IT’S CRUTCH WEEK IN SEATTLE! The downtown streets are filled with normally self-ambulant d00dz & d00dettez (you can tell from their inept, inexperienced limps) hobbling along with leg casts, canes, etc. One can only presume something in the early-summer air got ’em all to try risky, untrained-for athletic maneuvers.

ONE MORE PROBLEM WITH BELLTOWN THESE DAYS: The once-hip neighborhood has all these $100-a-plate foodie restaurants, but no decent bar at which to watch TV sports in the company of one’s fellow sedentary sports fans. Mr. McAlpern, please do something about this.

HAD A LONG TALK the other morning with someone from a prominent local commercial publishing co. about my aforementioned book project. The talks were productive, but I’ve still some persuading to do.

ON OTHER SITES:

Corporate charity-giving as a brand-building strategy.

Not only does eBay have an eternally entertaining “Weird Stuff” section, but it’s now subdivided into “General,” “Slightly Unusual,” “Really Weird,” and (if you dare!) “Totally Bizarre….”