What a stable, non-disastrous weekend it's been for us thus far! We're making curried chicken salad, eying the unopened bag of Cheddar Sour Cream Ruffles, and catching up on a week's worth of unwatched YouTube videos. It turns out that when you search for "Seattle" on YouTube, this very helpful National Geographic video about the Nisqually earthquake in '01 (and the fault that runs under downtown Seattle) is the second result. Were you living in Seattle during 2001? Got any stories? Grab some Ruffles and check this out:
Remember That Huge Earthquake?
Not All Seattle Suburbanites Are Losers Like Blake
Caitlin Snaring of Redmond (that is she, pictured above) won the National Geographic Bee yesterday. Snaring, who is home-schooled, estimated that she studied 60 hours a week to prepare for the competition.
Get Out
READINGS: Jonathan Raban continues his all-out assault on the bookstores of Seattle with a reading tonight at the University Bookstore in support of Surveillance. How many times can we say it: Go.
All The News
--Chuck Klosterman in Esquire: It has now been five days since Britney Spears became Xavier McDaniel.
The Trouble With Gribbles
...as the National Geographic reported last year. To put it simply, gribbles have eaten chunks of the sea wall away. Now global warming is potentially adding to the mess that the gribble hath wrought. (Kids! No jumping on the sea wall!)

