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Clinton is up by a smidge in Texas, it's neck and neck in Ohio, and Rush Limbaugh fans are going big for Hillary.

It's SIFF's last bleary-eyed, numb-assed, popcorn-butter-fingered weekend, so if you haven't stopped in for some film-festy fun, you gotta act fast. We held Audrey upside-down and shook her until she gave us some selections -- no, no, you deserve the best. There's no telling how far we'd go to make you happy.

Kurt Vonnegut, up there with Twain and Melville and Kesey as the most original American novelists ever in the history of writing stuff, died tonight. He was 84. He'd been in the hospital since a fall a couple of weeks ago. Attention kids: this is what happens if you chain-smoke for 73 years.

Seattlest has a vision of our coming fall. We need to get away. We need some sun, some beaches and some babes. We need a cruise with our affably fat buddy. Man, everyone's so friendly on this cruise. Seems like every guy wants to get close to us - And we were worried about how we'd fit in with the cruising set. Pshaw! Wait, where are all the babes. We saw that bikini team out by the pool, but there seems to be an awful lot of man on this boat. Is this a gay cruise? Were we seriously duped into going on a gay cruise because we were rude to a travel agent? Yep. Gay cruise. Whoa is us. Oh, well, we'll just have to expand our social consciousness, embrace a little inner gay and eventually hook up with the hot (female) social director. Can't hold us down. Not in this terrible Cuba Gooding Jr. vehicle of life, anyway.

-Seattlest once did this, except instead of falling asleep and hitting a cop we hit our dad. Not sure which is worse.

SIFF enters its second full week with a slew of great documentaries, including the final screening of fair trade coffee doc Black Gold (Tuesday, 9:30pm @ the Egyptian). The directors, Marc and Nick Francis, will be in attendance, as will Tadesse Meskela, an Ethiopian Farm Cooperative Organizer featured in the film. The SIFF screenings mark the first time the directors and subject have been together since the making of the film---and the first time Meskela has seen the film on the big screen.

USA Today reveals that America's next would-be culture czar is already enthroned as (gulp) the nation's barrista baron.

-Radio man of the people Rush Limbaugh was arrested on prescription drug charges today. They're expected to be dropped as a part of his deal.

Evidently fed up with left-wing bias on current radio home KJR 950, the Sonics are moving their radio broadcast to right-wing talk station KTTH ("The Truth") 770 next season.