• Super excellent Seattle band wimps played a set at Chop Suey's front room, the Dragon Lounge, but the real action kicked off before the show even started. While setting up their gear, the band members heard a truck screech to a halt in the middle of the intersection of 14th & Madison. Through the club's big front windows, they saw the enraged driver pinning a dismounted bicyclist to the pavement, until the cops showed up and hauled the bike man away. (Apparently, the cyclist had hurled his cell phone at another car in a fit of rage, and it had nicked the hood of the angry trucker's rig.)

The band dedicated "Too Hard" to the "poor guy who got his ass kicked earlier in front of the club," at which point a guy in the audience raised his hand and said, "That was me!" Turns out he'd been released from jail without being charged, and even though the cops had told him, "Go straight home, and don't cause any more trouble tonight," he made it back to Chop Suey in time for the show! Not wimpy at all, bike-riding guy.

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  • Kelly O

• Saturday I traveled to the lovely but kinda smelly city of Tacoma where a huge gun and knife show was being held at the giant booby that is the Tacoma Dome. My mission: to try to find 12 people I could ask a couple simple questions about gun control. Hoo, doggie! People at gun shows don't really want to talk about gun control, I can tell ya that. Don't tread on them. Don't even try.

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  • Kelly O

• Hey, Emily Nokes is still touring Europe! She tells me I should check out a band called the Yoohoos. "They go by Cocoa, Vanilla, and Eggnog," she says. "They are Nuremberg, Germany's premier pop-punk band. Check out the stance in this photo. So adorbs!"

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  • Emily Nokes

• She also says, "Behold: The coveted Häagen-Dazs Macadamia Nut Brittle disappeared from American grocery stores 10 years ago, but was spotted at a German gas station!"

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  • Emily Nokes

• "Nice graffiti, London."

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  • Emily Nokes

• "And everyone, and I mean EVERYONE smokes in Europe."

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  • Emily Nokes