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RANDOM LINKS FOR 1/17/13

January 17th, 2013 by Clark Humphrey

igor keller at hideousbelltown.blogspot.com

The Sixth Avenue Motor Inn and the King Cat (nÃ©e King) Theater are coming down, in preparation for the three Amazon high rises (each of which will be as tall as the ex-Seafirst tower).
I’d rather be on a non smoking flight, thank you. (But in all seriousness, would the pre-McDonnell-Douglas Boeing have let planes go into service with untested battery technologies?)
The Queen Anne branch of Easy Street Records is still closing on Friday. But in happier news,Â Queen Anne Books is reopening under new management.
Seattle Weekly editor Mike Seely quits just as new, perhaps more competent, owners take over.
An Everett woman “is accused of smothering her boyfriend by lying on his face.” With her chest.
One reason to get an iPhone instead of something else: Facebook’s free-voice-calls app.
Nagisa Oshima, R.I.P.: Japan’s government should honor the filmmaker’s memory by finally allowing his masterwork, In the Realm of the Senses, to be screened uncut in his country.
Abigail Van Buren, R.I.P.: Pauline Phillips, one of the advice-column twins (Eppie Lederer, a.ka. “Ann Landers,” was her sister), carved out a niche in daily newspapers back when such institutions still had many such niches to be filled. Her common-sense, yet witty, responses to readers’ personal issues kept readers enthralled, and subscribed, for more than three decades. Speaking of deceased twins…
Conrad Bain, R.I.P.: My favorite of his performances was when Maude ran a “twins” episode, a common sitcom shtick. In the big closing reveal, both characters walked out, in front of the studio audience in an obviously unfaked shot. Turned out Bain really had a twin, Bonar Bain, who still lives. (Bonar later appeared as himself, albeit renamed “Fred Bain,” on SCTV.)
No, Washington Post: People’s Twitter pictures are not free for the (unpaid) republishing.
Markos Moulitsas claims today’s Democrats, popularity-wise, “may now be on the right side of every single relevant issue.”
Punch, the late beloved UK humor mag, knew the addictive power of mobile electronic-media devices before they even existed:

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