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Through Rain And Wind Today: U.S. Postal Service hosts a public meetings tonight on its proposal to close its mail-processing center by the Tacoma Mall. (News Tribune)

Now With More Daffodils: City of Puyallup annexes farmlands. (News Tribune)

Because It's So Huge: Help design wayfinding signs for downtown Tacoma. (News Tribune)

Stick Up, Stick Up: Puyallup police are searching for a man who held up a Little Caesars Pizza last night. (News Tribune)

Pictures: Are these the seven wonders of nature? (National Geographic)

Wow: Ricky Gervais to return as Golden Globes host. (Coming soon)

Super Mad: PETA has turned its wrath on classic video-game character Mario, who wears a Tanooki raccoon suit in Nintendo's new 3DS game Super Mario 3D Land. (Time)

We Finally Will See What They Look Like: Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me is coming to television. (Yahoo)

Darn! Darn! Darn!: The Munsters is getting a reboot at NBC. (Zap 2 It)

Google Music: It's here. (Geek Sugar)

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Good News: There will be people still around to put out your house fire and help you when someone smacks you in the face. (News Tribune)

Raided Again: Law enforcement shut down five medical marijuana dispensaries in both Pierce and Thurston counties. (News Tribune)

For The Record: eMusic editors come clean with five picks. (Paste Magazine)

Telling Stories: Hear five National Book Award finalists. (NPR)

New Star Wars Flick?: Possible.(io9)

We Can See It: Tim Burton may direct an adaptation of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. (Deadline)

Dessert: We're talking Mad Men marathon on Turkey Day. (The Hollywood Reporter)

It's Wednesday!

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The Commencement Luxury Condos In Ruston: New developer is turning them into apartments. (News Tribune)

Academy Award Of The Jewelry World: Tacoma's LeRoy Jewelers grabbed one. (News Tribune)

LeMay-America's Car Museum: Drove its chief operating officer out. (News Tribune)

Sandusky Situation: Former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky told NBC Monday night that he is innocent of charges that he sexually abused boys for at least 15 years. (CNN)

Video: Regis Philbin's 11 funniest(?) moments. (The Daily Beast)

Listen: 11 sounds your kids have never heard. (Mentalfloss)

A Stretch: 50 best celebrity bikinis. (InStyle)

Creepy: Famous last tweets (MTV)

Was Today's Morning Spew Worthy? Click For Answer

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What's Up Krupp?: Thurston County Manager Don Krupp, who has worked for the county for 17 years, has applied for Tacoma's city manager job. (The Olympian)

If It Falls Into Their Laps: Tacoma passes lowest priority marijuana initiative. (Stop The Drug War)

Weird: A state Senate seat may change hands in the middle a special legislative session that starts after Thanksgiving. (News Tribune)

The Sandusky Situation: Students protest after Penn State coach Joe Paterno was fired amid sex-abuse scandal.(CNN) Read Weekly Volcano editor Matt Driscoll's take on the situation. (Weekly Volcano)

New Prime Minister Of Greece: Lucas Papademos, a former European Central Bank vice president, assumes the position. (CNN)

What Would The Muppets Do?: It would be the most sensantional, inspirational, celebrational, Muppet-ational Academy Awards show. (Perez Hilton)

R.I.P. Bil Keane: Family Circus packs up and moves on. (USA Today)

Are L'eggs Back?: The brand that pioneered plastic ostrich-sized eggs as packaging, is looking for a comeback. (Ad Week)

WTF?: Peanut butter vodka. (Laughing Squid)

Today's Moment Of Zen

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Tacoma City Council Junket: Spending money for a trip to Arizona (cue multiple record scratches). (News Tribune)

Galloping Gertie's 71^st Anniversary: Let's look at the video one more time. (Washington State Historical Society)

Happy Holidays: More dead animals on the road. (News Tribune)

Penn State Shocker: University says two officials accused of lying to a grand jury hearing child sex abuse allegations against ex-assistant coach Jerry Sandusky have stepped down. (CNN)

Coloring Books: 10 really wack one. (Flavorwire)

Meh: MTV blows its street cred. (Salon)

Weird: John Lennon's tooth sells for $31,200. (Huffington Post)

Sneak Peek: Tim Burton's Frankenweenie. (EW)

Watching the detective

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Checking In with Downtown Tacoma Buildings: The Winthrop is in bankruptcy court, but it's not bankrupt. (News Tribune)

