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Naturally, it's not without controversy. Apparently, if you do the monologue titled "The Little Coochie Snorcher That Could" these days, you have to leave out the line "If it was rape, it was good rape," from a woman recalling her teenage experience with an older woman. Sometimes discretion is the better part of valor. For ourselves, we found "Because He Liked to Look At It" particularly relatable. This year's production features a scene called "Crooked Braid" that they haven't done before.

We've been amazed recently about how right the weather forecasters have been. It still gets a little sketchy when they're talking about a few days out, but when the subject is tomorrow or later today and they say it's going to start snowing at this time and it will come down with such and such intensity for whatever duration and deposit x number of inches of white stuff at 5th and Pine downtown while the winds blow at a specified speed and the air is a specific temperature - When they say things like that they've been absolutely right, and frankly, it's sucked. When are they going to predict 60 degrees and sunny and be right? "They" the weather cabal or whoever. But, yesterday it seems like they weren't right because there's not a lot of snow in Seattle and we're at the office, which is great - We can't take any more snow or wind or tsunami days at home and we're tired of hearing from other parts of the country about what a mild winter we're having.

In a piece last month, we called Fresno State, a team that lost to Nevada, Tulsa, and Louisana Tech last year, "not that good." Soon, the comment box was teeming with the indignation of uppity Fresno State fans, broadcasting their inferiority complexes widely by calling our piece "stupid ass" and "illogical."

The UW became a more urban campus today with the purchase of the Safeco tower. Don't get us wrong; we love the sprawling, verdant expanses, nooks, and crannies of the main campus. However, a properly urban university -- like its students -- should engage with its neighborhood by wandering beyond campus and fanning into the surrounding area.

-We haven't heard when they're going to move it down here, but it's reported that a Seattle company is buying heavily into The Pearl.

-Mill Creek police have released a sketch of a man wanted in connection with a sexual assualt there and eww.

For some reason our collegiate system places very few demands on the time of its participants. Undergrads may not believe this, aspiring undergrads couldn't be convinced of it, but post-college types generally admit that those five years were scheduled pretty lightly. Not that there weren't commitments. Parties had to be attended. Frisbees had to be thrown. Bongs have evolved, but they have yet to smoke themselves. And there's no better environment for game playing than the residence hall. Bar none.

The UW has a nuclear reactor. Don't know about you, but that was news to us. There aren't any Simpsons-esque cooling towers rising above the campus, obviously - It seems it's a twee toy nuclear reactor that was built in the late 50s as a part of someone's "See how safely we can fuck with the atom?" campaign. It was even built in a glass building so everyone could see cheap and clean energy being produced on their way to class where they no doubt practiced their duck and cover routines incessantly.

-Did you know that the Thunderbirds are still playing and they're facing a Game 7? Are you at all aware of the Thunderbirds in the first place?

-Yesterday Seattle police announced the creation of a panel to look into the motivations of Seattle mass-murderer Kyle Huff.

Someone was finally charged with arson in the case of the UW Horticulture fire of 2001 and no it wasn't someone from Eugene although we know you want to jump to that conclusion you anti-Oregonian. She's from Berkeley which we hope was going to be your second guess.

National Champs!: The UW women's volleyball team swept favored Nebraska three games to none in the NCAA Championship game. The Huskies didn't lose a game the entire tournament--becoming only the second team to achieve that feat.

The UW's newly online Urban Archives doesn't seem to have a whole lot of images in it (and a lot of what they do have is crap) and a larger and more thorough collection of Seattle graffiti images can be found at flickr or PNG, but we think they're definitely on the right track. Their interface allows you to search by keyword or browse by a couple of different categories they've set up: political graffiti, stickers, stencils, glass graffiti, hand styles, and wall graffiti. We'd love to see the university grow a proper collection someday and hopefully the piece in the P-I this morning will inspire some more young urban archeologists to fire up their cameras.

Oh were we ever excited about December 1st.

From Seattle blogger and UW staff member Harry Love we find a link to the harrowing account of a UW Professor caught with his family in Thailand during the devastating December 26th tsunami.

The Washington men's basketball team continued their consistent, poised play with a split of two games in Arizona over the weekend. Even Thursday's 92-81 loss to the Arizona Wildcats demonstrated how good this team is. Despite their worst shooting performance of the season, the Huskies stayed close, in a hostile arena, against the 11th-best team in the country. I don't know if there is a phrase to describe the opposite of a Pyrrhic victory, but this was just that, so for now let's call an encouraging defeat a "Husky special."