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 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]

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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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

[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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Once again, it’s another new episode of Grey’s Anatomy [abc].

After the jump, play-by-play tour of the episode featuring a whole lot of loving, a key-induced existential crisis, a one night stand that results in maybe the most mentions of an erect penis in primetime history, something about a thirsty tumor, and a quintuplet storyline that will carry over into next week’s episode!
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