Sweat and tears, certainly. (Happy tears.) I didn't see any blood. But somebody saw a little bit of lovin' but in the balcony and sent this email (and very fuzzy photo):

This couple was totally going at it in the balcony, she was riding him hard! We have the BEST parties!

Art editor Jen Graves had her body decorated by other artists, in honor of this year's Visual Art Genius Jeffry Mitchell:

Paul Constant shouted about how Seattle is the city of books with a born-again, Southern-preacher-man, can-I-get-an-amen? fury:

More photos—just a few—after the jump. (Our photographers are still a little groggy.)

I found my bow tie!