The Weekend Wrap is Never Gonna Stop the Rain by Complainin'

Type "rain" into the search box in our Flickr pool and you get great results. Thanks to :MPG: for the "red rain gear" and the reminder that inclement weather doesn't mean unfashionable weather.

I think this is the fifth rule of Fight Club: Don't lean on someone's parked car in Belltown. In horrific college news, the Medical Examiner's office has ruled a UW student's death this week a suicide, and about a dozen Central Washington University students overdosed at a party last night--worse, it seems the drugs were slipped into girls' drinks as part of a plan for sexual assault.

Money is too tight to mention; Susan Hutchison says even people who make $200,000 a year don't feel rich anymore. Also at PubliCola, Josh Cohen breaks down the Mayor's $13-million Walk Bike Ride plan to show that the lion's share goes to pedestrian improvements. Not that budget discourse is marked by an openness to reasonably "share the pain"--at this point, everyone's decided to hang separately. My favorite quote? "[E]ven though fewer people are watching public access, most people want it available."

HorsesAss knew the Seattle Times was going to endorse Patty Murray ages and ages ago. Just FYI. TechFlash chronicled Microsoft's crazy week (including this sign of the apocalypse: No more full payment of employees' health insurance premiums). What will it take to make Goldman Sachs happy?

Ballard stinks, let's just admit it and move on. Our Seattle Canoe and Kayak Club is at the Pan American Championships, winning stuff, reports My Green Lake. Speaking of North Seattle stuff, there's now a NorthSeattleGuide.com that offers local business deals. The UW does not wish to be known as the Fiery Couch college, please make a note of it. Wallingford: sucking the fun out of Halloween since 2010. Queen Anne seems really amped about their new Than Bros. pho stop.

Belltown's trouble-centric V Bar has had its liquor license suspended. CHS confirms the Olive Way Starbucks makeover is not an example of their folksy, neighborhood outings. CD News says Madison Valley is boring--a new pipeline, that is! South Lake Union is getting a floating farmers market during October. (Good one, I know.) Georgetown's Tiger Lounge also had their liquor license suspended. If you're curious what southend residents think of Tim Burgess's budget analysis, read Rainier Valley Post's comments. (Burgess has since mea culpa'd.)

West Seattle has a skatepark contractor controversy, and this marks the first time I've ever typed that phrase.