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......

--By a--if you can believe this--unanimous vote of the Seattle School Board, Maria Goodloe-Johnson is the new superintendent. --You already couldn't listen to Don Imus in Seattle, but now it's a nationwide thing. --The hiker who died in a fall at Baker Lake this week was also a rocker. --Mariners vs. Boston postponed due to this. --According to the P-I, Seattle has other blogs. --Local boy Luke Burbank on his new, as-yet-untitled NPR show. --How......

Kurt Vonnegut, up there with Twain and Melville and Kesey as the most original American novelists ever in the history of writing stuff, died tonight. He was 84. He'd been in the hospital since a fall a couple of weeks ago. Attention kids: this is what happens if you chain-smoke for 73 years. Based on our cursory search of local newspaper archives, Vonnegut's last local appearance would seem to be at Eastern Washington University's GET......

Wednesday, November 8 >>>UW Forum for Science and Ethics Policy, 5:30pm. Dr. Dennis Schatz, VP for Education at the Pacific Science Center, cheerleads for “Making Science as Pervasive as Sports in Society.” His ulterior motive? It can only be to pack the Sonics off to Oklahoma and build our very own Exploratorium right here in Seattle, to which we say “Be Aggressive, Be Be Aggressive!” Free. UW Health Sciences Building, T-478. >>>Pacific Science Center......