-- Next up for Connected Ventures? A shot-for-shot remake of the Disturbing Behavior trailer. -- Listen to Vonnegut Mary Schmich, people! Wear sunscreen! -- Seahawks super-blogger Mike Sando, plucked from the Tacoma News-Tribune by ESPN.com, says his au revoires. -- So is Josh Rouse actually the "perfect fit" for a Seattle soundtrack? -- Just call us the Bureaucracy Kid, fastest passport processors in the country. -- 5000 cars: Microsoft breaks ground on the western......

-- Revenge + Craigslist = aunt's house stripped bare. Also, second-degree burglary, malicious mischief and criminal impersonation charges. -- NYC asks: What's a WaMu? -- Lycopene, schmycopene, says Fred Hutch. -- Sometimes parenting brings out your best. And sometimes... -- Neko Case will be on the tee-vee tonight, with M. Ward. -- Mike Sando's early look at the Hawks roster suggests Kelly Herndon could soon be out of a job. -- Starbucks' favorite Beatle?......

We generally don't get that excited about the NFL Draft. To us it’s all analysis and no action-- and besides the newspaper prints which defensive end we've never heard of went fifth to Tampa Bay. However, we may tune in to watch the Jets pick, just because their fans provide the world with more entertainment than Andrew Lloyd Webber could ever dream of. This year the Seahawks don't have a first round pick, trading it......

Hot on the heels of revelations of what it's like to share a condo building with former Seahawk Jerramy Stevens (good if you like getting showered with condoms and vomit), comes a bizarre story from the Atlanta home of new Seahawk Patrick Kerney. A woman who was Kerney's houseguest claims she was raped there. She says she met a guy at a bar (The Lodge, in Buckhead), brought him back to Kerney's house, and fell......

- Tonight: Seahawks vs. Packers, 5:30 pm on ESPN and Channel 11. -Thanks to the Rams, a Seahawk win would give them a two game lead in the division. A loss would cause the KJR phone lines to explode. -Quarterbacks Matt Hasselbeck and Brett Favre will play, but Old Man Tobeck's hip is acting up, and he will not. -In Wisconsin they are wondering if Shaun Alexander and former Seahawk turned Packer Ahman Green are......

--The Zero Boss investigates the holy triumvirate of Seattle neon (above). Actually, we thought it was "deli," "teriyaki," and "coffee," but his works too. --As if the pain of Fremont News closing weren't enough, we gotta hear about it second hand from the NYT. Third hand if you're just learning it now. --Starbucks is no longer imposing Seattle design on the world. They're now going regional in the appearance of their stores. --The Tacoma......

The Pro Football Hall of Fame released a list of 111 preliminary contenders for election in 2006, and they left off newly-eligible Cortez Kennedy. That's Cortez Kennedy who went to 8 Pro Bowls, was on the NFL's All-Decade team of the 90's, and won the NFL's Defensive Player of the Year award in 1992. That's Cortez Kennedy who we idolized and who was basically the only good player the Seahawks had in the 90s.......

Doctors found damage to Matt Hasselbeck's medial-collateral ligament, injured Sunday on what some Hawks say was a dirty hit. He could miss as much as a month. Mike Sando of Seahawks Insider assesses the situation thusly: Every individual is different, so we don't want to rule out an earlier return. But remember when Mike Holmgren suggested Shaun Alexander might miss a couple weeks? They seem to err on the side of caution, which makes sense......

According to Seahawks Insider, Shaun Alexander says his foot doesn't hurt anymore--not after he spent a few days praying about it. Says Mike Sando, the Insider: The foot stopped hurting Tuesday and word spread as Alexander began alerting friends and family. Alexander's brother, Durran, confirmed this today and said his famous brother plans to undergo additional tests today. These stories are rare but not without precedent. Reggie White credited prayer for healing his injured......

When he's not making doody in his diaper, Mike Holmgren is spitting up creamed carrots or screaming for his "binky." Apparently. In March, Mike Holmgren was still blaming the refs for the Hawks' Super Bowl loss (we still contend it was Holmgren's shitty clock management and predictable abandonment of the running attack which costs the Hawks the game). And now we learn of yet another example of infantilism. Mike Sando at Seahawks Insider points us......

Seems like somebody always gets dinged for the year in preseason football, and this year it's Hawks safety (and free agent pickup from Chicago) Mike Green. From Mike Sando's Seahawks Insider: Seahawks S Mike Green is probably out for the season after suffering the dreaded lisfranc foot injury. This can be a career-threatening injury, or at least a career-diminishing injury. Chad Brown was never the same after this injury. The Hawks will have Jordan Babineaux......

No, we haven't said much about Seahawks minicamp. We forgot about Seahawks minicamp, frankly. But nothing could be more important to the handful of guys trying to stick as a sixth wide reciever, a fifth running back, or a fourth QB. One of these is Skyler Fulton, an Olympia product who starred in NFL Europe this year, and is trying to fight through a shoulder injury to stick with the Hawks this year. How's he......

Sometimes history provides the right man for the times. Napoleon for post-revolutionary France. George Marshall for post-war Europe. Don Knotts for post-Roper Three's Company. And, in our modern times, the Tacoma News Tribune's Mike Sando for coverage of the Seattle Seahawks. This man covers the Seahawks like Cookie Monster eats cookies. Sando's got Seahawks crumbs flying out of his mouth, cascading down his front, like C.M., he probably has his own Seahawks covering song...or movie.......

The 2006 Seahawks schedule was released this morning. They open at Detroit, and have two home Monday night games-- vs. Oakland on November 6th, and vs. Green Bay on Nov. 27th. A few Hawks are making international waves. DE Bryce Fisher, a graduate of the Air Force Academy, is on a USO tour. Here he is in Afghanistan. Some practice squad guys are doing well in NFL Europe. QB Gilbran Hamdan was named offensive player......

Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren today bellyached about officiating during the Seahawks' loss in the Super Bowl. Which happened two months ago. According to Mike Sando of the TNT, Holmgren said: We lost the game and it hurts. It still hurts. But to have the story of the Super Bowl be the officials, that's crazy. I mean, that absolutely should never happen. An article by the AP reveals that Commissioner Tagliabue's staff wanted to fine Holmgren......

Last week the Minnesota Vikings shanghaied Pro Bowl guard Steve Hutchinson from the Seahawks by including a "poison pill" in his contract--a provision specifying that Hutchinson had to be the top-earning offensive lineman on the team; a provision the Seahawks couldn't match. We wondered how ridiculous these clauses could get. And the Seahawks have answered that question. In their offer to Vikings' receiver Nate Burleson, they included a clause that would make the contract guaranteed......