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It's a slow news day, other than...nope, there's really nothing out there. So why not enjoy Randy Bachman (BTO!) talking about the time the Doors, Led Zeppelin, the Byrds, Ike and Tina Turner, and a metric shit-ton of other rockstars gathered in Woodinville for a three-day musical happening, July 25-27, that Seattle has not seen since.

Look at that face! In the above video, the now six-week-old Woodland Park Zoo snow leopard cubs undergo another vet exam, complete with their first vaccinations and deworming. Awwwwww. There's only one little baby "peep" in the video (at 0:42), but you have to watch till the end to see the cubs trying their first solid food, chicken.

This musical mash-up of memorable sports press conferences is awesome, and we're happy to have a flimsy excuse to post it--it contains a clip of former UW assistant (and father of current Seahawks coach) Jim Mora's famed "Playoffs?" riff. Enjoy.

Yesterday, the Woodland Park Zoo uploaded the first video of the new snow leopard cubs to YouTube. The footage was shot Friday and consists of yet another weigh-in session. The female (Helen) weighed in at 3.8 lbs and the male (Tom) at 4.3 lbs. Starting at the one-minute mark, you can hear the cubs' noises, which are much more like a bird's peep than the yowl of the big cats they will grow up to be.

Twitterer columbiacity brought this parkour YouTube video--shot one-handed in and around Seattle--to our attention, and we say thanks. It's an amazing amount of fun to watch this guy go. And Slate claims no one wants to advertise on YouTube's user-generated content. We just want more of this, less baby vomit.

AP photographer/videographer Ted Warren noticed we posted a video of the Woodland Park Zoo's new penguins yesterday and sent us this video to check out, featuring the Humboldt penguins and narration by the Zoo's penguin profiler Celine Pardo. It's an informative--and splashy--two minutes!

We hardly knew ye. And now you've been slaughtered by the Washington State Department of Licensing! Life is unfair, especially because your shows were--we're told--really entertaining. Seattlest lifts our coffee mug to you, and in homage we'll post a recent video of an SSP performance. We hope you get another chance.

• Big Blog won points with a post about The Bachelor's ex-wife and her YouTubed guest spot as a groupie on local band Out From Underneath's Seattle-heavy music video. Onwards and upwards, Gas Works Park.
• The blog formerly known as bigasscity is quoting none other than ZZ Top while crunching the numbers about Metro's projected budget shortfall and how much money the city could have saved by rejecting the bored tunnel viaduct replacement option.
• Cliff Mass thinks it's "pretty definite": we're looking at more snow, probably on Sunday. Actually, that works well with our schedule. How kind of the gods to check with Seattlest HQ's Google Calendar before sending the cold front!

According to this visualization of the tunnel viaduct replacement option, downtown is about to get very, very clean.

Dawdy tipped us off about the snowball throw-down on 15th Avenue East on Saturday night--it was Liberty vs. Smith denizens and it...was ugly. Especially for cars trying to thread their way between the opposing parties. There's also an escape attempt on skis that goes horribly wrong. Once again we repeat: the streets aren't safe in this condition. Better to stay inside.

Other blogs' editors probably don't volunteer to get on one of those round, can't-steer-'em sleds and head down the steepest part of East Aloha on Capitol Hill. Well, except for CHS's Justin, who starts out just ahead of us, to the right and then laughs at our woefully second-place finish. It's a dizzying ride. Hope you enjoy it.

We just spotted this clip on YouTube. Bill Shatner was heading to Microsoft to visit some "Star Trek geeks" and he decided to stop off at Pike Place Market downtown. Immediately the free sample people descend upon him. No wonder he's pushing portly. He also buys some nuts. UPDATE: They've set the video to private, even on The Shatner Project. Not sure what the deal is. Thank god I described it in detail for everyone. I know, it's like you were there.

A Hitler mashup about the Apple Cup made it onto the P-I's Big Blog the other day, and Managing Editor David McCumber has ordered it taken down posthaste: "I think we goofed in this instance." Hitler isn't funny, McCumber says.

We came across a few puppet show videos a while back while doing some random "Seattle" searching on YouTube. They were hilarious, but seemed like they were just fragments and unfinished scenes of a what appeared to be a really sophomoric Pigs in Space ripoff with cocaine and vomit jokes. Which sounded really cool, so we subscribed. This week a full "episode" of Space Losers appeared on YouTube. We watched it, laughed, and marveled that someone had the fortitude to carry these jokes into a more or less finished project for, seemingly, nothing but our YouTube edification. We're not entirely sure who these guys are--just a couple of housemates in Seattle with some time on their hands and some creative urges to blow bong hits at, it seems--and they haven't replied to our emails, but here they are anyway for your Friday enjoyment: Space Losers.

