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There is a film by which the love all Seattleites have for the Emerald City can be measured. Can you stomach the whole movie; Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks and a cute kid for 105 minutes? Doubtful. But how long will you watch this TBS mainstay while waiting for the scene where he rows a boat from Lake Union to Alki or just one more shot of The Houseboat's exterior? Five minutes? One commercial break? Two? Up until the movie moves to Manhattan? That's very near the end and your iron constitution and love for the city far exceeds Seattlest's.

Seattlest first heard the legend of the lost ski resort of Mt. Pilchuck way back in 2004 from a man who cut our hair at Rudy's (which, contrary to what you may have heard, is actually a decent and affordable place to get your hair cut in Seattle). The story goes something like this: Back in the 1950s there was a big push to start up a ski resort on the mountain in question, despite the fact that the conditions there sucked even harder than the abysmal snow levels of Suckqualmi Pass. Controversy aside, the resort plans moved forward at taxpayer expense. But by the late 1970s, the suck-ass conditions were as bad as predicted, decimating the usually meager attendance levels to the point where the resort had to close up shop in 1980. Since then, conditions permitting, snow enthusiasts wary of paying the exorbitant lift ticket prices at actually functional ski resorts (or too lazy to make their own fake passes) would venture out to Pilchuck for pseudo-back-country action, sometimes camping overnight in the ruins of a once proud society.

Seattlest doesn't normally do the rave thing, and we would never even consider going to Burning Man, but we're kind of curious about the October 15th Internal Combustion event, described as "an underground trance dance gathering at a place like no other," only because where its taking place, that underground tunnel by Stevens Pass, is in fact a place like no other: site of the historic 1910 Stevens Pass avalanche that killed 96 people aboard two trains stalled in the snow. Having a rave/trance party in such a place seems kind of like screening The Shining at a birthday party for an orphan who's dad went insane and killed people with an ax. Or maybe its not totally comparable with that, but still...

Amazon is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a curious promotion: for a limited time, selected customers will get their booty delivered by none other than a celebrity related to the item ordered. Then--in a twist that could only make us think of those Publisher's Clearing House commercials where the mortified new millionaire answers the door in curlers and a bathrobe--Amazon webcasts the magic moment.