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Last night, fanless in our excessively hot apartment, Seattlest resorted to sticking our head and shoulders in the freezer for a good five minutes. We then sat on the floor holding a cold bottle of water against the back of our neck. We're terrified of turning on the stove, lest we just burst into flames. All this, and we grew up in Florida, where these temperatures would be considered charming spring weather.

Finally, H&M, the Ikea of clothing stores, will make its glorious debut in Seattle.

When the Crocodile Cafe abruptly closed down a month ago, we turned to a friend of ours looking for the inside scoop. Kultur Shock guitarist Val Kiossovski was bar manager down for quite a while (he's now running his own place in Lower Queen Anne, Solo, one of our favorite hangouts), so we figured if anyone knew, he would. Unfortunately, he was busy with problems of his own: rescheduling his band's show.

Tonight, the nation's hardcore gamblers' eyes will be on Seattle as our fair burgh hosts Monday Night Football.

Starring Michael Caine as Clay Bennett

Fans of the Ignite Seattle tech event series who are less enthused about the fact that everyone's a fan of Ignite Seattle should probably check out Thingamajiggr. Thingamajiggr sounds like it's Ignite + tickets, somewhat. Organizer Brady Forrest of O'Reilly Radar says that there will be some short talks at the beginning, but it's more of a social party than Ignite. There will be SMS game experiments going on, there are DJs scheduled, some art, and a "Hacker Magic Show." Our kind of event. It's this Friday 8pm-2am and tickets are $15 (discount code "thingamaparty"--buy now because there are limited tickets and it's going to be announced in other places soon.)

One more time: David Gilmour, "the legendary voice and guitar of Pink Floyd," has a new concert DVD out next Tuesday the 18th. It's a double-disc affair with all five-plus hours of his acclaimed 2006 Royal Albert Hall concert--featuring songs from Gilmour's On an Island album, along with Pink Floyd favorites, as well as guest performances by David Crosby and Graham Nash *and* a grand finale with David Bowie on "Comfortably Numb," plus nearly three hours of extras. Auburn Stadium Theaters is screening a very special theatrical cut (ninety minutes) of said concert footage on the big screen this Saturday, September 15th at noon.

We never really got into Pink Floyd, but not for lack of trying. In high school we actively endeavored to enjoy the band by any means necessary. We listened to Wish You Were Here under the influence of homemade acid and moonshine, we viewed The Wall whilst freebasing peyote, we played Dark Side of the Moon simultaneous with Sister Act, and still--nothing. We gave up and found Radiohead instead.

When a Californian real estate developer announced this week that he was determined to bring a Major League Soccer team to the Pacific Northwest it was good news for some and bad news for others. Fans of the game in Seattle and Portland, where Michael Keston is proposing to set up the MLS expansion team, should welcome the chance at entry into the U.S.'s highest league. MLS in Seattle has always been a long-shot with the players we have (Paul Allen, Adrian Hanauer who co-owns the Seattle Sounders) either not interested in or not capable of bringing a team here. This new guy--despite being from out of town, despite being from California, despite being a real estate developer, despite his intentions of handing the team to his son to manage--might be the guy who can get an MLS team into Qwest Field. Good news for soccer fans.

It'd been awhile since we'd last been to the Tractor Tavern and, well, we found that we'd missed the place -- the faded old cowboy boots hanging from the ceiling, the curious glory-hole in the men's crapper, the huge oil painting of the bright red tractor, and then the other one of the majestic horse with all the lightning in the background. Okay, that one's kind of weird, but it fits somehow with the country but not too country attitude of the place. We're just pretty damn happy whenever we pay a visit to the Tractor.

Sometimes we feel that we are taking our home town for granted. We probably focus on the lousy weather, the passive aggressive nature of the people, the ineffective local government, and the selfish NIMBYs who ruin everything.

Before you move it's a good idea to throw out the crap you don't need any more. And our Oklahoma City-bound basketball franchise is doing just that, firing longtime Sonics executive Wally Walker.

Washington Husky running back Michael Houston is off the team and, presumably, not going to get a pickup from Orange Cab anytime soon after some Saturday night hijinks involving a taxi, a McDonalds, and--it goes without saying--a strip club.

As this third straight dreadful Mariners' season drags to a close, we were struck by something on USS Mariner. Their feeling is that Carlos Garcia has been doing a very good job as the team's third base coach.

Hopefully you didn't waste your money this weekend having lunch in hell, because tomorrow the long-awaited Carnavas from the Silversun Pickups will be released – just in time to pick it up and get acquainted before the Silversun Pickups do their thing at the Capitol Hill Block party this Saturday.

Tuesday 18th

Fans are a bitch sometimes. If you ever watch any of the Tour stages, you'll likely marvel at a) how close they let the fans get to riders, even in the final kilometers (where at least they're behind barricades) and b) how insane Tour fans are in Europe. On the mountain climbing sections, you'll inevitably see these crazy guys running next to and even in front of the riders. And yesterday, the yellow-jersey wearing Norwegian leader Thor Hushovd, was struck by a promotional "hand" being waved by a fan (either plastic or cardboard, we're still not sure) and severely cut. We don't think we've ever seen this much blood on the tour before. Ew.

Frank Hayes (no, not that Frank Hayes) is a solo dance work from Amelia Reeber featuring a foggy arctic landscape, a person rowing a small boat, and a polar bear. The piece was performed at On the Boards' Northwest New Works Festival (which is currently headed into its second weekend, the 16-18, by the way) and in Portland at TBA, back in 2004.

Dear Seattlest,

In the market for a Smoketeer air filter system? Or Vacu-Jig bowling ball drill? Maybe a two-basket deep fryer?

The Mariners roster is almost set. Jose Lopez won the second base job, as expected. Longshot bench aspirant Roberto Petagine made the team with a hot spring.

-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.

1) Mercir (EMP Sky Church) - We started the day with some electro indie rock. With moody vocals, usually more atmospheric than lyrical, this three piece uses guitars, keyboards and a latop computer to create a rich wall of sound.

Fans of the "rock'n'roll" genre will presumably enjoy tonight's "Art of Modern Rock" exhibition held in conjunction with the Flatstock poster show series presented by the American Poster Institute. The Seattle Times already scooped Seattlest's team of investigative journalists on the story, but we think the show merits worth mentioning again, in so much as this may turn out to be the only part of the Bumbershoot festival certain members of Seattlest will see this year.

Fans of progressive radio will want to tune in this afternoon between 12 and 3pm (you're late) for the Ed Schultz Show broadcast from Town Hall. If you had known about the event earlier you could have bought tickets to see it live and helped benefit First Place, but you already dropped the ball on that.

The past holiday weekend offered a bevvy of Seattle activities, from the Folklife Festival to Sasquatch, to SIFF, and we’re sure there’s more. Well, we’re pretty sure, because some of us went to Canada instead. Just a quick jaunt to Vancouver on Sunday for some biking; perhaps we’d even try to catch the Bloc Party show that evening at the Commodore since somehow we’ve missed out on every other opportunity to see them in what has been a near blitzkreig of Bloc Party show dates in Seattle over the past few months.