A couple weeks ago, we posted this photo which we'd snapped down by the market. Then Andrew Sullivan linked to it and then England for Obama linked to it. Then we started getting emails from supermodels and George Clooney. Eventually, the limelight dimmed, the girls found another Seattle blog to dance for, and we fell into a deep depression.

How many bowls of clam chowder could a $1,000 Ivar's gift card buy? If you become the next Ivar's Clam Star, you could find out--and you'll also receive a Clammy Award trophy, along with a possible ringtone deal. Let Seattlest repeat that, Biden-style: ringtone. All you have to do is recreate one of Ivar Haglund's ballads on video and be creative about it. Dear God, do local musicians realize the potential for ironic hilarity here? Deadline's October 27th--get cracking!

The news of Paul Newman's death yesterday from cancer has hit Seattlest especially hard. While the 83-year-old actor/writer/director/race car driver/activist/healthy food mogul touched millions of lives with his far-flung work, we were especially appreciative of Newman's work in helping to purchase the Carnation Farm last year and convert it from corporate training center to Camp Korey, a free camp for seriously-ill children. In recent years, after former owner Nestle shut down the dairy operation at the farm, locals feared that the 810-acre complex would become condo hell, much like Redmond Ridge and other icky places.

Courtesy of local politics blogger extraordinaire Goldy at HorsesAss comes a YouTube video of the Washington delegates at the DNC when Michelle Obama takes the stage. We knew we weren't the only person who got teary or swelled up with pride during the speech, and it looks like Governor Gregoire was excited from the get-go...listen to that hooting and hollering!

Every four years, Seattlest settles in on the first Sunday evening of the Olympics for a heart-warming few hours in front of the TV with our female gymnastics team. It's tradition, like apple pie and hot dogs. These girls ooze America, with their ponytails, cherubic smiles, and noses like buttons.

Tuesday night, country super star Tim McGraw played a show at the Gorge's ugly step-sister, Auburn's White River Amphitheater. By all accounts, the show was business as usual and all yee-haws until McGraw spotted a man in the front row harassing a female fan. Mid-instrumental break in one of his many hits, the singer had obvioulsy had enough of this "fan" and called for security to kick the guy out. When security didn't respond fast enough, McGraw took the situation into his own hands, trying to drag the man out of the audience and onto the stage. By the looks of it, the harasser had at least a hundred pounds on the country super-star, who was poured into slim-fitting Wrangler jeans, so McGraw was unsuccessful in single-handedly nabbing the jackass.

What a stable, non-disastrous weekend it's been for us thus far! We're making curried chicken salad, eying the unopened bag of Cheddar Sour Cream Ruffles, and catching up on a week's worth of unwatched YouTube videos. It turns out that when you search for "Seattle" on YouTube, this very helpful National Geographic video about the Nisqually earthquake in '01 (and the fault that runs under downtown Seattle) is the second result. Were you living in Seattle during 2001? Got any stories? Grab some Ruffles and check this out:

Love it or hate it, there's no denying the commercial success of Kidz Bop. A big hit with the kids, as well as their parents, the family-friendly Kidz Bop series has sold 10.5 million CDs in the past seven years, no small feat in the dying music industry. And to think, all they're doing is taking pop songs (sometimes current, sometimes retro) and adding incredibly chipper kids' vocals to the mix.

Isn't it nice to be able to swerve down the road while gossiping on your phone? Don't you love driving behind texting teens at 70 mph across a floating bridge? Starting July 1st, that will be not just be inadvisable--it will be illegal. In just over two weeks, California and Washington will both enact laws that make it illegal to drive while talking on a handheld mobile phone. You will be able to talk and drive if you have a headset or other hands-free device. If you're caught talking or texting while driving, you could face a $101 ticket.

Exactly one month ago, Seattlest told you about the fastest speeder ever clocked on I-5 at a whopping 164 mph. The driver of the speeding motorcycle, Ben Howard Kelly, was arrested on I-5, but claimed he had digital camera footage of his record-setting and law-breaking ride.

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer looked more than a little surprised when a Hungarian man unleashed a verbal and egg-filled tirade today during a lecture at a Budapest university. And thanks to the wonder that is YouTube, you can witness the egging, amongst 608 other Steve Ballmer videos.

...if you're heading to the next round of caucuses this Sunday. We can't think of any local angle on this, but it's important to share this kind of information with our readers when we find it. Because, let's face it, stuff like this can sway voters, folks. (NSFW, unless you have headphones):

We are quite certain that we will never read such a headline again in a Pacific Northwest newspaper or website, so we're enjoying it tremendously. This is the monkey we told you about earlier this week, who went on a neighborhood-wide biting spree. Local news stations in Spokane have also been enjoying the unique story and a video of the escaped monkey has made its way onto YouTube, as of today.