Tuition's on the rise, but phone books are on a downward spiral. Meanwhile, Venoy Overton swears he didn't prostitute that girl. more ›

Criminals--what will they think of next? Today's news brought prison escapes, positive identifications and directions from God. Oh, and the Yellow Pages. more ›

Phone book cancellations have risen to 105,000--but representatives of the phone book industry still assert that their First Amendment rights are being violated. more ›

No use for the yellow pages? Stop them before they show up on your porch with the City's opt-out system. more ›

Each year, 7,500 tons of unwanted paper are delivered in the City of Seattle--right to our collective doorsteps. Beginning tomorrow, you can opt-out. Think of the trees. more ›

Last night we were standing on our back porch-like thing (which is actually more related, in terms of dimensions, to a hallway except instead of a bathroom at the end of it there's a Weber) in Wallingford. It was raining and we were drinking a can of beer and wondering where all the T-storms and hail were. Never showed, Double Doppler. And we thought back on some of the heavy weather that did show up as promised in the past few months. In fact some of the shingles that were blown off of the house up the street during the wind storm are still down there in the back yard, nearly completely covered by the spring grass. That violently diagonal stump a few houses up the hill? Still there. Still more unearthed than not. And this is relatively lightly winded Wallingford. They're probably still running on battery power in Duval. more ›

We were planning to write some posts this week on Pair (we love it) and Columbia City (we really love it). But then our car burned up, so we thought we'd put that at the head of the line. more ›