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The New York Post had a bit of fun with the kerfuffle, hiring a Jessica Simpson impersonator to roam around the stadium during the game. Their impersonator was Lynsey Nordstrom, who they identify as a "beautiful 21-year-old nanny from Bothell." Anyone know this girl? Is she related to the department store Nordstroms?

Nothing ages as poorly as sketch comedy television. You remember it being it hilarious, but when you sit someone down in front of a "Mr. Show" or "Kids in the Hall" or "Ben Stiller Show" DVD, invariably, the first episode passes in uncomfortable silence before you have to admit that, at the time, it was hilarious, but maybe it would have made more sense to watch a few clips on YouTube instead of buying the boxed set collector's edition DVDs.

FANTASTIC FICTION SALON: Novelist, nonfiction author, and short story writer Terry Bisson has swept every honor in the science fiction field as well as France's Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire. He joins Hugo House's Writing Fantastic Fiction workshop series, where he will teach "Who Likes Short Shorts? We Like Short Shorts!"

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 emphatic 55.48%-44.52%--a definite “No” by our reckoning, but definitely not a “Hell No.” Remember the scene in Dumb and Dumber when Dumb takes a one in a million shot to be good news? “So I have a chance!” We’re going to hear from Dumb regarding this 55%.

The Post Intelligencer has an article today on the pesky old buildings that dot Seattle and the heroes who have been swooping in to convert them to condos. No need to tear down a perfectly good old building, necessarily, although that sometimes works too, but you can only wring so much out of renters before you shuffle them off to Kent or something where they belong and get some buyers in there.

Newspaper circulation numbers for daily newspapers were released recently, and (you may want to sit down for this) circulation is down! We'll give you a moment to clutch at your heart and flop about in your Aeron - Just nod when you're ready for us to go on...

Property owners along the path of the proposed streetcar line in South Lake Union have always been expected to partially fund the line, and Seattlest always assumed that that meant that Paul Allen was paying for some portion of it and the city would be coughing up the rest. We also assume that property owners along the line not named Paul Allen also thought that. Surprise! South Lake Union commercial residents expected to pony up are getting some estimates and they are not quite in line with what they expected.

The pope died in Italy today at 9:37 (12:37 PST). History's most travelled pope and an active diplomat, Pope John Paul II had been deteriorating rapidly over the past week, although he had appeared frail for several of the last of the 84 years of his life.

The three men charged with assaulting Micah Painter have been found guilty of a hate crime after a King County Superior Court trial. Vadim Samusenko could serve around 30 months in jail for two counts of second degree assault. David Kravchenko and Yevgeniy Savchak will serve somewhat less as accomplices. The curious defence of the three seemed to center on the "he was asking for it" stratagem, which was all the more questionable considering the attack took place outside of the Timberline on Pride weekend. Apparently the attackers passed on several thousand others who were similarly asking for it until they could find one alone.

Election stories are sill finding the front page one week after the election- What? Oh. It's a month later and- Are you kidding me? The year is 2005 and the dalies are still paying homage to our electoral process in the form of front page stories. I'm sure they're very proud of this reporting legwork, but there have got to be some reporters getting dog tired of this material.