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The PSBJ's Al Scott, musing about whether Facebook has jumped the shark, said he heard it from "Troy Nelson and an assistant at KEXP, the youthful listener-supported music station that's the definition of sonic cool in Seattle. Nattering between songs, they said Facebook takes up too much of their time, and includes too many people from high school who want to connect--people they didn't want to talk with back then." Can't argue with the timesuck or the Classmates.com effect, but who knew the Biz Journal was so tuned in?

Business reporter John Cook, who came to the P-I in 1999 and founded a cottage enterprise of entrepreneurship coverage (including his Venture Blog), and tech reporter Todd Bishop (at the P-I since 2002, and author of the Microsoft Blog) are departing the P-I, leaving two huge holes in the daily's business coverage and web stats. Outside of sports, their blogs were the top traffic-getters for the P-I website, and both are award-winning reporters. What makes this news even more startling is that both are joining the Puget Sound Business Journal. It's like the Ms losing Beltre and Ichiro to the Aquasox. Word is, the PSBJ has big plans for its new blog-ebrities.

The Puget Sound Business Journal has a story on the upcoming launch of two new free monthly arts magazines. This July, Encore Media Group will actually have three city arts monthlies under its hood; City Arts Tacoma has been bi-monthly since 2006.

While the city goes about with itself, Seattlest spends countless hours in an ivory tower somewhere between Pike Place Market and the Lusty Lady. We pace the floor with a hunched back, wringing our hands, wrinkling our nose and whispering, "what, what, what... is the meaning of this?"

While we're finding you writerly folk some jobs, why don't some of you look into the Puget Sound Business Journal: they've got two staff openings: the banking, residential real estate and economy beat and sports, retailing and marketing and media.

It seems Puget Sound Business Journal writer Jeanne Lang Jones might be a bit upset as she writes, “Now there's a further blow to Seattle fashionistas. The Bellevue Square Nordstrom is getting Prada (designer clothes as part of its remodel; the Seattle flagship store is not).” Jimmy Choo and Neiman Marcus will also be squatting in Bellevue, Jones notes.

If we were a building older than sixty years or so in Seattle right now we'd really think about going on the lam, laying low for the next few years, maybe sending the wife and kids off to her sister's lake cabin, although they'll probably come for that, too, eventually. It's just not safe for an old landmark building in the current environment. Next up on the block is the Rainier Cold Storage Stock House in Georgetown--It's owners are planning to demolish it. The Stock House is a part of the 5.5 acre Rainier campus that was declared a Seattle Historic Landmark in 1993. "Historic Landmark" might as well be a death sentence in Seattle.

The story so far: Two years ago, amid trumpets and fanfare, the City of Seattle sold the 15-story Alaska Building to developer Kent Angier, to be used for "affordable workforce housing." The selling price was $8.5 million dollars -- $500,000 to $1 million less than offers from developers interested in turning it into office space. The City says it had an unwritten understanding with Angier that the building would be used for housing. Recently, Angier announced plans to build instead a non-union Marriott hotel.

When the possiblity of a H&M of our very own was mentioned on this site a few weeks ago there were a few different reactions, but most people were more than happy to drink the lingonberry juice with Seattlest, take the rumors as gospel and begin speculating on where to start lining up. U Villiage Key Bank? Or over by the Blue C? Or the U Villiage Abercrombie and Fitch? Downtown Barneys? Northgate? The much neglected north-Seattle suburb sometimes referred to as "Vancouver?"

Microsoft held a small business contest recently and it's obvious that none of their VC or Acquisitions people were involved because all of those guys know that as soon as you see "poetry" and "business" in the same sentence together you throw away whatever you're looking at. It's just incongruous, like "Multinational poetry conglomerate based in Dubai." You just don't see those these days. Kyle Sutton and his Mayhem Poets won Microsoft's Ultimate Challenge and the prize of a rent-free NYC store front for a year and $100,000. Next stop: Dubai.

