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• Gothamist was shocked when someone scaled the 52-story New York Times building's exterior on Thursday. And then Gothamist was shocked again when a second person scaled the building six hours later.

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Last night we cracked a beer at home and flipped back and forth between Spiderman 2 and some Roethke biography on KCTS. That wasn't what we were supposed to be doing. We were supposed to be seeing Sexual Practices of the Japanese at On the Boards, but we couldn't find the theater, despite a hand drawn map. No, we've never been to On the Boards before. Neither has anyone in Queen Anne, apparently, nor have they ever heard of it. Is it a bar? No, it's a theater. The theaters are over there. We know where the fucking theaters are, we don't know where On the Boards is. Can't help you. And we doubt we ever will make it to On the Boards, because while we're sure it's a fine theater with lots of fantastic productions it remains in Queen Anne, and Queen Anne fucking sucks. We used to think there was very little that made a trip there worthwhile, but we're ready to concede that absolutely nothing is worth the effort there. Hey, you don't have to blame the neighborhood for our inability to work a map, though, so you might want to check out Sexual Practices of the Japanese. A portion of it involves Ichiro and it plays through Saturday.

If the P-I is to be believed - and a good six out of ten times they are - we are in the midst of an illegal advertising blitz. The paper has an article today on a particularly grotesque form of urban pollution: unauthorized advertising appearing on the sides of buildings. In previous years the city would hear of maybe two a year, but so far in 2006 the city has received twelve complaints.

Recently, Seattlest had the pleasure of meeting and chatting with actor Thomas Haden Church, regarding Over The Hedge, Dreamworks' new animated feature opening in theaters May 19th.