"Well I woke up Sunday morning, With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt. And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, So I had one more for dessert. Then I fumbled through my closet for my clothes, And found my cleanest dirty shirt. An' I shaved my face and combed my hair, An' stumbled down the stairs to meet the day..." This weekend ditty—Sunday Mornin' Coming Down—brought to you by......

Musicians who remain active in the recording industry for over 20 years usually become internationally famous and aim to save the world, or quietly cultivate a devout fan base by emancipating humanity one pair of ears at a time. Mark Pickerel—drummer, vocalist, and Ellensburg native—has followed the latter career path. While in high school, Pickerel joined what would become one of the most notable—and yet most overlooked—bands of the grunge era. Seven years later,......

In 2004, Ken Jennings redefined success on Jeopardy!, banking over $2,500,000 as he won 74 games. Those of us who get paid in bar credit know it's hard to make a living through trivia, but Jennings has done it. He turned his obligatory cash-in-on-your-15-minutes book, Brainiac, into something much better and broader, an examination of trivia history and culture. He also moved from Utah to the Seattle area. That, and Brainiac's paperback release tomorrow, gave......

PORTLAND, Ore. - Portland snake enthusiast, Matt Williamson was rushed to the hospital after a recent assault by an unnamed rattlesnake. "She kept whipping her tongue at me, like, you know, she wanted it," Williamson said. "Plus my girlfriend was being kind of a bitch and I wanted to make her jealous." But Williamson's lust-filled plan backfired. "I walked over, made small talk with her. She wouldn't tell me her name, but the way she......

If there's anything we learned studying literature in college, it's that everything either comes from Shakespeare, Greek mythology or the Bible. Seattlest used to entertain herself by playing "From Whence Did That Allusion Come?" Yeah, we only had two friends in college. The result of our education is an absolute delight for anything that successfully adapts some brilliant Shakespearean masterpiece into a slightly more ribald, contemporary spectacle. And so it is that we perked up......

A while ago we were looking for a picture of a mojito and in our search we ran into local author (and mojito photographer) Amanda Ford. She told us she had a book coming out and we said, Great, let us know when it's on the shelves and we'll interview you. The book is called Kiss Me I'm Single: An Ode to the Solo Life, and its message is of "fierce individuality and even stronger......

The advisory vote on the Viaduct is in and a crushing defeat has been issued to the “No and Hell No” campaign by write-in candidate “Hell No and No.” With strong turnouts in West Seattle, Magnolia and Capitol Hill, voters voiced their opinion on the mayor’s tunnel: as of 11:30pm, 69.88% responded in the negative to a tunnel-surface hybrid--a dramatic “Hell No” in our book. And voters rejected the elevated structure alternative with a less......

Barack Obama has hope, but Mike Daisey has the audacity to sit down just one hour prior to his one-man show, Stories from an Atlantic Night Café, and write an outline that will be his only guide when he steps on stage. Seattlest chatted with Daisey via e-mail as he made the cross-country trek from his home in Brooklyn to Seattle prior to his performance at CHAC on Sunday night. One hour before the show?......

Bob Stoops' pride wasn't the only victim of Boise State's ridonkulous Fiesta Bowl victory--J.R. Simplot, a.k.a. "Mr. Spud," Idaho's richest man, is in intensive care after his scooter flipped over in the parking lot after the game. Simplot, who's worth about $3 billion, owns a namesake agribusiness company that makes seeds, fertilizer and chemicals, and sells billions of potatoes a year. In 2001, he told Esquire magazine how he got started:I left home for good......

Ever see a news story about this kind of thing and think "Holy shit what would it be like to be inside the store when that happens?" Now Seattlest knows someone who can answer that question. The receptionist at our building sent an email this morning that a co-worker of ours had a flat tire and would be delayed getting into work. About an hour later, we get another email that the same co-worker had......

Remember those heady days before the 2004 election? When all anyone ever talked about was red vs. blue? Those were good times for America, and good times for internet comedy site JibJab, who captured the zeitgeist with a little Flash-animated featurette called "This Land." We didn't hear much from JibJab for a while, but they're back with the Great Sketch Experiment, in which they teamed up with legendary comedy film director John Landis (Animal......

Ever since the Seattle Weekly burst like a pimple between the fingers of new owners New Times Media and sprayed former editorial staffers in every direction like so much pus, Seattlest has been combing the internets for tell-all rants. We're just going to need a little more than the P-I's account, sorry. Until yesterday, nothing. Our combing skills are apparently for shit, though, becuase yesterday we found a Geov Parrish accounting of the slaughter right......

Courtesy of Boing Boing (it's this little blog you should check out sometime), we discovered that Radar Online -- a.k.a. the magazine that refuses to die -- has an interview with Winter, a 34-year-old freelance computer programmer who has made it his life's mission to visit every Starbucks in the world. That's 12,000 and counting. An excerpt: The primary rule is I have to drink at least one four-ounce sample of caffeinated coffee from each......

