source photo by zoomar [flickr] via our group pool [#].

• One day without Steinbacher, Dan Savage is out of town, and the writers at the Stranger are in a near-melee squabbling over A Streetcar. [slog]
• Keep track of closing Starbuckses, so far none around these parts. [starbucksgossip]
• Girl Trouble didn’t get a spot on the SP20 lineup, but they played Marymoor anyway. [soundonthesound]
• A good reason to think carefully before making fun of a guy on a Segway at a bar. [chs]
• All the TIGoodness from SP20. [threeimaginarygirls]
• In need of a $90 thousand dollar toilet from space? More than slightly used, I’m afraid. [citizenrain]
• I haven’t watched Grey’s Anatomy since Meredith went off the dock and the recaps on this site had more than a near-death experience. Apparently Katherine Heigl also wants off that ship. NY Mag speculates on how they should kill her off. [vulture]

In last week’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy [abc], officially named after a Belle & Sebastian song, Seattle Grace Hospital gets a visit from a dehydrated runner and an escaped Amish. George deals with his dad’s death, the senior doctors scramble upon hearing rumors of the Chief’s retirement, and Bailey has a dream. All of this in the unsurprisingly delayed recap. After the jump.
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O.K., so I always joke about the voiceover, but tonight I missed it and found myself disoriented, with no idea what to expect from this episode. Maybe it the half pitcher of pumpkin ale was a contributing factor, but I’ve grown incredibly reliant on Grey’s pre-episode summaries and philosophizing for context.

Don’t worry, in terms of long-term plot development only two really important things happen during this episode and I eventually caught the first few minutes. You’ll find a full recap after the jump. Feel free to use the comments as your virtual water cooler to discuss the finer points of our favorite pretend-local hit drama.
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Devotees and wannabe fans of “Seattle”-based medical drama Grey’s Anatomy [abc] who need a refresher on the show’s finale (as if our extensive tag-team recappery [mb] wasn’t enough) might still be able to download the last episode free of charge as part of ABC’s “million hit lowdown” [abc] promotion. Get that sucker on your iPod and relive the Snow Patrol soundtracked angsty cliffhanger that’s been hovering over your summer like a bad habit.

Speaking of our favorite pseudo-obsession, ABC is planning to stream new episodes of the show, which has its third season premiere on 21 Sepetmber, free-of-charge over the internet [zap2it]. So people with Thursday night plans and no DVRs will be able to watch it all the next day on their high-bandwidth lunchbreaks. Kind of makes hastily-typed excruciatingly-detailed recaps seem horribly outdated.¹

(via popwatch [e.w.])

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1. That is, I’m not really sure that there’s a point to doing long recaps about a show only tangentially related to Seattle. But, if you want them to continue — or better yet! want to write them, please drop us an e-mail at seattle.metblogs (at) gmail.com

Previously – George looks like Mr. Katimsky, who gave up on Momnesia and Meredith when Mother Grey wouldn’t give up on the hot hot love from the then not yet Chief. However, this lookalike business has gotten George into all sorts of trouble, such as occasional heckling and cuddling with Mother Grey and a long term rental in the Grey House and one night of weepy sex with Meredith. Daddy complexes are fun like that.

And with that, we’re off. A basketball player (#2, Robinson)
wearing home jersey scores a basket. And the crowd, watching the game on
television at Joe’s: the Only Bar in All of Seattle, goes wild. While everyone
cheers, Meredith knits.

Voiceover Meredith says: “A good basketball game can have
us all on the edge of our seats. Games are all about the glory, the pain, and
the play-by-play. And th
en there are the more solitary games we play. The games
we each play all by ourselves.”

And all of a sudden it’s inverse intervention time. Joe, to
no one in particular: “Dude? Is she knitting?” Apparently barroom knitting is a
big no-no, as the customers are scared of it. Dempsey makes it a double-team,
crossing the bar from his background perch to to tell her that she looks a
little weird. He says this as a “friend”. Meredith, not really looking up from
her domestic work, says that can’t have a drink because she’s celibate. They
both think that this Dartmouth grad is having vocab issues, but she doesn’t
mean sober. Well, sort of. For her, sobriety helps with the celibacy since drinking makes everyone look porny, and then her clothes come off, and good
times ensue. Naturally, AddiSatan lurks just around the corner to make it a
full-on triple assault on Meredith’s “just say no” approach to a night at the bar. After a fair share of
“what, you – celibate?” Grey points out the obvious – for her,
every guy turns out to be married or mark or George. She leaves out the guy
with the non-stop erection, which is understandable here. With that, the peer pressure gang lets her go back to her sweater making, which she claims will
help her surgical dexterity.

“The social games, the mind games, we use them to pass
the time, to make life more interesting, to distract us from what’s really
going on.”

After the jump: the Chief and Sandra Oh face off in the classroom, a spelling bee champ visits the O.R., something of a 1990s ABC primetime reunion, Alex talks tough, a whole lot of knitting, a little background basketball, and much much more!

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She didn’t really just say quiet in an empty ER, did she? Oh.

