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Web site just to see if any disaster had befallen us overnight that may take precedence over our literary venture. What we saw, buried toward the end of the day's headlines, was this:

Whether you're a fan of melodic noise-rock (not always a contradiction in terms) or just never got over a childhood obsession with dinosaurs, Pterodactyl is the band for you--especially if you like post-rock that doesn't take itself too seriously. They'll be playing at the Sunset tonight with two awesomely named bands we know absolutely nothing about: Nudity and Same Sex Dictator.

There's not many reviews for the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie just yet, but the ones we've seen thus far are decidedly mixed. That's to be expected, since some people love the randomness of the Adult Swim cartoon, and some people just don't get it. A sampling of the reviews run the gamut, from this guy saying that it's "the most unbearable and unwatchable movie experience I've had this year" to the Village Voice claiming that "narrative's beside the point in a movie created by two guys who gorge on pop culture's high-fat diet and regurgitate it into something approaching...art? Close enough." Slant Magazine toes the line, concluding that "a second viewing with a joint in hand awaits to determine if its fierce comic bombardment means it's either the worst movie ever made or an act of movie-film revolution."

We don't really have to look any farther afield than the Stranger to get more than our fill of Seattle Weekly bashing in any given week, but right now there's an article in a Phoenix daily about the New Times Media vs. Village Voice Media culture war that jettisoned Weekly longtimers out the Weekly's door (and into something yet to be seen). The gist of the article is that across the country the left-leaning, axe-grinding, political alt-weekly veterans have been replaced with ass-kicking, name-taking whipper-snapper upstarts who don't much care for politics or other traditional alt-weekly stomping grounds.

In Seattlest's little egg of grey matter, every news item is connected to another, bigger, news item. We can't help ourselves. So when we see that the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild is going to settle with the Seattle Times for pay raises of $0.00 for the next two years, we have to connect it to something else, and in this case that something else is the Joint Operating Agreement that binds the Seattle Times and the P-I (did we say "Sculpture Park" in the headline? We meant "JOA"). In our mind the Seattle Times has been throwing fights for as long as we can remember in order to sustain the losses necessary to end the JOA and look all the more wretched in front of a Joint Operating Agreement arbitrator. That they appear to be pretty adamant in this contract situation is a sign that that campaign is over, and we'll find out sometime next year whether it succeeded or failed. Alternately, the newspaper guild is taking a dive so as to not allow the Seattle Times to continue hammering the P-I and the arbitrator with their poor little newspaper routine.

At the Northwest Film Forum this week, there's a Jean-Luc Godard mini-series. As usual, the price is right: $8 for general admission, $5 for members. Their Capitol Hill theater is on 12th Avenue, between Pike and Pine.

Seattlest received a tip from our only contact in the bicycle enthusiast hobo underworld (a sub-species also referred to by anthropoligists with the more politically correct term "Urban Primitive") that New York's Idiotarod - an urban parody of the Alaskan dog sled race whereby shopping carts are used as the vehicle of choice - will come to Seattle this weekend in the form of The Seattle Idiotarod. The Village Voice covered the recent New York session and the situation the idiots enjoyed with the local police.

It’s not everyday we get a rock warrior passing through town, much less Thor, the self-proclaimed “Legendary Rock Warrior.” But tonight we will.

-Fans and admirers gathered at the grave of Bruce Lee on Sunday to honor what would have been his 65th birthday. There may be four or five residents of Seattle who still aren't aware that Bruce Lee is buried here. Now you know.

Not since Joe's Asprin Stacking Blog joined forces with Alexis's Rice Crispe World Blog to form Joe & Alex's Little House of Horrors Blog has a merger of this magnitude so shaken Seattle's media environment. Villiage Voice Media, owner of The Seattle Weekly, has announced a merger with alt-weekly publisher New Times Media.

Now that Independence Day weekend has come and gone, Seattlest has gotten all that nasty "freedom" and "liberty" and "love for one's country" out of our system---so it's back to cynicism as usual. With that in mind, it's the perfect time to hit up Elliott Bay Book Company for the reading/signing tonight by politically-minded cartoonist Ward Sutton. Ward lived in Seattle from '91 to '95, when he illustrated posters for local bands (of the grunge variety, no doubt). He's back in town this evening promoting his new book o' comics entitled Sutton Impact: The Political Cartoons of Ward Sutton. This is his first-ever collection, culled from his weekly strip in the Village Voice, as well as works created for the New York Times, The Nation, Mother Jones, The New Republic, TV Guide, and other hippie commie pinko rags. In fact, his book features the following warning:

The Attorney General has found that reading Sutton Impact may be hazardous to your unquestioning devotion to the Bush administration, the Religious Right, and the Media Industrial Complex.

Seattlest recieved an e-mail recently, pointing us to an article in the Village Voice about sensuality and food. In the article, one person mentioned about how they believe that cupcakes are a "sexy food."