Friday 8 p.m. - Arthur & Yu in-store @ Easy Street Records, West Seattle

Friday-Saturday - Capitol Hill Block Party @ Capitol Hill - I go for Girl Talk (you should too, if you are concerned about shaking your thing of groove), I stay for the rest. A ton of Cool Kids Bands. Actually, if you put them all a scale, collectively, undoubtedly much more than a ton. See more by Josh here.

Saturday-Sunday - 61st Annual Pacific NW Scottish Highland Games @ Enumclaw Expo Center, Enumclaw - They throw down with a harp competition, along with other games Celtic. Do they race ‘em? Do they throw ‘em? Do they play ‘em while they race ‘em and/or throw ‘em? Go find out.

Saturday-Sunday - Ballard SeafoodFest @ Ballard - Foods from the sea, plus other things Ballard-ish.

Saturday 4 p.m. - Hell’s Belles Car Club & Cretins MC Pinewood Derby @ Cretins Clubhouse (3600 E. Marginal Way S.) - When I first saw this, I thought the all-girl AC/DC tribute band was running this gig; alas, it’s a group of other gals, with the same name. Sigh. Well, there’s still going to be the pinewood car derby race, so that’ll be good. And it’s a fundraiser for the Broadview Emergency Shelter, to boot.

Saturday 7:30 p.m. - Seafair Torchlight Parade @ Downtown - I love a parade. Especially one with pirates. And Miss Seafair.

Saturday 8:30 p.m. - Season Grand Finale Bash: Jungle Fever! @ Little Red Studio - “A brief but fun jungle themed show at the Harrison location to kick things off and then we’ll hit full swing with dancing, performances and art happening at all three places!” Their tag line is “Beauty, Art, and the Erotic.” So I assume that there’ll be more flesh exposed at this party than most Seattle bashes. Unless you get out to a lot more action than I do. Which could very well be the case.

Sunday 10 a.m. - Pigs on Parade Street Scramble @ Victor Steinbrueck Park, Virginia St. & Western Ave. (next to Pike Place Market) - You scurry around from Pig to Pig, gathering points, for glory.