Previously on Grey’s Anatomy:
Meredith cries, George grows a spine, we get confirmation that Cristina isn’t a morning person, Izzy is our little optimistic ray of sunshine, Meredith begs and George ignores, George has another moment with CutieDoc, Grey discovers that the Chief (Richard) visits her mom, and Denny’s heart is giving out and they need to do surgery.

Back by popular demand, the complete Voice Over, with incredibly cool funky beat in the background. We also get a nice flyby of Seattle, north pulling down to the Space Needle (which as you know, is directly across from Seattle Grace Hospital).

My college campus has a magic statue. It’s a long-standing tradition for students to rub its nose for good luck.

We’re now inside SGH, where a nurse is writing on the surgery board.

My freshman roommate really believed in the statue’s power,

Meredith is scrubbing in for surgery with Addison, who removes her wedding ring and pins it to the front of her scrubs with the world’s largest safety pin, right where Meredith won’t be able to miss it. She even pats on it. What a bitch.

…and insisted on visiting it to rub its nose before every exam.

Cut to Burke’s OR, where he’s asking a scrub nurse if she’s sure there are none to be found. There are none to be found.

Studying might have been a better idea; she flunked out her sophomore year. But the fact is, we all have little superstitious things that we do.

Montage scene already! Burke is cracking his neck back and forth, McDreamy declares that it’s a beautiful day to save lives and we should all have fun, Bailey seems to clench her fingers and then tilt her head back, pause, and say okay.

If it’s not believing in magic statues, avoiding sidewalk cracks or always putting our left shoe on first. Knock on wood. Step on a crack, break your mothers back.

A nice gusher pops out of Addison’s patient. Burke’s patient flatlines, McDreamy’s patient has a reaction to anesthesia. Bailey begins to lose her patient, as well. All four doc’s lose their patients, Addison making Grey call it.

The last thing we want to do is offend the gods.
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The pretty, pretty cast, since I don’t have a screen shot from the show.

I pulled Grey’s recap duty this evening, and Michael is a friend helping me out - mostly with the commentary. It’s my (our) first time doing this, so be kind!

Previously on Grey’s Anatomy, Meredith admits she is a horrible person, Izzy makes the moves on Denny, George moves out, and in with Preston and Cristina.

Voiceover: As drs, patients are always telling us how they would do our job. Just fix me up, slap a bandaide on me, send me home.

And during the voiceover, we see McDreamy and Meredith walking outdoors with McPooch. The location looks like Carkeek Park, and then seems to switch to a more mountainy area.

Grey talks, George cuts his hair in the bathroom sink (yes, Cristina and Preston’s sink), George and Preston come back from running five miles, Christine makes coffee and grumps. And did you know Preston could juggle (eggs)? Me neither. There’s some serious male bonding going on here, and Cristina looks like she’s going to rip eyes out.

The scene cuts to a gratuitous fly-by shot of Seattle, showing off one of the shinier downtown office buildings as the camera flies south, then west to the water. We come down from the water, to find Cristina bitching to Meredith and Izzy about how George and Preston are bonding, while Izzy knows things suck between Meredith and George, she isn’t calling Alex back, and Alex thinks George looks like a hobbit with his new haircut.
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[Yet again life intervenes--this time the actual trip to Amsterdam to visit Josh [#], catch up schoolwork, and more Olympics–really, I had to fight my roommate last night to watch the Grey’s Anatomy tape instead of the Olympics. A very quick summary of what occured below.]

More sex with Izzy and Alex, George gets some balls gumption, Meredith sees her father for the first time in twenty years [in an oddly anticlimactic scene], a ghost from Addison and Derek’s past, and Burke says his piece to Christina . . . after the jump in “Yesterday” (season 2, episode 18)
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{Note: O.K. Ducklings, I’m out of town; so tonight’s recap comes to you by way of Ellen, a onetime Seattleite who’s funnier, more timely, and has better grammar than your usual recapper; so do your best to be extra nice to her!}

Previously: Bailey pregnant, Meredith is the only one who can see her
mother, the dog, Izzy as underwear model, unhappy nurses.

Narration: In surgery, there’s a red line on the floor that marks the point
where the hospital goes from being accessible to being off limits to all but
a special few. Crossing the line unauthorized is not tolerated.

Shot:
Nurses striking.

[More: An episode about lines, but refreshingly not too heavy handed and
only involving 3 patients, a new Nazi who turns out to be the anti-Nazi, a
musical Burke, and secrets about Izzy revealed . . . ]

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It’s another week of Grey’s Anatomy [abc], now with more Golden Globe winning Sandra Oh!

This week is short on Seattle skyscapes, but is full of little local shout outs, some more misguided than others. There are way too many things going on: a fingerless guitar player stars in an afterschool special, George meets a flirty old lady who bolsters his Irish confidence, labor politics ensue, Bailey is forced to face the reality of the infant growing in her uterus, Alex gets an envelope, Japanese competitive eaters descend upon Seattle, Isabel and George stand their ground over the out of control dog situation, Sandra Oh and Meredith engage in a bit of deception. That’s because the episode theme today is LIES. Hammer anyone?

After the jump, the full report on the latest at Seattle Grace.
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