Seattlest just got our stimulus check from the government—cha-ching!—and we're looking for ways to spend it that don't involve just handing it over to the oil companies. We thought we'd share some ideas: 1) A new tattoo. Recommendations for artists and studios are very welcome in the comments. 2) Gifts for Mom. Sunday is Mother's Day, and our mother is in the opposite part of the country. It would've been cool of us to surprise......

“Wow. Wii!” That’s what we said last time we walked into Pochi Tea Station in the University District. They always had a pile of games (the low-tech Jenga being our favorite), but now there was Wii to go along with the noise of the music videos and the crowd of mostly young Asian UWers. Pochi’s been a popular hangout with students, who sample from the menu of crepes, toast, fried tofu, and other snacks. But......

We love lists. Which is why we're a little sad that we didn't know about Amazon.com's UnSpun until we read The Paper Noose's post on Georgetown's place in the Top "Hip" Neighborhoods to Live in Seattle, WA. There's nothing we love better than completely arbitrary lists with no discernible criteria beyond kneejerk personal opinion -- except maybe passing them along. According to UnSpun users, the top 10 "hip" neighborhoods are: 1. Capitol Hill (surprise,......

Remember the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind, the album that made the band—and the word "grunge"—a household name? A naked baby, swimming blithely in pristine water, reaches for a dollar bill—a dollar bill that's on a large fish hook. The image is memorable for its ironic, dangerous, clear message. Courtney Love didn't catch the meaning. Director AJ Schnack does. Love reportedly made $50 million selling 25% of Nirvana's song catalog in 2006. More recently, she......

We're having a hard time deciding if this has any actual value or not, but it's certainly interesting to look at for twenty seconds or so. Sadly, we can really see it coming into play when we're trying to psychosomatic ourselves out of a meeting or something and into a day of bad TV, reading and trying (and failing) to play Wii golf from the couch. Is that my neighbor there with a runny......

There's a potentially interesting article in the Seattle Times about a potentially interesting class at Seattle University that includes in its coursework a potentially interesting experiment. It's an experiment in "media deprivation" for a class called "Restorative Solitude." Ninety six hours, no media. Awesome. It reminds us of Chris Pirillo's Google Fast. In the teeny bopper world in which the article is set "media" are things like cell phone, email, internet, iPod, TV, at least......

--KCJ is already down and now the Kitsap Sun looks like it might be in jeopardy. --Seattlest drove down to a Renton parking lot the other day and paid some guy cash for a Nintendo Wii, so we don't need Bill Gates to tell us the platform's a Microsoft killer. --Storm water drainage is a concern in Seattle, particularly lately, and there are good and bad ways of handling it. --It's freezing and there's......

Before we begin, we'd like to extend our deepest sympathies to the family of James Kim. We are not, by any means, trying to discount that tragedy by juxtaposing posts about the Kims with more light-hearted posts. It's the nature of doing a compilation such as this one: we're trying to give a full slice of the goings-on in the Ist-a-Verse: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Londonist wants you to know where......

8bitjoystick called Seattlest out yesterday (which we love, btw, whether you do it on your random blog you expect us to magically find, or you have at us in the comments or you send us email. Please, tell us what we're missing and we'll consider it internally and then publicly enumerate the reasons why you're wrong.), and, befitting a blog about video games, 8bitjoystick is all over us for our lack of video game coverage.......

Seattlest survived Mindcamp yet again. This installment, the third, ran with a familiar form of organized mayhem, and that familiarity removed a lot of our enthusiasm for the event. While we still met a few interesting individuals and heard some interesting talks, we couldn't help but to spend far too much of our time at Mindcamp wondering if we should have joined one of three different caravans of friends in going up to Vancouver for......