Not long after we linked to the Consumerist story on Karen's difficulties with Coinstar, we got an email from George White in their PR department. George wanted to give Karen her money back, but needed to get in touch with her -- something we, unfortunately, couldn't help with. However, George also wrote to Consumerist, who were happy to update the story today with a heartwarming conclusion: We've sent George Karen's email address. Big props to......

Seattlest loves John Moe, so we figured it was high time we interviewed him. Don't know Moe? He's the voice behind KUOW's The Works, Power of Voice (sometimes), and amusing weather updates. He's also a frequent contributor to McSweeney's, a blogger, and an author with a book to promote. How did your career path lead you to KUOW? Have you always wanted to be a disembodied radio voice, or did you stumble across the......

You all remember Vern, right? Seattlest interviewed him a few months back, and let us reassure you, this man knows badass inside and out. If anyone could convince us that the Steven Seagal Blues Band (aka Thunderbox) wasn't all that bad, it would have to be him. We were mighty pleased to discover that Vern had emailed Seattlest HQ to let us know he'd answered our plea and has a review of last weekend's concert......

Trish Repko is the lead singer of Satin Skirmish. The band's new album drops this fall. What's the latest? Oh, you know, nothing much. Trying to be good. You’ve got a new album coming out. Does it have a name yet? Since my next work is like nothing that has ever come before it, at first I couldn’t imagine using actual words that had actually been used before to describe it. But having walked......

A couple of national heavies just blew through town to promote either side of our coming senate race and the most interesting things to come out of both visits was the dissent. Maria Cantwell got called out for the Iraq war votes that she's sticking to while she was sharing the stage with Barak Obama. John McCain's finest Seattle moment happened on the radio after his McGavick event. A caller asked about the shady background......

There is nothing more important to a campaign than money. Votes are nice, but it just takes forever to get them cast (come on, November!?!). The amount that you have in the bank determines if you'll spend the summer in the heat of a campaign talking to PCOs in some school lunch room about parking garages, or out of the race on a nice boat gliding across Puget Sound. Since both candidates for Senate in......

This Seattle advice columnist is something and something and not afraid to something something something. No, not Savage - The other one. Dategirl. Dategirl, aka Judy McGuire, did an interview with our parent site Gothamist yesterday which is weird only until you realize that she lives in New York. And then the fact that she lives in New York seems weird. Ok Seattlest reads Dategirl in the Seattle Weekly from time to time, but apparently......

Seattlest went in to the Seattle Mystery Bookshop with a set of questions, and came out with a stack of novels recommended by founder Bill Farley and owner JB Dickey. (We're about halfway through reading the books.) Dickey can usually be found in the Pioneer Square store on weekdays, and Farley works weekends. But they were both present one recent Sunday afternoon when Seattlest stopped by to chat about being a specialty bookstore, great Seattle......

Seattlest wants to introduce you to Hardison. Take a moment. It's worth it. You can find some of their mp3s for download here. Time & Cash is Jacksonville-native and Seattle-transplant Shawn Hardison’s third album with Dig Records, after Sun Bros. and Dead Comedians. Jon Ervie (Presidents of the United States of America, Ruston Mire, Sir Mix-A-Lot) produced the new album, a collection that includes Hardison’s first fusion song, with Ishmael Butler of Cherrywine (aka......

In 1996, Kirsten Anderson opened an issue of Juxtapoz and fell for an art movement. Two years later, she founded Roq La Rue, Seattle’s first art gallery devoted to Lowbrow and Pop Surrealism. Last year Anderson literally wrote (and edited) the book on Pop Surrealism, sensically titled Pop Surrealism. And last month Roq La Rue moved into its fourth space -- the largest yet -- just in time for its annual Halloween group exhibit and......

The wake of late playwright August Wilson is today from 11am-8pm and tomorrow from 11am to 6pm at the Bonney-Watson Funeral Home. He'll be buried in Pittsburgh this weekend. From a talk August Wilson gave in 1991: When I discovered the word breakfast, and I discovered that it was two words, I think then I decided I wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first......

Sounding more like a person leaving an unsatifying relationship than a football player joining a new team, former Seahawks DE Chike Okeafor specified why he chose to sign with the Arizona Cardinals in a press conference quoted in Thursday's P-I. "Over there (in Seattle) on a day-to-day basis I felt alone, not surrounded by enough people that thought like me, felt like me, played like me on a day-to-day basis and love the game......

The world of blogs is becoming more mainstream everyday, which sucks, 'cause now we can't feel very special about our online-publishing selves. All we have now is the silent suspense of the impending consequences for all this cyber posting. All we can do is be careful. But whatever you do, don't tell Jen, Jake or Gothamist that we are blogging on the job. Why not, you ask. Because people get fired. Way back before Google,......