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LET THEM EAT CAKE: Essential Baking Company is celebrating their 15th birthday, which means a taste of their signature chocolate hazelnut birthday cake is on the house today--for every customer making a purchase and while supplies last, of course--at both the Wallingford and Madison locations. After the free cake has run dry, both locations will be selling $1.50 cupcakes until October 14 in honor of the occasion. Considering the amount of Seattle boutique cupcake shops, we have obviously proven our love for cake and would recommend showing up early before the free cake disappears into everyone else's mouths.

Ryan Boudinot has been quickly climbing the Seattle food chain of well-known literary locals, and there's good reason behind it. Not only has he written for many of the "cool" publications that we--as one of the much-bragged-about smarter cities--absolutely LOVE, but he's quite the down-to-earth gentleman, as well. Along with the recent publication of Misconception and becoming the newest Hugo House Writer-in-Residence, Boudinot has been having a damn good year. And the fact that he wrote most of this novel while working a "day job" in a cubicle for a well-known dot-com in Seattle only makes it that much more awesome.

This Saturday, Hugo House is once again putting on Write-O-Rama, and we hope that you've got your pencils sharpened and notebook ready, because this is one fundraiser not to be missed.

STAND-UP FOR CHIMPS: Pioneer Square's Comedy Underground will be hosting a charity event for our rescued furry friends over at Cle Elum's Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest. Put on by Yoram Bauman a.k.a. "the stand-up economist" and founder of Non-Profit Comedy, the stand-up comedy also includes raffle tickets, a slide show, and merchandise for sale. All proceeds of Stand-up for Chimps! will go toward spring planting for the chimps' vegetable garden, and besides money, they will also be taking donations of seeds and seedlings.

Seattlest is a big fan of kids. And writing. And learning. And, like, the future. Kids are the future, we are the past, and so it goes.

Seattlest doesn't tend to buy books at reading events, for the excellent reason that if we bought all the books we wanted to, we wouldn't be able to pay the rent (and would be in danger of drowning in our possessions). Why buy when the excellent Seattle Public Library system is crying out to be used?

The Hugo House is running an inquiry into that most terrible and divisive of subjects: childhood.

They're talking; are you listening? Here's the round-up on speakers of note.

A group from the Pindeldyboz syndicate will be delighting the crowd at The Rendezvous with their witty writings Sunday and you should go because Sean Carman, Shya Scanlon, Louisa Peck, Jami Attenberg, Ryan Boudinot, Whitney Pastorek and Sarah M. Balcomb are all easily findable on the internet.