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Yearly Archives: 2011

Oct 27, 2011

Zombies on the run, and why Stephen Colbert says Jesus was the original

Zombie apocalypse

Tough day at work. (Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)

October is zombie month in Seattle. If you’re the kind of person who enjoys slapping on some fake blood and doing your best undead walk up and down the sidewalks, this is the place to be.

Case in point: This weekend, zombies will compete to complete an obstacle course race in nearby North Bend. That’s right – zombies staggering through mud pits, over walls and chasing through woods.

Sounds a little like a nightmare I had once.

That happens Saturday morning. Shoes are required (darn!), and there will be beer. Find out more about how to participate at zombiechallenge.com.

While we’re on the topic of the undead, Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert has some thoughts on zombies. He’s on board with the trend, reminding his viewers Wednesday night that Jesus was the original zombie.

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Oct 26, 2011

Hubba… huh? Check out the Tractor Men of Snoqualmie Valley calendar

Here’s everything I know about tractors. They’re found on farms. They’re slow. Sometimes they tip over. (Wait, were we talking about cows?)

Something else cows and tractors have in common: They’re not sexy.

The folks out in the Snoqualmie Valley would probably take me to task for that last statement — errr, I meant the part about tractors. Enter the “Tractor Men of SnoqualmieValley” calendar, on sale now.

Think firemen calendars, but set on a farm. The calendar features 12 cowboy-hat-wearing men posed next to their tractors, and it’s selling to benefit TILTH, the Future Farmers of America and local 4-H chapters.

Auditions were held in August, and some of the valley’s least-shy showed up to explain “why I want to be a tractor man.” (According to an audition video, they also had to “yeehaw” for the camera.)

In case you’re wondering (and I know you were), here’s what some of these tractor men look like.

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Courtney Stodden: Jealous women wouldn’t let me buy pumpkins

Courtney Stodden, Washington state’s best-known child bride, took to “Dr. Drew’s Lifechangers” Monday to explain why she recently got kicked out of a pumpkin patch. According to 17-year-old Stodden and her middle-aged husband Doug Hutchison, it all comes down to jealous women.

Stodden recently visited a Santa Clarita pumpkin patch with Hutchison and started acting amorous — a bit too amorous for a farm that caters to families. Stodden was wearing shorts and a plaid shirt tied up to reveal her belly, and she said Monday that jealous women complained to the owner.

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Raffaele Sollecito: I want to see Amanda Knox again

Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox in an Italian courtroom. (Getty Images)

UPDATE: ABC News reports OGGI did not interview Sollecito, and that the article was full of lies. Read more here: “Raffaele Sollecito interview about Amanda Knox was ‘a lie.’” Read this earlier post with that in mind.

In an interview with Italian magazine Oggi, Raffaele Sollecito says he wants to see Amanda Knox very soon.

Sollecito’s public relations team and attorneys have been shopping around an interview with Knox’s co-defendant and former boyfriend, according to the Daily Beast. The Italian magazine landed the interview but barely promoted the feature — another sign that Sollecito might not have been wrong to call himself “Mr. Nobody” in his final appeal.

Sollecito said he still wears a jacket he lent to Knox because it reminds him of her, and that they talk every day.

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Performers can now drink on stage in Washington

Drinking on stage? Pete Doherty says yes, please. (Getty Images)

Bands won’t be leaving the stage for beer breaks in Washington state anymore.

The Liquor Control Board voted Tuesday to allow alcohol on stages as long as it’s in unmarked containers. (Sorry, you’ll have to pour those 40-ounces bottles of malt liquor into a bucket.)

The ban on booze was instated because the board determined bands and other performers were temporary employees of the bar or performance venue — and that they shouldn’t be drinking on the clock.

Washington is thought to be the only state that enforced that kind of law, according to the liquor board.

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