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The first nine entries in SeattlePI.com's local news section are very sad odes to the P-I's past. They're worth a read, even if you aren't running to pick up the last, commemorative edition of the paper itself. God knows we loved linking to the P-I, tried not to link to the Times when possible; we're crossing our fingers and holding our breath in hopes that the online-only site will have just as wonderful local news coverage.

Popular Science released its list of the 50 Greenest cities in the U.S. recently. Of course, liberal, green Seattle was on it. We came in eighth. It surprised no one at Seattlest HQ, however, that our neighbor to the South, namely Portland, came in first since some of us believe that Portland is better and we all love PDX regardless.

Also lapsing into first person, since that's what my predecessor did.

First of all, let us say that we didn't plan our Super Tuesday get-together as an Obama event. We support Obama; we've even given him $$.

A freezing rainstorm left the streets by Seattlest HQ white. It's since morphed into a light snowstorm that will make our half-mile trip to the video store a winter adventure.

When faced with a Hall-of-Famer at his best, what can you do?

Seattlest is still getting our bearings after spending the last few weeks of 2007 on the east coast, but one of the most surprising things we've seen is commentary lamenting the closure of the Taco Bell on Broadway.

Not sure we've ever seen a win for which the credit belongs so overwhelmingly to the defense. For most of the game, the Seahawks' defensive line was able to get pressure with only four rushers. By establishing that, they were able to drop guys back into coverage, which led to the two pick sixes.

10 out of 10 Pro Bowl voters agree--the Seahawks have more talent on defense than on offense.

Clubs aren't taverns; they don't grow finer with age. It's better to have a steady, sustainable turnaround of clubs and venues. It helps keep the music scene itself from stagnating and compartmentalizing.There's nothing more depressing than a club reaching mythic "legendary" status with 45-year-old, original patrons -- trying to relive old memories -- throwing lecherous glances at the 16-year-old noobs who go there because it's the cool place to be.The best thing that can happen for a club is to close before it gets tired and becomes a caricature of itself. Clubs best live on in the slightly hazy, alcoholic fog of memories of past patrons.

Today John Cook mentioned a new, locally based social networking site in his Venture Blog: ListenToYourWife.com. Howard Ro, the husband in the husband-and-wife team behind the site, explains: Ro, an IT consultant, says that many married women feel as if they are not "being heard." "It's not due to abuse or neglect, but just due to the nature of male dominance in a marriage," he said. "We wanted to create a forum for wives to...

The governor has declared a statewide emergency, and the storm is now officially a killer--two people died in Chehalis when a dike ruptured, reports KOMO.

After September's win over San Francisco, in which the Niners managed only nine first downs, we did a little capsule history over on our all-sports blog of the other times in Seahawk history when they'd held an opponent to less than ten first downs. It had only happened seven times before that game--the September game made it eight--and never twice in once season. Now the Hawks have done it twice in once season to the...

As we were ducking out of yet another Garfield blowout loss to Franklin, we joked to our friends, "What if the Huskies and Seahawks lose too! That would sure suck."

Overheard at Seattlest HQ: "I can see how the guy might have a case, but it's pretty common knowledge in the industry that you don't fucking sell AutoCAD on your own -- at least not on obvious places like eBay."

In Slate today, Taylor Clark declared our -Ist-less neighbor to the south "America's indie rock Mecca," then spent several paragraphs dropping names and figuring out why. His conclusion?

It's easy to live here. In the words of a friend of mine who used to be the music editor at the local alt-weekly, Portland is like a resort community for indie rockers who spend half the year working themselves ragged on tour. You can venture into public dressed like a convicted sex offender or a homeless person, and no one looks at you askew. It's lush and green. Housing is affordable, especially compared with Seattle or San Francisco. The people are nice. The food is good. Creativity is the highest law. For young, hip Portlanders, financial success is a barista job that subsidizes your Romanian-space-folk band or your collages of cartoon unicorns.

The scene in the basement of Seattlest HQ last night when FOX showed Ichiro rounding third and heading home on his inside-the-park home run was what I imagine an old-time political convention looked like after they nominated the hometown candidate after 86 ballots.

Although all four lanes of the Fremont Bridge's approaches have been open to traffic for a few weeks now, crews have been busy tinkering this and that and putting those pesky last touches in order to complete the project. As tinkerers, we sympathize; the devil is always in those final details. As we've been documenting the work at various points during the process, we stepped outside the other day to take a closer look at the finished work.

Tomorrow is Cinco De Mayo, so you already know that any vaguely Mexican destination is going to be filled with jackasses drinking margaritas and acting like idiots over what isn't really Mexican independence day. We're fine with the drunkenness, we're fine with the jackassery, but really, there are much better ways to spend your day and night than in some overly adorned restaurant. Here are three of them, and since we know you're going to do the Cinco De Mayo thing anyway, we'll even tell you how to fit this into the more traditional experience:

The Huskies weren't among the 64 teams picked for the NCAA tournament, then neither were they among the 32 teams picked for the NIT. Down here at Seattlest HQ, stunned silence. After the first two regions were revealed, we sort of joked, "Uh-oh, looks like we didn't make it!" And then, when the final bracket was shown, well, wow...we really didn't make it!

The American Institute of Architects asked 1800 Americans to name their favorite buildings in the US. After further refinement and surveying, the AIA compiled a list of the top 150 and released it on Wednesday.

Here at Seattlest HQ, also known as "Library Dorks R Us," we've laid bare our woes of overburdened library hold queues (and overdue quotas) in the past. When 5 books, many over 300 pages, come due at the same time, what is an SPL whore to do? Well, it looks like we're in for another beating; here's what is in our queue, in order of likelihood to arrive:

'Member when we made a funny ha-ha joke about thieves breaking into staged homes for sale? Well--irony of ironies--a thief did same to a friend's house last night, so we had to Tivo Saturday morning's Husky game while we spent the day repairing a broken door frame.

That chair, the one with the plaid fabric? Should it go next to the couch, or over by the fireplace?

The first time we saw Brandon Roy dribble a basketball, we knew he was going to be the first Garfield High guy to make the NBA. His debut, earlier this year with the Blazers, was anti-climactic.

Romo sign procured from Qwest Field by our roommate, who was at the game, sitting behind two Dallas fans. For some reason they didn't take their sign with them when they left.

Microsoft has had a Halo movie in the works for a while now, but it looks like it was killed this week. Universal was supposed to produce the Redmond-written script, a budget was set of $145 million and no less than Peter Jackson was set to produce, but late last week it was revealed that the studio wanted to renegotiate terms and Microsoft bailed. A great post on the subject at GigaOm asks, "The real mystery is why Microsoft is still plowing ahead. Has anyone bothered to tell them a Halo movie must be one of the most ill-inconceived film projects ever?"

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.

Around Seattlest HQ, word went out about the news that Craigslist will soon start charging for Seattle job listings. Come October 22nd, the site is going to charge $25 for job postings in an effort to curb spam, overposting, and other "quality issues." Seattlest predicts the following:

Tuesday night at Neumos, local label Sarathan Records had a label showcase and record release party for the new Purrs album. This isn't to say that we've found other labels to be filled with assholes or anything, but Sarathan Records might have the nicest artist roster around. Everyone that took the stage seemed like the type that would help you fix a flat tire even if they were late for an appointment. We're not sure how that niceness factors into their music, but we're happy to be able to tell you that the music was entertaining as well.