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• Capitol Hill Seattle is asking for your help in making a "Collective Hill Playlist" filled with songs about or mentioning Capitol Hill. Do you have any songs for the list? Sorry, but "Posse on Broadway" has already been mentioned.
• If you're arachnophobic, we'd recommend not reading this little item. A Ballard family that found a Black Widow spider in a bunch of grapes from their neighborhood Fred Meyer, has donated the spider to the Woodland Park Zoo's Bug World.
• Local blogs are still aflutter about an anonymous poem about Snowmageddon 2008, which could be the first local viral email of '09. Both the Big Blog and The Rainier Valley Post talked about the snow poem.

• Ballard, beware! There's a bold thief making his rounds at local businesses, despite being caught red-handed and confronted by a number of his victims.
• It's time for year-end reviews from everyone, about everything! The Southlake has chronicled the big events of its first year of neighborhood blogging.
• Wah-ha-ha (evil blog laugh), "Snowmageddon" spread! Beacon Hill Blog has a fascinating (albeit slow-loading) set of hour-by-hour time-lapsed video from the great snow siege of 2008. As BHB said, it all started out so innocently...but we all know what came next.