Governor Gregoire stood in front of the sculpture park yesterday and threw packets of hundred dollar bills into the Sound until $220 million disappeared into the sludge, or, she may as well have. Actually, she talked about the myriad environmental concerns that threaten Puget Sound and she pledged $220,000,000 towards the $9 billion the Puget Sound Partnership says it will take over the next 14 years to adequately protect and repair the Sound.

We don't know if you caught this weekend's Seattle Times article on the downfall of an Eastside mortgage company, which suffered a mini-Enron implosion this spring. We note that the local business media never saw it coming, due to the proximity of their lips with the company's ass.

Get to work you worthless layabouts, and quit mooching off unemployment. Once upon an unemployed summer, Seattlest got very familiar with the hoops you gotta jump through to keep those checks coming. At one point we had to attend a class somewhere on Aurora, but week to week we just had to keep a little job searching log and if that log ever showed that we failed to apply for two positions a week (or make two employer contacts or whatever), woe be unto us - We'd be cut off. That being at the start of the internet age, we actually sent out about a dozen resumes a week (which took about ten minutes), but when it came time to fill out the journal it was always easier to just make something up. It's one of the many little frauds that we're sure will one day catch up with us.

-There's a great article on the rise of some aquatic species and the decline of others today that you might have missed because it's in the Puget Sound Business Journal.

The Puget Sound Business Journal reports that Howard Schultz, who wants taxpayers to pony up millions for a new arena, thinks the Sonics are worth $400 million--twice what the investment group he leads paid for them.

-A fishing boat burned up this morning off of Richmond Beach. Six people aboandon ship and Chief Sealth put out the fire.

Friendly neighborhood caffeinated beverage boutique Starbucks has plans to get into Pioneer Square. Not just a storefront, mind you - According to the Puget Sound Business Journal they're buying two tracts of land: 505 First Ave. S (shown on map above) and the adjacent parcel. Starbucks spokesperson says, "This is a strategic acquisition to accommodate continued growth of the Starbucks mwa mwa mwa-mwa-mwa-mwa."

According to Forbes there are nine billionaires in Washington. Damn, nine! Would you believe that of those nine not a single one are Seattlest or a friend, acquaintance or associate of Seattlest? We would. Stay tuned next week when Seattlest compiles a list of Washington's nine poorest residents which may actually include Seattlest and/or friends, acquaintances or associates of Seattlest.

-From a distance it looks like a panhandler but as you approach you can see that it's a particularly clean-looking panhandler with a very authoritative 'stach. Hmm. A few miles up the road you find out you've been gamed by the SPD. The panhandler was actually a cop checking your seat belt.

It looks like things will be patched up sooner than initially expected between the striking machinists and Boeing, although Seattlest never anticipated a long work stoppage. We're sure Boeing would like to get as many planes built and delivered as possible before the rest of the majors test positive for Chapter 11. The airline manufacturer and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers hashed out a tentative agreement over the weekend that will be voted on by union members Thursday.

Is there any other time of the year more appropriate to striking than Labor Day Weekend? Of course not, so the Boeing machinists voted to do exactly that Thursday night and began officially not working today. Picketing outside the Everett plant started at 11:00am this morning.

A movie will cost you nearly ten dollars at a theater. March of Penguins at the Guild 45th, for example, will set you back $9. We hear that's something to see. Cheapskates can drive up to the Crest and see second-run films for a three-spot weeks after everyone else, but generally a movie costs you ten in the theater.

Seattlest met some guy over the summer who wanted to talk about the biodiesel operation he was planning in Georgetown. There was a warehouse and a giant vat and honestly Seattlest was only so interested at the time. Seattlest sometimes has interesting opinions on what's interesting and what's not when Seattlest is drinking. The truth is that biodiesel in Seattle is interesting, and the big yellow billboards (pictured) driving around downtown are doing a good job of bringing vegetable-based fuels into Seattle's conciousness, even if they are only a tiny fraction of the fleet.