Now we have photographic proof that some Seattleites don't hide under the bed when the jets go by. At our Seafair party, one guy was telling us about how Military.com has real attack videos showing what air power can do with ammunition instead of smoke cannisters. "You can see body parts go flying," he said. It was awkward for a moment.......

Dead Baby Bike Race after-party photo by Sea Kay My Ballard and Phinney Wood shared a post on the annual Dead Baby Bike Race. With the recent fear-mongering regarding bicyclists in the local media--the bike race could likely have not come at a worse time. We're sure already freaked out Subaru drivers, aren't thrilled to think of the idea of a crudely named (see: hilarious) bike race that celebrates "Mutant Bike Culture."Rejoice Francophiles and hipsters......

Dave Villwock won the Chevy SeaFair Cup hydroplane race Sunday after apparent-winner Miss Beacon was penalized for shenanigans during pre-race warmups. Tomorrow, the media will report that 7,000 boats were on the log boom and 700,000 people were jammed onto the shores of Lake Washington to watch boats going 700 mph and pulling 70 g's. Whatever. Seattlest is just glad that the one weekend a year that makes us actually anticipate the following Monday is......

Beware of drunk viking boaters this weekend, courtesy of Seattlest Flickr Contributor Wayne Wooten You know it's Seafair when the Seattle Police Department issues a "Boating Under the Influence Advisory." That's right folks, if you're out on the water this weekend, beware: everyone else on the lake is going to be drunk, whatever the boat cops say. As long-suffering Seattle residents who can afford boats, that is their God-given right during Seafair. It's the viking......

Bite of Seattle Crowd (i.e. possible felons) by Jonathan Hanlon At least that's part of the lesson we learned from reading the Seattle Times feature news story on how corrections officers and cops troll Seattle festivals like The Bite and Seafair for lapsed felons and folks with outstanding warrants. The other thing we got from reading the story was never wanting to go to another free festival again. You only have to read the first......

Fer crying out loud, we hate those guys. Sitting here in our office on Capitol Hill, with a terrified dog at our feet and a headache, it's only their first day and we are already thoroughly annoyed. Seattlest John's ideas notwithstanding, when the hell are they going to stop bugging us (and, according to a friend, buzzing the VA Hospital, which strikes us as just mean)?......

You can tell it's Seafair when your pets are trembling under the coffee table. Nothing signifies the dog days of summer in Seattle like the roar of a defanged F-18 driving your dog to piss himself. Combined with the Navy sending a sampling of its Pacific Fleet into Elliott Bay this week, Seafair isn’t so much a summer celebration as it is a friendly flexing of our military might. Since the Seattle area may......

In the wake of a brutal tussle between car and bicycle last weekend, it's good that New Belgium Brewing's Tour de Fat, the "traveling celebration of all things bicycle," arrives in town on Saturday, opposite the carbon-spewing, combustion engine worship-fest that is Seafair, what with the supersonic jets and souped-up motorboats. So for those who favor pedal-power over horsepower, you can show up at Gas Works Park at 9 a.m. to register yourself and your......

The early bird gets the worm. Nice guys finish last. And, apparently, the pirates get the bikini babes. We've seen them drive around town for weeks in their big pirate ship/truck thing. It always takes us by surprise, and we always look at it as the first indication that SeaFair's coming. Four years in this town, and we still don't know when that celebration happens, and we still don't know what for. But so......