defective yeti slides an annotated spreadsheet of local drinking establishments’ hours of the happy across the beer-puddled bar.

Not Funnies, notes the NYT Sunday mag. Hey Ma! Comics aren’t just fa kids ennymore!

Comic books are what novels used to be — an accessible, vernacular form with mass appeal — and if the highbrows are right, they’re a form perfectly suited to our dumbed-down culture and collective attention deficit. Comics are also enjoying a renaissance and a newfound respectability right now. In fact, the fastest-growing section of your local bookstore these days is apt to be the one devoted to comics and so-called graphic novels.

The piece is a decent survey of the state of affairs, and exhibits familiarity with general critical consensus on the authors and artists profiled or discussed. I am not certain I can evaluate it more critically than that at the moment. Perhaps if I reread it this evening.

Hillcrest Market Burns Bad – Tom Harpel has the story, and the pics.

Damn, Hillcrest is gone. That kinda blows. There are two other minimarts on that side of the hill, but Hillcrest was the largest. It was the one right across from Starbucks, at the odd five-way intersection of Olive and a bunch of other streets.

In 1999, Clark Humphrey noted that the building was originally one of the initial wave of Safeway stores, which first came to town in 1923.

Lambiek: Harvey Pekar.

Pekar’s moribund blog.

Pekar’s music reviews, an interview, and an article on Pynchon.

It’s interesting that there appears to be no anthology of his non-comics writing, something I’d love to read.

The Seattle Times: 2004 Backyard Blog project. The local establishment’s paper invites your application to blog for them on the topic of this year’s election.

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Frankenstein: Life’s Been Good To Me So Far. PF celebrates his 3rd blogiversary. Three years? Amazing what time dilation on a September morning will do for perceived temporal duration.

Dannysoar has a wild-n-wooly batch of aerial oddities for your persual. I called it out on the mighty MeFi.

Commuter Trip Plan and Point to Point Schedule offer range-oriented bus-schedule planning tools for King County Metro which can be stored on a PDA. I don’t know if these are new tools, or just ones that I missed, but they are a step in the right direction. Unfortunately, since they only output results, they are limited in utility if something goes awry while you are on the road. As far as I can tell, there is still no way to download entire route schedules for any individual route in a PDA-oriented format.