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We only know one person who owns a Kindle, so we often forget to mention you can subscribe to Seattlest at the Kindle Store for just $1.99.

In our continuing quest to get other people to do our work for us, we're accepting reader submissions for Seattlest posts. Enter, and if we select your blog post, you'll win a pair of tickets to the Tuesday (April 14) show at the new Crocodile, starring Dr. Dog, The Cave Singers, and Golden Boots. The rules are these: Enter by posting a link to your blog post in the comments section of this post. You have until 5 p.m. Monday. Then we'll pick our favorite, and reprint your post on Seattlest next week. We're leaving the topic open--just make sure it relates to Seattle in some way. PS: Make sure you didn't give us your spam email in your profile, or we won't be able to tell you you won.

Dear readers, I'm breaking from the official Seattlest "we" to let you know that this is my last day with your favorite local news, events and opinion blog. I've been writing a lot about Northwest hiphop for Sound Magazine, a publication you should definitely be reading if you're interested in the Seattle/Portland/Vancouver music scene and are looking for quality long-form feature stories; I'll be working more closely with the editorial staff at Sound now, which requires me to bid adieu to the local news editorship at Seattlest. I'm also a licensed massage practitioner, and have begun to build my own Capitol Hill practice. (Joy!)

Thanks, everyone who came out to the Seattlest Happy Hour at Zig Zag last night--and thanks to Ben and Autumn for pouring drinks down our thirsty gullets. We had a chance to order an Aviation, which we wanted ever since we read about creme de violette in The Atlantic. It may be impossible to convey in words how cool you feel drinking a slightly purple drink called Aviation.

RSS subscription drive! Literally thousands of people follow the news on Seattlest via our Seattlest RSS feed. So come on, everyone else is doing it. Subscribe today! If RSS is too many words, you can catch headlines on our Twitter feed. We also have a mobile device site if you want to bookmark that for when you're out and about. Lastly, you can also join our Facebook group, which we use mainly to invite people to Seattlest Happy Hours. Are we missing anything? Oh, as always, if you're interested in writing for Seattlest, let us know.

Hi, Seattlest readers waiting bemusedly for your Neighborhood News and Local Blog Round-up. We're mixing it up and moving NN&LBR-u to the afternoon so we can deliver fresher links, rather than the day-old variety. So look for that later on today. In the meantime, you've got a few minutes, why not enjoy a doughnut? Also, this week, we've got Inauguration news coming from our sister site DCist (and the crazy kids at Chicagoist who road-tripped out)--and we've sent Seattlest Audrey off to Sundance to sneak a peek at a bunch of films that will no doubt show up later this spring at SIFF.God it's exciting. Now excuse us while we show our doughnut--a glazed old-fashioned, if you must know--who's boss.

Dear readers: There comes a time in every blog's life when no matter how good things have been going--and they have been good--when you see an upgrade and you get to thinking... Well, it's an old, old story. The long and short of it is, we're going to be taking a little time off from you this weekend. We hope--we swear this is true--that it's just for a few hours, just until we get our database straight. But you know how it goes. Sometimes...things come up. Maybe you'll be there when we come out the other side. We hope you will be. We have pictures of slushy streets to share. Oh, they're really slushy. Just how you like.

Speaking of membership drives, every so often we head over to the shadowy area of Seattlest HQ where the beancounters with green eyeshades are number-crunching. They tell us our Seattlest RSS subscribers are up four percent this month, but we think we can beat that number. Subscribe today! It's free, after all. And while we're at it: kids, you can follow us on Twitter or on your mobile device. We also proudly introduce a pilot program where Seattlest David comes by your home and reads his "Seahawks vs. Cooking Dish" exploits aloud, any time of the day or night. But that is not free. Contact us for details.

So 2,400 of you are reading this via your RSS feed, and congratulations! You can skip the rest of this post. What a time-saver that RSS is. For those of you who haven't tried it out, all you need to experience the digest-y gloriousness of RSS is a feed reader. There's all kinds. We use Google Reader, which also integrates with our Google home page--Yahoo! has similar functionality. And then there's Newsgator and Bloglines, in addition to add-ons to Firefox.

Party-planning troika Seattlest and Seattle Metblogs, and CHS want to hold a special BlogsGiving Evening (TM) around mid-November, and we're soliciting suggestions for a venue that can hold about 75-100 thirsty and slightly hungry people and their iPhones, laptops, and digital cameras. If you or a venue you know would like to be part of this evening to benefit inter-blog amity and a local food bank, please drop us a line: editor at seattlest.com. Our operators are standing by!

