photo by seattle bon vivant [flickr], via our group pool [flickr]

• Business Week profiles [#] Vivace, from its humble sidewalk cart beginnings to perfection-obsessed mini-empire. (via capitol hill seattle [#], who deems them “outside of our normal stomping grounds”.)
• It’s not too late to register for Sunday’s “Chilly Hilly” [bikeseattle]
• The Here & Now edition of Monopoly proves to be prophetic. Although they won’t get the coveted pyramid penthouse view, other people may soon be allowed to live in a condo-ified Smith Tower. [times]
• Can’t wait to see Charlize Theron & co. dressed up as Seattle circa 1999? Some Battle in Seattle stills were posted this week. [movieset]
• Addison might tire of ferry boats and spin-off from Grey’s Anatomy [givememyremote]
• In case you missed it: the ultimate guide to viaduct comment threads [slog]

photo by Puja Parakh [flickr], via the group pool

• Happy Birthday, Henry [seattleartblog]
• Breaking the editorial we to tell you how they feel about DRM [seattlest]
• Please let this gossip be proven incorrect: rumors have surfaced about dead character Denny “Tin Man” Duquette will be returning from the grave on Grey’s Anatomy. [popwatch]
• Jen Graves, on SuttonBeresCuller, their impersonators, and what it all means about Seattle’s art scene / “art” scene / art “scene” [slog]
• Of the 204 local responses to Capitol Hill Seattle’s mock viaduct advisory vote, 1% said yes(tunnel)–yes(viaduct); 47%, yes–no; 18% no–yes; 33% no–no. For all of the worries about web surveys being biased and non-representational, these numbers look fairly similar to last year’s [mb,mb] professional polls . [chs]
• courtroom drama! Watada trial ends, not with a verdict, but with a mistrial in the wake of misspecified stipulations. [p-i]

The conclusion of last week’s Grey’s Anatomy [abc] episode, in which our favorite interns {as if we have a choice} from Seattle Grace Hospital deal with the aftermath of the O’Malley surgery, the constant presence of Mr. Katimsky / Grey in the nursery, ongoing silent treatments, near kisses, and important milestones. All of this to the tune of indie songwriters on the soundtrack, after the jump.
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Another week, another Grey’s Anatomy [abc] recap. After the jump, catch up on the aftermath of Sandra Oh & Chief Wannabe #2’s deception, a brand new set of conjoined twins, and more family drama of the O’Malley (and Grey, too) variety.
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While you were recovering from your Thanksgiving-induced coma, there was an extra long, super explosive, and blood soaked episode of Grey’s Anatomy [abc]. In case you missed it, a recap is waiting for you after the jump.
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Hi! I’m back prematurely, but not to worry, the recapping duty (heh-heh, I said, “duty.”) will be back upon Josh’s shoulders soon. In the meantime, please turn a blind eye to CRo’s drunken snark that follows. Unless, of course, you like that sort of thing. I mean, if you do, you have Anna from the Swell to thank since she makes a rockin’ Manhattan. But I babble (I’m prone to that). Full recap after the jump.

Love,
CRo
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Oops! It turns out that there was a new episode of Grey’s Anatomy [abc] last week. The full recap is posted behind the jump. Sorry for the delay, but the Southern California desert and all of the rock and roll goodness got in the way of television watching. This should have you all caught up for tonight’s episode.

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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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[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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