In Monday’s email, I received the Museum of History and Industry’s long list of nominees for “MetropoLIST,” the MOHAI/Seattle Times scheme to name the 150 “most influential” people in Seattle and King County, tying in with the city’s upcoming 150th birthday. (I get to be one of the voters on the final lineup.)

The long list has over 450 people on it. My first cut dropped a bunch of old-family lawyers and Boeing executive vice-presidents and suburban hospital administrators, but still left 192 people I thought worthy of the list. I had to chop that down to 150 to vote for, including any write-in suggestions of my own (the long list didn’t even include such big names as Eddie Vedder, Dyan Cannon, and Mary Kay LeTourneau!).

I’ll get my final votes done and sent into MOHAI probably by the end of today. The final roster, as voted on by the whole panel, will appear in the Times on Sept. 30.

Two weeks later, our own MISC roster of famous/infamous Seattleites will appear, in illustrated-poster form, as a centerspread in the next issue of our print mag.