We know it looks like them, but we assure you this is not The Fleet Foxes. Share photos of your favorite bearded Seattle musicians in the Seattlest Flickr Pool

Alexa, the internetz rating service, is out with a ranking of Seattle's top 50 media websites. Not surprisingly, da Timez-&-Pee-Eye combo site, nwsource.com, is numero uno. Our good friends at Slog are in fourth place. Seattlest.com is a more-than-respectable tenth. WestSeattleBlog is 15th. Says Alex Mayer, publisher of dead-tree Belltown Messenger (#42) and live-electron Downtown Dispatch (#36), "The future of media is on the web."

It's that time of year again: time to vote for the "Best of Western Washington." We must admit to being slightly miffed. In a poll that asks locals about their favorite fish market and what they consider to be the best pet couture, there isn't a single question about your favorite blog or blogger. So, King5 and Evening Magazine, we want to know--do you have something against local bloggers? Or are you just saving space and sending Seattlest the trophy? Cause that, we'd be cool with.

Dear Seattlest Readers,

Stalk of the Town returns! This weekend officially welcomes us to the rainy season. So how will Seattlest be reaffirming life and nourishing our collective creative urge?

       

When drinking heavily in the afternoon with co-workers, it is always a good idea to bring your camera. That way the fuzzy details are there at least semi in-focus in the morning, and you yourself are in none of the photos! So come drink a few with us and play paparazzi at the next Seattlest Happy Hour at Moe Bar on October 20th.

Ever seen flames shooting out of the house across the street and wanted to send Seattlest pictures or seen a ranking of the best cities for piroshki and are amazed Seattlest hasn't covered our number one status? Now you can send us tips galore by dropping a line to tips@seattlest.com. Even easier, you can just click on the "tips" link to the left and our crack team of reporters will get it right away. So keep your eyes open and let us know what we should cover.

It's true. Now, if you can't live without knowing what's happening on Seattlest as it happens, or just want to know in extremely short bursts what we're posting about, you can follow the Seattlest Twitter feed. Through the magic of modern technology, followers of Seattlest's Tweets can choose to receive updates via txt, IM or on the Web. So sign up for our Tweets, just don't call us Twits.

Thanks to Seattlest e-mail tipper Andy Keck, we got word and photos of another driver who misjudged the height of his vehicle and became stuck underneath a low-lying bridge at the Arboretum. We just have to ask--what part of "Low Clearance" on blaring yellow signs do these drivers not get?

By all appearances, The Slog, has morphed into upscale French underwear. We came across this display over the weekend at the Galeries Lafayette in Biarritz.

Hurray for Seattlest Charles, who will be on the radio tonight at 8:30pm, on KIRO 710 AM. The show is called Too Beautiful to Live, and he'll be discussing the pillow fight he engaged in over the weekend. What pillow fight? This pillow fight.

Observation: Seattlest James hosts trivia at the Old Pequliar on the first Tuesday of the month.

Flickr user michael_a_goldberg's "Legs" captures a moment that could be pivotal in any number of stories. Probably noir-tinged stories. The heels, the tattoo, the tiptoes, the cobblestones that blur into the foreground -- lovely. Each day, we single out one photo we love in the Seattlest Flickr Group. Want to see your photos here? Add them to the pool (or tag them "seattlest," or both) and you might find yourself featured in Seattlest Pix...

Has the EMP ever looked better? If so, we missed it, but kenyee snagged the view, then tagged his photo "seattlest" on Flickr. Thanks for sharing, kenyee. We've noticed more and more gorgeous photos showing up in the lefthand column under the Latest photo: header. And we want more. More! MORE! So we started a Seattlest Flickr group. Join up, share your photos, and we'll use as many of the great ones as we...

Recent watercooler discussion around Seattlest HQ has centered around the fact that if you do a Google search for "Seattlest," the search engine no longer "helpfully" suggests that you might have meant "Seattle St." In the grand scheme of things this isn't huge (we're already aware of the fact that us and our -ist/-est brethren are taking over the world one city at a time), but it does warm our cold little blogger hearts to know that some complicated, impersonal algorithm is willing to give us this nod at legitimacy. So in our neck of the woods, this is of much greater importance than the Youtube acquisition.