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• Somewhere on the fringes of our consciousness, we're aware that there is a place called West Seattle, which is where people live who don't mind being repeatedly screwed. That's why they won't be surprised to find out that the "low bridge" will keep opening during their commute.
• My Ballard commenters have theories--boy, do they have theories--about who's responsible for all those bike "carcasses" being left along the Burke-Gilman.
• Meanwhile, the Central District News has a theory of its own which involves dinosaurs being thin at one end...whoops, wrong one...which involves Seattle U building a new stadium for its fancy-schmancy Division I basketball team.

The first thing that struck us about the 3.15-mile, $1.6 billion project that is the University Link light rail line is that it will have half of the projected ridership of the 16-mile Central Link line. Kinda makes us think they should have started with the U District - Capitol Hill part first. As it is, the Central Link goes online in 2009, University Link in 2016.

Capitol Hill studio Pilates Body Fitness is celebrating their 5th year in the Capitol Hill Arts Center with an open house this Sunday. It's a good chance to stop in to check out the equipment, meet the instructors, and see if you're interested in giving this hippie holistic exercise bullshit a try. (Tongue-in-cheekiness aside, pilates is great, and we'd totally do it every day if we were an independently wealthy ex-trophy wife and/or trust fund kid.)

The new Office Nomads offices are located in the old Heath Printers building on Boylston, the block west of the SCCC parking garage on Pine -- they have the 5,000+ square feet upstairs to work with. The idea is for rootless freelancers, contract workers, and small biz owners to have a happy office environment with all the accoutrements: desk, T1 network, printer/faxer/copier, a Bunn coffeemaker, and the company of others. (It's bring-your-own-laptop.) There's going to be a full kitchen, and there's also a shower for sweaty bicyclists or gym-goers. "Anybody who's not invited to apply?" we asked. "Well, it's an open space, so counselors and massage therapists wouldn't find it too useful," said Jacob.

If you like trucks, if you like the darndest equipment and gear, or if beefy firefighters and/or the color turns you on, grab the family and head on over to Fire Station 17 this weekend! They are having an Open House this Saturday. We live about two blocks from these guys and girls and they really earn their keep; we're glad to have them as neighbors. We occasionally see one come in to buy a snack at the Plaid Pantry on 50th and Roosevelt while we are buying aerosol cheese and print pornography. Every time, we want to hug the living beejeezus out of them --but we don't because it might seem a little forward. Maybe we'll bring them hot soup instead.

SPORTS OBSESSION: Any longtime Seattlest reader knows that we can't get enough of curling, whether it's watching on the CBC or playing ourselves at Seattle's Granite Curling Club, the only dedicated curling facility on the West Coast. Our obsession is often met with odd looks, but a curling open house is honestly one of the best ways going to spend your time/money.

This weekend, the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center is having an Open House, while Cooper Artist Housing is having Open Studios. We know this because some old friends of ours are Cooper cultists and they sent us a postcard. How droll! How last century!

Waking up to find we live in our old high school is actually a recurring nightmare in Seattlest's sleep therapy unit.

We're certainly not the only ones to be ragging on new housing being built on the Hill. But we've got our eyes on another development, specifically the nine condos for sale at the corner of 11th and Howell, right across from Cal Anderson Park. Seattlest lives near these condos and has been acutely aware of their construction, via one year of all kinds of noise starting everyday 'round 7 in the AM (and *that's* why we hate the unions).

Gothamist posts on the capture of a NYC perv thanks to Little Brother and a camera phone. They also scour the city for vodka martinis and Shamrock shakes and spot the friend from the Wonder Years at a city law firm. New York police think that Littlejohn is their man.

As with any other Winter Olympiad, perennial favorites took most of the focus. Figure skating (at least the falls were funny), speed skating (had its moments), and the skiing events (*yawn*) received the bulk of NBC's melodramatic coverage, but this year could prove to be the breakout year for Seattlest obsession curling, just added to the Olympic roster in 1998. With the help of some nudity (and some unprecedented US success), the sport managed to break free of the late-night coverage ghetto and have some time in the spotlight.

In honor of President's Day, we've included our fave prezzes along with our weekend activity list.

Tonight there's an Open House for the City of Seattle's Draft Waterfront Concept Plan, 5:30 to 7:30pm (with a brief presentation at 6:00pm), in the Bertha Landes Room, Seattle City Hall, 600 Fourth Avenue. Everybody holla!

We loved loved loved the site where the Empty Space used to have their little things over in Fremont. Yes, part of it was that we could walk there if we were so determined but Seattlest also thinks that it was just the perfect size for a...middling to struggling financially theatre company. There were maybe, what, a hundred seats in there? That's the perfect size.

Seattlest may not be convinced that there's any good reason to leave our fair city -- but at least we can rest assured that we've got a modern and easy-to-use airport to assist us in our travels when necessary.