With the Mariners taking the rest of the summer off, Seattlest (along with some other local rag) is adopting the Chicago White Sox as our fake team for the rest of the season. This became official with last week’s trade of Ken Griffey Jr (number 17?!?!). Griffey, who last played in a playoff game on October 5, 1997, is now only half a game back in the AL Central. Plus the White Sox are totally......

We're gonna start asking Seattlest Dan to pick our lottery numbers. A full year ago he looked into a cloudy future and typed:We predict next year will see even higher numbers at Metro Transit as job growth continues and "gas prices remain high." Ridership is going to skyrocket when either the Viaduct closes to traffic or light rail starts coming on line, but neither of those will likely happen in 2007.The bus people have dutifully......

Coming home from work on the bus last night, we got to thinking about how even getting to vote on a light-rail package this year is going to be an uphill fight. The dire prospects for light rail anytime soon pushed us to extrapolate the costs to our psyche of waiting during the ride home. First we had to run a few blocks in the rain to catch the 8. While admittedly, we should have......

Recommendeds are awesome. They let you tell us what you want more of (food posts) and what you don't (high school basketball previews). Keep letting your fingers do the talking! Here are the seven most-recommended posts of 2007: Dishin': Malay Satay Hut, by Seattlest Jay. 31 recommendeds! Happy Birthday Dear GuywhocanshutdownGasWorksParkwithasnapofhisfingers, Happy Birthday to You, by Seattlest Dan. 27 recommendeds. Seattlest Would Like to Apologize for Drunkenly Heckling Teenagers, by Seattlest Seth. 24 recommendeds. You......

Making up for weeks of hibernation and workaholism, Kim will hit the parties this weekend. Tonight, she’ll don her Groucho glasses for a lesbian function at Jabu’s celebrating the births of her two favorite Sagitarii. Saturday, it’s to the War Room for a company party with the missus and her workmates. Finally, she’ll ship off to the sub-tropics on Monday, where she’ll spend what remains of 2007. While his wife is taking a Wilderness......

Last week, Seattlest Kim wrote a post about New York City that pissed off New Yorkers. The angry comments to said post were oddly familiar because we got similar comments on a post about Seaside, Oregon that Seattlest Tom wrote in May. You'd think that the large cultural gap between people living in the arts/media capitol of the United States and those living in the second-largest town in Clatsop County, Oregon, would prevent any striking......

Man, it's the Beastie Boys thing all over again. We just got the email from Town Hall that Al Gore's appearance at Town Hall this Monday, June 4, is sold out already. Tickets were only $5, but still! Listen to what some lucky (and thrifty) listeners will get to hear about: Al Gore’s fiercely-argued new book, The Assault on Reason, is an indictment of current policy making -- especially the President’s use of power and......

Is Seattlest the only person left that hates seeing the last of the city's beer-only drinking venues launch themselves into the new cocktail era and start serving hard alcohol? The Comet--that was a blow. We loved the fact that you could only get beer and wine there up until a year or so ago. You could buy everyone who was bellied-up a "shot" for like $20. The shot was actually some weird glug or something......

According to our inbox, Norsemen have taken our local broadband/VoIP provider! Minnesota's Best Buy just announced it dropped $97 million on the purchase of Speakeasy. But as Speakeasy CEO Bruce Chatterley says in the email to us loyal Speakeasy customers: It is important to note that though Speakeasy will now be a wholly owned subsidiary of Best Buy, we will continue to operate as a standalone, independent operating division with headquarters in Seattle. That's......

Urban Craft Uprising has their timing down. Most of the people we talked to at the show were there to do their Christmas shopping. While some diehard craftaholics were doing all of their shopping there, we settled for checking off half the people on our list. Because we know some of those recipients read this blog -- you know who you are -- we won't get into too much detail. But we did manage......

Unlike Seattlest Dan we haven't gotten our hands on one yet, but like many we are fascinated by the brown color choice for the new Zune players. The rich chocolate brown/bright green color combination is one we find personally very pleasing, in fact it turns up in our house. But we share some of the skepticism about whether it will work on a consumer product--it could work, but it is risky. Anil Dash over at......

We were going to write about style after one of our valued commenters (and one of our three readers) took Seattlest Dan to task for carrying an umbrella. We envisioned inking one of those grandiloquent "A Moral Defense of..." columns that one sees written in defense of some generally unpopular concept; however, dumb things like work and its attendant personal-time-sucking qualities derailed us. Fortunately, the excellent feature story in last week's birdcage liner has......

The World Cup is so over that even the most pretentious Europhiles have finally shut up, but Seattlest has some unfinished business. Before the tournament started we set up something called the Seattlest World Cup Challenge over at ESPN and a bunch of you joined, despite our lack of creative naming skills. Some of you joined and forgot about it, only to get the points a monkey flipping coins would have. We doubt we'll......

Torontoist immediately wins our heart by using the word "Jackass" in a headline. In fact, we love their use of it so much that we're going to use it as much as possible throughout this post. For example, it looks like there are Toronto-area jackasses besides those who misuse the sidewalk: look at the crap on sale on Toronto's craigslist. But it looks like Toronto doesn't contain the kind of jackasses who pee in public......

75 minutes in, the Germany vs. Poland match was a draw -- then Poland's Sobolewski, in a snit after being beaten to the ball, tripped up Germany's Klose. Two yellow cards made a red, and Sobolewski was sent off to leave his team short-handed for the remaining 15 minutes. Poland sucked it up -- goalie Boruc made some fantastic saves -- and Germany misfired. At 90 minutes, just before stoppage time, Klose made a header......

ESPN's gamecast won't load, and their live scores are not as live as Seattlest Seth, who's currently encamped at the George and Dragon pub in Fremont. We're a little late starting, but we'll update this post with reports from him as they come in. ----------------------------------------------- 1:54pm Game over! Stolid defense and opportunism lifts the yellow of Ecuador to victory. Guess that's the end of our G&D broadcast day. The action's over until 6am tomorrow......

Seattlest has taken our fair share of potshots at Wallingford. And it's true: we hate Wallingford NIMBYs, the Friends of Gasworks Park are most assuredly not our friends, and any effort to become suburbia-in-the-city earns our scorn. But there are things about the neighborhood that we love. Here's 43 of them: 1. Bella Cosa Foods 2. the Guild 45th 3. Wallingford Cleaners 4. the park at the Good Shepherd 5. Open Books 6. Vandewater Books......

Not too long ago, we brought to your attention the fact that select metro buses had started purportedly offering wireless connections. We were fairly pleased to discover that the first leg of our commute, Route 48, was supposedly already online, with the piece-de-resistance of our daily slog, Route 545, slated for next in line. ( We'd still be torn between reading our book, a time-honored bus activity that we actually look forward to, and getting......

These questions were submitted by clairvoyant readers. Q: Did Seattlest James have a baby yesterday? A: Yes--he did! Well, his wife did. If he had had the baby, you would be hearing about it on "A Current Affair," not here. The baby is a girl. Q: Did James and his wife name the baby yet? A: No. But when they name her, you will hear it here first. (Unless they name her "Rita Katrina,"......