With the Mariners taking the rest of the summer off, Seattlest (along with some other local rag) is adopting the Chicago White Sox as our fake team for the rest of the season. more ›

When that 25-cent fare increase hits in March...let's see, gotta calculate up...carry the exponent...Metro could be making 1,925,000 extra dollars per year (not really, we're just multiplying 0.25 by 7% of total boardings, for a quick estimate). A peak 1-zone fare will be $1.75, so make sure you're carrying around three quarters during commute times. more ›

Coming home from work on the bus last night, we got to thinking about how even getting to vote on a light-rail package this year is going to be an uphill fight. The dire prospects for light rail anytime soon pushed us to extrapolate the costs to our psyche of waiting during the ride home. more ›

Recommendeds are awesome. They let you tell us what you want more of (food posts) and what you don't (high school basketball previews). Keep letting your fingers do the talking! more ›

Making up for weeks of hibernation and workaholism, Kim will hit the parties this weekend. Tonight, she’ll don her Groucho glasses for a lesbian function at Jabu’s celebrating the births of her two favorite Sagitarii. Saturday, it’s to the War Room for a company party with the missus and her workmates. Finally, she’ll ship off to the sub-tropics on Monday, where she’ll spend what remains of 2007. more ›

Last week, Seattlest Kim wrote a post about New York City that pissed off New Yorkers. The angry comments to said post were oddly familiar because we got similar comments on a post about Seaside, Oregon that Seattlest Tom wrote in May. more ›

Al Gore’s fiercely-argued new book, The Assault on Reason, is an indictment of current policy making -- especially the President’s use of power and his handling of the war. But in Gore’s view, the real problems lie deeper. Gore argues that the marketplace of reasoned debate on which our country was founded is being endangered by a variety of things: the use of fear and the misuse of faith, the distractions of our entertainment culture, and the concentration of power in the national media and the executive branch.

Is Seattlest the only person left that hates seeing the last of the city's beer-only drinking venues launch themselves into the new cocktail era and start serving hard alcohol? The Comet--that was a blow. We loved the fact that you could only get beer and wine there up until a year or so ago. You could buy everyone who was bellied-up a "shot" for like $20. The shot was actually some weird glug or something that walked the line of alcohol content they were allowed to serve, but it was cheap as hell. Now the Blue Moon has apparently made nice with the Control Board and is updating their liquor license to enable the sales of hard alcohol. Great, great bar, as it is. Great residents, great transients. One of the funnest bars in Seattle and the patrons seem to get plenty drunk on the current offerings. When Seattlest Dan and Seattlest MVB were in there recently we hadn't been sitting for ten minutes before some woman from Alaska dumped the contents of her purse on our table and sprayed us with cheap perfume. She got 86'd about 20 times and every time she returned she'd show up at the table looking for her phone and her coat. The last thing she needed was a shot, but if it were available at the bar we have no doubt someone would have slipped her one. Now, we understand that bars make a crap-load of money from the sales of hard alcohol and that dives have been getting killed lately by the smoking thing and the sprinkler thing, but we still love us a pub. Are there any left? And if we're going to continue to phase out these Draconian, Victorian-age drinking laws where are we going to address the ridiculous state-run liquor stores? more ›

That's the reason we're using Speakeasy right now to upload this post -- because Qwest, while in fact servicing the building we work in, does not realize that it services the building we work in. We tried to convince Qwest salespeople that they do, but they refused to believe it and transferred us to an engineer who could explain why they didn't. Researching, the Qwest engineer found out they did and offered to set us up, but then their phone system dropped our call and since we'd been transferred there, we had no way to get back. Enter Speakeasy. more ›

Urban Craft Uprising has their timing down. Most of the people we talked to at the show were there to do their Christmas shopping. While some diehard craftaholics were doing all of their shopping there, we settled for checking off half the people on our list. more ›

Unlike Seattlest Dan we haven't gotten our hands on one yet, but like many we are fascinated by the brown color choice for the new Zune players. The rich chocolate brown/bright green color combination is one we find personally very pleasing, in fact it turns up in our house. But we share some of the skepticism about whether it will work on a consumer product--it could work, but it is risky. Anil Dash over at Six Apart is pretty damn sure it is a bad idea to call the actual product color "Brown" and he put a nice little commercial together (replete with a now infamous midterm election picture) to help the Zune marketing people sell it for Christmas. Enjoy! more ›

We were going to write about style after one of our valued commenters (and one of our three readers) took Seattlest Dan to task for carrying an umbrella. We envisioned inking one of those grandiloquent "A Moral Defense of..." columns that one sees written in defense of some generally unpopular concept; however, dumb things like work and its attendant personal-time-sucking qualities derailed us. more ›

The World Cup is so over that even the most pretentious Europhiles have finally shut up, but Seattlest has some unfinished business. Before the tournament started we set up something called the Seattlest World Cup Challenge over at ESPN and a bunch of you joined, despite our lack of creative naming skills. Some of you joined and forgot about it, only to get the points a monkey flipping coins would have. We doubt we'll see you at the G&D come the new season. Some of you played along for awhile and then dropped out a little later. You may stop by for an FA final or something and we'll see you then. A brave few stuck it out to the end and are just poor guessers. You guys are probably listening to too many American announcers on Fox Sports World. And then there's the guy that won: Capitol Hill Seattle. more ›

Torontoist immediately wins our heart by using the word "Jackass" in a headline. In fact, we love their use of it so much that we're going to use it as much as possible throughout this post. For example, it looks like there are Toronto-area jackasses besides those who misuse the sidewalk: look at the crap on sale on Toronto's craigslist. But it looks like Toronto doesn't contain the kind of jackasses who pee in public pools, as the issue never came up when they interviewed the creators of art installations in their public wading pools. more ›

75 minutes in, the Germany vs. Poland match was a draw -- then Poland's Sobolewski, in a snit after being beaten to the ball, tripped up Germany's Klose. Two yellow cards made a red, and Sobolewski was sent off to leave his team short-handed for the remaining 15 minutes. more ›

ESPN's gamecast won't load, and their live scores are not as live as Seattlest Seth, who's currently encamped at the George and Dragon pub in Fremont. We're a little late starting, but we'll update this post with reports from him as they come in. more ›

Seattlest has taken our fair share of potshots at Wallingford. And it's true: we hate Wallingford NIMBYs, the Friends of Gasworks Park are most assuredly not our friends, and any effort to become suburbia-in-the-city earns our scorn. more ›

Not too long ago, we brought to your attention the fact that select metro buses had started purportedly offering wireless connections. We were fairly pleased to discover that the first leg of our commute, Route 48, was supposedly already online, with the piece-de-resistance of our daily slog, Route 545, slated for next in line. ( We'd still be torn between reading our book, a time-honored bus activity that we actually look forward to, and getting a crapload of email out of the way before we even hit our desk--but at least we'd have that choice to make.) more ›

These questions were submitted by clairvoyant readers. more ›