spiritually) than having to sit at a desk on a Friday afternoon and watch the carpet pill up? Getting trapped in a cement avalanche at work and needing the fire department to come dig you out. That's why we feel for this guy. He's okay now, but Seattlest's office faces the major street down which all the ambulances and cop cars raced on their way to this incident and we counted no fewer than four patrol cars and two ambulances scream past us in the last couple hours. That's a big fat hairy deal.

It's that time of year again: time to vote for the "Best of Western Washington." We must admit to being slightly miffed. In a poll that asks locals about their favorite fish market and what they consider to be the best pet couture, there isn't a single question about your favorite blog or blogger. So, King5 and Evening Magazine, we want to know--do you have something against local bloggers? Or are you just saving space and sending Seattlest the trophy? Cause that, we'd be cool with.

According to a King5-commissioned poll, Barack Obama's lead in Washington is diminishing. Obama's lead has dropped from double digits in June to only four percentage points in the most recent poll. If the election was held today, 49% of Washingtonians would vote for Barack Obama and 45% would cast their vote for John McCain.

Seattlest’s Olympic correspondent Mark Siano has been hard at work in Beijing getting the stories that you won’t hear about anywhere else.

Last night, as we were making some Niman Ranch sausage, some Critical Mass bicyclists were almost turned into sausage in the street outside. (We mention the kind of sausage because had it been cut-rate, we might have poked our heads out to take a look, but it wasn't and we were hungry.)

If this was politics, we'd be calling spin all over King 5 for their story "Beer and candy booming in struggling economy."

It was an interesting story, but Discover Magazine posted an even more compelling version, complete with horrifying medical details and a zinger of an ending.

We became a pothole snitch this morning. We turned in the huge holes alongside Cal Anderson, in front of Vivace, thanks to "encouragement" from a commenter on an earlier pothole post:

instead of complaining about the potholes in a blog posting maybe you should fill out the online form and report them so they get fixed. but that might be too easy and would give you nothing to whine about.

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