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]

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]

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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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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photo, adam berry [andrewbird]

• a new episode of Grey’s Anatomy. Want a recap? cast your vote. [mb]
• A dying kid in Colorado wants you to eat some ice cream tonight at Cold Stone. The yellow cake, chocolate chips and rainbow sprinkle concoction is free; tips will still induce unjust employee singing. [p-i]
• Andrew Bird counts professional whistling among his many talents. Live, he recreates his songs from scratch, looping layer over layer until something whole and new appears before the audience. But will there be snacks? [chopsuey]
• Man Man don beards and war paint, pound on eclectic instruments, and chant in service experimental psych folk, leading indie critics to wax philosophical [popmatters]. Hometown soon-to-be heroes, the Fleet Foxes open. [neumos]
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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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While some focus on the social aspects of elevators, Fujitec is working on shortening people’s time in them altogether. The Metropolitan Park West tower (which blocked my view when I lived on Capitol Hill) is pioneering a new, predictive-logic elevator system that uses building-wide historical traffic patterns to gauge traffic demand and group passengers into cars heading to floors based on their proximity. Riders inform the system of their destination through lobby-based kiosks, allowing the system to create the optimal mix of cars to various destinations in the building. “The wait in the elevator lobby may be longer,” they admit, “but the overall time to destination will decrease.” Sounds like the Grey’s Anatomy writers had better go back to the drawing board.

Rumor has it one of our authors works in MetroPark — stay tuned for a hands-on review?