Idiot: A Sumner man suspected of snatching old ladies' purses is in jail. (News Tribune)

Fighting The Evil Department of Social and Health Services: Seattle's masked crime-fighter Phoenix Jones has lost his day job. (Seattle P-I)

Awesome: University of Puget Sound Ski Team is having their annual ski swap this weekend. (CBS Seattle)

There Big Fat Greek Meeting: Greek Prime Minister Papandreou and President Karolos Papoulias to meet. (CNN)

Nice: Built to Spill working on a new album. (Rolling Stone)

Cool: Neil Gaiman, his wife Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls, Moby and Steven Merritt performed a cover of "Science Fiction Double Feature" from Rocky Horror Picture Show on Craig Ferguson. (Topless Robot)

Trouble In The Kitchen: Why Top Chef is bad. (Time)

Today In Photographs: 20 Stormtrooper portraits. (Dvice)

Flying Orb Robot Will Kill Us All (Thanks Blogtown)

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Amended Moratorium: Tacoma City Council approves the Wal-Mart Supercenter planned for the Elks' property in Central Tacoma. (News Tribune)

Tacoma's Tentative Budget-Trimming Plan: About 130 Tacoma municipal employees might be out the door. (News Tribune)

Royce Of Reason: 59-year-old underwear-stealing, murder-plotting Long Beach man, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison, said "Now because of my weakness, my flaws, my infatuation, obsession with a person I'd fallen in love with years ago, I did not control my desires, and committed terrible transgressions." (News Tribune)

WikiSeeYa: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange loses a court battle to stay in the UK and will be extradited to Sweden to face questioning on sex charges. (CNN)

Cereal With Seinfeld: Jerry to guest host LIVE! With Kelly after Regis retires. (New York Post)

Occupy Capes: Photos of superheroes at Occupy Wall Street. (Wired)

Morrissey Alert: The Bandana Splits cover "Everyday Is Like Sunday." (Cover Me Songs)

What The Eff Is A Fyrkantig?: Ridiculous IKEA product names (and what they mean). (Flavorwire)

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Pay Raise Leap Frog: government largess continues even during the deepest economic distress in generations. (News Tribune)

Occupy Update: demonstrators to protest at financial offices. (CNN)

Video: Keith Richards and Johnny Depp jam. (NME)

Watch This: Redbox to raise its rates. (Hollywood Reporter)

Beetlejuice II: Yup. (Coming Soon)

If You're Into This Sort Of Thing: 50 scariest movies of all time. (Io9)

BINGO: It's a community drinking game. (Funny or Die)

Coldplay: The 10 best and worst songs. (Paste Magazine)

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The Importance of Being Earnest Money: University Place Town Center is back on (News Tribune)

Tacoma Vs. Spokane: News Tribune columnist Peter Callaghan sends Tacoma self-deprecating care package to a Spokesman-Review columnist. (The Spokesman-Review)

The Terrible Economy Hasn't Pummeled Everyone: Exxon Mobil rode higher oil and natural gas prices to a third-quarter profit of $10.3 billion - a surge of 41 percent from a year earlier. (CNNMoney)

Social Media Shitstorm: ChapStick chaps some hides. (Ad Week)

Will Ferrell Love Fest: Famous people salute the actor. (Vulture)

Happy 60th Birthday: Chattering teeth. (boing boing)

Worst Music Video Of All Time (according to I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution)

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Occupy Halloween Parties: Tacoma Halloween party picked up by The Association Press. (Montgomery Advertiser)

Third Quarter Monster Ball: Third quarter projects reveal show the City of Tacoma is in a world of hurt with a $26 million shortfall in its general fund budget. (News Tribune)

Go South Sumner!: The Pierce County Council gives the City of Sumner a thumbs up to extend the urban-growth boundary southward into an area of rich farmland. (News Tribune)

Occupy Pain: Authorities arrested Occupy Wall Street protesters in California and Georgia on Tuesday, with police in Oakland using tear gas on demonstrators. (CNN)

Absurdity Of Life: 92-year-old Andy Rooney hospitalized. (Wavy)

127 Seconds: James Franco recorded video of himself reading a short story in bed. (Flavorwire)

Meanies: Warner Bros. will yank all Harry Potter DVDs out of circulation before New Year's Eve. (Latino Review)

Wild Boy: Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon is chatty. (Village Voice)

It's Hump Day. Boy, could we use a dance battle.