As I proposed here, pursuant to no object-icons from the peanut gallery, Danelope and I invite Mefites, Mofites, and PNW bloggers in general to descend upon the capacious Elysian in my beloved, if down-at-the-heels, Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle.

7p, Saturday November 6
The Elysian
1221 E. Pike St.
Seattle, WA 98122

Phone: 206-860-1920

Main MeTa thread.

The Elysian was the location of the prior MeFi hoo-hah and suited all parties to a tee, with wifi and food both available. Ye mappe.

I had intended to set up some sort of evite-like check-in attendance list, but instead have decided the easy thing to do is make a page at the Metafilter wiki.

Interested persons can just sign in there, no muss no fuss, and no required use of pesky time-based identifiers. Or here in the comments, either way – I’m not taking attendance.

I’ve asked mcwetboy to add the event to his MeFi calendar.

Alas! For this was proposed before NaDruWriNi ’04 was graven into the stone of the Internets. B^2, mebbe a monkeypile will occur and I can describe that while drunk!

In eclecticism: Lunar Eclipse tonight, Michael Hanscom thoughtfully provides some borrowed diagrams and definitions concerning tonight’s lunar eclipse. I recommend looking closely at the diagrams and evaluating them with a critical eye. They are unique in their genius.

Marc Perkel Rantz: Download Fahrenheit 9/11 Here. Really. That’s it. I guess it will be up for about 2 weeks.

frontline: rumsfeld’s war. For a chaser, howsabout a nice New Yorker presidential endorsement?

SBA and Palo Alto Software: business plans. More from Score, U of Colorado. Write one online. SBA guidelines. Startup info.

Since the Cartoonist got two in a row, so then must things, which linked to a cardmodel pumpkin at Canon. Inspired, I found a skeleton. The skeleton came from here, which, I’m happy to report, offers a family of Frankenstein projects!

things delivers a spooky audio roundup today, focusing on radio and sonar anomalies after disposing of the various hums heard ’round the big ol’ world.

*distant tinkle*

Whuzzat?

Jimmy Akins, a Catholic Evangelist, attends the world premiere of Jack T. Chick’s new film and meets the reclusive cartoonist. Of course, Catholics are the tools of Satan, in Chick’s worldview. It’s not hilarity that ensues, really, but I still found this fascinating. [via Monkeyfilter.]

Wired News: I Love Bees Game a Surprise Hit. Anonymous ARG puppetmasters run three month game in support of Bungie/Microsoft game release Halo 2. Can Danelope catch up?

Exposition Le Monde de Franquin – Cité des Sciences, a companion site for an exhibition exploring the technological imagination of one of my favorite cartoonists, the incredibly hilarious André Franquin. [via The Cartoonist.]

Franquin was one of the giants of francophone comics and cartooning, but has only rarely been published in English. Naturally enough, the few pages of his work I’ve seen in English were published in the late eighties in a Fantagraphics comics anthology.