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Public officials in the U.S. and around the world are issuing warnings about an ongoing outbreak of swine flu that has pandemic potential. Centered in Mexico, this outbreak has already spread to the United States and Canada. Forty cases have been reported in U.S. in New York, California, Texas, Kansas, and Ohio.

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Not too long ago, we were attempting a trip to San Francisco. As soon as we got to SeaTac, we found that our flight was somehow already an hour and a half late. The employees at the ticket counter, civil without being friendly, couldn't get us on another flight, so we got some food and a drink and watched our delay get longer. Eventually, it was time to board (on what was now the last flight to SF), and of course, we ended up sitting on the plane for an hour while there were refueling issues. The pilot announced that the fuel switch could be fixed, but by that time, the crew would be "illegal," and so our flight was now canceled. Lovely. We exited the plane to deal with another unfriendly employee who literally rolled her eyes when we asked for something more than a mere refund of our tickets. All in all, those five hours at the airport were a nightmare. Surely, we thought, there's got to be a better way.

Our bike route to work from Magnolia to Capitol Hill takes us down a short hill on 20th Ave W to the Pier 91 bike trail. That little street runs right along a ton of train tracks leading into the train yards. (It's on the back side of the Interbay Golf Center.) Generally it's filled with locomotives connected to empty cars or lines of containers waiting to be shipped one place or another. Noting terribly exciting, though if you're lucky, a train whistle will blow as you go by and scare the beejesus out of you.

Inspired by a random iPod event at Seattlest's Thanksgiving, a friend lamented the early death of John Denver and then launched into a diatribe about how he didn't pull a Kennedy; that is, Denver wasn't a dilettante pilot. He went on to explain that Denver was an experienced pilot who owned many planes and flew often. He died, our friend claimed, when one of the fuel tanks in the experimental plane he was flying...

David Copperfield may think he can make the word "no" disappear, but it's going to be for a grand jury to decide.

Kim is off to see Susan Werner at the Triple Door Sunday night.

Jim Riches, Deputy Chief of the FDNY, is one of the producers of the Urban Legends video that questions the supposedly heroic actions of Mayor Giuliani on 9/11. Jen Carlson recently interviewed him for our sister site in New York.

Last week Seattlest whined about the pending doom of the Rainier Cold Storage Stock House in Georgetown, a building that is a Seattle Historic Landmark. "'Historic Landmark' might as well be a death sentence in Seattle," we said, meaning that any building so labeled in Seattle would be quickly demolished (although later in the week the Seattle Weekly would have a different take on the phrase in an article about Peter Steinbrueck and his recent Landmark-a-thon Downtown).

One of the great things about Seattle is that it's the gateway to the United States for lots of foreigners. Alaskans, for example, regularly show up at Sea-Tac, wild-eyed and ready to reach for a knife at the first sign of a bear. They've been fleeing the wilderness and arriving on the shores of Seattle since way before regular air service was established. However, last week a particularly 21st century chain of events led one 15-year-old Alaskan to Seattle; she was on her way to North Carolina to meet an internet boyfriend.

brought it up.

Ichiro got a bunch of fantastic goodies along with his $90 million Mariner contract, according to the AP, including:

Better believe it, the 25-year reign of the Copper River salmon is over. The new king comes from the mighty Yukon River, and the architect of its ascendancy is (no real surprise) the same power-behind-the-throne, Jon Rowley.

You don't need us to tell you what it's like out there right now. But you could tell Seattlest what you've been doing now that we're all San Diego temperatures and whatnot--drop it in the comments if you're the sharing type. In the meantime, we hit the streets with our camera cruised Flickr photos tagged "Seattle" that weren't in our already glorious Seattlest pool, to see what people have been provoked to do by that big ball of fire in the sky.

We were frickin' *there* so we speak some from authority on this subject--the key at bat of tonight's 5-2 Mariner win (even bigger than Sexson's funk blast) was Brandon Morrow facing Jermaine Dye with one on and two out in the eighth.

FANTASTIC FICTION SALON: Novelist, nonfiction author, and short story writer Terry Bisson has swept every honor in the science fiction field as well as France's Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire. He joins Hugo House's Writing Fantastic Fiction workshop series, where he will teach "Who Likes Short Shorts? We Like Short Shorts!"

--Though he's been rumored to be a candidate for both the Liberty and Long Beach State head coaching jobs, Cameron Dollar says it isn't true. Which means he's probably on a private plane to Long Beach right now.

For serious wine geeks, it's all about the pursuit of perfection. We'll tolerate the bafflement of friends, the disappointment of poor vintages, the torment of indifferent service and the frustration of inferior bottles--because we have faith that now and again, with the clarity of a religious vision, we will experience something Utopian.

That was the clear message at Benaroya Hall last night, where New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert presented a sampling of the climate change research she covers in her much-lauded book (Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change), and then joined a few colleagues on-stage for a panel discussion. Touching on a few of the main locations and research findings from her book, the punchline is a real punch in the gut, or as Kolbert summarized: "Society is not essential, it is contingent."

--A five-car pileup on I-5 yesterday was caused by a guy looking at his BlackBerry while driving.

Great comedy minds regulary rave about sketch comedy group Kasper Hauser so we felt we were in good hands going in to Thursday's night's show at Re-bar.

Let's look back at a week in which no site in the -ist network adopted anyone from Africa...

Gothamist, among many others, is reporting that a plane has apparently crashed into a building on the upper east side--you can see the exact location on 72nd via Gothamist's Googlemap hack. Currently it is being reported as a helicopter that crashed into the building. You can see pictures at the Gothamist site (national news sites didn't have anything yet, but they've got screen captures from local news up on their site).

The Seahawks' team flight back from Chicago made an emergency landing in one of the Dakotas and it appears to be a medical-related stop. We first suspected Boulware 's concussion, but it turns out that assistant coache Ray Rhodes was feeling sick. Since he has an history of stroke symptoms the plane stopped for him.

By embracing you with hard rocking hands, petting your head with beats, and letting you know in a sweet falsetto voice that the rocking will never stop, Spoon bends you into believing that everything is going to be okay. Even in the hot hot sun, even when the only food you can afford is roasted corn, even when they have David Cross do an interpretive dance of one of their songs and he shows the entire audience his ass, you know that the rocking will never stop.

All music all the time wears us out, so we decided to hopscotch around Bumbershoot this year and take advantage of the talks, arts performances, and art exhibits.

Boeing will be discontinuing its inflight internet service, the painfully named Connexion by Boeing, as of this month. Shrugging and offering the painfully obvious excuse that "the market" didn't snap it up like Coke Blak, Boeing will take a one-time fee hit of $320 million to close up shop on the service.

Seattlest hit the first local showing of Snakes on a Plane last night at Cinerama. It was Seattlest, our friends, and about 1,000 high-school kids.

As previously stated, Seattlest advocates opening night Snakes on a Plane festivities (attention, slowpokes: the 10pm Cinerama show is already sold out, though some tix are still available for the 12:45am show, and we suppose you could just go see it tomorrow).

Yes, by this point it's been completely overhyped, and there's no way it could possibly be as awesome as we originally imagined, but Snakes on a Plane is finally in theaters this Friday.